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ISSN 2753-4812
ISSN 2753-4812

Sickness and Healing

Sickness & Healing

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This illusory heap of a body, which, like others, I possess—

If it falls sick, so be it! In sickness I’ll rejoice!

For it will exhaust my negative karma from the past.

And, after all, many forms of Dharma practice

Are for the sake of purifying the two obscurations.

Lotsawa House presents the following texts as part of our Sickness and Healing Series:

Advice

by Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima
In this very short text, Jigme Tenpe Nyima describes the best, middling and inferior ways of using pain and illness as part of the Mahāyāna path.
Advice 27 Apr 2018
by Gyalse Tokme Zangpo
This is a classic work on 'bringing difficult circumstances onto the path' (lam khyer), a subgenre of mind training. Tokme Zangpo reveals what it is like to live beyond hopes and fears, and how to face sickness, poverty and death (as well as good health, prosperity and long-life) with joy.
Mind Training (Lojong) Advice 19 Aug 2007
by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö
Jamyang Khyentse wrote this playful text on the real nature of sickness to console Rabchok, a student who had fallen ill.
Advice 7 Nov 2008

Aspiration Prayers

by Mipham Rinpoche
A four-line aspiration to be recited when giving medicine to others, composed in 1891.
Aspiration Prayers 31 Jul 2025
by Thangtong Gyalpo
This prayer is said to have ended a virulent epidemic which had swept through the famous monastery-town of Sakya, proving effective where all other measures, including tantric rituals, had failed.
Aspiration Prayers Compendium of Sādhanas Nyingma Mönlam 7 Oct 2022

Mantras

by Mipham Rinpoche
This collection of secret mantras, compiled by Mipham Rinpoche in 1898, is said to be especially powerful in overcoming the various forms of disease and harmful influence prevalent in the current age.
Mantra Restricted 2 Aug 2019
by Mipham Rinpoche
This visualization and mantra recitation for the Wrathful Guru in dark blue form and mounted upon a wild boar is extracted from the collection called Profound Fierce Mantras to Subdue All Infectious Disease (nad rims kun thub sngags rgod zab mo).
Guru Drakpo Restricted 13 Mar 2020

Practices

by Chögyal Pakpa Lodrö Gyaltsen
A simple practice of Parṇaśavarī consisting of homage (from a longer praise by Chögyal Pakpa Lodrö Gyaltsen), mantra and dedication, which is particularly recommended as a means to heal and dispel contagious disease.
Parṇaśavarī Dhāraṇī 11 Feb 2020
by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
A very simple practice of Orgyen Menla (o rgyan sman bla), Guru Rinpoche as the Buddha of Medicine, consisting of visualization, mantra recitation and dedication of merit.
Sādhanas Restricted 22 Apr 2019
by Dudjom Lingpa
Taken from the visionary revelation known as the Net of Wisdom (ye shes drwa ba), this is a simple liturgy for meditating upon the Medicine Buddha (Bhaiṣajya Guru; sman bla).
Medicine Buddha Sādhanas Dudjom Tersar Restricted 27 Apr 2021
by Dudjom Rinpoche
A daily practice of Dorje Gotrab (Vajra Armour) offering protection against sickness, infectious disease and obstacles, which Dudjom Rinpoche adapted from the terma Protective Wheel: Root Sādhana of the Extremely Wrathful Black Hayagriva.
Vajrapāṇi Restricted 28 Jul 2020
by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö
This simple guru yoga focussing on Guru Drakpo with the master Longsal Dorje at his heart is intended as a means to pacify the harm caused by spirits and to cure sickness of the heart; it was composed in 1957.
Guru Yoga Restricted 14 Sep 2022
by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
An extremely simple practice of Medicine Buddha or Bhaiṣajya Guru (sman bla), Lord of Physicians, suitable for daily recitation.
Medicine Buddha Sādhanas Restricted 1 Nov 2024
by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
A simple practice of visualization and mantra recitation for Bhaiṣajya Guru, the Buddha of Medicine, which appears in the Kriyā tantra section of the extended Nyingma Kama collection.
Medicine Buddha Sādhanas Nyingma Kama Compendium of Sādhanas Restricted 26 Mar 2020
by Karma Chakme
A simple visualization and mantra practice for Medicine Buddha, otherwise known as Bhaiṣajya-Guru, Lord of Physicians.
Medicine Buddha 20 Oct 2017
by Tertön Sogyal
The 54th of 60 texts in Tertön Sogyal's revelation connected with the 'solitary hero' (ekavīra) form of Yamāntaka, this is a special method for pacifying and healing contagious disease. It is among the rituals being performed by the monks of Larung Gar as a means to eliminate the coronavirus pandemic of 2020–21.
Yamāntaka Termas Restricted 13 Apr 2020

Sādhanas

by Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje
A short practice of visualization and manta recitation for remedying defective sight and enhancing wisdom vision based on the Padmapāṇi practice from the Ultra Secret Heart-Essence cycle.
Avalokiteśvara Restricted 13 Nov 2025
by Karma Chakme
A brief sādhana of the Medicine Buddha (Bhaiṣajya Guru) with a special emphasis on pacifying the sickness and mental toxins of all beings.
Medicine Buddha Sādhanas Restricted 19 Mar 2020
by Mipham Rinpoche
This simple sādhana of the deity Acala, the 'Immovable One'—here in his dark blue, genuflecting form—is described as a powerful antidote to obstacles including infectious disease.
Sādhanas Acala Restricted 28 Jan 2020

Related Topics

Advice Medicine Buddha Ucchuṣma

Buddha of Medicine

Courtesy of Himalayan Art Resources

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BDRC T94 (bcos thabs)

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