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Sickness and Healing

Buddha of Medicine

Courtesy of Himalayan Art Resources

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

Advice

Three Ways of Bringing Sickness onto the Path 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.

How to Transform Sickness and Other Circumstances 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.

The Universal Medicine for Healing All Ills 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.

Practices

Zabchema: Profound Cure, The Practice of Bhaiṣajya-Guru, Lord of Physicians by Karma Chakme

A simple visualization and mantra practice for Medicine Buddha, otherwise known as Bhaiṣajya-Guru, Lord of Physicians.

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Advice Series

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