Sickness and Healing

• 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.

• The Mantra Collection that Incinerates All the Diseases of this Kaliyuga 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.

• Dhāraṇī of Goddess Parṇaśavarī 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.

• Daily Practice of the Buddha of Medicine 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.

• 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.

• Advice Series