Sickness and Healing

Sickness & Healing

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

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.

Advice

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.

Mind Training (Lojong) Advice

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.

Advice

Mantras

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.

Mantra Restricted

Wrathful Guru Mantra Visualization

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

Practices

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.

Parṇaśavarī Dhāraṇī

Daily Practice of Guru Rinpoche, 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.

Sādhanas Restricted

Making Great Bliss the Path: Visualisation and Mantra Recitation of Medicine Buddha

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

Daily Practice of Dorje Gotrab

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

Guru Yoga for Pacifying Spirits and Sickness of the Heart

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

Fast Track to Happiness and Peace: A Very Brief Meditation and Recitation of the Medicine Buddha

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 Compendium of Sādhanas Restricted

Sādhana of Bhaiṣajya Guru (Medicine Buddha)

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

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.

Medicine Buddha

Acala Sādhana

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

The Method to Pacify All Epidemics, Illnesses and Pandemics from the Sixty Solitary Forms of Yamāntaka

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

Prayers

The Verses that Saved Sakya from Sickness: A Prayer for Quelling the Fear of Diseases

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

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