This prayer to Sangye Menla was offered by Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo at the time of the Covid Virus. It is a concise yet complete practice accessible to anyone. Khenpo Tenzin Karze recites the mantra throughout the video, thus, listeners gain the blessings of Medicine Buddha through perceiving his form, the sacred mantra in both Tibetan and English, and they are able to hear the sacred mantra. This prayer can be offered to any and all who are in need of healing, physically, mentally or emotionally, or simply used as a support for meditation.
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CONDENSED MEDICINE BUDDHA PRACTICE
Instantly in the space in front, above, rises Medicine Buddha. He is blue in color with one face, two hands, holding a begging bowl and an arura, surrounded by all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
We are awed by his splendor and take refuge with body speech and mind.
Buddha Menla I take refuge in you in this and every life. Repeat 3 x
And then thinking with great compassion of all sentient beings:
recite:
For the sake of beings I give rise to the Bodhicitta so all may benefit. Repeat 3 x
Hold the mala, counting one bead for each recitation, and recite the mantra:
TAYATHA OM BEKADZE BEKADZE MAHA BEKADZE RADZA SAMUNGATE SWAHA
While reciting the mantra with compassion, I contemplate the extraordinary qualities of Medicine Buddha, and yearn for qualities and liberation in one life so I too may benefit beings.
The mind should be filled with wholesome yearning for sentient beings, all of them, every single one. Even animals. All beings.
After reciting at least one full mala of mantra recite:
I prostrate to Buddha Menla,
May I be reborn in his Pure Land
Able to give healing and refuge to all beings.
Then Menla and his entourage dissolve into light and pour into the crown of ones head and mixes like milk with water with one’s mind.
Recite:
May all sentient beings without exception be placed in that very state, and be healed.
The best thing to do is to make a commitment to do this practice every day. It is in the commitment and the doing that blessing comes. Along with the very sacred mantra and the blessings it holds, therein lies benefit and accomplishment.
This condensed prayer was composed by Her Eminence Jetsunma Ahkön Norbu Lhamo on March 27th, 2020 at the request of her student Thubten Samten Wangmo in order to bring benefit and healing during the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus.
