The Medicine Buddha is a healing Buddha from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition he is surrounded by various herbs and medicine, with halos of healing energy radiating from his head and body. As the Medicine Buddha’s vow was to help heal all the sick and the injured, he is often called upon to help eliminate sickness. Usually portrayed seated with a jar of medicine in his left hand, often blue-colored, the Medicine Buddha’s right hand is resting on his knee in the mudra of blessings, with a stem of a healing plant in between his thumb and forefinger.Sometimes the Medicine Buddha is also called the Blue Buddha, or the Lapis Lazuli Light Buddha.
The Medicine Buddha is a profound practice for healing physical, mental, and emotional ailments. It is even more powerful when a group practices together, focusing on the loved one or person who needs healing.
Giving a simplified description of the practice, we can say that it begins with preliminary mantras and prayers and then—and this is the wonderful part—one visualizes the Medicine Buddha, blue in color like the Vaiduriya jewel. One then goes on to visualize the Medicine Buddha’s healing energy radiating in all directions, especially to the person named, practicing the healing mantra Tadyatha Om Bhekhaze Bhekhaze Maha Bhekhaze Radza Samungate Soha for at least one mala or 108 repetitions, and then one dissolves into the “great seal of emptiness,” or rests the mind in the natural state, and dedicates the merit to all sentient beings.
It is a beautiful, transformational sadhana which heals both the person who is the focus of attention as well as the practitioner. The practice is most effective when the person suffering is engaged in the process—they also practice the healing mantras and invite the healing in.The Medicine Buddha mantra has powerful vibrations for healing, both mind and body healing.
The Eight Medicine Buddhas
The Eight medicine Buddhas
1. Sangs-rGyas mTshan legs-par yongs bsgrags dpal=mTshun lets youngs bsgrags dpal; (Sky: Buddha Suparikirtitanamashri) His body is of golden colour.
2. Sgra-dbyangs kyi rgyal-po, (Sky. Buddha Svaraghosa) His body is of yellow in colour.
3. Sangs-rgyas gser-bsang dri-med rin-chen snangs=gser-bzang dri-med (Skt. Buddha Suvarnabhadra vimalaratnaprabhasa) His body is of gold in colour.
4. Sangs-rgyas mya-ngan med mchog dpal=mya-ngan med mchog dpal, (Skt. Buddha Ashokattamashri) His body is of white red in colour.
5. Sangs-rgyas chos bsgrags rgya-mtsho’i dbyangs=chos bsgrags rgya-mtssho’i dbyangs. (Sky. Buddha Dharmakirtisagaraghosa) His body is of white red in colour.
6. mNgon mKyen rGyal-po. (Skt. Buddha Abhijnaraja) His body is of coral colour.
7. Sangs-rgyas sMan gyi Vaidurya’i od kyi rgyal-po=sMan-po’i rgyal; (Skt Buddha Bhisajyaguru vaiduryaprabharaja) His body is of Lapislazuli colour. 8 Sangs-rgyas dpal rgyal-ba Sahkya thub-pa (Skt. Buddha Shrijing Shakyamuni..) His body is of golden colour
