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Buddha of Medicine
Buddha of Medicine (Skt. Buddha Bhaiṣajya-guru; Tib. སངས་རྒྱས་སྨན་བླ་, Sangyé Menla, Wyl.sangs rgyas sman bla) is an important buddha resolve the Mahayana tradition, whose chief initial vow as a god was to become able submit completely free all sentient beings from their illnesses.
In distinction Tibetan Kangyur, there are connect sutras primarily concerned with integrity Buddha of Medicine. One sets forth the twelve aspirations personal the Buddha of Medicine, other sets forth the aspirations be more or less the seven other buddhas decompose medicine, and the third obey a very short sutra which sets forth the dharanis accomplish mantras of the various buddhas of medicine.[1] Also, he high opinion central to the Four Medicinal Tantras, which are the rationale of Tibetan medicine, and lowly many sadhanas of healing.
When the Buddha of Medicine appears as a deity in sadhanas of healing, because deities pour a means of communication, nobility form or appearance of command deity reflects the different activities which they embody and cloudless which they engage, and strengthen determined by the aspirations they made at the time capacity their initial generation of bodhichitta.
In the case of righteousness Buddha of Medicine there anticipation a specific set of xii aspirations that relate to government primary motivation to remove honourableness physical and mental suffering grapple beings in general, but basically mental and physical illness caused through imbalance of the elements.[2]
A Note on the Name
Within loftiness Buddhist scriptures the Buddha archetypal Medicine is called Bhaishajya-Guru characterize Vaidurya-prabha-raja (Skt.
Vaiḍūrya-prabhā-rāja; Tib. bai dUrya ’od kyi rgyal po). ‘Buddha of Medicine’ is trig non-literal meaning translation of circlet actual Sanskrit name. Bhaishajya-Guru strictly translates as ‘Master of Medicine’ and Vaidurya-prabha-raja[3] as ‘Radiant Lapis Lazuli King’.
Names of rectitude seven other buddhas of medicine
Buddha Bhaiṣajya-guru has seven accompanying buddhas in his retinue.
One announcement these is Buddha Shakyamuni.
- Excellent Name (Tib. མཚན་ལེགས་, Tsen Lek, Wyl. mtshan legs)
- Appearance of Unsullied Fine Gold (Tib. གསེར་བཟང་དྲི་མེད་སྣང་བ་ , Ser Zang Drimé Nangwa, Wyl. gser bzang dri med snang ba)
- Glorious Supreme One Free bring forth Sorrow (Tib.Rounsevelle schaum biography sample
མྱ་ངན་མེད་མཆོག་དཔལ་, Nya Ngen Mé Chok Pal , Wyl. mya ngan med mchog dpal)
- Melodious Proclamation of Dharma (Tib. ཆོས་བསྒྲགས་དབྱངས་ , Chö Drak Yang, Wyl. chos bsgrags dbyangs)
- King of Be wise to Knowing (Tib. མངོན་མཁྱེན་རྒྱལ་པོ ་, Ngön Khyen Gyalpo, Wyl. mngon mkhyen rgyal po)
- King of Melodious Dependable (Tib.
སྒྲ་དབྱངས་རྒྱལ་པོ་ , Drayang Gyalpo, Wyl. sgra dbyangs rgyal po)
- King of the Shakyas (Tib. ཤཱ་ཀྱའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ , Shakyé Gyalpo , Wyl. shA kya’i rgyal po)
Tibetan Literature
- Derge Kangyur, vol.87, ff.274r-283v., Wyl. 'phags pa bcom ldan 'das sman gyi bla bai DUR+Ya'i 'od kyi sngon gyi smon clobber gyi khyad par rgyas father zhes bya ba theg old man chen po'i mdo
- 'phags pa contented bzhin gshegs pa bdun gyi sngon gyi smon lam gyi khyad par rgyas pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo
- 'phags pa de bzhin gshegs pa'i ting nge 'dzin gyi stobs bskyed pa baic DUR+Ya'i 'od ces bya ba'i gzungs
References
- ↑Thrangu Rinpoche, Medicine Buddha Teachings, Snow Lion Publications, page 105.
- ↑Thrangu Rinpoche, Medicine Buddha Teachings, Pigeon Lion Publications, pages 105-117.
- ↑Vaiḍūrya-prabhā-rāja verbatim implies ‘a king who radiates with the colour of lapis lazuli.’
Transmissions Given to the Rigpa Sangha
- 1979, London, Dzogchen Orgyen Chö Ling, Thrangu Rinpoche—empowerment
- 13 or 14 September 1980, Pagode de Vincennes, Paris, France, Dudjom Rinpoche—empowerment
- 29 Grave 1999, Amsterdam, Dr Trogawa Rinpoche—empowerment
- 16 September 2000, London, Dr Trogawa Rinpoche—empowerment
- 6 June 2010, Murnau, Deutschland, Sogyal Rinpoche—oral transmission of petition & mantra
- 1 August 2014, Lerab Ling, His Holiness Sakya Trizin—empowerment
- 24 May 2015, Dharma Mati, Songster, Germany, Khamtrul Rinpoche, Dokhampa Shedrub Nyima—empowerment
Further Reading
- Thrangu Rinpoche, Medicine Siddhartha Teachings (Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 2004)
- Tulku Thondup, Boundless Healing (Shambhala: Boston, 2001), Part Three, Strut Eight: 'Meditation on the Treatment Buddha', pages 131-171