Medicine Buddha Prayer

[SeekerNo1000003]

I've heard that after the person dies it is good to do Medicine Buddha prayers for 49 days.
I was wondering, is this practice also beneficial for the living? Specifically,is it beneficial for people you're doing the prayer for? If so, in what ways?

[kirtu]

I've heard that after the person dies it is good to do Medicine Buddha prayers for 49 days.
I was wondering, is this practice also beneficial for the living? Specifically,is it beneficial for people you're doing the prayer for? If so, in what ways?

Lama Zopa says that Medicine Buddha practice is good for everything, so for both the living and the dead for all things. This statement is from one of his Medicine Buddha retreats (published) but he has said this kind of thing in many sources.

He does not use those exact words here: The Power of the Medicine Buddha but the meaning is similar.

BTW, HE Thrangu Rinpoche has said much the same thing in almost these terms. And I have heard HH Sakya Trizen say essentially the same thing.

As a method Medicine Buddha practice is sort of the Swiss Army knife of Tibetan Buddhism.

Kirt

[Losal Samten]

Medicine Buddha Sutra (p.133):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8sictpcdhteid ... a.pdf?dl=1

[joy&peace]

Short answer - Yes.



There are a lot of very lovely sites. tell about it in good detail. . basically yes, it brings a great deal of merit, and can be very effective an aid in turning karmic actions for good - that is, removing the bad results for bad karma, as well as storing up general merit for future health, and so forth. .

Every physical ailment has a cause - and everything that has a cause, when you remove the cause, the phenomena stops arising.

So it's possible to attain this freedom from any ill-health, within this life - this is realization of Nirvana, of No-birth and no-death.

Whatever this form is - the state of Nirvana, is not a static, existing state, but a growing and changing one; yet here,

and even sooner than here, I've gone off into words. . and the real main part of it is just experiencing it oneself, etc.

I always am happy when I stop myself from rambling for pages, lol

Have a wonderful, wonderful day,

and better health each day until it's boundless perfect health and pure lands. . .

Tayatha Om Bekandze Maha Bekandze Randze Samugate Svaha