Annual EXTENSIVE Medicine Buddha Puja
(HYBRID) The main purpose of this puja is to stop war immediately, to eliminate famine and disease, and for all the dangers of earth, water, fire, and wind, to be pacified immediately. To fill the whole world with perfect peace and happiness, including enlightenment, and to generate loving kindness, compassion and bodhicitta in the heart of all sentient beings.
At the request of students we hold this puja once a year, on Medicine Buddha day, and dedicate especially for the health and long life of our gurus, as well as for the health and success of all LTC members and benefactors. Everyone will have an opportunity to make personal dedications both in person and online.
This extensive puja addresses the karmic causes of disease, and helps us connect with the universal healing energy of enlightenment. It is recommended by Lama Zopa Rinpoche as particularly effective during difficult times.
It is a moving and deeply-felt ceremony, with in-depth prayers and requests. Similar to the regular Medicine Buddha puja, and offered in English, but also with quotes from sutra, many more offerings, mantra recitation, and special dedication prayers.
“The Medicine Buddha encompasses all the buddhas. This means that when we practice the seven-limb prayer and make offerings with the seven limbs, we receive the same merit as we would if we had made offerings to all the buddhas. Similarly, when we recite the mantra of Medicine Buddha, we collect unbelievable merit just as when we offer the seven-limb practice to Medicine Buddha.”
Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Medicine Buddha practice is not only for healing physical illness—it also creates the optimum conditions for flourishing in our Dharma practice and success in daily life. The nectar of Dharma creates harmony and fosters a positive environment for inner growth and transformation.
“Healing our mind is crucial, because otherwise our problems, which are beginningless, become endless. We may use medicine or some other external means to heal a particular disease, but the disease will return unless we heal our mind. If we do nothing to heal our mind, there is always the danger that we will again create the cause of the disease, that we will repeat the actions that caused us to become physically unhealthy. We will then experience the same illness in future lives, or even in this life.”
Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Event Details
Donate to the Puja
Donations made on holy days on the Buddhist calendar are especially powerful. Your contribution here will go towards altar offerings and holy objects.
*If you can’t make it to puja but still want to be involved, please email us in your dedication so we can read it at the puja.
What You Will Need
Download the Texts:
If you are joining online, download the texts beforehand so you can follow along
Calling the Guru From Afar
Medicine Buddha Wish-Granting Sovereign (this is the special extensive version)
What to bring:
– Medicines or vitamins to be blessed on the altar
– Offerings for the altar (preferably commercially packaged). They will be offered to the needy at a later date
– Ritual implements if you have them (bell and dorje, mala). We also have some in the gompa to use
Join Event on Zoom
This is a hybrid event, held both in-person in the gompa and online on Zoom. Zoom meeting starts 10 minutes before event start time.
