Medicine Buddha Puja
(HYBRID) Join us in this powerful and uplifting puja to connect with the universal healing energy of Medicine Buddha. This ceremony helps avert sickness and disease, supports those who are undergoing illness or mental turmoil, and blesses your medicines and offerings.
Recommended by Lama Zopa Rinpoche as especially effective during challenging times, this puja is sung entirely in English and enjoyed by both Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.
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.
This puja helps clear obstacles related to sickness, disease, and mental distress. During the ceremony, we recite special prayers to each of the seven Medicine Buddhas, invoking their unique healing powers and compassionate vows. Simply hearing their names and the ways they have promised to help beings can remove external obstacles and resolve internal challenges.
“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
There will be an opportunity to make personal dedications—for friends and family, the sick and vulnerable, the end of all wars and the healing of the planet. We will also dedicate for success in our Dharma aspirations and the health and long life of our gurus
“This practice is especially beneficial if you are helping others, especially if you are doing healing work. It helps you to be more accurate and beneficial.”
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 us online, please download these texts to follow along.
The Concise Essence Sutra Ritual of Bhagavan Medicine Buddha called The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel
What to bring:
– Offerings for the altar (preferably commercially packaged). They will be offered to the needy at a later date
– Your ritual implements if you have them. 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.
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