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The following prayer of request is addressed to the Lapis Healing Master: I beseech you, Blessed Medicine Guru,
Medicinal Buddha His radiant body is azure blue. His left hand is in the meditation mudra and holds a begging bowl full of long life nectar in his lap. As a sign that he gives protection from illness, his right hand is outstretched in the gesture of giving and holds the "great medicine", the myrobalan plant (a-ru-ra). Following verses is reprint from Chagmed Rinpoche's Hymn in Praise of the Medicinal Buddha Namo Maha Baishajeya Medicine Buddha Mantra
The Mantra word for word 1. OM: We begin with Om the under-current tone of the universe. 2. namo: Means yielding or full of trust also can mean to bend or bow and might mean to melt into. 3. Bhagawate: means in intimate relation to the Divine and often means the entire cosmos 4. Bhaishjaye: a name for the Medicine Buddha 5. Guru: Spiritual Master also means the “that” which transmutes ignorance into wisdom 6. Vaidurya Prabha: Divine deep blue light, like that of Lapis Lazuli. 7. Raja ya: means Great King 8. Tathagataya: means once came or once gone 9. arhate: one who has conquered the cycle of birth death 10. samyaksam buddhaya: perfectly enlightened 11. Teyatha: do it like this 12. OM: Again we begin with Om the under-current tone of the universe 13. Bekhajye bekhajye: do away with the pain of illness 14. Maha bekhajye: do away with the pain of illness (of the darkness of Spiritual Ignorance) 15. raja: means King 16. samudgate: means the supreme heights. Like this, go go go (my prayer shall go to the highest and the widest and the deepest) 17. svaha: I offer this prayer and now relinquish it … (to you Medicine Buddha)
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