Medicine Buddha Puja - Jan 2025 (online only)

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12:00 pm Tuesday, January 7, 2025

MEDICINE BUDDHA PUJA

Join us for a Medicine Buddha Puja on Tuesday, January 7, from 12 - 1 pm.

This monthly offering takes place online only; join via Zoom or live stream on YouTube.

SPONSOR MEDICINE BUDDHA PUJA

Anyone is welcome to sponsor a puja and offer a dedicaton to benefit themselves, a loved one, world peace, all living beings, etc. ~ whatever you choose. 

Here's how to sponsor this Medicine Buddha Puja:

  1. Make your sponsorship donation HERE.

  2. Offer your dedication HERE.

ABOUT MEDICINE BUDDHA PUJA

Imagine knowing not just one, but seven doctors we can call upon to heal all physical and mental illness!  We have those doctors – the Medicine Buddhas – and in this prayer service we celebrate their compassion and call upon them for help.  Medicine Buddha Puja is a beautiful prayer service that includes lyrical praises to the seven Medicine Buddhas, requests for their help, and aspirations for our own spiritual attainments.  It is beneficial for mental and physical healing and world peace, and is especially beneficial for those who are experiencing physical or mental illness or for those who have passed away.

This service is very welcoming to newcomers and beginners - typically, Medicine Buddha Puja is offered in English.

From the FPMT Service Manual for Spiritual Program Coordinators:

Many eons ago, seven bodhisattvas strongly prayed for the temporal and ultimate happiness of all sentient beings, that their names become wish-fulfilling in order to heal both the mental and physical sicknesses and diseases of sentient beings. They vowed that their prayers will be actualized during these degenerate times when the teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha are in decline. When they became enlightened, one of the ten powers of a Buddha is the power of prayer - that means that all the prayers that have been made get fulfilled. As the Buddha's holy speech is irrevocable, you can wholly trust in their power to quickly grant blessings to help all sentient beings in these degenerate times. They are called the Seven Medicine Buddhas, the main one is `Lapis Buddha of Medicine, King of Light'. Buddha Shakyamuni taught the teachings on the Medicine Buddha, and according to one tradition, is also considered as one of the Medicine Buddhas, and hence the Eight Medicine Buddhas.

The seven Medicine Buddhas manifested in order to pacify the obstacles to the achievement of temporary happiness, liberation and the ultimate happiness of full enlightenment. They are powerful in healing diseases as well as for purification. The Medicine Buddha practice can be used to help purify those who have already died and liberate them from suffering. It is also very powerful in bringing about success, both temporary and ultimate.

The reason why the Medicine Buddha practice brings success is that in the past when the seven Medicine Buddhas were bodhisattvas practicing the path to enlightenment, they promised and made extensive prayers to actualize all the prayers of living beings of the degenerate time when the teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha are in decline. They generated a very strong intention to become enlightened for this reason; this was their motivation for meditating on and actualizing the path.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche says, "It is very important that the elaborate Medicine Buddha puja with extensive offerings be done regularly. The offerings should be as extensive and as beautiful as possible, and done in order to benefit all sentient beings."