Medicine Buddha Puja February (in person and online)

Medicine Buddha Puja to be held on the auspicious Day of Miracles, Saturday February 24, 2024!

Join us for an incredible opportunity to experience a healing prayer service on the auspicious Day of Miracles!  Click HERE for more information about the Fifteen Days of Miracles. Medicine Buddha Puja is a beautiful prayer service that includes lyrical praises to the seven Medicine Buddhas, heartfelt requests for their help, and aspirations for our own spiritual attainments.  This ritual is beneficial for both healing and world peace, and is especially helpful for those who are experiencing physical or mental illness or for those who have recently passed away. Held in English, this service is very welcoming to newcomers and beginners ~ all are welcome! 12 - 1 pm, Saturday February 24th, online and in person This puja is being offered and led by Venerable Lhamo, one of Kadampa Center's      resident nuns and chant master.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE ~ February's Medicine Buddha puja will be offered online and in person!

1. In person at Kadampa Center

2. Join us via Zoom - REGISTER HERE

3. Live Stream on YouTube

HOW TO SPONSOR ~ February's Medicine Buddha puja

Anyone is welcome to sponsor a scheduled puja and offer a dedication to benefit themselves or loved ones. Supporting pujas benefits not just the Center and those who attend, but it also greatly benefits the donor, who collects the merit of giving the Dharma, and thus creates the causes to meet the Dharma again. 

Sponsor February's Medicine Buddha puja by following these steps:

STEP ONE is making the sponsorship donation - CLICK HERE  

STEP TWO is dedicating your generosity - CLICK HERE 

Dedications may be very simple - "For my mother, Rosemary" - or they might encompass more extensive spiritual wishes, such as "May these teachings be the cause to liberate all sentient beings," or wishes for the teacher's long life, to benefit a person who is ill - any heart-felt positive intention!  You also can include more than one intention in your dedication.

LEARN MORE ~ about Medicine Buddha practices

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, and 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.

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."

~ from the Service Manual for Spiritual Program Coordinators, FPMT