Medicine Buddha Sadhana
Medicine Buddha, The Healing Buddha. His aspiration is to pacify the suffering of all beings. Seated on a lotus in vajra posture, his body, the color of lapis lazuli, is radiating light. His right hand is in the mudra of supreme generosity representing the eradication of sickness and suffering using the means of relative truth. In this hand he holds the fruit of the myrobalan tree which is the greatest of all healing plants. His left hand is in the mudra of meditative stability which represents the eradication of sickness and suffering through the realization of absolute truth. In this hand he holds a bowl filled with nectars for healing and enhancing life.
Umdze Lodro Samphel: Voice, rolmo, drum, gyaling,bell and damaru, doong Tom Schmidt: doong Recorded in the Lineage Shrine Room of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Monastery, Woodstock, New York, Autumn 1998
Medicine Buddha, Umdze Lodro Samphel, KKI, 2005, 38 min., $14.95
Umdze Lodro Samphel is a central figure in the music of the Karma Kagyu. He has trained since childhood in the ritual alchemy of Tibetan Buddhism. He is the Umdze-La or chant master of Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim, the international seat of His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa.
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