The Medicine Buddha Empowerment Mantra
The “Medicine Buddha Empowerment Mantra” (abbreviated as the Medicine Buddha Mantra) comes from the Mahayana Buddhist scripture The Sutra of the Original Vows and Merits of the Medicine Master Lapis Lazuli Light Tathagata.
Effects:
- Relief from illness and disasters: The Medicine Buddha once made twelve great vows, vowing to relieve all beings of physical and mental suffering. Reciting this mantra can help ease illness, promote recovery, and dispel calamities and obstacles.
- Purification of body and mind: It can not only cure physical ailments, but also heal the inner greed, anger, and ignorance, easing anxiety and fear.
- Elimination of karmic obstacles: It can remove grave offenses from past lives and eliminate negative karma and ignorance.
- Fulfillment of good vows: Pray for the fulfillment of all wholesome vows in both the worldly and transcendent realms.
- Rebirth in the Pure Land: At the time of death, remembering the merits of the Medicine Buddha can bring guidance to rebirth in the Eastern Pure Lapis Lazuli World, where one will never regress.
The original text is as follows:
Namo Bhagavate. Bhaisajye. Guru. Vaiḍūrya.
Prabhārajāya. Tathāgatāya. Arhate.
Samyaksaṃbuddhāya. Tadyathā.
Oṃ. Bhaisajye. Bhaisajye. Bhaisajya. Samudgate. Svāhā.