[HealthyIndia] Medicine Buddha Mantra - Dr Todd Caldecott.

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The well known Sage Susrutha was a contemporary of Buddha i.e.535BC or so and is the known istorian to put forth Ayurvedic principles including surgery, surgical tools..etc. Pythogarus had spent many years with Susrutha and had taken with him the various sciences/mathematics/ architecture, he learnt from India to Greece. He later sent his disciple Hippocrates to interact with Susrutha's disciple Nagarjuna to learn exclusively the ancient medicine as practised in India, and Hippocrates introduced the principles of medicine in the West- now known as father of medicine.

 

It is likely that uring Buddha's time, Susrutha would have had disciples from Tibet and Tibetan medicine though based on Ayurveda, would have developed independently, metamorphosing to a different system, partly due to total isolation of the Kingdom from others and also due to developments using locally available herbs and other materials in the high altitudes.

 

We could see more details in Susruthasamhita by Nagarjuna, translated to many Indian languages later.

 

 

On 7/16/06, Jagannath Chatterjee <jagchat01 wrote:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recently I had the opportunity to attend an empowerment in theMedicine Buddha teachings with the Very Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche.Similar to Lord Dhanvantari, the Medicine Buddha (in Sanskrit " Bhaishajyaguru " ) is the patron " deity " of Tibetan Ayurvedic

Physicians, considered as an emanation of the great spiritualphysician, Lord Buddha himself. There is a very close similaritybetween Tibetan and Indian Ayurveda, and even more similarity betweenAyurveda and Traditional Bon medicine. From an Ayurvedic

perspective, the Medicine Buddha is like an emanation of the buddhi,our innate wisdom, that relates to our native healing intelligence.Tibetan physicians invoke the Medicine Buddha prior to practicingeach day and also to energize their medicines by chanting the

following mantra (rendered here in Sanskrit):Om Namo Bhagavate Bhaishajyaguru Vaidūryaprabharaajaaya TathaagataayaArhate Samyaksambuddhaaya Tadyathaa Om Bhaishajye BhaishajyeMahaabhaishajye Raaja Samudgate Svaahaa

meaning:Namo (I take refuge in) bhagavate (the honored one) bhaisajyaguru(the teacher of medicine) vaidurya (the lapis lazuli colored ) prabha-rajaya (king of light) tathagataya (the one thus gone) arhate (to

destroy suffering) samyaksambuddhaya (the perfectly enlightened)Tadyatha (speak as follows) OM bhaisajye (divine medicine) bhaisajye(divine medicine) mahabhaisajyaraaja (the great king of medicine)samudgate (perfectly awakened) svaha! (hail)

The short version is:OM bhaisajye (divine medicine) bhaisajye (divine medicine)mahabhaisajyaraaja (the great king of medicine) samudgate (perfectlyawakened) svaha! (hail)This mantra can be chanted freely by anyone, without harm or

hinderance, and does not require empowerment to practice (it's justconducive to get it!). Traditionally, the mantra is chanted 108times to empower a medicament and add potency to its effects, whilepreparing or consuming it.

While some folks might think this mantra has no part in Ayurveda, themantra is clearly found in the Ashtanga Hrdaya, sutrasthana 18:17,and thus may considered an important practice in Ayurveda.the (romanized) sanskrit text can found here (just scroll down to the

correct location in the text):

http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil/1_sanskr/6_sastra/7_ayur/vagaah_u.htmin lapis light... todd caldecottPS - the tibetans believe that chanting this mantra instantly

liberates any being that is harmed in the processing or consumptionof food or medicine

 

 

" Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit. " - Aurobindo.

 

 

 

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