Concise Practice of the Medicine Buddha

Concise Practice of the Medicine Buddha
Offered via Zoom & In-Person in Pittsburgh, PA

About the Teaching

Join us for this special teaching and transmission on the ancient Bon Medicine Buddha practice. This powerful healing practice is deeply beneficial for today’s world. It supports us on a profound level in restoring health and hope, deepening and strengthening our spiritual faith, and including all beings into our healing practice.

The Bon Medicine Buddha practice was first taught in the human realm eighteen thousand years ago by the Awakened One Tonpa Shenrab and his son, compassionate being Chebu Trishe. The Awakened One offered this teaching to restore healing and wellbeing during a pandemic that caused widespread illness, conflicts, and famine in the ancient kingdom of Dawa Ruteng.

Tempa Lama will be offering the concise form of the Medicine Buddha practice that was composed by 14th century Bön master Nyamed Sherab Gyaltsen. This is a much shorter but equally powerful version of the extensive Medicine Buddha cycle that is suited to daily practice. Tempa Lama will explain the origins of this practice and its benefits for our lives and our health. He will offer a detailed explanation and teaching and give the transmission for this special healing meditation practice, enabling us to include it into our daily practice. On Sunday we will do the healing practice ritual together for the benefit of the community and all beings.

What to Expect

• Participants will learn about the Medicine Buddha and associated Awakened Beings
• Participants will learn how to chant and perform the ritual
• Participants will learn how to prepare for the ritual and how to set the altar
• Participants will learn how to make the offering torma and prepare other offering materials.

Scholarship & Discounted Registration

We want our teachings to be accessible to everyone regardless of their income. If you would like to pay a partial fee or if you are unable to pay, we ask that you kindly fill in the scholarship form linked below. Please note that recordings are generally not available for full scholarships.

Scholarship & Discounted Registration Form

• Participants will learn how to make the offering torma and prepare other offering materials.

Tempa Lama’s book Origin of the Medicine Buddha 

We are offering a 10% discount on Tempa Lama’s book Origin of the Medicine Buddha through March 24 (use code MEDICINE10). In this first English rendition of the Bön Medicine Buddha practice, Tempa Dukte Lama offers a moving explanation of how the Awakened One of Bon, Tonpa Shenrab, first offered the Medicine Buddha practice in the human realm to support healing, compassion, and forgiveness. The book includes a detailed explanation of the practice and liturgy, visualization, and altar preparation.

We are also offering a 15% discount on a bundle of the card of the Medicine Buddha Thangka painted by Loden Tashi Lama and a card of the detailed Medicine Buddha Mandala created by Tempa Lama during the covid-pandemic. This discount will be automatically applied to a bundle of both cards.