The Medicine Buddha Mantra Cures Diseases in Buddhism

Medicine Buddha (Sanskrit: Bhaiṣajyaguru) is one of the Buddhist mantras used a lot in healing, meditation and therapy… Tibetan Zen masters rely on the Medicine Buddha mantra to cure them. Regular practice with the Medicine Buddha also allows one to have the ability to heal others. In China and Japan, he is a refuge when a person is sick.

Versions of the Medicine Buddha mantra

Around the world, millions of people call out the name or chant Medicine Buddha mantra. It is even written in the scriptures that, if you say the name of the Medicine Buddha in the ear of a dying animal or human, they will be guaranteed rebirth in the good realm regardless of their karma in the past. No wonder the Medicine Buddha is well known in Buddhism.

The Medicine Buddha as his name suggests is associated with the healing of diseases. His mantra exists in both long and short forms. In the long version it is:

OM Namo bhagawate Bhaishjaya guru vaidurya Prabha rajaya tathagataya arhate samyaksam buddhaya teyatha om bekhajye bekhajye maha bekhajye bekhajye rajaya samudgate svaha

Short Tibetan version:

Tayata Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samudgate Soha

The Meaning of Medicine Buddha Mantra

Tayata: Going beyond the limit (beyond Samsara)

Om: A very popular word that evokes spiritual strength and absolute presence.

Bekandze Bekandze: Call name of Medicine Buddha twice

Maha Bekandze: Great Medicine Buddha

Randza Samungate: Completely liberated or awakened

Soha: Dissolve in me

May many sentient beings get sick, quickly liberated from sickness. And may all the diseases of beings never arise again.

The Medicine Buddha is famous not only for his ability to cure many diseases even cancer, but also for his ability to purify past bad karma, his ability to help us on the path to enlightenment, words of wisdom. His prayer to free repentant prisoners.

“Bekandze” means remove pain, “Maha Bekandze” means remove all pain. One interpretation of the meaning of the first “Bekandze” is that it refers to the removal of real suffering, not only of illness but of all problems that cause suffering.

It removes the pain of death and rebirth due to karma and disturbing thoughts. The first mantra removes all physical and mental problems, including old age and disease.

The 2nd line removes all real causes of suffering, which are not external but also in mind. This refers to karma and disturbing thoughts. It is an internal cause that allows external factors such as food, sunlight, work pressure… to become disease conditions.

Scientists believe that regular exposure to the sun will cause skin cancer. However, without the cause in mind, there is nothing to make the external factor a condition for illness.

Exposure to sunlight is a condition for skin cancer, but it is not the main cause. For those who have created the cause of skin cancer, the external phenomenon of sunlight can become a condition for skin cancer.

For example, not everyone who sunbathes on the beach gets skin cancer. Humans have also been exposed to the sun for thousands of years, but skin cancer is a relatively recent disease.

The important question is: Why doesn’t everyone exposed to the sun get skin cancer? It’s proof that sunlight isn’t the main cause of skin cancer, as not everyone exposed to the sun gets skin cancer.

If someone has created causes, as long as they don’t do anything to undo them, the cause will certainly bring results of their own. Like a planted seed, it will inevitably lead to germination as long as it is not eaten by birds or other factors. Once there is a cause, as long as there is no obstacle to the cause, we will naturally experience its effect.

So the second “Bekandze” refers to removing the cause of problems, the karmic force fueled by disturbing thoughts. The third phrase, “Maha bekandze”, or “great exclusion,” refers to the removal of even the subtlest traces left on consciousness by disturbing thoughts.

Benefits of Chanting Medicine Buddha Mantra

The Medicine Buddha mantra actually contains the cure for the entire path to enlightenment. Reciting the mantra leaves an imprint on our mind, so that we can actualize the path contained in the mantra.

It establishes the blessing of the whole path in our hearts. We can create the path to enlightenment, which is indicated by “bekandze bekandze maha bekandze”.

Performing the entire path to enlightenment purifies our body, speech, and mind, transforming them into the pure body of the Medicine Buddha. We then become a perfect guide for sentient beings.

With our perfect wisdom we can easily see, without mistake, the level of mind of all living beings and all the methods suitable for them to bring them from suffering to happiness. incomparable happiness of complete enlightenment.

As we chant mantras continuously with a sincere heart, we also have the perfect power to manifest in various forms suitable for all living things and reveal the methods necessary to guide them, help them with material, educational, or Buddhist teachings.

Whenever the positive imprints resulting from their past positive actions ripen, without delay of even a second, we can reveal various means to guide sentient beings to enlightenment entirety.