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Lineage: Muni Shakya Simha, Arya Manjughosha, Khenchen Bodhisattva Shantirakshita, Dharma King Trisong Detsen, Dharma King Sena Legjing Yon, Ngadag Tri Ralpachen, Lhalung Palgyi Dorje, Ngadag Odsrung, Tri Palkor Tsan, Kyide Nyima Gon, Ngadag Tashi De, Lha Lama Yeshe Od, Ngadag Lha De - or - Lhatsun Jangchub Od, Ngadag Od De, Ngadag Tse De, Ngari Drachom Jangchub Tsultrim, Shulenpa Sherab Dragpa, Rechu Lepa Dharma Gyaltsen, (etc.).

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Jeff Watt 5-2007 [updated 10-2014, 5-2017, 8-2018, 12-2019]


Lotsawa House: Medicine Buddha Series

84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha:
Toh 504. The Detailed Account of the Previous Aspirations of the Blessed Bhaiṣajya­guru­vaiḍūrya­prabha. བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་སྨན་གྱི་བླ་བཻ་ཌུརྱའི་འོད་གྱི་སྨོན་ལམ་གྱི་ཁྱད་པར་རྒྱས་པ། · bcom ldan ’das sman gyi bla bai Dur+ya’i ’od gyi smon lam gyi khyad par rgyas pa. Bhagavān­bhaiṣajya­guru­vaiḍūrya­prabhasya pūrva­praṇidhāna­viśeṣa­vistāra. [20 pages].

Toh 505. The Incantation of Vaiḍūryaprabha. བཻ་ཌཱུརྱའི་འོད་གྱི་གཟུངས། · bai DUr+ya'i 'od gyi gzungs/
tathāgatavaiḍūrya­prabhanāmabalādhāna­samādhidhāraṇī. [5 pages].

Toh 505a/1059a. Bhaiṣajya mantra for dispensing medicines. སྨན་གཏོང་བའི་ཚེ་སྨན་ལ་སྔགས་ཀྱིས་གཏབ་པ། · sman gtong ba'i tshe sman la sngags kyis gtab pa. [1 page].

(The images below are only a selection of examples from the links above).