- Long-life tsa tsas: 80
- Animal liberation: 1,000 times
- Namgyal tse chog puja: To be done twice at Sera Je Monastery
- Su Chen mantra: To be recited by a monk nine times
- Drink water that has been blessed by mantra
Stomach, Liver and Digestive Problems
Stomach, Liver and Digestive Problems
Date of Advice:
June 2018
Date Posted:
February 2024
This advice was given to a student who had a serious viral infection in their intestines. Rinpoche advised the following practices.
Date of Advice:
October 2018
Date Posted:
January 2024
Rinpoche recommended these practices for a student who had Crohn's disease and asked for advice.
My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you for your letter. I am very sorry how long it took to reply.
I checked and you need to recite the Liberating from Bondage mantra every day until you get better. [Find links to the Dharani Extremely Conquering from Bondage in the FPMT Catalogue.]
You also need to recite the Mantra Promised by Tara five times.
You need a puja called Hayagriva Tsog Kong done for you at Sera Je Monastery. I went ahead and arranged the puja right away for you. If you want to contribute anything toward the cost of the puja you can do so.
I will also do chab trü puja for you.
There is another puja you need called che trül. It comes out best if Khensur Rinpoche who teaches often at Guhyasamaja Center in Virginia does this for you. You will need to ask him and make an offering.
If the extensive Hayagriva Tsog Kong puja has already been done for you, then you don’t need another, but you can still arrange for another one if you want it or feel you still need it.
Also if possible, if you can, take the Lion-face Dakini initiation from Khensur Rinpoche and then if you can, recite the mantra ten thousand times and meditate on the deity. This is important for you to do.
Also recite Vajra Claws four times.
Please try this. I have been also making prayers for you and dedicating for you. Please make your life most meaningful, with the thought of bodhicitta day and night and in every action you do.
With much love and prayers ...
Date of Advice:
July 2016
Date Posted:
May 2023
Rinpoche advised the Thirty-five Buddhas and other practices for a student with Crohn’s Disease. The symptoms included inflammation of the small intestine, chronic pain, low-grade fevers, skin rashes, fatigue, etc. The student also felt stressed, had episodes of rage, was unable to feel pleasure and had a general feeling of being "poisoned."
My most dear, most kind, most precious wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you for your emails. I am very sorry it took so long to reply.
Regarding practice, recite the names of the Thirty-five Buddhas [Confession of a Bodhisattva's Downfalls to the Thirty-Five Buddhas]. Even if you do just a few prostrations correctly, it collects the most unbelievable merits.
If you can't do the actual prostrations—even just a few—then you can do them with your two hands in the mudra of prostration and visualize numberless bodies, as tall as mountains covering the whole ground, while doing prostrations to the Thirty-five Buddhas or to Lama Chöpa merit field, which has the Thirty-five Buddhas there. The essence is the guru, so if you have received teachings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, then you can think that all the buddhas are manifestations of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Recite the prayer, the names, and physically put your hands in the mudra of prostrations. If you have received a great initiation then you can visualize yourself as Thousand-arm Chenrezig, the size of a mountain, filling all the four corners [four directions], covering all the ground as you lie down and stand up. As much as you can, visualize that. Lama Tsongkhapa said in the Lamrim Chenmo that it collects the same amount of merit as if you actually had that many bodies doing prostrations.
Lama Tsongkhapa did 700,000 prostrations by reciting the names of the Thirty-five Buddha and then he received realizations so easily, like rainfall. So many of the lineage lamas of the lamrim and Lama Tsongkhapa regarded this practice as extremely special, so powerful, to recite the names of the Thirty-five Buddhas and to prostrate. So anyway at least you should be reciting the names, with your hands in the mudra of prostrations and visualizing. At least do that, and if you can do a few actual prostrations that is very good, if possible.
But you are not only reciting the Thirty-five Buddhas’ names; you can also visualize nectar coming from them, white nectar purifying yourself and all sentient beings. This is very good.
Regarding your health, I checked and there needs to be a puja done, called jung shi torma [torma of the four elements]. I will do this for you. It needs to be done at least three times, so I will do this for you.
You also need to have the whole Kangyur recited and dedicated for you. This comes out best to be done at Kopan Monastery. You could email them and get the cost, as offerings are made to all the monks who do the recitation. If you can't afford this, then it could be combined with someone else who needs the same recitation. You can email back and Holly can let you know when someone else needs this, so that you could join in with them. [Just to let you know this doesn't come out often, so it could take some time until it comes up again for someone else. – Holly] If you don’t have enough money to sponsor this by yourself, then when others need the Kangyur read, you can combine with them, so all the monks should think of your name when reading and then you can give some donation toward the recitation. [This would probably need to be discussed with the other person who is sponsoring it.]
One monk needs to read the Sutra for Entering the City of Vaishali five times for you.
This is my advice at this time. Please try it.
With much love and prayers ...
Date of Advice:
October 2017
Date Posted:
December 2022
A student had been suffering from constipation for many months and was in a lot of pain. Rinpoche checked and offered this advice.
One very wrathful puja called Jang ga needs to be done. This is very rare and hard to happen. It should be done by either ___ Rinpoche or Khadro-la. This is a very big thing to request and may not be possible, but maybe you can see if it’s possible for it to happen.
The puja called Liberating from the Harm of Naga and Landlord (Lü dang sa dag gyi don drol), needs to be done by Geshe-la. It should be based on Most Secret Hayagriva.
Guhyasamaja Tantra root text: Recite this three times.
Chi lu puja, based on Cittamani Tara: I will try to do it here, and if it’s not possible, then you need to request a geshe or lama who has done Cittamani Tara, to see if they can do it for you.
Vajra Armor mantra: Seventy recitations.
If you need something to think about when reciting the mantra, then look at a picture of Padmasambhava and request the pacification of all obstacles to Dharma practice, to benefit sentient beings. Nectar beams are emitted and purify you completely, pacifying all your sickness, spirit harm, negative karma and defilements. Think the negative karma and defilements collected from beginningless rebirths are totally purified—like washing dirty clothes and black water comes out. The sickness comes out in the form of animals, snakes, scorpions, and frogs; the obscurations in the form of dirty black water come out. Think you are totally purified. Recite the mantra [with this visualization.]
Date of Advice:
January 2014
Date Posted:
June 2022
A student was hospitalized with a perforated bowel and acute diverticulitis and required intravenous antibiotic treatment.
My very dear one,
Thank you for your kind letter. I checked and it seems that next year there are some obstacles to your life. This year it looks OK.
- Gektor: To dispel interferences.
- Gyabshi (puja against the four maras): 400 times.
- Mamo trükang (puja dealing with spirits): To be done by the Kopan Lama Gyupas.
- Lü dang sa dag gi don drol (liberating from spirit possession, the harm of naga and landlord.)
You should recite the mantra Liberating the Body, Speech and Mind from Bondage. [Find links to the Dharani Extremely Conquering from Bondage in the FPMT Catalogue.]
Take three Ratna Samphel precious pills. Take two days’ break, then take one pill; take two days’ break, then take another pill; take two days break and then take the third pill.
I am also making prayers for you, and the Sangha in my house are reciting prayers also.
With much love and prayers ...
Date of Advice:
May 2014
Date Posted:
June 2016
Advice given to a student who had severe stomach pain.
- Mamo-trü-kang puja: have this done by Kopan Lama Gyupas.
- Mani pills: eat seven pills a day for five days.
- Jung-shi torma: performed four times. Rinpoche will do this puja for you twice and Geshe-la can do it twice.
