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My very dear Jamie,
I checked which practices are best for you to do for your health and they are as follows:

Naga Torma: Please do this three times. The practice has been translated into English. You need to find out which is the correct astrological day to offer torma. On the day you do it you can't eat meat or onions.

Vajra Armor: It would be good to do this practice daily or as much as you can.

Diamond Cutter Sutra: It would be very good if you can recite this 130 times.

If you are able to afford it, it would also be very good to ask the Kopan Nunnery to do an elaborate Medicine Buddha puja, dedicated to you. When they do the puja you need to make a money offering, as well as offer food and tea. The money offering can be anything from 40 to 80 rupees for each nun, if you can afford it.

The medicines that would be good for you are as follows:

Chu Len Pills:Take four each week for four weeks.

Ratna-Samphel Precious Pill: Take four a week for two weeks.

It would be very good for you to eat Erma, which is a spice from Solo Khumbu. It has a spicy herbal taste; you can put it in food, mix it with butter and put it on toast, add it to soups, etc.

When you recite the Diamond Cutter Sutra, have the most extensive motivation to benefit all sentient beings. Have the motivation of liberating countless sentient beings from the ocean of samsara and its causes, and bringing them to highest enlightenment. For that reason, one needs to achieve enlightenment oneself, especially the wisdom realizing emptiness.

Please make your life most meaningful with the thought of bodhicitta.
With much love and prayers...

Advice for Treatment
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who had Hepatitis C and was unsure whether to embark on a new course of treatment.

Dear Gemma,
1. The most beneficial thing is for you to do is to take a logyuma pill every day for four months. You may be able to get it from Tushita centre in Dharamsala, please check. If not you can request them to make it at Kopan Monastery, using the best quality substances and a lot of Jing dun (blessed pills).

2. Khur Kyen medicine: Take three a day for a minimum of one month for up to three months, then see how you are doing. I will send you some.

3. Ngang Chu medicine: Take five a day for one month. I will send you some.

4. Liberate 190 animals. We are doing that here for you today but you should do this regularly in the future. Do it exactly as I say in the booklet [see Rinpoche's advice on animals for more information and a link to the booklet], this way there is benefit for you and the animals. The creatures are so kind: they help you purify yourself and you help purify them. They have been so kind to you in the past, present, and future. Your happiness has depended on them. Even hippos have been so kind to you. Purifying them purifies their karma and obstacles to enlightenment.

5 . Read the Diamond Cutter Sutra every day, a minimum of one time. It would be good if you could read it twice a day, or the best would be three times a day. It is OK if you don’t completely finish one reading. You can start the next day from where you finished.

Also:
1. Take a long life initiation.

2. Ask Geshe Jampa Gyatso and the students at Lama Tsong Khapa Institute to perform Medicine Buddha puja three times.

3. Ask the monks at Kopan Monastery to perform Medicine Buddha puja for you.

4. Perform Amitayus long life practice daily.