Rinpoche read your email today and checked extensively about your health. This is Rinpoche’s advice:

Hayagriva che trul puja: to be done by Geshe-la.

You should recite thirty Black Manjushri mantras and then blow over a big jar of water. Drink the water five times each day, but before drinking it, recite the mantra thirty times and blow on the water. This means you do thirty recitations, five times each day [i.e., recite the mantra thirty times, blow on the water and then drink it]. Continue like that. Before the water is finished, add more and do the recitations again.

It seems what might have the most benefit for you is this Black Manjushri mantra. Many years ago, the wife of a center director recited Namgyalma mantra for a long time and got better. This is just to let you know. I checked and Namgyalma mantra didn’t come out for you, but Black Manjushri did.

If possible, also liberate 100,000 animals. That can be done at ABC, the center in Singapore. Also some could be done at the three centers in Malaysia, some amount. Especially buy live crickets or insects that would otherwise be fed to other animals. You can buy many insects very cheaply. Big animals like goats and so forth are difficult to keep, but frogs, fish and small insects are easier and cheaper, and you can get so many.

Follow my book, Liberating Animals, which explains how to do it properly, the mantras to recite and how to take them around holy objects, taking as many as possible around. It’s not only about causing long life for the animals, it also causes long life for the sick person and it creates the cause for enlightenment for the animals each time they go around. If there are one hundred statues, stupas and scriptures, and if there are one thousand crickets in a plastic bag, for example, by going around one time, they create one hundred causes of enlightenment if there are one hundred pictures, tsa tsas, etc. It’s so good going around the holy objects; it’s great purification.

If there is a stupa or statue that has the four dharmakaya relic mantras inside, then by going around one time it totally purifies the karma to be reborn in the eight hot hell realms. That is totally purified and it becomes easy to be reborn in the pure land of a buddha. There’s so much benefit. Even taking them around one time [is beneficial], so no question if you can go around more. There are three other mantras (of the four dharmakaya relic mantras), so follow these in my book. This is incredibly beneficial for the animals to not be reborn in the lower realms and to achieve enlightenment quicker.

Geshe-la can read Vajra Claws for you, three hundred times in total. If there are other monks who can read it, they can do together. They should read it in Tibetan.

Wear White Umbrella, Hayagriva and Namgyalma protection. We can send this to you.

[Update 2019: The student was completely healed and no longer had leukemia. As well as doing the practices, they also had chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant.]