Cervical Spine Degeneration

Cervical Spine Degeneration

Date of Advice:
August 2014
Date Posted:
June 2022

A student with cervical spine degeneration was going to have an operation. Rinpoche advised these pujas before the operation.

Rinpoche out of great concern automatically started doing his own observations and advised the following practices should be done prior to the operation:

  • Tendrel Nyesel [a short prayer to Padmasambhava]: Recite this seven times.
  • The Noble Sutra on Entering the Great City of Vaishali: Geshe-la to recite the sutra five times, reading it loudly so she can hear it.
  • Prajnaparamita in 8,000 verses: To be recited thirteen times by the Gelug Monastery in Boudhanath, Nepal.
  • If possible, the wrathful torma, White Umbrella Deity torma offering for dispelling harm. It’s a few days puja, to be done by Shekar Monastery in Nepal.
  • It seems the obstacles to her life are very heavy, so she needs to take a long-life initiation.