Geshe with High Blood Pressure

Geshe with High Blood Pressure

Date of Advice:
May 2020
Date Posted:
July 2022

Rinpoche advised tonglen and other practices for a center’s geshe who had very high blood pressure.

One method is tonglen. One student from Switzerland had high blood pressure, so I advised him to do tonglen and his blood pressure came down. There are no risk of side effects from medicine and we receive skies of merit. 

Another student from Europe had the same experience—by doing tonglen, their blood pressure came down.

Recently a student in China had cancer and through tonglen they recovered. There have been a number of students like this.

[The center] needs to offer a long-life puja to Geshe-la.

I will send a long-life mantra to recite; not the common one but from the Kangyur.

The Prajnaparamita text has to be read by the monks at Kopan Monastery in Nepal.