Mother Close to Death

Mother Close to Death

Date of Advice:
January 2009
Date Posted:
April 2016

A student’s mother was very close to passing away, and was in a lot of pain.

If your mother will die soon, it’s not beneficial to keep her in hospital. If she is still conscious and having pain, then just give her some medicine to bring the pain down and bring her back to home.

Recite the sutra Entering the Great City of Vaishali to her. She can listen to the audio recording* or someone can also recite it to her.

You need to do the Medicine Buddha puja there and if you can, arrange for Drati Khangtsen [a monastic house at Sera Je Monastery, South India] to do the long Medicine Buddha puja five times for her.

[*You can find the audio for this sutra as an MP3 file Recitations for Alleviating Pain in the FPMT Catalogue. To find the PDF file of the sutra Entering the City of Vaishali, go to "Sutras and Dharanis" in the FPMT Catalogue.]