Amitayus Long Life Practices for Elderly Mother

Amitayus Long Life Practices for Elderly Mother

Date of Advice:
October 2013
Date Posted:
February 2022

A student’s elderly mother had been unwell for three months. She had lost a lot of weight but refused to go to hospital for examination.

Rinpoche checked and advised the following:

  • She should take dorje chu min (from His Holiness the Dalai Lama) each day.
  • One long-life pill: we will send this.
  • Recitation of the Prajnaparamita.
  • Print the Amitayus Long Life Sutra 300 times.
  • She needs to take long-life initiation.
  • Amitayus long-life meditation should be done for her. Recite the mantra 300,000 times; it can be a little each day. Tse drup is the Tibetan for the meditation. Also dedicate for the gurus, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, all the Sangha and all those who are keeping good morality and doing good for others.
  • If the mother can, she should recite the long-life mantra of Amitayus and the names of Manjushri.

Rinpoche said this looks like a very difficult year for her.