Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche after one Sangha person passed away
17 May 2013
Tushita
Scribe: Ven.Sarah Thresher
If you are not able to do Medicine Buddha puja then you can do short Medicine Buddha practice:
Visualize the Medicine Buddhas inseparable from His Holiness stacked up above the head [of the Sangha person who had just passed away].
Do motivation,…
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By Catherine Clancy for Mandala Magazine in 1996, updated for the IMI Newsletter 2018 by Ven. Tendar.
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