Medicine Buddha, Sādhanā: A Stream of Lapis Lazuli (Pecha Text)
One can practice this text with an Empowerment
"A Stream of Lapis Lazuli:" A Ceremony of Sangye Menla Compiled from among the Sky-Dharma brilliant expanse mind treasures.
In Tibetan and English
DEP TSHÜL THRIM CHAL DANG ZHEN LA SHE TSÖN PE NYAL WAR KYE WAY DRO WA DI DAK GI KHYÖ TSHEN THÖ NA THO RI KYE WAR SUNG
Those violating morality and abusing others. Who are born in Naraka (Hell Realms). Are said to be born in higher states if they hear your name.
MEN GYI GYAL PO DE LA SÖL WA DEP GANG DAK YEN DANG THRA MA DU MA YI RAP TU JE CHING LÜ SOK THRAL WA DAK KHYÖ TSHEN THÖ NA DE DAK TSHE MI NÜ MEN GYI
I supplicate the King of Medicine. Those causing serious schisms and death through repeated acts of divisiveness and slander become harmless when they hear your name. I supplicate
GYAL PO DE LA SÖL WA DEP TSHEN LEK SER ZANG DRI ME NANG WA DANG NYA NGEN ME CHOK PAL DANG CHÖ DRAK YANG NGÖN KHYEN GYAL PO DRA YANG GYAL
the King of Medicine. I supplicate Excellent Name, The Stainless Appearance of Good Gold, Glorious Supreme One Without Misery, Dharma Melody, King of Direct Knowledge, King of Melody,
PO DANG SHA KYAY GYAL PO NAM LA SÖL WA DEP JAM PAL KYAP DRÖL CHAK NA DORJE DZIN TSHANG WANG GYA JIN CHOK ZHIY GYAL PO ZHI NÖ JIN DE
and King of Shakyas, I supplicate the complete mandala, including Manjushri, Kyapdrol, Vajrapani, Brahma, Indra, the Four Kings of the Four Directions,
PÖN CHEN PO CHU NYI SOK KYIL KHOR YONG SU DZOK LA SÖL WA DEP DE ZHIN SHEK PA DÜN GYI MÖN LAM DO MEN GYI LHA YI DO DE NYI DANG NI
and the Twelve great Yakshas. I supplicate the books of sacred dharma such as The Sutra of the Seven Tathagatas’ Aspirations,
KHEN CHEN ZHI WA TSHÖ DZE ZHUNG LA SOK DAM CHÖ LEK WAM TSHOK LA SOL WA DEP BO DHI SA TO THRI SONG DE'U TSEN SOK LO PEN GYAL LÖN JANG CHUP SEM
the Sutra Menla (Medicine Buddha), and the treatise by the great abbot Shantarakshita, I supplicate the Bodhisattva Shantarakshita, Tri Song Detsen, and Translators, panditas, royal ministers,
PA DANG GYÜ PAY LA MA DAM PA THAM CHE DANG CHÖ KYI WANG CHUK SOK LA SÖL WA DEP DE TAR SÖL WA TAP PAY JIN LAP KYI
bodhisattvas, Sacred lineage gurus, Cochi Wangchuk, and so forth. Through the inspiration of this supplication,
NE KAP NE DANG JIK PA NA TSHOK ZHI CHI TSHE NGEN SONG JIK PA KÜN ZHI NE DE WA CHEN DU KYE WAR JIN GYI LOP
may the various sicknesses and dangers of this life be pacified. At death, ma all danger of bad rebirth be pacified. Engulf us with splendor so that we may be reborn in Sukhavati.
NAMO BEKENDZE MAHA RADZAYE SÖ NAM YÖN TEN GYAM TSHÖ TER NGA ZHING SAM GYI MI KHYAP THUK JEY JIN LAP
NAMO BEKENDZE MAHA RADZAYE You are endowed with an oceanic treasury of qualities and merit. Through the waves of your splendorous inconceivable
KYI DRO WAY DUK NGAL DUNG WA ZHI DZE PA BEN DUR YAY Ö LA SOL WA DEP SHIN TU SER NA DRAK PÖ RAP CHING
compassion, You pacify the suffering and misery of beings. I supplicate the Light of Lapis Lazuli. Those bound by intense greed and born
PE YI DAK NE SU KYE WAY KYE WO YI KHYÖ TSHEN THÖ NA MIR KYE JIN PA GA CHOM DEN MEN GYI LA LA SÖL WA
in the realm of pretas are born human. Delighting in generosity, if they hear your name. I supplicate the transcendent conqueror Guru of Medicine.
NAMO MAHA BHAISHAJI YE.
For this practice, set up a painting of Menla and in front of it peaceful offerings, such as mandala. By doing so, you will gather the accumulations. Otherwise, visualize the front generation in the sky. As it is sufficient for the offerings to be mentally emanated, nothing is necessary. As this is the annuttara tradition, the practitioner need not abstain from meat and liquor, nor engage in ritual cleansing such as ablution and the use of water. However, the empowerment transmission must have been received, since this is the annuttara tradition of secret mantra. As the simultaneous generation of the self and front is the Nyingma tradition, they need not be done separately. As this is a Nyingma liturgical practice, meditate on the meaning of the words.
NAMO KÖN CHOK SUM DANG TSA WA SUM KYAP NE NAM LA KYAP SU CHI DRO KÜN SANG GYE LA GÖ CHIR JANG CHUP CHOK TU SEM
NAMO! I go for refuge to the three jewels and the three roots, the sources of refuge. In order to establish all beings in Buddhahood, generate a mind of supreme
KYE DO KA DAK LONG NE TRÜL PA YI NAM SA GANG WAY CHÖ PAY TRIN MEN DAL GYAL SI LHA MOR CHE ZE ME GYUR CHIK PU DZA HO
awakening. (Repeat 3 times) From the expanse of primordial purity, A cloud of offerings including mandalas, the articles of royalty and goddesses, is emanated, filling the earth and the sky. May it be inexhaustible PUDZA HO.
DRO KÜN DE DEN DUK NGAL DRAL DE LE NYAM ME TANG NYOM SHOK OM SOBHAWA SHUDDHA SARWA DHARMA SOBHAWA SHUDDHO HAM TONG PA NYI DU GYUR
May all beings be happy and without suffering. May they abide in unimpaired happiness and in equanimity. OM SOBHAWA SHUDDHA SARWA DHARMA SOBHAWA SHUDDHO HAM. Everything becomes emptiness.
TONG PAY NANG LE TONG SUM DI TA NA DUK GI PHO DRANG DU GYUR PAY NANG DU SENG GEY THRI PE DA SO SÖ'I TENG DU RANG NYI DANG DÜN KYE KYI TSO WÖI SA BÖN
From emptiness these billion worlds arise as The Palace of Beauty. Inside it, on individual lion thrones, lotuses, and moons are blue HUNGs, the seed of myself and the principal of the front
HUNG THING GA LE MEN LA KU DOK BE DUR YA TA BU Ö ZER THRO WAY KU CHEN CHÖ GÖ SUM GYI LUP PA CHAK YE CHOK JIN A RU RA DANG YÖN NYAM ZHAK LHUNG
generation. From these arise Menla, who is blue, radiating light rays like lapis lazuli. He is adorned by the three dharma robes. His right hand holds arura with the mudra of supreme generosity. His left holds a
ZE DZIN PA TSHEN PE DZOK SHING DORJE KYIL TRUNG GI ZHUK PA KHYE PAR DU DÜN KYE KYI DAP MA NAM LA THUP WANG LA SOK PAY SANG GYE DÜN DANG
begging bowl in the mudra of even placement. He is completely adorned by the major and minor marks and is seated in vajra posture. On the petals of the front generation in particular are the seven buddhas such as Munindra,
CHÖ PU TI DE GYAP SEM PA CHU DRUK DE GYAP JIK TEN KYONG WA CHU DANG DE PÖN CHEN PO CHU NYI SO SÖ'I KHOR DANG CHE PA GO ZHI LA GYAL PO
and dharma books. Surrounding those are the 16 bodhisattvas. Surrounding them are the ten guardians of the world and the twelve great chiefs with their retinues. At the four gates are the four great kings.
CHEN PO ZHI DANG CHE PAY NE SUM YI GE SUM DANG THUK KAY HUNG LE Ö THRÖ PE SHAR CHOK KYI SANG GYE SO SÖ'I ZHING KHAM NE YE SHE PA PAK TU ME PA CHEN
From the three syllables, in the three places of all, and from HUNG in the hearts, light is projected. This invites countless yeshepas from their individual
DRANG NE DAK DÜN NAM LA THIM PAR GYUR HUNG MEN LA CHE GYE LHA TSHOK MA LÜ PA NE DIR CHEN DREN JIN CHEN WAP TU SOL KAL DE DEN
eastern buddha realms. They dissolve into the self and front generations. HUNG I invite the eight Menla brothers and all deities, without exception. Please rain down great splendor. Bestow supreme empowerment
CHOK GYAL PO NOR BU SOK DAK GI LHA LA CHO PA BUL DAK NI TSHOK NYI DZOK PAR SHOK OM MANI RENA HUNG HUNG KUN GYI TSO WO RI RAP LING
The seven precious things, such as the foremost royal one, the jewel. May I complete the two accumulations. OM MANI RENA HUNG HUNG. I offer the deity the foremost of all,
RI RAP LING ZHI LING THREN CHE DAK GI LHA LA CHO PA BUL TSHOK NYI YONG SU DZOK PAR SHOK OM RENA MENDALA HUNG HUNG DAK GI DRI DEN DRI CHAP
the supreme mountain, four continents, and subcontinents. May the two accumulations be completed. OM RENA MENDALA HUNG HUNG with scented water I wash
KYI DE SHEK KU LA KU THRU SOL LHA LA DRI MA MI NGA YANG DIK DRIP DAK PAY TEN DRIL GYI OM SARVA TATAGATA ABHIKEKATE SAMAYA SHRIYE HUNG
the sugatas' bodies. The deity is without stain; I am creating the auspicious conditions for the purifications of wrongs and obscurations. OM SARVA TATAGATA ABHIKEKATE SAMAYA SHRIYE HUNG
HUNG RE KAR JAM DRI DEN PA YI GYAL WAY KU NYI CHI WAR GYI LHA LA DRI MA MI NGA YANG DUK NGAL DRAL WAY TEN DREL GYI OM KAYA BISHOD-
HUNG With soft scented white cotton I dry the victor's body. The deity is without stain; I am creating the auspcious conditions for freedom from suffering. OM KAYA BSHOD-
HANI HUNG HUNG NA ZA DZE DEN NGUR MIK DI GYAL WAY KU LA SOL WAR GYI KU LA SIL WA MI NGA YANG TRAK DANG PHEL WAY TEN DREL GYI
HANI HUNG HUNG With beautiful safron robes I clothe the victor's body. This body is never cold; I am creating the auspicious conditions for the flourishing of radiance and vitality.
OM BENZA WAYTRA AH HUNG HUNG KU DOK BE DUR YA YI RI WO DRA DRO WA SEM CHEN NE KYI DUK NGAL SEL JANG CHUB SEM PA GYE KYI KHO GYI KOR
OM BENZA WAYTRA AH HUNG HUNG Homage and praise to the precious holder of medicine, whose body is like a mountain of lapis, who dispels the suffering of beings' sicknesses, and is surrounded by a retinue of eight
RIN CHEN MEN DZIN LHA LA CHAK TSHAL TO TSHEN LEK RIN DA SER ZANG NYA NGEN ME CHO DRAK GYAM TSHO CHO LO SHA KYA THUB DAM PAY CHO DANG SEM PA CHU
bodhisattvas. Homage and praise to the three jewels; To Excellent Name, Precious Moon, Good Gold, No misery, Ocean of Dharma Mind and Shakaymuni; To the sacred dharma, the 16 bodhisattvas, and so forth.
DRUK SO K KON CHOK RIN CHEN SUM LA CHAK TSHAL TO TSHANG DANG GYA JIN GYAL CHEN CHOK KYONG CHU NO JIN DE PON CHU NYI YOK DANG CHE
Homage and praise to the deities of ambrosial medicine; To Brahma, Indra, The Great Kings, The Ten Protectors of the Directions, the 12 Yakshas Chiefs together with their attendants, and the Vidyadharas
LHA MIN MEN GYI RIK DZIN DRANG SONG CHE DU TSI MEN GYI LHA LA CHAK TSHAL TO DAK DUN THUK KAR HUNG LA NGAK THRENG GI KOR WAR GYUR
and Rishis of medicine, both divine and human. The HUNG in the heart of the self and front generations is surrounded by the mantra garland.
TADYATHA OM BEKENDZE BEKENDZE MAHA BEKENDZE RADZA SUMUDGATE SOHA DIK TUNG KUN SHAK GE WA JANG CHUP NGO
TADYATHA OM BEKENDZE BEKENDZE MAHA BEKENDZE RADZA SUMUDGATE SOHA [Repeat that as many times as you can. At the end:] I confess all wrongs and downfalls and dedicate all virtue to
NE DON DUK NGAL DRAL WAY TRA SHI SHOK JIK TEN PA NAM RANG NE BENZA MU YE SHE DAM TSHIK LHA NAM DAK LA THIM KA DAK KUN
awakening. May there be the auspiciousness of freedom from sickness, Dons, and suffering. The worldly ones return to their own places BENZA MU. The yeshepas and dantsikpas dissolve into me, and I into the all the good expanse
ZANG LONG DU EM MA HO
of primordial purity. EH MA HO. As an ornament to the the thought treasure, this was extracted from the sky dharma and edited by Ragasya. If there are errors, I confess them to the deities. Through this virtue may all sentient
beings be freed from sickness and achieve Menla's state. Although in the sutra ritual the ablution occurs at the beginning, there is no contradiction in it occurring here at the end, since that is done in annuttarayogatantra. The benefits of commitment to this practice are: if you are monastic, your discipline will be unbroken. If it is broken, the obscuration of that will be purified. You will not fall to inferiour states. All the karma that would cause birth in hell, as a preta, or as animal will be purified and you will not be born in those states. If you are born in them you will be immediately freed, will be born in the best of superior states, and will gradually attain buddhahood. In this,
you will easily acquire food and clothing. Harm from sickness, sprits, curses and persecution by kings will be pacified. You will be protected by Vajrapani, Brahma, Indra, the four great kings, the twelve yaksha chieftains, and the seven thousand servants of each of the chieftains. You will be freed from the eigtheen types of untimely death and from harm from enemies and predators. Your wishes will be completely fulfilled. These and other, inconceivably great benefits are stated in the two sutras of Menla. The monks of Jang Damring Palkhor Chode and other great monastic colleges, who see faults in most dharma and are hard to please, only use Menla in the service of the living
and for the purification of the dead. The Menla rituals is observed in front of the Jowo in Lhasa (the Vajrasana of Tibet) and in front of the image of awakening at Samye. Since in all oral and treasure teachings of the new and old traditions of sutra and mantra there is nothing more beneficial than the ritual of Menla, have confidence in it. There are many larger and shorter forms of it, but this one has few words and yet contains the meaning. Because it is of the annuttara tradition, ritual cleanliness is not required. Because the offerings are mentally emanated, it can be done without tormas or other offerings. Therefore, may everyone practice it.
Translation by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso and Michael Erlewine.
DAK LA WANG CHOK KUR LOK DREN TSHE YI BAR CHE SAL DU SÖL NAMO MAHA BEKENDZE SAPARIWA BENZA SAMAYADZA DZA BENZA SAMAYA TIKTRA LHEN
upon me, who am worthy and faithful. Please dispel false guides and obstacles to longevity. NAMO MAHA BEKENZE SAPARIWA BENZA SAMADZA DZA. BENZA SAMAYA TIKTRA LHEN.
OM HUNG TRAM HRI AH ABHIKENTSA HUNG HUNG ME TOK DUK PÖ MAR ME DRI ZHAL ZE RÖL MO LA SOK PA ZUK DRA DRI RO REK JA CHÖ DAK GI LHA LA
OM HUNG TRAM HRI AH ABHIKENTSA HUNG, HUNG. I Offer the deity flowers, incense, lamps, scents, forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touch and all things.
CHÖ PA BÜL DAK CHAK TSHOK NYI DZOK PAR SHOK ARGHAM PADYAM PUPE DHUPE ALOKE GENDHE NEWIDYE SHAPDA RUPA
We complete the two accumulations. ARGHAM PADYAM PUPE DHUPE ALOKE GENDHE NEWIDYE SHAPDA RUPA
SHAPDA GENDHE RASA SAPARSHE PRATITSA HUNG HUNG TRA SHI TSO WO DZE GYE DE TSO CHOK GYAL PO YUNG KAR SOK DAK GI
SHAPDA GENDHE RASA SAPARSHE PRATITSA HUNG HUNG. I offer the deity the foremost auspiciousness, the eight substances such as the foremost royal one, white
LHA LA CHÖ PA BÜL TSHOK NYI YONG SU DZOK PAR SHOK MENGALAM ARTHA SIDDHI HUNG HUNG TRA SHI TSO WO TAK GYE DE TSO CHOK GYAL PO BUM PA
mustard seed. May we complete the two accumulations. MENGALAM ART'HA SIDDHI HUNG HUNG. I offer the deity the foremost auspiciousness, the eight symbols, such as
SOK DAK GI LHA LA CHÖ PA BÜL SEM CHEN TSHOK NYI DZOK PAR SHOK MENGALAM KUMBHA HUNG HUNG DÖ YÖN TSA WA RIN CHEN DÜN TSO
the foremost royal one, the vase. May all sentient beings complete the two accumulations. MENGALAM KUMBHA HUNG HUNG I offer the deity the roots of desirable qualities,
