ཨོཾ་བཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་བཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་མ་ཧཱ་བཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་བཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་རཱ་ཛ་ས་མུདྒ་ཏེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།
Medicine Buddha Mantra
藥師佛心咒
Medicine Buddha (藥師佛)
The Mantra 真言原文
Tibetan Script
ཨོཾ་བཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་བཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་མ་ཧཱ་བཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་བཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་རཱ་ཛ་ས་མུདྒ་ཏེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།
Romanization
Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Bekandze Radza Samungate Soha
Sanskrit
Oṃ Bhaiṣajye Bhaiṣajye Mahābhaiṣajye Bhaiṣajye Rāja Samudgate Svāhā
Chinese 漢音
唵，貝坎則，貝坎則，瑪哈貝坎則，貝坎則，拉雜，薩姆嘎德，梭哈
Meaning 意義
Bekandze (Bhaiṣajye): 'eliminating illness / transcendent medicine'. Maha Bekandze: the great medicine. Radza: king. Samungate Soha: 'supreme arising, may it be established' — invoking the Medicine Buddha King who eliminates all suffering at its root.
Ritual Use & Practice 修持法門
Healing illness of body and mind; recited when visiting the sick, before medical treatment, and during epidemics. Recommended to recite 7, 21, or 108 times for a sick person. Also recited at the time of death to support the dying person's consciousness.
Background & Significance 背景與意義
The Medicine Buddha (Skt: Bhaiṣajyaguru; Tib: Sanggye Menla; Ch: 藥師佛) is the Buddha of healing, depicted in deep lapis lazuli blue with a myrobalan fruit (the panacea of Tibetan medicine) in one hand and a lapis lazuli medicine bowl in the other. He presides over the Eastern Pure Land Vaiḍūryanirbhāsa (Pure Lapis Lazuli World). The Medicine Buddha practice is used not only for physical healing but for the elimination of all suffering — including mental illness, emotional trauma, and spiritual obstacles. According to the Medicine Buddha Sutra, he made 12 great vows upon attaining enlightenment, including to heal all beings who hear his name or touch his image. The mantra is also believed to purify negative karma accumulated through broken samaya and to prevent rebirth in lower realms.
At a Glance
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- Deity
- Bhaiṣajyaguru (Medicine Buddha)
- Category
- Medicine Buddha (藥師佛)
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