Auspicious Medicine Buddha, Goddess Of Tara And Dragon Puja Day

A courtesy update,tomorrow September 21, 2015 is the 8th day of the Tibetan  calendar , and it’s the auspicious prayers day according to the Vajrayana traditions as follows:-

1. Medicine Buddha Prayer Day. 
2. Tara Prayer Day.
3. Nagas (Dragons) Puja Day.
4. On these day,  the effects of  positive or negative actions are said to be multiplied by hundred times.

Medicine Buddha Mantra

Tayata Om

Bekandze Bekandze

Maha Bekandze

Radza Samudgate Soha

Medicine Buddha (Sangye Menla in Tibetan) the manifestation of the healing energy of all Buddhas. He wears monastic robes and sits on a lion throne. 

The color of his body is dark blue. By reciting his holy mantra it is a very powerful method and increasing healing powers for oneself and others, but also for overcoming the inner sickness of attachment, hatred, ignorance and the purification of negative physical and mental karma. Thus to meditate on the Medicine Buddha can help decrease physical and mental illness and suffering. 

If we can recite Medicine Buddha mantra every day and is good to do at least 5 malas, this will purify negative karma and will help you not to be reborn in the lower realms. According to Medicine Buddha sutra that even if an animal hears the Medicine Buddha mantra it will never be reborn in the lower realms.

If we don’t purify negative karma, when dying because of negative karma that not been purified, so we will be reborn in the lower realms repeatedly without end. We need to purify the negative karma now. If one cannot bear the sickness now, how can we bear the suffering of the lower realms?

Green Tara Mantra  

Om Tare Tutare Ture Svaha.

Om Tare Tutare Ture Svaha.

Om Tare Tutare Ture Svaha.

Green Tara is known as the Swift Liberator is due to her immediate response to those to request for help. When you look at her Holy statue, Green Tara reaches out her right hand in the gesture of granting protection, freeing one from fear, obstacles, and difficulties. When her right foot stepping forward, she is alert , determined and ready to actively help all who call upon her. 

By reciting the Green Tara mantra or praises of the Twenty-one Taras.Tara can solve many problems in our life,She liberate us from untimely death, help us recover from disease, bring success in our life. Green Tara she is the manifestation of the Avalokitesvara, (Chenrezig in Tibetan) (Kuan Yin Pusa in Chinese) she can be practiced as the Yidam or Dakini. 

The Dragon Puja 

Tibetan Buddhist naga pujas serve many purposes. Buddhists appease nagas that threaten mankind with diseases by holding rituals and making offerings that appeal to the nagas' sensibilities. Nagas (Dragon) are legendary supernatural creatures integral to both Hindu and Buddhist mythology. They are strong, wise and attractive immortal beings. 

Nagas (Dragon) are legendary supernatural creatures born into the animal realms, they can also appear as complete serpents or fully human. Nagas can be dangerous, protective or generous with human beings, and can even be potential Buddhas. Tibetan Buddhists believe some nagas are demonic, while others are semi-divine beings who guard material and spiritual treasures, such as sacred texts. 

This image is credited to Samye Ling Tibetan Kagyu Monastery Scotland UK. A  monk is offering a fresh milk to appease to the dragon sensibilities so that the dragons they don't cause any harmful activity to mankind.

This image is credited to Samye Ling Tibetan Kagyu Monastery Scotland UK. A monk is offering and pouring the fresh milk into the river and to appease the dragons as the dragons may threaten mankind with deadly and infectious diseases, such as skin infectious diseases. 

In Buddhism, legends about nagas go back to the time of the Buddha, who lived from 564 B.C. to 483 B.C. According to one legend, when the Buddha recognized a naga that appeared as a snake, he had such compassion that he gave the creature the Five Precepts so the naga could return in the next life as a human who could become a monk. 

* Footnote *

We as a Buddhist , we are only offering to appease to the dragons not to harm us, but we don't take refuge from them. We only take refuge to the supreme Buddha, Dharma, Shangha  and Guru, Yidam, enlightened Dakinis

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Aspiration For Bodhichitta

Jang Chub Sem Chog Rinpoche

Ma Kye Pa Nam Kye Gyur Chiang

Kye Pa Nyam Par Mey Pa Yang

Gong Nay Gong Du Phel War Shog.

May the precious Bodhichitta arise

Where it has not arisen

And where it has arisen may it not decrease, but increase further and further.

Nagarjuna's Dedication of Merit
So nam di yi tham chay zig pa nyi
Thob nay nye pa'i dra nam pham jay nay
Kye ga na chi'i ba lab thrug pa yi
Si pa'i tso lay dro war drol war shog.

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.
Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.
May we liberate migrators from the ocean of existence.

With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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