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Thursday, June 22, 2023

The Eight Auspicious Symbols of Vajrayana - Right Coiled White Conch Shell


The Eight Auspicious Symbols are one of the most common, yet very popular in the Tibetan Buddhism and culture for over thousands of years.

Eight Auspicious Symbols in the Sanskrit word is  "Ashtamangala". In the Tibetan language is known as "Tashee-tag-gyay" The Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism is a genre of Buddhist symbolism. The symbols derive from Indian iconography and have become especially popular in Tibetan Buddhism. 

The Eight Auspicious Symbols are traditionally offered to Lama, teachers during long life ceremonies and are used in various forms of ritual art. It is believed that each of the Tibetan symbols represents one aspect of the Buddha’s teachings and when appearing all together their powers are multiplied. 
In this fascinating study,the Eight Auspicious Symbols are as follows:-

1. Right-Coiled White Conch Shell
2. Precious Parasol 
3. Victory Banner 
4. Golden Fishes 
5. Dharma Wheel 
6. Endless Knot 
7. Lotus Flower 
8. Treasure Vase

These eight symbols of good fortune represent the offerings made by the Gods, and Brahma to Shakyamuni Buddha immediately after he attained enlightenment. 

What do the eight symbols of Buddhism mean?
In Buddhism, these eight symbols of good fortune represent the offerings made by the gods to Shakyamuni Buddha immediately after he gained enlightenment.
1. The Right Coiled White Conch Shell
"Doong-kahr-yay-kyeel" in the Tibetan word, which represents the heavenly sound of the Buddhadharma Its beautiful sound is far-reaching and melodious; upon hearing it, it will awaken beings from ignorance. 

The white conch shells, which spiral to the right in a clockwise direction, are a rarity and are considered especially sacred. The right-spiralling movement of such a conch is believed to echo the celestial motion of the sun, moon, planets, and stars across the heavens. Today, the conch is used to call together religious assemblies. During the actual practise of rituals, it is used both as a musical instrument and as a container for holy water.
The Right White Conch Shell is a dependent arising announcing the sweet melody of the profound and extensive Dharma that fits the elements, level of mind, and wishes of sentient beings who are the objects to be subdued. It awakens transmigratory beings from the ignorant sleep of unknowing and persuades them to accomplish works for the benefit and happiness of themselves and others.
 
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Aspiration For Bodhichitta
For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen
May it arise and not decrease.
But increase further and further.
 
Dedication of Merit
By this merit, may we then obtain omniscience then.
Having defeated the enemies wrongdoings
May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.
With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness, and death.
 
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Friday, July 1, 2022

Serkyem Offering Prayers



*Serkyem Offering Prayers ( 
Bless the serkyem. Then recite:)
Hung, lama yidam khandro dang
Hum! All gurus, yidams, dakinis,

Chosung drekpa de gyebtsok
Dharmapalas, and the assembly of eight classes of arrogant spirits,

Serkyem chopa di zhye la
Please, accept this serkyem offering, and

Dak gi dodon drubpar dzo
Fulfill all our wishes.
* Footnote 
For those who had received the empowerment of this Tantric practice, you are reminded not intentionally or unintentionally to disclose the mantra to the public or anyone who may not have the empowerment or permission to practice, and by disclosing the mantra intentionally or unintentionally is a form of breaking your Tantric Samaya vows to the lineage masters and Dharma protectors. 

Please consult your Guru or a qualified lineage master for Vajrayana practice! Should a devotee even want to start studying and contemplating the Vajrayana practice, then it is truly necessary to first have completed the preliminaries and to be certain and sure that Bodhicitta has arisen and developed in one’s mind.
Vajrayana features countless skillful and powerful methods which, if they are practiced in the proper way, can make the process of accumulation and purification incredibly swift and direct. It is absolutely necessary to have the pure motivation and to know that Vajrayana practice is not carried out to increase one’s own ego, power and self-interests.
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Aspiration For Bodhichitta
For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen
May it arise and not decrease
But increase further and further.

Dedication of Merit
By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.
Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.
May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.
With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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Thursday, June 30, 2022

A Short Prayer to the Dharma Protectors for Offering and Auspiciousne

 
Mahakala is one of the most popular guardians in the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon. Here he tramples a corpse while wielding a flaying knife and a blood-filled skull cup, signifying the destruction of impediments to enlightenment.

What is the purpose of Mahakala?
His purpose is to help in overcoming negative obstacles on the path to enlightenment, and protecting that path of righteousness (also known as “Dharma”) from hindrances. Like a gargoyle, the mask of Mahakala is also meant to scare the bad spirits and energy away from the place it protects

A Short Prayer to the Dharma Protectors for Offering and Auspiciousness

* Offering prayers
Ngon tse orgyen chenpo chen nga ru
I offer to all the Dharma protectors who long ago

Cho zhin drupar jepe gangzak la
Promised, in the presence of the Great Uddiyana,

Ma yi bu zhin kyongwar zhel zhepe
To protect, like a mother protects her child,

Chokyong sungma nam la chopa bul
Those who practice in accordance with the Dharma.
*Prayer for Auspiciousness
Ngon tse orgyen chenpo chen nga ru
May there be the auspiciousness of all the Dharma protectors who long ago,

Cho zhin drupar jepe gangzak la
Promised, in the presence of the Great Uddiyana,

Ma yi bu zhin kyongwar zhel zhepe
To protect, like a mother protects her child,

Chokyong sungma nam kyi trashi shok
Those who practice in accordance with the Dharma.
* Footnote 
For those who had received the empowerment of this Tantric practice, you are reminded not intentionally or unintentionally to disclose the mantra to the public or anyone who may not have the empowerment or permission to practice, and by disclosing the mantra intentionally or unintentionally is a form of breaking your Tantric Samaya vows to the lineage masters and Dharma protectors. 

Please consult your Guru or a qualified lineage master for Vajrayana practice! Should a devotee even want to start studying and contemplating the Vajrayana practice, then it is truly necessary to first have completed the preliminaries and to be certain and sure that Bodhicitta has arisen and developed in one’s mind.

Vajrayana features countless skillful and powerful methods which, if they are practiced in the proper way, can make the process of accumulation and purification incredibly swift and direct. It is absolutely necessary to have the pure motivation and to know that Vajrayana practice is not carried out to increase one’s own ego, power and self-interests.
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Aspiration For Bodhichitta
For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen
May it arise and not decrease
But increase further and further.

Dedication of Merit
By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.
Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.
May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.
With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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Thursday, June 23, 2022

What is Chod practice? Attributed to the great Tibetan Yogini Machig Labdron

 

What is Chod practice?
The chod practitioner seeks to tap the power of fear through activities such as rituals set in graveyards, and visualisation of offering their bodies in a tantric feast in order to put their understanding of emptiness to the ultimate test.

The Tibetan word “Chod” means “to cut off” or “to slay.” The traditional practice of chod cuts off self-cherishing and grasping at a truly existent “I.” It creates the conditions under which one can develop the mind of conventional bodhichitta, which holds others as more dear than oneself, and the mind of ultimate bodhichitta, which sees reality as it truly is.

Attributed to the great Tibetan Yogini Machig Labdron, and the only practice that made its way back to India from Tibet, it is an extremely effective and quick Tantric method for attaining realizations of the path to enlightenment.
Chod is a spiritual practice found primarily in the Yundrung Bön tradition as well as in the Nyingma and Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism (where it is classed as Anuttarayoga Tantra).

It's also known as "cutting through the ego, the practices are based on the Prajnaparamita or "Perfection of Wisdom" sutras, which expound the "emptiness" concept of Buddhist philosophy.

According to Mahayana Buddhists, emptiness is the ultimate wisdom of understanding that all things lack inherent existence. Chod combines Prajnaparamita philosophy with specific meditation methods and Tantric ritual. The chod practitioner seeks to tap the power of fear through activities such as rituals set in graveyards, and visualisation of offering their bodies in a Tantric feast in order to put their understanding of emptiness to the ultimate test.
Key elements
Chod literally mean "cutting through". It cuts through hindrances and obscurations, sometimes called 'demons' or 'gods'. Examples of demons are ignorant, anger and, in particular, the dualism of perceiving the self as inherently meaningful, contrary to the Buddhist doctrine of anatta (non-self).

This is done in a powerful meditative ritual which includes "a stunning array of visualizations, song, music, and prayer, it engages every aspect of one’s being and effects a powerful transformation of the interior landscape.

According to Machig Labdron, the main goal of chod is cutting through ego clinging:

What we call devils are not materially existing individuals . A devil means anything which hinders us in our achievement of liberation. Consequently, even kind and loving friends and companions may become devils as far as liberation is concerned. 
In particular, there is no greater devil than this present ego-clinging, and because of this all the devils will rear their ugly heads as long as one has not severed this clinging to ego.

When somebody tells you something that really hurts your mind, that is the most beneficial thing for your mind because it goes straight in your heart and touches your ego.

This is what shows you, like a mirror, like a teaching from the Buddha, one’s own mistaken thoughts, especially the ego; it shows that there is ego, and because there is ego, it hurts.

If there is no ego, then it would never hurt. When people say what your mistakes are, or say words which hurt you, that is the real Chöd practice. This is what makes you see your “I,” the emotional “I” – in Western psychological terms – the object of ignorance, the root of Samsara, which is holding this “I” as truly existent.
Normally one is not aware of this, but by doing the practice of Chöd, inviting the spirits, they create violence and it makes you see the “I,” the object of ignorance, the object to be refuted – the truly existent “I” – clearly. They show the “I” to you very clearly and then you are able to recognize that it is false, an object of ignorance; you are able to use your reasoning, logical reasoning, that the “I” doesn’t exist because it is a dependant arising, or merely imputed. 

It is merely imputed relating to the aggregates, the base, etc. There are so many other reasonings you can use. You recognize the object to be refuted at that minute. That it is what doesn’t exist at all; it is totally non-existent. 

Chod, like all Tantric systems, has outer, inner and secret aspects. They are described in an evocation sung to Nyama Paldabum by Milarepa:

What we call devils are not materially existing individuals. A devil means anything which hinders us in our achievement of liberation. Consequently, even kind and loving friends and companions may become devils as far as liberation is concerned. In particular, there is no greater devil than this present ego-clinging, and because of this all the devils will rear their ugly heads as long as one has not severed this clinging to ego.
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* Footnote 
For those who had received the empowerment of this Tantric practice, you are reminded not intentionally or unintentionally to disclose the mantra to the public or anyone who may not have the empowerment or permission to practice, and by disclosing the mantra intentionally or unintentionally is a form of breaking your Tantric Samaya vows to the lineage masters and Dharma protectors. 

Please consult your Guru or a qualified lineage master for Vajrayana practice! Should a devotee even want to start studying and contemplating the Vajrayana practice, then it is truly necessary to first have completed the preliminaries and to be certain and sure that Bodhicitta has arisen and developed in one’s mind.

Vajrayana features countless skillful and powerful methods which, if they are practiced in the proper way, can make the process of accumulation and purification incredibly swift and direct. It is absolutely necessary to have the pure motivation and to know that Vajrayana practice is not carried out to increase one’s own ego, power and self-interests.

Thank you for reading, may you find peace and great bliss. With your support it helps to spread the Buddha’s precious teachings and turning the Dharma wheels in the world.

Aspiration For Bodhichitta
For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen
May it arise and not decrease
But increase further and further.

Dedication of Merit
By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.
Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.
May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.
With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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Monday, May 30, 2022

The Glorious Vajra Claws - Dorje Dermo Dakini 金剛利爪母


*Vajra Claw—Dorje Dermo Dakini 金剛利爪母
Vajra Claw is a wrathful female activity Dakini. The Buddha originally revealed Vajra Claw to be a powerful guardian and protector. Accordingly, Vajra Claw is invoked to this day in order to protect the practitioners’ domestic space, their family, their friends and their allies and to avert any obstacles that might threaten them.
Vajra Claw she is a wrathful female activity Dakini. Within the Vajrakilaya tradition, she is the consort of Niladanda of The Ten Wrathful Ones. Her name translates as Vajra Claws into English and may be restored in Sanskrit as Vajra Nakhi. Her mantra has a long history and can be found in a variety of forms in the Guhyasamaja, the Vajravarahi, and the Vajrakilaya traditions.

In this context Dorje Dermo’s mantra is recited in connection to the ritual of the liberation of obstacles. Over time and especially within Tibet, Dorje Dermo became a deity independently invoked as to protect the practitioners’ domestic space, their family, their friends and their allies and to avert any obstacles that might threaten them.
History of Vajra Claw Dorje Dermo Dakini
According to The Incantation of Glorious Vajra Claws, the Buddha revealed the method for invoking Dorje Dermo in a place called the Vajra Palace to an assembly of monks and Tantric practitioners. There the Buddha advised them, that if the Dharani is recited, Dorje Dermo will become their guardian and protector, they will obtain many qualities and encounter only favourable circumstances.

At the end of the Dharani, Dorje Dermo recounts that countless aeons ago, she took birth as a female practitioner. At that time the Buddha called "Dridha-shura-sena-prabha-raja" (Sanskirt: Drdhasurasenapraharaṇaraja) visited the world. When Dorje Dermo met this Buddha, Buddha placed his hand upon her head and entrusted her with the Dharani. Buddha foretold her that if she continues recites the dharani, in future she will become known as the deity Dorje Dermo and bring great benefit and happiness to all sentient beings.
The Power of Vajra Claw Practice
The lamas mentioned that this practice is considered very powerful. They explained that Vajra Claw is a wrathful ḍakini whose activity is related to pacifying negative obstructing forces. In particular, Vajra Claw’s dharaṇi has the power to stop or block these forces, whether they appear in the form of external forces in nature.

Other people’s negative actions, our body sicknesses, fears or mental problems. It also has incredible benefits, all of which are described in detail in the text. According to the text, this dharaṇi protects by wearing it, reading it, or placing it where the problem is taking place.
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* Footnote 
For those who had received the empowerment of this Tantric practice, you are reminded not intentionally or unintentionally to disclose the mantra to the public or anyone who may not have the empowerment or permission to practice, and by disclosing the mantra intentionally or unintentionally is a form of breaking your Tantric Samaya vows to the lineage masters and Dharma protectors. 

Please consult your Guru or a qualified lineage master for Vajrayana practice! Should a devotee even want to start studying and contemplating the Vajrayana practice, then it is truly necessary to first have completed the preliminaries and to be certain and sure that Bodhicitta has arisen and developed in one’s mind.

Vajrayana features countless skillful and powerful methods which, if they are practiced in the proper way, can make the process of accumulation and purification incredibly swift and direct. It is absolutely necessary to have the pure motivation and to know that Vajrayana practice is not carried out to increase one’s own ego, power and self-interests.

Thank you for reading, may you find peace and great bliss. With your support it helps to spread the Buddha’s precious teachings and turning the Dharma wheels in the world.

Aspiration For Bodhichitta
For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen
May it arise and not decrease
But increase further and further.

Dedication of Merit
By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.
Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.
May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.
With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Benefits Verses of Praises to the 21 Taras

Praises to the Twenty-One Taras is a traditional prayer in Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism to the female Bodhisattva Tara. Tara is also known as Arya Tara or Jetsun Dolma. 

Benefit verses
Lha mo la goo yang dak den pei. Lo den gang gi rab den jo peh.
It should be recited with perfect reverence and attitude to the Deity (Dolma).

So dang thaw rang lang par cheh neh. Dren peh mi jig tam cheh tab ter.
By remembering it at dusk and dawn as one rises, it gives perfect protection from all fears.
Dig pa tam cheh rab too shi was. Ngen dro tam cheh jom pa nyi do.
Calming all karma and preventing birth into lower realms.

Gyal wa cheh wa trak doon nam kyi. Nyur too wang ni our war gyur la.
One quickly receives the empowerment from the 70 million Buddhas.

Di leh cheh wa nyi ni tob ching. Sang gyeh go phang tar too der dro.
So that everything here shows increase and one proceeds towards ultimate Buddhahood.

De yi dug ni drag po chhen po. Tan na pa am zhan yang dro wa.
If affected by the most terrible poison. Whether ingested, drunk, or from a living being.

Zo pa dang ni thung pa nyi kyang. Dran pa rab tu sel wa nyi thob.
Just by remembering. Will one be thoroughly cleansed.

Don dang rim dang dug gi zir wai. Dui ngai tshog ni nam par pong te. 
The suffering from serious affliction by demons, contagious diseases, and poison is left behind.
Sem chan zhan pa nam la yang ngo. Nyi sum dun du ngon par jo na.
Also for others - by means of 7 repetitions in 3 sessions before noon and 3 sessions afternoon.

Bu do pa ni bu thob gyur zhing. Nor do pa ni nor nam nyi thob.
Then if a son is wished for, a son will be obtained, if wealth is required, will be obtained.

Do pa tham cha thob par gyur la. Geg nam me ching so sor jom gyur chig.
All that is wished for will be obtained. Hindrances will be negated and destroyed individually.
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For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen
May it arise and not decrease
But increase further and further.

Dedication of Merit
By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.
Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.
May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.
With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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Friday, October 29, 2021

Twenty-one Emanations of Taras

Praises to the Twenty-One Taras is a traditional prayer in Tibetan Buddhism to the female Bodhisattva Tara (also known as Arya Tara, or Jetsun Dolma) 

The prayer is found in all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Each of the twenty-one emanations of Tara has her own name, and a specific mantra with which she is associated, offering protection from various types of fears, harm, and calamities.

The iconographical traditions
The various authors of the commentary tradition often placed a special emphasis on the iconography of each of the 21 forms of Tara, describing her colour, seat, posture, number of faces and arms, implements and hand gesture. The iconographical descriptions in the commentaries may not always correspond to the description of the Taras in the Praises to the 21 Taras. There are three main iconographic traditions that formed in Tibet.

Suryagupta Tradition
Depicting the 21 Taras as differing in all details such as posture, number of heads and hands, colour, implements and hand gestures.

Nagarjuna and Atisha’s tradition
In which the 21 Taras are rarely distinguished except by colour, peaceful or wrathful expression, and the colour of the vessel that each holds in the left hand.

The Nyingma Terma tradition of Jigme Lingpa and Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa
Depicting them as in Nagarjuna and Atisha’s tradition, but of different colours and holding individual emblems on top of the lotus in the left hand, rather than vessels. Jikme Lingpa’s and Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa’s tradition differ only slightly from each other.

The individual of the Twenty-one Emanations of Tara based on Nyingma Terma traditions:
  1. Tara, who is swift and courageous for development of Bodhichitta
  2. Tara, who is melodious for knowledge and wisdom (i.e. Sarasvati)
  3. Tara, who grants supreme merit for the force of merit
  4. Tara, who is completely victorious for long life (i.e. Ushnishavijaya)
  5. Tara, Kurukulla for magnetising people and wealth
  6. Tara, who causes terror for destroying the power of harmful influences (i.e. Vajravidarana)
  7. Tara, who is invincible for protection from hailstorms and lightning
  8. Tara, triumphant over others for repelling blame
  9. Tara of the Khadira Forest for protection from the eight great fears. (She is the main Tara, green in colour)
  10. Tara, who conquers the three worlds to have power over the world
  11. Tara, who bestows wealth for dispelling poverty and granting good fortune
  12. Tara, who brings auspiciousness for the auspiciousness of children, fame, rain and so on
  13. Tara, who destroys the power of enemies for victory in war
  14. Tara, furrowing Brow for protection from spirits
  15. Tara, who is perfect peace  for purifying harmful actions
  16. Tara, who is ablaze with light for dispelling spells and negative effects
  17. Tara of limitless subjugation for protection from robbers, thieves, animals and hunters
  18. Tara, majestic as the Great Peahen to protect from and neutralize poison
  19. Tara, who is unconquerable and victorious for protection from quarrels and bad dreams (i.e. Sitatapatra)
  20. Tara, Dweller in the mountains for protection from epidemics
  21. Tara, ‘Rays of Light for restoring the spirits and energies of sick people (i.e. Marichi)
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Aspiration For Bodhichitta
For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen
May it arise and not decrease
But increase further and further.

Dedication of Merit
By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.
Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.
May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.
With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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Friday, August 6, 2021

The Tibetan Sacred Black Pills - Rimsung Rilbu

Rimsung Rilbu, the Tibetan sacred Black Pills 

The Tibetan Black Pills and sacred substances of ancient Tantric Buddhism. In Tibetan, they are called rimsung rilbu, meaning ‘pills that protect from contagion.

Nakpo Gujor, the Nine-Ingredient Black Pill, is a traditional Tibetan medicinal amulet made from nine special ingredients which are said to protect against infectious diseases and epidemics of
all types. They are also known as Rimsung Rilbu. 

These are made for us in Nepal and contain a special combination of wildcrafted Himalayan herbs and minerals. Worn around the neck next to the skin, these special pills (not for consumption) can help to protect the wearer during this complex time of * pandemic.

Due to the combination of herbal ingredients, prayers and mantras used in the production of this formula, Nakpo Gujor are traditionally believed have the ability to defend the wearer from many types of sickness and ill fortune.

Black pill, this black covered protective pill is a medicinal mixture which is prophesied in the Final Tantra of Tibetan Medicine Subject. As in Tibetan language Rim is mainly explained as kinds of diseases that transfer from one to another, like influenza and coughing, in additional as well as hindrance and adventitious harm. 

In Tibetan Traditional Medicine Tantra, it is taught that there is an importance in curing hindrances, infectious diseases and poisons. Also, it shows many methods and antidotal substances. Especially this black pill is a mixture of holy substances and it is well accomplished with reciting Mantras of each substance. 
Hence, it' s scent flows up in the air as well as in the sun rays. It hinders the effect of the outer air through inhaling. As this black pill is principally made with antidotal substances and reciting the Mantra, this should be tied at the neck, or can be kept in a pocket and sometime can be sniffed while in crowded and places with stench. By doing this it will prevent you from the above diseases. Safety caution: Do not eat and dispose it anywhere when unwrapped.

These amulets are especially recommended for travelers, the elderly, young children, those in the medical and nursing professions and anyone wishing for an extra level of protection during these uncertain times. 
How to use?
  • Wear like a necklace, directly in contact with the skin.
  • Inhale the herbal scent each morning, three times with each nostril.
  • The healing and defensive powers of the Nakpo Gujor can be increased through reciting the Medicine Buddha Mantra or the Mantra of Shakyamuni Buddha and then blowing on the amulet. 
  • Keep dry and do not bathe or swim while wearing. Do not remove from fabric wrapping. This formula cannot be eaten.
*Note*
These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

This formula is made of herbs which are conscientiously, sustainably hand-harvested and gathered by well-paid, well- treated workers. All the herbs which go into making these complex formulas are organic and wild-crafted. They are made according to strict Buddhist principles and consecrated according to ancient, traditional methods.
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