Audio recorded at Tibetan Buddhist Institute, Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 46-minute empowerment, Kyabje Rinpoche administers a complete Medicine Buddha initiation built on visualization and mantra transmission. The ritual opens with guided purification: rainbow-colored light and nectar from the Medicine Buddha descend through the crown, filling the entire body and washing away all negativities—a process repeated three times for progressively deeper effect. Rinpoche then walks practitioners through transformation: the seven Buddha forms dissolve into the central dark blue Medicine Buddha, and each practitioner imagines appearing in this form, complete with symbolic hand gestures and attributes. The visualization extends outward, invoking all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas across the directions; their blessings concentrate at three chakra points—white OM at the crown, red AH at the throat, blue HUM at the heart. The empowerment concludes with three transmissions: mantra, commitment, and blessing, centered on receiving and reciting the Medicine Buddha mantra. For practitioners ready to receive this initiation.
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File: 1988-12-03 – 1B – Empowerment A – KR.mp3
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Teacher: Kyabje Rinpoche
Collection: Medicine Buddha
Date: 1988-12-03
Recorded at: Tibetan Buddhist Institute, Adelaide
Words: ~1,751
Now, now we should imagine having made requests to the king of the Buddhas of Healing that from his body rainbow colored lights begin to descend entering into the crown of our head and completely filling our body with brilliant rainbow color light. Then rainbow colored nectars begin to flow down to the crown of our head like rain, filling up slowly from the bottom, filling our entire body, purifying all our negativities, all our latencies of unskillful actions from the past, all our impurities. Our body becomes perfectly pure, clean, crystal clear glass. Try to imagine that now your body is perfectly clear crystal without any blemishes, without any impurities, completely clean. So it’s necessary that we repeat this three times.
We’ve done this once. Rinpoche is going to recite the necessary words of request and that we can simply think within our mind that we’re the visualization as best we can, that we’re first making requests to the topmost Buddha of healing. That topmost having us seated to our wishes dissolves into the second making requests to the second dissolving the third repeating the process down to the king of the Buddhas of healing on top of our head, the rainbow of light filling our body, then comes the rainbow of nectars like rain filling up our body, eliminating all the negativities, the latencies of unskillful actions from the past, all the uncleanliness. Our mind our body becomes completely clear glass without any blemishes, without any faults, extremely clean. And we’re going to do this process two more times.
First is dissolve. Second is dissolved. Third. And the fourth, the fifth, sixth, now we’re down to the the king of the Buddhas of healing. In this the third repetition, the the first has dissolved into the second, second, the third, down to the seventh, the king of the Buddhas of healing.
Now we’re making very strong requests that that our prayers be realized just as their vast prayers have been realized for the sake of sentient beings. And then, in answer, the Buddha accedes to our prayers, our requests. The lights, rainbow colored lights into our body purifying all the impurities, all the negativities, followed by a rain of rainbow colored nectar filling us from the bottom to the top of our head, completely purifying, eliminating all negativities, all impurities, and our mind is clean to the point where it becomes as if crystal clear glass without any blemishes or defects. So then we begin the third repetition beginning with the the topmost Buddha dissolving down. Having dissolved through the first six Buddhas down to the to the seventh, the king of the Buddhas of healing on top of our head, making strong request to this Buddha.
So making a single pointed request to the king of Buddha of healing, dark blue in color visualized above our head that, you know, that as have realized all your various prayers, may I may I realize all my prayers. For example, ridding myself of sickness and all the all the negativities and establishing all the excellent qualities within myself. And, acceding to our request, the lights, rainbow colored lights radiate down through the crown of our head filling up our entire body ridding ourselves of all negativities and unskillful latencies and unskillful actions of the past, all defects. Then followed by a rain of nectar, various colors, filling our entire body, eliminating all the impurities until our body becomes as if crystal clear glass without any defects, without any blemishes. That just as any type of color that’s held, that is that is seen beneath glass, takes the glass takes on that color, our body takes on whatever color is filled, is within it because it’s it’s crystal clear.
It’s pure. And therefore, all the various qualities of the Buddha, all the various excellent attainments, realization have flown down and flow down into us, and our body takes on that that aspect of all excellent qualities and realizations, and all the absences of negativities are completely present. And this is the appearance in the form of rainbow color light filling our entire body, which is visualized as crystal clear glass. Now we should imagine that the two to our right and left dissolve into the central figure of the Buddha of healing at the visualized at the top of our head. And that our body having been purified of all negativities and having developed all the excellent qualities and is perfectly able to be a container for all the excellent qualities of the Buddha’s of healing.
The Buddha of healing himself or herself dissolves down into us, and that we now appear in the form of the king of the medicinal Buddhas, the central figure in the photograph, dark blue in color with the right hand in the gesture of giving on the on the right knee holding the the medicinal plant, the left hand in the lap holding the the alms bowl full of nectar, that we are we have all become monks with the red robes. And you should imagine that you have actually become the king of medicinal Buddhas or the Buddhas of healing. So you’ve all become monks. So, you know, as try to imagine yourself as actually trans having been transformed into the the king of the medicinal Buddhas, dark blue in color with all the various signs and marks that with the right hand in the gesture of giving, the left hand holding the alms bowl on your lap with the crown protrusion on top of your head. And now to assist us in our in our work of healing, there are the two helpers or assistants.
On the right side is the white and on the left side is a red. We should think they’re they’re looking towards us with their hands folded, their palms together. Then at your now you’re in the form of, the medicinal Buddha, the Buddha of healing, dark blue in color. At your heart, the at your heart center, there appears a moon disc, like a moon, flat moon cushion. And on top of this moon cushion is the syllable Om, O M.
You can visualize either in Tibetan or in English, o m, and it’s blue in color that’s at your heart. On top there so on top of the moon disc is the letter the syllable om. Then from the from the heart of the presiding master, their lights radiate forth to the farthest ends of the universe, requesting all the unimaginable Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in all the various directions to assist. And from them, an answer, all the various unimaginable deities the Buddhas and the Buddhas of healing all begin to dissolve down into all the various disciples, that is, into our own bodies. So imagine that, the light having gone out from the presiding master’s heart, invoking all the Buddhas in the in the 10 directions, and in answer, they they begin to, come down and dissolve within our own bodies.
Then again from the presiding master’s heart, light radiates out directed toward the the Buddha of healing on the altar and the having having invoked the Buddha of healing on the altar, light shines out from the heart of the Buddha of healing on the altar, and all the Buddhas of healing begin to form and dissolve, as if hundreds and hundreds of Buddhas of healing dissolving into our body, being radiated out. So all the various Buddhas of healing have now dissolved into us and they all these concentrate down into the om at our heart. And that Om dissolves. And then we should imagine that at the crown of our head is the white OM, OM, At our our throat center is a red ah, a h, and our heart center is a blue HUM, h u m, a blue Now we should imagine that we have received all the blessings of the body, speech and mind of the Buddha. Everybody take just a little yes so just take a handful and start passing it back if one person takes a handful and then they can pass that handful back and the other person goes just everybody takes some.
Take and that’s it. So now we begin what is called the three transmissions. There’s a transmission of mantra, the transmission of commitment, and the transmission of blessing. So as best you can try to imagine that at the heart of the presiding master is a moon disc at the heart center.
On the moon disc is the syllable Om, blue in color. And around this Om is a chain of the mantra. Namo Bhagavate Bhaiṣajyaguru. You all have this mantra. And it forms in a clockwise direction around this blue om.
Imagine at the presiding at the heart of the presiding master. And then at at your heart is a white moon disc. From this white moon disc is the blue letter Om. And you should imagine that this is, you know, in the nature of light, brilliant radiating light, but it’s actually your mind. So at present, the mantra is in residing at the heart of the presiding master and we don’t have the mantra in our heart.
As the presiding master begins to recite the mantra, it rises up from out of his heart, out of his mouth, comes down to each of us, enters in our ear, and goes down to our heart, and it begins to circle at the the blue Om visualized at our heart center. So as we’ve explained that the presiding master is inseparable from the king of the Buddhas of healing. It is in the nature of the Buddhas of healing. So now we’re going to receive the the oral transmission of the the mantra by reciting after the master the mantra. So you should imagine that that the mantra has come down through your ear and this you have received the entire mantra at your heart.
We’re gonna do this three times. So the first the first repetition is in order to receive the blessing of the mantra. The second is that it becomes inseparable. Can never be separated from your heart. And the third it becomes very firm and stable.
So this is the the transmission of the mantra.