The Medicine Buddha encompasses all the buddhas. This means that
when we practice the seven-limb prayer and make offerings with the
seven limbs, we receive the same merit as we would if we had made
offerings to all the buddhas. Similarly, when we recite the mantra
of Medicine Buddha, we collect unbelievable merit just as when we
offer the seven-limb practice to Medicine Buddha.
To recite the Medicine Buddha mantra brings inconceivable merit.
Manjushri requested the eight tathagatas Guru Shakyamuni Buddha and
the seven Medicine Buddhas to reveal a special mantra that would
make the prayers the eight tathagatas made in the past prayers to
be able to actualize the happiness of sentient beings by attaining
the path to enlightenment and pacifying various problems, to be
able to see all the buddhas, and for all wishes to be quickly
realized to quickly come to pass, especially for those sentient
beings born in the time of the five degenerations who have small
merit and who are possessed and overwhelmed by various diseases and
spirit harms.
During that time, all the eight tathagatas, in one voice, taught
the Medicine Buddha mantra. Therefore, if you recite the mantra
every day, the buddhas and bodhisattvas will always pay attention
to you, and they will guide you. Vajrapani, owner of the secrets,
and the four guardians will always protect and guide you. All your
negative karmas will be pacified, and you will never be born in the
three lower realms. Even just hearing a recitation of the names of
the eight tathagatas pacifies all diseases and spirit harms even
spirit harms that arise as a condition of disease and all your
wishes are fulfilled.
Long Mantra Recitation
OM NAMO BHAGAVATE BHEKHANDZYE / GURU BAIDURYA / PRABHA RADZAYA /
TATHAGATAYA / ARHATE SAMYAKSAM BUDDHAYA / TADYATHA / OM BHEKHANDZYE
BHEKHANDZYE MAHA BHEKHANDZYE BHEKHANDZYE / RADZA SAMUDGATE
SVAHA
Short Mantra Recitation
TADYATHA OM BHEKHANDZYE BHEKHANDZYE MAHA BHEKHANDZYE
BHEKHANDZYE RADZA SAMUDGATE