[🧹 Negative energy, bad luck, karmic obstacles, disasters 🪷 Change your luck and fortune] Medicine Buddha Wat Ban Phra 2566
[Master] The many high-ranking monks of Wat Ban Phag
[Temple] Wat Phra That Doi Ban Phra
[Year] Buddhist Era 2565
【size】
Approximately 16.5cm high, 9cm wide , and 6.6cm deep .
[Relic Materials]
Amulets featuring the Bird of Humanity, Luang Phor Pern's own image, Takrut, and the Fish of Wealth.
[Donation] $3380
[Introduction to the Medicine Buddha]
Bhaisajyaguru Buddha, whose Sanskrit name is Bhaisajya Guru, is also known as the Medicine Buddha, the Great Physician Buddha, the King of Physicians, and the King of Twelve Vows.
He, along with Shakyamuni Buddha and Amitabha Buddha, forms the "Three Jewels of the Three Worlds," residing in the Pure Land of Lapis Lazuli in the East. He is the Great Physician King Buddha, possessing the Dharmakaya form, his body a blue lapis lazuli color. His right hand holds a medicinal herb with branches and leaves, while his left hand forms a meditation mudra holding a bowl filled with nectar. He wears the three robes and sits in the lotus position on a lotus. He is accompanied by seven other Medicine Buddhas: the Tathagata of Auspicious Name, the Tathagata of Precious Moon Wisdom and Radiant Sound, the Tathagata of Golden Precious Light and Wondrous Conduct, the Tathagata of Supreme Auspiciousness and Freedom, the Tathagata of Dharma Ocean Thunder Sound, the Tathagata of Dharma Ocean Wisdom and Playful Supernatural Power, and the Medicine Buddha of Lapis Lazuli Light. The first six are emanations of the Medicine Buddha. The Seven Medicine Buddha Dharma is one of the four major practices of the Japanese Tendai Esoteric Buddhism. When the Medicine Buddha is taken as the principal deity for practices such as pacifying calamities, it is called the Medicine Buddha Dharma. Its ritual is the same as the Seven Medicine Buddha Dharma.
According to the "Ritual for Reciting and Offering to the Seven Buddhas of Medicine Buddha, King of Lapis Lazuli Light," the image of the Medicine Buddha is depicted as follows: He holds a medicine vessel (also known as a priceless jewel) in his left hand, and forms the Mudra of the Three Realms with his right hand. He wears a kasaya (Buddhist robe) and sits cross-legged on a lotus platform, beneath which are twelve Yaksha generals. These twelve Yaksha generals vowed to protect the Medicine Buddha's Dharma, each leading seven thousand Yaksha attendants, protecting sentient beings who uphold the name of the Medicine Buddha in various places. The twelve Yaksha generals, in order, are: Kumbhira, Vajra, Mihira, Anila, Manila, Sanila, Indra, Vajra, Bhakhura, Cundara, Chusala, and Vikara. Each of these twelve generals has seven thousand Yaksha attendants. The twelve Yaksha generals represent the divine power of the Medicine Buddha, constantly protecting practitioners.
The Medicine Buddha manifests in fifty-one forms, usually referring to the Eight Great Medicine Buddhas. A commonly circulated image depicts him with spiral-shaped hair, holding a medicine pot in his left hand and making the Abhaya Mudra (or Varada Mudra) with his right. He is flanked by two bodhisattvas: Suryaprabha and Candraprabha. These two bodhisattvas are the foremost among the countless beings in the Medicine Buddha's Pure Land, and are bodhisattvas destined to become Buddhas in their next life, representing his tireless teaching of sentient beings day and night. Some depictions show Avalokiteshvara and Mahasthamaprapta as his attendants. Other depictions show Manjushri, Avalokiteshvara, Mahasthamaprapta, Ratnaketu, Akshayamati, Bhaisajyaraja, Bhaisajyasamudgata, and Maitreya as his attendants. The Medicine Buddha's Pure Land is the "Eastern Pure Land of Lapis Lazuli," hence he is also called the Lapis Lazuli Buddha, with a skin color of lapis lazuli blue, possessing the characteristics of a Dharmakaya Buddha. With one face and two arms, his skin is a deep blue, and he wears three robes. His right hand is in the gesture of granting wishes, holding a myrobalan fruit, while his left hand holds a medicine bowl filled with wondrous nectar capable of curing all karmic ailments of sentient beings. He possesses the thirty-two major marks and eighty minor marks of a Buddha, and sits in the vajra posture on a lotus and moon throne. When Bhaisajyaguru Buddha was practicing the Bodhisattva path in his past lives, he made twelve great vows:
I. One's own light shines without bounds;
Second, its body is as clear as crystal, both inside and out;
Third, may all sentient beings attain perfect fulfillment;
Fourth, to enable all sentient beings and practitioners to abide in the Mahayana Dharma;
Fifth, to enable all sentient beings to practice pure conduct in accordance with the Dharma;
VI. Even those with incomplete faculties can attain a beautiful and dignified appearance;
7. To bring peace and happiness to all sentient beings, both physically and mentally, until they attain enlightenment;
8. Transformation from female to male;
9. To enable all sentient beings to eliminate heretical views and cultivate the practices of the Bodhisattvas;
10. May all sentient beings be freed from all sorrow and suffering;
11. May all sentient beings be satisfied and live in peace and happiness;
12. May all sentient beings obtain various exquisite garments and be free from all suffering.
These twelve subtle vows bring happiness to all beings in this life. They aim to ensure that all beings live in peace and freedom from illness and suffering, possessing all faculties and leading to liberation. Therefore, based on these vows, the Buddha attained Buddhahood, residing in the Pure Land of Lapis Lazuli, a land as magnificent as the Land of Ultimate Bliss. Shakyamuni Buddha thus revealed the Dharma of the Medicine Buddha to benefit future generations. In appearance, the Medicine Buddha relieves the suffering of all beings; in reality, he heals the root of all suffering—the deep-seated ailment of fundamental ignorance—and liberates beings from the cycle of birth and death. Therefore, he is revered as the Great Physician Buddha or the King of Healers. The vows of this Buddha are inconceivable. If someone is seriously ill and shows signs of death, and their family members, at the time of their passing, wholeheartedly make offerings and worship to the Medicine Buddha day and night, recite the Sutra of the Fundamental Vows and Merits of the Medicine Buddha forty-nine times, light forty-nine lamps, and create five-colored banners for forty-nine days, that person may be revived and their life extended. This kind of faith in the Medicine Buddha has been prevalent since ancient times.
According to the *Sutra of the Fundamental Vows and Merits of the Seven Medicine Buddhas of Lapis Lazuli Light* translated by Yijing of the Tang Dynasty, the Medicine Buddha is also known as the Seven Medicine Buddhas. The principal Medicine Buddha has a body the color of lapis lazuli, radiant with light, and wears the three robes. His right hand forms the gesture of supreme generosity, holding a *rula* (a Tibetan green fruit) with a leaf, while his left hand holds a bowl filled with the nectar-like medicine that can cure all illnesses arising from karma in sentient beings. His features are perfectly complete, and he sits in the vajra posture on a lotus and moon disc.
Because sentient beings who have not yet attained enlightenment are troubled and disturbed by various afflictions, especially greed, anger, and ignorance, which mix together to produce forty-eight thousand different kinds of afflictions, tormenting those who are not yet enlightened. Due to these numerous psychological afflictions, there are four hundred and four traditional diseases and imbalances in the body, causing suffering and distress. The manifestation of the Medicine Buddha's vows is to eliminate these afflictions and free people from their suffering. Therefore, reciting the mantra of the Medicine Buddha or the Sutra of the Medicine Buddha's Fundamental Vows and Merits, and making offerings and prostrations, can not only eliminate disasters and prolong life, and eradicate all calamities and illnesses, but also ensure rebirth in the Pure Land of Medicine Buddha at the time of death.
Paying homage to and making offerings to the Medicine Buddha, reciting his name, and chanting his mantra can eliminate the root causes of all illnesses and suffering, representing the fundamental manifestation of the twelve vows. It can also avert disasters, prolong life, reduce calamities and illnesses, and avert the nine untimely deaths. The Medicine Buddha is the Great Physician King Buddha, who made twelve vows to save sentient beings from the root causes of their illnesses and cure the chronic disease of ignorance. He can also eliminate all karmic calamities.
[Efficacy of Sacred Objects]
Besides protecting health and warding off illness, the Medicine Buddha's "medicine" also means healing the body and mind and freeing one from the cycle of rebirth. In the distant past, the Medicine Buddha practiced celibacy and made twelve great vows during the time of the Tathagata of Lightning, vowing to relieve the suffering of all beings, to grant them complete faculties, beautiful appearance, abundant resources, freedom from all calamities, and to guide them to liberation. He attained Buddhahood upon fulfilling these vows.
✅Protecting the home and ensuring peace of mind
✅Purify the energy field of your home, change your luck, eliminate negative energy, drive away bad luck, ward off evil spirits and evil influences.
✅Boosts family fortune, increases positive energy, and wards off malicious people
✅ It can eliminate demonic obstacles, karmic hindrances, disasters, bad luck, promote health and cure diseases, accumulate merit, and ensure peace and safety.
With sincere prayer, all difficulties can be overcome, granting the worshipper great wisdom and bringing immeasurable good fortune and blessings❣️
[Temple Introduction]
Wat Ban Phet is renowned for the presence of Luang Phor Pern , one of the three most revered monks of modern Thailand and a famous tiger-taming Arhat. He is known for his remarkable efficacy in attracting, protecting, and enhancing wealth.
Luang Phor Pern once spent nine years in the mountains practicing asceticism and frequently encountered tigers. Whenever he encountered a tiger, he would sit down and chant scriptures, and the tiger would obediently come over to listen until he finished chanting before leaving.
Luang Phor Pern also favored using tiger imagery in the tattoos, amulets, and other sacred objects he made for his followers. Some of these items even actually contained tiger skin and teeth. Luang Phor Pern believed that tigers could ward off evil, increase power, and attract wealth.
Luang Phor Pern was a master of Sak Yant tattoos, and one of the most astonishing stories about him during his lifetime was related to this. It is said that after a man who had Luang Phor Pern tattoo him died for some reason, the forensic doctor discovered during the autopsy that the scalpel could not cut through the tattooed man's body!
From a forensic perspective, there was absolutely no medical basis for this, thus causing a great sensation and impact. Therefore, everyone later believed that those who received Sak Yant tattoos from Luang Phor Pern were invulnerable to weapons!
Luang Phor Pern was also highly skilled in the ancient Sak Yant tattooing technique. During his lifetime, countless monks sought his teachings and learned from him. By the time Luang Phor Pern reached his later years, he had disciples all over the world.
Luang Phor Pern passed away in 2545 BE ( 2002 AD ) at the age of 79. His body did not decay, achieving the state of incorruptibility of an Arhat, and was therefore enshrined in the temple for people to worship.