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Medicine Buddha practice: The seven limb prayer

Medicine Buddha practice: The seven limb prayer

Part of a series of talks given during a weekend retreat at Pureland Marketing, Singapore.

  • Questions
  • Equanimity: leveling out our attitude toward others
  • Compassion means looking out for the long term benefit of others
  • The Seven Limb Prayer
  • The purpose and method of prostrations
  • Creating merit through offering
  • The limb of confession and the four opponent powers

Medicine Buddha practice: The seven limb prayer (download)

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Venerable Thubten Chodron

Venerable Chodron emphasizes the practical application of Buddha’s teachings in our daily lives and is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1977 by Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India, and in 1986 she received bhikshuni (full) ordination in Taiwan. Read her full bio.