To understand and experience the essence of the Medicine Buddha is to experience healing as not simply physical and symptomatic but as a deep interrelationship of one’s mind body, spirit environment and karma. The Medicine Buddha is considered not only an extraordinary means for inner healing but is also a means of healing one’s environment world and interrelationships. As one is healed so are many.

Bhaisajyaguru translates directly as “Medicine Master Lapis Lazuli Light”. The Medicine Buddha helps to vibrantly transform the roots of inner sickness: attachment, hatred, ignorance and pride. Here there is an understanding that karma past and present affects our current state of wellness. Delve into such texts as the 17th century Blue Beryl Treatise (Four Tantras of Tibetan medicine) and you will find a full explication of a syncretic approach to medicine that fuses a deep knowledge of physical anatomy with the energy bodies (as expressed through the nadi’s and chackras); a complex and highly sophisticated approach to herbal medicinals, and in depth embryology all which is integrated with a deep understanding of the affects of the soul’s karmic evolution on our present health.