Practices After an Abortion

Practices After an Abortion

Date of Advice:
May 2014
Date Posted:
September 2023

This advice was given to a student who had an abortion and asked what she needed to do to purify the karma.

Rinpoche checked and said you should order a few buddha statues, whatever size you can afford. Order very good art, like the statues in Rinpoche’s room at Kopan.

Then when you get the statues, make offerings every day of water, flowers, light, fruit. Then every day do prostrations, reciting three malas of Shakyamuni Buddha’s name mantra:

[LA MA] TÖN PA CHOM DÄN DÄ DE ZHIN SHEG PA DRA CHOM PA YANG DAG PAR DZOG PÄI SANG GYÄ PÄL GYÄL WA SHA KYA THUB PA LA CHHAG TSHÄL LO

[Guru], Teacher, Bhagavān, Tathāgata, Arhat, Perfectly Complete Buddha, Glorious Conqueror Śākyamuni Buddha, I prostrate.

Then recite one mala of the Buddha’s mantra:

TADYATHĀ OṂ MUNE MUNE MAHĀ MUNAYE SVĀHĀ

Then dedicate, especially for the sentient being that was aborted. This is Rinpoche’s advice.