Practices to Remove a Resident Teacher’s Health Obstacles

Practices to Remove a Resident Teacher’s Health Obstacles

Date of Advice:
November 2013
Date Posted:
January 2021

Rinpoche observed that there were health obstacles for a center’s resident teacher that year, and for a student in the following year. Rinpoche advised these practices to remove the obstacles.  

  • 50,000 tsa tsas of the three long-life deities, to remove health obstacles for this year. Kopan monks and nuns [can make them.]
  • 2,000 long-life tsa tsas, to remove obstacles for next year. Kopan monks and nuns [can make them]; also share them with students.
  • Amitayus Long Life Sutra (Tse do). To be recited 1,000 times by the Kopan nuns, to remove obstacles for next year.
  • 30,000 Amitayus long-life mantras, to remove obstacles for next year. If you can, maybe do a loose retreat in the morning and evening, or it can be stricter.
  • Drugchuma puja. To be recited seventy times by the Gyuto monks in Dharamsala. This is to remove obstacles for next year.
  • Golden Light Sutra. The center students can read this four times.
  • Chanting the Names of Manjushri (Jamphel Tsenjö). To be recited sixty times, to remove obstacles for next year. The monks and nuns at Kopan can do one recitation each in one sitting.
  • Recitation of the Kangyur, by the Kopan monks.