healing

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Difficulty & Resilience
The Five Protections: Ancient Buddhist Scriptures on Health, Healing, and Resilience
5 October 2023
Discover the Five Protections —ancient Buddhist scriptures personified as goddesses that offer a holistic approach to health crises, blending ritual, medicine, ethics, and environmental harmony to address everything from snakebites…
Difficulty & Resilience
Sūtras for Wellbeing: Praise to Tara with Twenty-One Verses of Homage
20 October 2020
The Praise to the Twenty-One Taras honors Tara, a female bodhisattva who vowed to remain in female form until all beings reach enlightenment —offering swift compassionate action in times of…
Difficulty & Resilience
Sūtras for Wellbeing: Ancient Buddhist Protection from Illness and Danger
27 August 2020
An ancient forest goddess transformed into medicine keepe r—Pārṇaśavarī embodies both nature's dangers and healing powers, offering epidemic protection for over a thousand years.
Difficulty & Resilience
Sūtras for Wellbeing: How the Buddha Healed the City of Vaiśālī
4 May 2020
The story of Vaiśālī: an ancient city saved from famine and epidemic through sacred verses, introducing protection and healing practices used for over two millennia.
Difficulty & Resilience
Sūtras for Wellbeing: The Aspiration Prayer from “Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm”
4 May 2020
Discover how the Buddha ended Vaiśālī's epidemic through The Aspiration Prayer from "Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm" —verses praising the Three Jewels with distinctive emphasis on the Saṅgha's transformative power…