Medicine Buddha CD, Umdze Lodro Samphel

Description

Medicine Buddha – the Healing Buddha

His aspiration is to pacify the suffering of all beings. Seated on a lotus in vajra posture, his body, the color of lapis lazuli, is radiating light. His right hand is in the mudra of supreme generosity representing the eradication of sickness and suffering using the means of relative truth. His left hand is in the mudra of meditative stability, which represents the eradication of sickness and suffering through realization of absolute truth. In his right hand he holds the fruit of the myrobalan tree, which is the greatest of healing plants. In his left hand he holds a bowl filled with nectars for healing and enhancing life.

This cd was recorded in the Lineage Shrine Room of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Monastery, Woodstock, NY in 1998.

Umdze Lodro Samphel is the senior umdze (chant master) at Rumtek Dharma Chakra Center in Sikkim, India, the international seat of His Holiness Gyalwa Karmapa. During a course of study that spanned more than twenty years, he mastered all Tibetan musical instruments, chanting and all aspects of ritual performance of Karma Kagyu sadhanas. As umdze of the sadhana on this cd, Lama Lodro Samphel chants and plays rolmo (cymbals), drum, gyaling (horn), bell and damaru (hand drum) and doong (long horn).

Total running time: 38:00