Do not believe in anything (simply) because you have heard it.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
Do not believe in anything because it is spoken and rumoured by many.
Do not believe in anything (simply) because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
But after observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conductive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it.
Gautama Buddha, Kalama Sutta
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Medicine Buddha Mantra (Tibetan) Transliterated to English:
1 Om: Jewel holder, wish fulfilling one, auspicious one.
2 Namo: prostration
3 Bhagavate: The victorious conqueror
4 Bekhaze (Vaishjaye): medicine Buddha
5 Guru: spiritual master
6 Beduryaprabharazaya: king of Aquamarine one
7 Tathagataya: The one thus gone (the one medicine) gone to the state of the Buddha like other buddhas
8 Arhate: foe destroyed (one who destroyed the enemy of cycle of birth, aging, sickness and death)
9 Samyaksambuddhaya: perfectly accomplished enlightenment of Buddha
10 Tayatha: like this
11 Om: jewel holder, wish fulfilling one, auspicious one
12 Bekhazebekhaze: two times calling the name of medicine Buddha
13 Mahabekhaze: great or supreme physician
14 Bekhazayerazaya: King of physicians
15 Samungate: Perfectly liberated or awakened
16 Svaha: being auspicious!
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