Medicine Buddha Tibetan Mandala

The Medicine Buddha Mandala Thangka symbolizes devotion and serves as a meditative center for healing practices. By focusing on the thangka, practitioners strive to activate the therapeutic power of the Medicine Buddha and cultivate wisdom, kindness, and spiritual harmony. Medicine Buddha or the Healing Buddha is acknowledged as Bhaiajyaguru, indicating that he is the master of medicines and a ‘doctor of souls and bodies.’ Identical to Buddha Śa-kya-muni, he has the ushnisha on the top of his head exemplifying his spiritual power, is clad in a monastic robe, and is seated in Padmasana. Bhaiajyagru is symbolic of the healing facet of Buddha Śa-kya-muni in Mahayana Buddhism. Medicine Buddha is always portrayed in a profound lapis lazuli blue, with his left hand positioned in the mediation mudra holding a medicine bowl, while his right hand is placed on the right knee clasping a stem or fruit of the myrobalan plant.