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The Men-Tsee-Khang performed medicine consecration ceremony for five days from 24-28 September 2004. The former abbot of the Namgyal Monastery, Jhado Rinpoche, who was accompanied by more than ten monks from his monastery, carried out this ceremony. All the doctors and the students took part in it.
This is the first time that the Men-Tsee-Khang performed such a grandeur ceremony within its premises.
The ceremonial ritual was carried out after formulating herbal ingredients according to the Tibetan medical texts that mentions the herbal ingredients themselves have medicinal values to cure diseases.
The medicines being precious by nature, therefore it is offered to the medicine Buddha and deities of medicines to acquire blessings and mantras that further purifies and sanctifies the herbal pills spiritually. Thus medicines receive sacred blessing that adds in curing diseases effectively. The purpose of this ceremony is not merely important to alleviate sufferings of the body and mind but also to help accumulate extra virtuous merits that will help the patients from the cyclic existence of suffering even after death.
The texts also mention that people in general can only anticipate the efficacy of herbal ingredients and it is difficult especially for the non-believers of Tibetan Buddhism to understand this concept of consecration. However, those who understands and have knowledge on Tibetan medicine will instinctually follow the concept that all material phenomena inanimate or animate contain relative proportions of the basic elements as their material bases. In the Tibetan medical view, these great elements are also cosmic energies. The five elements are Earth, Water, Fire, Wind and Space. The sense of health is harmony—harmony is regarded as the perfect state of balance where all elemental energies rest in equilibrium within the human microcosm. Disharmony occurs when these elements are increased, decreased or disturbed. These elements are also believed to be the seeds of mantra-syllable. The nerve relating to speech is helped by wind element to give force to the vocal sound. Thus, from the spiritual point of view, all these activities are inter-related and form the basic concept that justify the importance of consecration ceremony all together.
For the non-believers, it is not nearly important to anticipate this unique aspect of Tibetan medicine. The truth shall remain despite consecration ceremony that the medicines themselves have the potencies of medicinal values that work effectively on its behalf.