One Thousand Terminalia Chebula (Arura) Offerings — Aru Tong Chö
This is a ritual for making a thousand terminalia chebula (arura) offerings to the eight kings of medicine, the eight Medicine Buddhas.
The benefits of this ritual are many and inexpressible. It helps to subdue all types of disease of sentient beings and purify the five heinous actions and all other negative karmas and obscurations. It helps to liberate one from the fear of untimely death and to spontaneously fulfill one’s aspirations. It also helps to flourish the Buddha Dharma, to bring good health and long life to the holders of Dharma, and to increase the spiritual practices of the sangha. Temporarily, it helps all sentient beings — especially the sponsors — in pacifying illness and obtaining happiness, and ultimately to perfect the two collections of merit, cleanse the two obscurations, and swiftly attain the state of the Medicine Buddha.
