Medicine Buddha
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Medicine Buddha is a semi-legendary buddha who represents the healing nature of the Buddha's teachings. In some schools of Mahayana Buddhism, an actual person who at death passed into a heavenly realm and presides over one of the heavens as a healer who can be called upon. In Tibetan Buddhism, it is believed that meditation on the Medicine Buddha can help decrease physical and mental illness and suffering.