Advice for Treatment of Hepatitis C

Dear Gemma,
1. The most beneficial thing is for you to do is to take a lo-gyu-ma pill every day for four months. You may be able to get it from Tushita Centre in Dharamsala, please check. If not, you can request them to make it at Kopan Monastery, using the best quality substances and a lot of jing dun (blessed pills).

2. Kün-khyen medicine: Take three a day for a minimum of one month for up to three months, then see how you are doing. I will send you some.

3. Ngang-chu medicine: Take five a day for one month. I will send you some.

4. Liberate 190 animals. We are doing that here for you today but you should do this regularly in the future. Do it exactly as I say in the booklet [see Rinpoche's advice on animals for more information and a link to the booklet], this way there is benefit for you and the animals. The creatures are so kind: they help you purify yourself and you help purify them. They have been so kind to you in the past, present, and future. Your happiness has depended on them. Even hippos have been so kind to you. Purifying them purifies their karma and obstacles to enlightenment.

5 . Read the Diamond Cutter Sutra every day, a minimum of one time. It would be good if you could read it twice a day, or the best would be three times a day. It is OK if you don’t completely finish one reading. You can start the next day from where you finished.

Also:

1. Take a long-life initiation.
2. Ask Geshe Jampa Gyatso and the students at Lama Tsongkhapa Institute to perform Medicine Buddha puja three times.
3. Ask the monks at Kopan Monastery to perform Medicine Buddha puja for you.
4. Perform Amitayus long life practice daily.