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.

A student wrote that he was a homosexual and a devoted Buddhist, but he felt conflict between the two in terms of who he was and how he could practice the precepts and the Buddha’s teaching. In addition, he had previously contracted AIDS. Currently, medication had suppressed the disease, however, he said AIDS had weakened his body and could bring a lingering death . Rinpoche gave the following advice.

If anybody is interested in how to reduce and even cure AIDS, here are some discoveries and some experiences to do with AIDS. A lot depends on mental strength.

It comes out very good for anyone who is HIV positive or who has AIDS to:

Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student with HIV who had given the illness to someone else. Now that person was sick, and the student asked if it was more beneficial for him to care for the person or to study a five-year Buddhist Philosophy program.

Rinpoche gave the following advice to student who wrote saying he had HIV and asking what practices he could do to stop the virus.

My dear one,Thank you for very much for your kind letter.It came out good to take Tibetan medicine: Tchen la, three pills a day for eight weeks; rinchen drang jor chenmo, two pills a week for nine weeks.

My very dear, most precious, most kind, wish-fulfilling Nicole,Thank you very much your kind letter. Yes, those pujas and so forth helped. You must have purified your karma and obstacles, so that is very good.

My dearest Nina,How are you? You must think that you are the luckiest person in the world, that the happiest thing in your life is this sickness.