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The Art of Healing
The ultimate goal of the Buddhist path is to transcend all suffering by attaining an enlightened state beyond life and death. That said, Buddhists worship the medicine buddha Bhaishajyaguru to alleviate the more immediate miseries caused by disease, cold, hunger, and even mosquito bites.
With his gentle smile, cranial bump, and forehead mark, this bronze figure looks like many other buddhas. The medicinal myrobalan fruit in his right hand, however, identifies him as Bhaishajyaguru. |