Lewy Body Dementia

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
I am sorry for the very long delay in replying to your email. It seems like this is a very heavy disease, so there are many pujas to do.

According to my observation, the pujas needed are:

1. Recitation of the Kangyur, to be done by Kopan Monastery.
2. Sutra Of Great Liberation, to be recited three times by Kopan Monastery.
3. Golden Light Sutra, to be recited three times by Kopan Nunnery.
4. Lama Tsongkhapa’s In Praise of Dependent Origination, to be recited three times by Kopan Monastery.
5. Drugchuma (Offering of Sixty-four Parts), to be done three times by Drubtob Rinpoche’s monastery.
6. Mantra water blessed by one monk in Boudha who does very good observations.
7. Lion-face Dakini practice: Rinpoche will do this one.
8. Lama Atisha’s 100,000 Names of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, to be recited twice by Kopan Monastery.
9. Sung chen (the Great Mantra) to be recited twice by Geshe Tashi Tsering, with strong prayers for your husband, to pacify the illness, for him to recover and to never be reborn in the lower realms. Specifically, with the dedication that the present situation is pacified, that he is never born in the lower realms and recovers as quickly as possible.

The Lion-face Dakini is a practice against black magic. There are different pujas for different kinds of cases or aspects of the illness.

One thing that comes out as the best one is to see if you can get Most Secret Hayagriva [torma powder], perhaps from the Sera Je monks in New York. There is a practice from Sera Je Monastery where they use the torma in a crumbled form and burn it on charcoal. Then the smoke from that should be directed toward your husband as much as possible.

Try to get that [torma powder] and burn it several times a day—in the morning, at midday, in the afternoon and evening. Put it near or around him so that he’s able to breathe it. This is very important and also it can give you some quick sign. It’s very famous, and this one is very important.

This is my advice for your husband.

With much love and prayers ...