Hindu Medicine c7.121

c7.121

This characteristic attitude of the Enlightened One, later found representation, in Mahāyāna Buddhism, in the figure of the transcendental Buddha Bhaiṣajyaguru, the “Master of Medicaments.” Among the allegorical representations of the spiritual saviors, expressing the virtues of the doctrine, the Buddha is here shown acting as a spiritual healer of all beings, from the gods on high down to animals and inmates of purgatories.