"Medicine Buddha" is a devotional music video released in October 2017 to accompany Inner Light, an album on which Prashanti Paz sings and plays harmonium alongside a compact band of guitar and bass and two additional singers. The track is a chant-driven piece in which the harmonium carries the foundation and the voices layer over it, so the record reads less as a stage show than as a studio document of a small ensemble working closely around one instrument. What follows is what the video and its published credits establish, and where the material runs out.
The video is short, roughly six and a half minutes, and it is presented as a music piece rather than an interview or lecture. There is no spoken commentary available for this entry, so there is no teacher explaining the text or the title in her own words. That matters for a piece like this one. Any claim about what the Medicine Buddha means to Paz personally, or how the song is meant to be used in practice, would be invention. What the record does give us is the sound itself and the names of the people who made it.
Paz is credited on music, vocals and harmonium, which makes her the central musical voice of the session. The harmonium is the instrument most associated with devotional singing in South Asian and kirtan-influenced practice, and in a recording like this it does more than add color. It holds a sustained, breathing tonal bed that the singing rides on. Listeners who come to the video expecting a full rock arrangement will hear something closer to a chamber setting: the guitar and bass are present, but they serve the voice and the drone rather than pushing a groove forward. The craft choice is the restraint.
The credits show a deliberately shared production. Miranda Johansen and Lola Piñeiro sing, Diego Marchionatti plays guitar, and Fidel Mulet plays bass. Arrangement and musical production are credited to Marchionatti and Lucho Milocco. Mixing and mastering were handled by Estudiochoa, with Fidel Mulet credited for that work as well. Having the bassist also mix and master the record, and the guitarist co-arrange it, suggests a group that kept the sound in-house rather than handing it off to outside producers. That kind of continuity tends to show in the blend, where the instruments sit close together instead of competing for space.
The material supplied for this article does not include a career history, earlier albums, or interviews, so we cannot trace a lineage or describe how Inner Light relates to what came before. What we can say is narrower and still useful: Inner Light was released in 2017 and is available on the major digital platforms, and "Medicine Buddha" is one of its tracks promoted as a video. A reader who wants the longer story should listen to the full album in sequence rather than treat a single video as the whole picture.
Go in listening for the layers. Start with the harmonium's sustained tone and notice how the voice enters and leaves it. Then follow the two additional voices, which add harmony rather than melody, and see how the guitar and bass keep out of the way. The approach rewards repeat listening more than a first pass, because the parts are arranged to reinforce one another. Pair the video with the full album, and if you are coming to devotional singing for the first time, treat the harmonium as the anchor and everything else as the weather around it.
Listen to the complete Inner Light album to hear "Medicine Buddha" in the context of its neighbors. Check the credits on the record for the full list of players and producers, and compare the mix to other harmonium-led devotional recordings to hear what this group chose to emphasize. If you want Paz's own account of the song's meaning, look for a published interview or liner note; none is included in the material behind this article.
