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Advices posted during the month of November 2009
A student wrote to Rinpoche asking for advice about his business and his practice. The student’s questions and Rinpoche's responses are below.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered the following praise of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
A student wrote to Rinpoche about some broken commitments and what he could do about them. His letter and Rinpoche’s response are below.
Rinpoche gave the following advice on what to do before traveling.
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a woman who wrote to him saying she was possessed by spirits and asked what she could do.
Rinpoche gave the following mantra for a baby possessed by spirits.
Rinpoche gave the following mantra for protection against black magic.
Rinpoche sent the following advice to the parents of a boy who had recently started acting strangely.
Rinpoche made the following comments on rejoicing when a taxi comes.
Rinpoche sent the following cards to a student.
The following are a series of quotes by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave the following talk about the Buddha under the bodhi tree in Bodhgaya, India.
Rinpoche made the following comments on the virtuous results of building stupas.
Rinpoche sent this message after leaving a Dharma center.
A center director wrote to Rinpoche to say he was going to ask a monk to check various mantras to go in a prayer wheel. Rinpoche responded as follows.
A student wrote to Rinpoche explaining how she was planning on printing an edition of the Paranirvana Sutra. Her letter and Rinpoche’s response are below.
Rinpoche wrote the following two letters to two students who are artists, one of whom was working on a statue of Maitreya Buddha for Rinpoche’s organization, the FPMT.
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a longtime student who was doing a long retreat. The student’s letter and Rinpoche’s response are below.
Advices posted during the month of October 2009
A very generous benefactor started a fund with the idea of investing a large sum of money into a business to generate money to continually help run the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana...
A devoted student asked Rinpoche how she could help with a business that would benefit Rinpoche’s projects.
Rinpoche sent the following letter to nuns and students at a Dharma center, thanking them for their practice.
A student who had helped with a tour of Buddhist relics sent Rinpoche a drawing a child had done during the tour, of Maitreya Buddha. Rinpoche sent the following reply.
A Western woman translating for a Tibetan geshe at an FPMT center in Europe wrote to Rinpoche to express concerns about cultural differences between the teacher and herself, both as a Westerner and as a layperson. She commented that the geshe...
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a nun, on practices to do all her life.
Rinpoche had enrolled a Tibetan girl, who was born to his cousin’s wife, in a nursing school in Dharamsala. She had been studying there, but had failed her exams in the previous term. She was afraid of failing again the following year.