Teachings
Rinpoche discusses the merit of offering to a holy object, even if we don’t have a pure motivation, in this teaching excerpt from the 32nd Kopan Course.
In this teaching excerpted from Kopan Course No. 38, Rinpoche explains how to collect extensive merit in everyday life by making offerings to the Buddha.
In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the benefits of offering to holy objects. Even a small offering to the Buddha creates the cause for ultimate happiness, due to the power of the object.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the benefits of practicing in Bodhgaya and advises specific practices to be done while on pilgrimage.
Verses from a sutra found in the Kangyur on the benefits of circumambulating stupas, translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. The teaching includes a commentary on the verses.
Advice on a simple method for practicing circumambulation with body, speech and mind
Advice on how to make pilgrimage to the holy places as meaningful and beneficial as possible
An extensive teaching on the benefits and blessings of stupas; includes advice about the Great Stupa being built near Bendigo, Australia.
A teaching by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the benefits and power of holy objects. The teaching includes many quotations from Buddhist sutras.
Explanation of the different types of prayer wheels as a means of purifying negativities and accumulating merit
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to accumulate merit and the causes of ultimate happiness by viewing, making and respecting holy objects, in this teaching given at Tushita Retreat Centre, Dharamsala, India, in May 1990.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's prayers and offerings to the holy objects.