Teachings
This book presents Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings on bodhicitta, the mind of enlightenment, based on verses from two inspiring bodhicitta texts, The Jewel Lamp: A Praise of Bodhicitta, by Khunu Lama Rinpoche, and A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, by Shantideva
After a short discourse on emptiness, Rinpoche teaches tonglen, or taking and giving—the meditation practice of generating bodhicitta by taking on the suffering of others and giving them happiness
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Eight Verses of Thought Transformation
Edited teachings on the merely imputed I, the benefits of altruism and compassion, how to transform problems and the five powers.
Teachings on the merely imputed I, the benefits of altruism and compassion, how to transform problems and the five powers.
A commentary on Chapter 8—the chapter titled "Meditation"—of Shantideva's Bodhicaryavatara (A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life)
His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave these preliminary teachings at the Kalachakra Initiation, 1989.