Teachings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on how to use sickness on the path, especially through the practice of tonglen (taking and giving).
- How Sickness Purifies Negative Karma •
- Very Sick Student •
- Offering Service •
- Brain Infection •
- Using Sickness for the Path •
- Tumor in Spine •
- Purifying Sickness •
- How to Think about Sickness •
- Beneficial Practices for the Sick •
- Rejoice in Your Sickness •
- How Fortunate You Are to Have This Sickness •
- Rejoice That You Purified Negative Karma •
- Meditate on the Kindness of Others •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on meditations and other practices which can help anxiety and panic disorder.
- Panic Attacks, Paranoia and Confusion •
- Severe Stress and Panic Disorder •
- Anxiety and Depression •
- Panic Attacks and Anxiety •
- Meditations for Anxiety •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on practices which may be beneficial for a range of illnesses and health problems. Please note: the advice is not intended to replace medical treatment. Always contact your health care professional if you have health concerns.
Topics: Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Various Illnesses
- A Healthy Diet •
- Aspergers and Anxiety •
- Treatment of Gum Disease •
- Fire in Chest •
- Car Accident •
- Parasites •
- Student Very Sick •
- Autism •
- Very Sick Student •
- Practices for Teeth •
- Screen Fatigue and Exhaustion •
- Immune System Disorder •
- Your Broken Arm Is Another Form of Teaching •
- Bleeding Disorder •
- Type 2 Diabetes •
- Pujas for Chest Pain and Low Energy •
- How Fortunate to Get Diabetes •
- Diabetes, Thyroid and Weight Problems •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice given to those who practice healing or have been healed.
- Connection With Kuan Yin •
- Offering Comfort and Help to the Sick •
- Healing With Medicine Buddha Practice •
- Practice Advice for a Healer/Psychic •
- Study with Healer •
- Mantras for Healing •
- Healing With Tong-len •
- Healing With Compassion •
- Buddhism and Healing •
- Healing Sessions •
- A Discussion About Healing •
- Healing Mantra and Visualization •
- Compassion is Most Important for Healing Others •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice about lung, a state in which the winds within the body are unbalanced or blocked, thus causing various illnesses.
Topics: Sickness and Health > Wind Imbalance / Lung
- Lung After Retreat •
- Antidote to Lung •
- Severe Lung •
- Pujas for Lung •
- Practices for Lung •
- Practicing Tong-len for Lung •
- Advice for a Monk With Lung •
- Advices for Lung •
- Heart Sutra and Other Practices for Lung •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bendigo, Australia
Rinpoche discusses the reasons for giving up alcohol, cigarettes and other addictive substances
Topics: Sickness and Health
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Advice on how to help sick and dying people, and how to use the experience to develop renunciation.
Topics: Sickness and Health
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Deer Park, Madison USA
The loving, compassionate thought of bodhicitta is the best way to heal HIV/AIDS, cancer or any other disease
Topics: Sickness and Health
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1977
Uncontrolled attachment causes many problems, including addiction to alcohol and drugs
Topics: Sickness and Health
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this advice on how to think when diagnosed with cancer. When we experience the cancer for the sake of all sentient beings we collect skies of merit and it brings us closer to enlightenment.
Topics: Sickness and Health
By Nicholas Ribush in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 1985
Buddhist perspectives on sickness, health and death
Topics: Sickness and Health
By Nicholas Ribush
An article on the Buddhist approach to battling addiction, written by Dr. Nicholas Ribush for Around magazine in 1979.
Topics: Sickness and Health
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on a wide range of illnesses, given to individuals with health problems who have written to Rinpoche for guidance.
Topics: Sickness and Health
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Topics: Sickness and Health > Infectious Diseases > Various Infections
- Lyme Disease •
- Mantra For Ebola •
- Request to Build Naga King Statue in Africa •
- Ebola Virus •
- NDM-1 Superbug •
- Tuberculosis •
- Ross River Fever •
- Fatigue and Lyme Disease •
- Ebola Outbreak •
- Bird Flu •
- Practices for Ebola •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Topics: Sickness and Health > Infectious Diseases > Hepatitis
- Liver and Thyroid Problems •
- Cured of Hepatitis C •
- Meditations for Hepatitis C •
- Practices for Hepatitis C •
- Practices and Tibetan Medicine for Hepatitis C •
- Advice for Treatment of Hepatitis C •
- Hepatitis C •
