Teachings
Advice and practices to remove obstacles to health and success in life, for the benefit of all sentient beings.
A talk on meditation, excerpted from a commentary on the Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig) yoga method, given at Grizzly Lodge, California, in May 1980.
Read the newly posted advice on practices for the four holy days of the Tibetan Buddhist calendar, as well as a collection of advice on practices for success and harmony at the Dharma center.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to integrate Dharma into our everyday life in this teaching excerpted from Kopan Course No. 40.
Advice on how to prepare oneself for death, which can happen at any time. Includes practices for students whose death is imminent.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses buddha nature in this teaching excerpted from Kopan Course No. 40.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Special Attitude
Advice on how to make the best use of our life, which is very short.
Advice on the power of relics, from which we receive blessings that bring us closer to enlightenment.
Advice on how to purify negative karma in relation to the guru, given to students confessing mistakes.
In this teaching Rinpoche advises the importance of protecting our mind from anger, attachment and ignorance.
Advice for students doing a long retreat, including guidance on motivation, specific practices, how to successfully complete the retreat and what to do if there are obstacles.
A commentary and oral transmission of Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri (Ārya-mañjuśrī-nāma-saṅgīti). His Holiness the Dalai Lama advised continuous recitation of this prayer for a few months, for the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s reincarnation.
Advice and methods for purifying past nonvirtuous actions.