View and Search Online Advice Book
Below is a listing of advices in the Online Advice Book. They are sorted and grouped by the date posted on our website, with the most recent additions showing first. You can enter a keyword to search for advices containing that term.
Advices posted during the month of January 2022
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Offering Service
Rinpoche sent this message to a person who was very happy because some officials had expressed interest in learning about Dharma.
Buddhist Practices > Protection from Spirit Harm > Protection from Black Magic
A student was feeling suicidal and suddenly becoming angry with people, like road rage. It seemed to have come out of the blue. The student had recently come into money and had a good job, so their external situation was much easier, but this was...
Advices posted during the month of December 2021
Family and Relationships > Your Parents > Benefiting Your Parents
A student asked Rinpoche about going to see her mother, who had had a fall. She was 97 years old and was receiving care in a facility. Rinpoche checked for some time and advised the following.
Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices > Nyung Näs
A student had completed 200 nyung näs and asked whether they should do another 108 nyung näs or volunteer for a project in India.
Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Sutras and Sutra Commentaries > Various Sutras
Rinpoche made this comment about a student who had been writing the Prajnaparamita Sutra every day for over twelve years.
Death and Transitions > Death and Rebirth > Reincarnation of Spiritual Teachers
Rinpoche sent this message following the announcement that His Holiness the Dalai Lama had officially recognized the three-year-old Tenzin Rigsel as the reincarnation of Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup Rigsel, the former abbot of Kopan Monastery...
Working for the Dharma > Translation Work > Translating Texts and Teachings
Rinpoche sent this card to a person who was going to translate the Lamrim Chenmo into German.
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life > Dharma and Worldly Activities
Advice from Rinpoche on how to think when seeing naked bodies at the beach.
Sickness and Health > Addictions and Mental Illness > Anxiety and Panic Disorder
A student was struggling with anxiety, sadness and insomnia, and had strange and uncomfortable thoughts creeping into their mind. The student asked Rinpoche for advice and protection.
Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices > Preliminary Practice Advice
A student requested Rinpoche's guidance regarding their Dharma practice and sought advice on their main practice in the future.
Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Mantras > Mantra Recitations
In this letter to a new student, Rinpoche explained the innumerable benefits of reciting OM MANI PADME HUM and advised lamrim study and preliminary practices.
Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Various Illnesses
A student had a genetic disorder which had depleted their zinc and vitamin B levels and resulted in copper toxicity. It was triggered by stress and the symptoms could worsen and become completely debilitating, both mentally and physically.
Advices posted during the month of November 2021
Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices > Preliminary Practice Advice
An older student requested preliminary practices after realizing that death could come at any time. The student said, "Yesterday for the first time I knew death could come now and that made a difference to my practice; it transformed my mind....
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Guru Devotion > When the Guru Manifests Illness
Rinpoche sent this message to a student who prayed for obstacles to Rinpoche’s life to ripen upon her. The student had become very sick after doing that.
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Lamrim Retreat
Rinpoche sent this message to students who were doing a lamrim retreat at Lawudo Retreat Center in Solu Khumbu, Nepal.
Negative Emotions > Depression > Feeling Suicidal
A student was feeling suicidal and wrote to Rinpoche for practice advice. The student had been very ill and their internal organs had shut down, resulting in ongoing digestive problems, impaired speech and vision, constant seizures and many...
Holy Objects > Monasteries and Stupas > Monasteries
A student asked Rinpoche about taking ordination and whether to buy land and start a monastery.
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Practices for Pacifying Sickness
A student wrote that his ten-year-old daughter had continuous skin problems and sometimes became extremely aggressive, which was completely out of character. The aggression was more extreme when her father recited mantras in her presence. She...
Benefiting Animals > Practices to Benefit Animals > Animal Liberation
Rinpoche gave this advice about the motivation before liberating animals.
Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Statues
In this letter, Rinpoche advised a student how to pray at a Chenrezig temple.
Sickness and Health > Infectious Diseases > Hepatitis
Rinpoche checked extensively for a student with Hepatitis C and advised these pujas.
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Practice Advice for Cancer
A student who very sick with cancer asked what pujas could be done. Rinpoche advised the following.
Advices posted during the month of October 2021
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Lamrim Study and Practice > Training the Mind in Lamrim
In this letter, Rinpoche recommended several preliminary practices and explained how to benefit others by reciting Chenrezig’s mantra, OM MANI PADME HUM and meditating on the lamrim, the graduated path to enlightenment.
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Generosity and Charitable Projects
A student had taken out life insurance and nominated Kopan Monastery as the beneficiary. Rinpoche heard about this and was very pleased.
Contemporary Issues > Politics and Conflict > Prayers for Peace
Students at a Dharma center asked what they could do for the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan after the fall of Kabul in August 2021, when hundreds of thousands of Afghans were displaced by Taliban militants. Rinpoche advised these prayers for...
