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Advices posted during the month of November 2006
A student wrote to Rinpoche regarding making a bridge between healing and Buddhism, and spreading Buddhism in his country.
Rinpoche gave the following advice for healing sessions.
A student who is a healer met with Rinpoche and they discussed healing together.
Rinpoche gave the following practice, the dharani called The Heart of Arya Vairochana, for protection from harm and sickness.
Advices posted during the month of October 2006
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who asked how to purify the negative karma of being an accountant, so that she never had to be an accountant in her future lives.
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a center that is surrounded by many trees.
Rinpoche made the following comments regarding implementing an idea about using the internet to transmit live teachings from one Buddhist center to another, so that the students could receive the teachings given by a resident geshe at the center...
Rinpoche gave the following advice to Dharma centers regarding playing sutras aloud in the center.
A Dharma center in the UK asked Rinpoche what practices they should do in order to help them acquire a retreat center.
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a Dharma center as to which practices students could do in order to develop the center.
Rinpoche gave the following advice to students at a Dharma center.
Rinpoche made the following comments about a group of advanced meditators in an appeal for fundraising.
Rinpoche sent the following card to a couple who give money from a donation box distributed by the FPMT for Rinpoche’s projects, called a Merit Box.
Rinpoche wrote the following letter to one of his students who had offered service for many years.
Rinpoche sent the following letter to the family of Steve Irwin, the Australian wildlife expert, on the occasion of his death.
Rinpoche wrote the following letter to Al Gore.
A student wrote to Rinpoche saying she found his teachings on mind training very helpful. However, she said she felt depressed due to the state of the environment, global warming, etc., and was very worried about her children growing up on this...
Rinpoche made the following comments to his attendant regarding hosting His Holiness the Dalai Lama on land owned by the FPMT Maitreya Project in Bodhgaya, during the period that His Holiness was giving the Kalachakra initiation in Bodhgaya.
Rinpoche thanked people for making prayers for the Maitreya Project, which involves building a very large statue of Maitreya in India.
Rinpoche wrote the following letter to a benefactor (who is a nun) of the Maitreya Statue Project.
Advices posted during the month of September 2006
Rinpoche gave the following advice on how to avoid an untimely death and ensure that death is peaceful.
A monk, whose grandmother was dying, wrote to Rinpoche for advice on what he could do for her.
A nun was doing some translation work with Rinpoche when the phone rang. It was a longterm student, who was dying. Rinpoche spent a long time reassuring the person over and over again that everything would be OK. When he finally put down the...
Rinpoche wrote this letter to a student who was nearing death.
Rinpoche gave the following explanation of the practice of jang-wa.