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In this book, Rinpoche explains in the greatest possible detail just how precious our perfect human rebirth is and why we should not waste a moment of it.
This book provides the Dharma context for how our children should be brought up and also contains many helpful suggestions of how we can introduce simple Dharma practices to our children.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has composed this short Vajrasattva practice and requested that it be published in a pocket-sized format. Thus, we can be like the great Atisha - whenever we notice we have broken a vow or created any other kind of negative karma, we can whip out our little Vajrasattva book and purify that negativity with the four opponent powers without a second’s delay.
This book is an edited transcript of a three-week Medicine Buddha retreat led by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in 2001. In the discourses, Rinpoche covers a vast range of topics from the entire Tibetan Vajrayana path to enlightenment.
The first volume in an ebook series of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings given during the 24th Kopan lamrim course in 1991. This book covers topics such as compassion and universal responsibility, the benefits of developing bodhicitta, the disadvantages of self-cherishing, and emptiness.
The second volume in a new series of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings given during the 24th Kopan lamrim course in 1991. This book covers topics such as the nature of the mind, karma, death, reincarnation and emptiness.
The third volume in a new series of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings given during the 24th Kopan lamrim course in 1991. This book presents a clear discussion on sexual misconduct, an explanation of karmic appearance and emptiness, and a commentary on the eight Mahayana precepts motivation.
The fourth and final volume in a new series of teachings given during the 24th Kopan lamrim course in 1991. In this book, Lama Zopa Rinpoche emphasizes the benefits of renouncing the self-cherishing mind and cherishing others, and concludes with advice on how to practice Dharma in the West.
These teachings offer valuable advice related to our Dharma studies and practice: how to check whether our practices are Dharma, the need for study and constant reflection on the Buddha’s teachings, and how to overcome our afflictions and problems so that we can truly benefit others.
In this book, Khensur Rinpoche Geshe Jampa Tegchok explains how we can train our mind away from self-cherishing, the cause of all suffering, and develop compassion, the cause of everything that is good. He bases his explanation on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa’s classic text, The Seven Point Mind Training, which, amongst other things, teaches us how to transform problems into happiness.
