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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.
While in Mongolia, Venerable Gyatso wrote this wonderful series of short essays exploring topics such as anger, desire, loneliness and freedom, through the clarifying lens of his own personal experience.
On the eve of his three-year solitary retreat, Adrian Feldmann (Ven. Thubten Gyatso) recounts the inner and outer journey that led him to become a Buddhist monk. He gives a humorous account of his search for happiness.
This book presents the classic framework of Buddhist mind and mental factors, explains how they operate, offers insightful commentary based on personal experience and explores how Western psychological concepts such as the super-ego can work with Buddhist psychological concepts.
