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This ebook presents twelve lectures given by Lama Rinpoche during the 51st Kopan meditation course. In the teachings, Rinpoche gives an overview of the path to enlightenment and explains that the antidote to the sufferings of samsara is meditation on emptiness.
This book combines several teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on nyung nä, a powerful two-day practice associated with Chenrezig, the Buddha of Compassion. Rinpoche explains the benefits of the practice, shares stories of Chenrezig, Bhikshuni Lakshmi and the lineage lamas, and offers clear, practical instructions on how to undertake a nyung nä.
In Lama Yeshe’s and Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s first trip to Europe in 1975 they offered a weekend seminar based on their famous month-long Kopan meditation courses. Preceded by Lama Yeshe’s lecture on meditation at Kensington Town Hall, these teachings at Royal Holloway College, Surrey, encompass the entire Buddhist path to enlightenment.
A compilation of teachings on the path to enlightenment (lamrim) given by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kyabje Ling Rinpoche, Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche, Khunu Lama Rinpoche, Tsenshab Serkong Rinpoche, Zong Rinpoche, Geshe Lhundub Sopa, Geshe Rabten and other great Tibetan lamas.
In this book, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches on one of his favorite topics—compassion. He tells us that compassion for others is the best way to overcome any obstacles we encounter, in our Dharma practice, or occupation and life itself, and the best medicine for treating any illness we experience. Rinpoche also explains emptiness, karma and many other essential Buddhist subjects.
In this book, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the importance of the spiritual teacher and advises how to train the mind in guru devotion, the root of the path to enlightenment.
Virtue and Reality contains methods for transforming everyday actions into the cause of enlightenment, anger into patience, and the ordinary view of phenomena as inherently existent into the wisdom realizing emptiness. It also includes several meditations led by Rinpoche, although everything in the book is a topic for meditation.
This is an edited transcript of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings at a three-month Vajrasattva retreat held at Land of Medicine Buddha in 1999. The teachings cover many lamrim topics, purification practices, mantras, pujas and more.
In this small book Lama Zopa Rinpoche emphasizes the importance of compassion and universal responsibility and how to make life meaningful, then gives a brief explanation of the nature of the enlightened mind and how we can attain it, and finally offers an extensive explanation of emptiness, the ultimate nature of reality.
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.
