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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.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to practice Dharma the way the famous Kadampa geshes did. These lamas were exemplary practitioners of Buddhism in Tibet, renowned for their extreme asceticism and uncompromising practice of thought transformation. Rinpoche, an exemplar of these practices himself, bases his teachings on Lama Atisha’s wonderful text, The Bodhisattva’s Jewel Garland.
In this book, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives us the answer to the perennial question of how to integrate Dharma with our daily lives. It contains a public talk explaining the purpose of life in general and the practice of guru devotion, a wide array of techniques for transforming ordinary actions into causes for enlightenment and advice on establishing a daily practice.
"We are unbelievably fortunate to have met the Dharma and to have the opportunity to do recitation and meditation on the Compassion Buddha. It is an easy way of purifying whatever negative karma we have collected in not only this life but in many previous lives as well." - Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
