Teachings
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Chokyi Gyaltsen Center, Penang, Malaysia
Rinpoche advises how to experience disease for all sentient beings.
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal
A teaching by Lama Yeshe on refuge, the five lay precepts, the bodhisattva vows and more, given at the Sixteenth Kopan Meditation Course. This was one of Lama's last teachings before he passed away.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Refuge
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Yucca Valley, California
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how Dharma provides us with a method to achieve happiness and avoid suffering in this excerpt from a two-week lamrim course held in California in 1977.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
The ten benefits of reciting or even seeing, touching or remembering the Lotus Pinnacle of Amoghapasha mantra, translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Topics: Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Mantras
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has recommended this prayer for protection and healing from the coronavirus COVID-19.
Topics: Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Root Texts
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Tokyo, Japan
Lama Yeshe discusses the meaning of "buddha" and how to become completely open and free from ignorance, in this excerpt from a talk on the four noble truths.
Topics: Introductory
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Cumbria, England
Lama Yeshe discusses the fundamentals of karma in this teaching.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Karma > Understanding Karma
By Lama Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush
Happy losar and welcome to our February 2020 eletter.
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal
In this question-and-answer session Lama Yeshe discusses the essence of Buddhism and other religions, and advises students how to integrate Dharma when they return to the West.
Topics: Introductory
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the suffering of the lower realms of samsara (cyclic existence) in this teaching excerpted from the Fourth Kopan Meditation Course in 1973.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Renunciation
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice and practices for infectious diseases, including coronovirus COVID-19, Ebola and HIV/AIDS.
Topics: Sickness and Health > Infectious Diseases > Various Infections
- Lyme Disease •
- Mantra For Ebola •
- Request to Build Naga King Statue in Africa •
- Ebola Virus •
- NDM-1 Superbug •
- Tuberculosis •
- Ross River Fever •
- Fatigue and Lyme Disease •
- Ebola Outbreak •
- Bird Flu •
- Practices for Ebola •
- Practices for Coronavirus (COVID-19) •
- Essential Practices for Protection from Coronavirus COVID-19 •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how freedom from the eight worldly concerns creates real peace, in this teaching excerpt from the Fourth Kopan Meditation Course.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on tantric practices, including the generation and completion stages of Highest Yoga Tantra.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice > Tantra
- Completion Stage Practices •
- Request for Initiation •
- Visualizing the Guru as Deity During Initiation •
- Deity Practice •
- Generating as a Deity •
- Self-Initiation and Mahamudra Meditation •
- Highest Yoga Tantra Practice •
- Personal Deity for Tantric Practice •
- Five Buddha Types •
- Request to Practice Six Yogas of Naropa •
- Highest Yoga Tantra Practice •
- How to Achieve Enlightenment Quickly •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on how to correctly meditate on emptiness (shunyata).
- The Merely Imputed I •
- Meditation on Emptiness •
- Meditations for Inner Peace •
- How to Realize Emptiness •
- Getting Depressed by Emptiness •
- Response to Questions on Emptiness •
- More Talks on this Topic: Emptiness •
- The Merely Labeled I •
- The Real I Cannot Be Found •
- The Object to Be Refuted •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice and thanks given to students who have offered service and support for Dharma centers and projects in various roles.
- Retreat Advice and Thanks for Many Years of Service •
- Thanks for Making Dharma Books Available •
- Thanks for Offering Service •
- Study and Service for Sentient Beings •
- Helping a Nun •
- Years of Service •
- Thanks to Benefactor •
- Thanking Benefactors •
- To a Benefactor •
- Merit Box Donations •
- Offering Service For Many Years •
- Thanks for Support •
- Service at Retreat Center •
- Long-term Retreat •
- Help the Center Continuously •
- Continue Helping the Center •
- The Benefits of Serving a Dharma Center •
- Benefits of Karma Yoga •
