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Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Cherishing Others More than Myself
Forthcoming in early 2025, this book features a collection of photos of the soft toys, also known as plushies, which were inscribed with Dharma messages and mantras by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and later gifted to delighted students around the world
Rinpoche teaches that our purpose is to bring all beings to buddhahood.
In this excerpt from the 52nd Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that everything which appears as real is a projection, like a dream, and recommends practicing this awareness in daily life.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the importance of practicing bodhicitta and the good heart in this teaching excerpt from the 52nd Kopan Course.
Advice on the merit of offering service, which pleases the guru, purifies our negative karma and brings us closer to enlightenment.
Advice on the Mahayana practice of transforming our attitude from cherishing oneself to cherishing others who are most precious and kind.
Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on practices for success and harmony at the Dharma center.
In this teaching excerpt from the 52nd Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that when we think of the deep suffering of others, we have no choice; compassion must arise for them.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Compassion Has to Arise!
Advice for prisoners on how to use the situation to develop their mind on the path to enlightenment.
Letters and advice sent to dignitaries and students regarding resolution of conflict and how to bring peace and happiness to the region.
Advice on how to integrate the three principal aspects of the path—renunciation, bodhicitta and right view (of emptiness)—into our working life.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Seeing Things as a Hallucination