Teachings
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Rinpoche asks students to abandon eating meat and become vegetarian. Rinpoche also discusses animal liberation and other ways to benefit animals, and explains our karmic connection with animals.
Topics: Benefiting Animals > Non-harming > Being Vegetarian
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush
Welcome to our April 2019 e-news!
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Cumbria, England
Lama Yeshe discusses the four immeasurables and how to develop equanimity.
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Developing Compassion > Compassion
By Lama Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Thubten Yeshe: The Enlightenment Attitude
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Cumbria, England
Lama Yeshe discusses meditation experience in tantric practice.
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Chenrezig Institute, Austalia
A teaching about the importance of bodhicitta, the mind of enlightenment, given when Lama was bestowing bodhisattva vows.
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
We have a new Russian translation to share with you, Freedom Through Understanding, by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Topics: Translations > Russian
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on how to use depression on the path to enlightenment.
Topics: Negative Emotions > Depression > Advice on Depression
- Advice on Transforming Depression •
- So Much to Rejoice In •
- Depressed and Unsure Where to Live •
- Daughter with Depression •
- Practices for Depression •
- Depressed Student •
- Practice Tong-len for Depression •
- Practices for Daughter's Depression •
- Balloon Mantras for Daughter's Depression •
- Severe Depression •
- Stopping Depression •
- Dealing with Depression •
- Long-Term Depression •
- Depression in the Family •
- Battling with Depression •
- Severe Depression •
- More Talks on this Topic: Depression •
- How to Overcome Depression •
- Remedy for Depression •
- Severe Depression and Anxiety •
- The Best Way to Eliminate Depression •
- Numberless Buddhas Cherish You Most •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on karma, including how to create good karma and avoid nonvirtue.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Karma > Understanding Karma
- Accepting Karma •
- Many Obstacles Due to Karma •
- Karma of a Group is More Powerful •
- Everything is Produced by Karma •
- Result of Past Karma •
- Karma and Its Results •
- Good Karma of Caring For Animals •
- Karma is Definite •
- Think of the Kindness of Sentient Beings •
- The Karma of Harming Others •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on bodhicitta, the altruistic mind of enlightenment.
- Practicing Patience •
- Generating Bodhicitta •
- You Have So Much to Rejoice About in This Life •
- Effortful Bodhicitta Motivation •
- Motivation is Most Important •
- Live Your Life With Bodhicitta •
- How to Make Your Life Most Beneficial for Sentient Beings, Even With Your Speech •
- The Ultimate Good Heart •
- Living With Bodhicitta •
- Pray to Benefit Others •
- Ultimate Advice for Success •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice given to those who practice healing or have been healed.
- Connection With Kuan Yin •
- Offering Comfort and Help to the Sick •
- Healing With Medicine Buddha Practice •
- Practice Advice for a Healer/Psychic •
- Study with Healer •
- Mantras for Healing •
- Healing With Tong-len •
- Healing With Compassion •
- Buddhism and Healing •
- Healing Sessions •
- A Discussion About Healing •
- Healing Mantra and Visualization •
- Compassion is Most Important for Healing Others •
By Lama Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Yeshe: Purifying the Dualistic Mind
Topics: Monthly E-letter
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice about lung, a state in which the winds within the body are unbalanced or blocked, thus causing various illnesses.
Topics: Sickness and Health > Wind Imbalance / Lung
- Lung After Retreat •
- Antidote to Lung •
- Severe Lung •
- Pujas for Lung •
- Practices for Lung •
- Practicing Tong-len for Lung •
- Advice for a Monk With Lung •
- Advices for Lung •
- Heart Sutra and Other Practices for Lung •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Khen Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup in Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1987
A transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 20th Kopan Course. Includes a discourse on the bodhisattva vows by Khen Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup, late abbot of Kopan Monastery.
Chapters:
Kopan Course No. 20 Index Page •
Lecture One: Refuge and Bodhicitta •
Lecture Two: Cherishing Others •
Lecture Three: The Good Heart •
Lecture Four: Labeling the I •
Lecture Five: The Merely Labeled I •
Lecture Six: Labeling Appearances •
Lecture Seven: The Eight Mahayana Precepts •
Lecture Eight: The Benefits of Precepts •
Lecture Nine: Emptiness of the I •
Lecture Ten: Equilibrium Meditation •
Lecture Eleven: Equanimity •
Lecture Twelve: The Cause of Happiness •
Lecture Thirteen: The Bodhisattva Vows (Lama Lhundrup) •
Lecture Fourteen: Samsara and the Twelve Links •
Lecture Fifteen: Refuge •
Lecture Sixteen: The Suffering of Samsara •
Lecture Seventeen: The Five Views •
Lecture Eighteen: How to Practice Dharma •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Essential advice and practices for the moment of death.
Topics: Death and Transitions > Caring for Others at the Time of Death > Practices at the Time of Death
- Support at Death Time •
- Namgyalma Visualization •
- Recitation of the Tengyur •
- Brother Dying •
- Preparing for Death •
- Friend Dying of Cancer •
- Father Dying •
- Mother Dying •
- Mother Close to Death •
- Practices for Mother Passing Away •
- How to Help Dying Mother •
