Teachings

By Lama Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush

Welcome to our latest newsletter. Thanks so much for your interest and support!

Tags: bodhicitta, vows
By Lama Thubten Yeshe

Forthcoming: Clean-Clear: Refuge and Bodhicitta is the second volume in a series of Lama Yeshe’s collected teachings. This book contains introductory teachings given in England in 1976 and Holland in 1980.

Chapters:
Preface •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Release date for this book is March 2025. Stay tuned!

Chapters:
Preface •
Acknowledgements •
Introduction •
The World People Are Suffering So Much •
By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India

An interview with His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama for the tenth anniversary of Maitreya magazine. His Holiness discusses spiritual experience and how we can be inspired by those who have attainments on the path to enlightenment. 

Topics: Introductory
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on tantric practices, including the generation and completion stages of Highest Yoga Tantra.

Completion Stage Practices •
Request for Initiation •
Visualizing the Guru as Deity During Initiation •
Deity Practice •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice for people who are contemplating suicide. Rinpoche explains how to use depression on the path to enlightenment, by changing our focus from self to others.

Suicidal Thoughts, Depression, PTSD and Self-harm •
Tired and Thinking About Death •
Thoughts of Suicide •
Wanting to Commit Suicide •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on prayers, practices and meditations which can be beneficial for those with various types of cancer.

Cancer Prognosis •
Pujas for Cancer •
Tibetan Medicine for Cancer •
Non-Hodgkin’s Cancer •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Lama Zopa Rinpoche wrote this foreword for the anthology, Becoming Buddha: Wisdom Culture for a Meaningful Life.

Topics: Introductory

The Dutch translation of Silent Mind Holy Mind is now available.

Topics: Translations > Dutch
Tags: translations
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush

Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Benefiting Others Benefits Us

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal

Advice about parenting, relationships and work-life balance.

Chapters:
Introduction •
1. How to Be a Good Mother •
2. How to Bring Up a Child •
3. How to Find a Suitable Partner •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal

Links and synopses for all titles in the ebook series of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings from the annual Kopan meditation courses held in Nepal since the early 1970s.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on the importance of Dharma practice and how to actualize the lamrim, the path to enlightenment.

Doubts About Lamrim •
The Quickest Path to Enlightenment •
Special Qualities of Buddhism •
Lama Tsongkhapa's Teachings •
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 •
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 •

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