Teachings
By Lama Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush
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Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Rinpoche describes Lama's qualities, his passing and his incarnation.
Topics: Lineage Lamas > Praises and Tributes
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Rinpoche discusses the karma of relationships and offers advice and practices for family reconciliation when there has been disharmony and conflict.
- Practices for Family Conciliation and Purification •
- Difficulties With Son •
- Angry Teenager •
- Disturbed Family Member •
- Disharmony Between Parents and Siblings •
- Daughter Opposes Mother’s New Partner •
- Pacifying a Relative’s Anger and Finding a Retreat Place •
- Parents Don’t Support Buddhism •
- Make Strong Prayers to Medicine Buddha •
- Abusive Partner •
- Advice for a Mother and Son •
- Padmasambhava Technique for Harmony in the Family •
- Father and Son Estranged •
- Family Harmony •
- Advice for Family Harmony •
- Put the Blame on the Self-cherishing Thought •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
In this collection of advice for those practicing in prison, Rinpoche explains how to use the situation in prison to develop the mind.
- Meditation in Prisons •
- Prison is an Opportunity to Practice •
- Son Passed Away •
- Using Time in Prison to Practice Dharma •
- Chenrezig Practice in Prison •
- How to Achieve Real Happiness •
- The Self-cherishing Thought Is the Real Enemy •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice for students who are experiencing difficulties with their Dharma practice.
- No Progress in Practice •
- Doubts •
- Obstacles •
- Difficulty with Prostrations •
- Not Enough Merit to Practice Tantra •
- Cutting Distractions to Practice •
- Difficult Retreat •
- Faults in Practice •
- Needing Money for Retreat •
- Purifying Obstacles to Dharma Practice •
- Outer and Inner Obstacles to Dharma Practice •
- Purifying Obstacles to Dharma Practice •
- There’s Not Much Time Left •
- Rinpoche's Online Advice Book: Crushed by Depression and Loss of Faith in Dharma •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: How to Meditate on the Refuge and Bodhicitta Prayer
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bodhgaya, India and Kathmandu, Nepal
A list of Rinjung Gyatsa initiations given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bodhgaya in 1982 and at Kopan Monastery in 1985. Rinjung Gyatsa is a collection of tantric deities, compiled in the sixteenth century by the Tibetan master Lama Taranatha.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Tushita-Delhi and Tushita-Dharamsala, India
Lama Zopa Rinpoche describes how he first met Lama Yeshe and speaks of his last illness and of his pure compassion and great spiritual attainments in this interview with Piero Cerri shortly after Lama passed away.
Topics: Lineage Lamas > Praises and Tributes
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India
In this meditation on the refuge and bodhicitta prayer, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to make the prayer most meaningful and heartfelt.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Refuge
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explained the visualization when doing tonglen (taking and giving) meditation in this excerpt from the 26th Kopan Course.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Lama Zopa Rinpoche taught how to transform problems by changing our way of thinking in this excerpt from the 26th Kopan Course.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Lama Zopa Rinpoche taught on impermanence and death in this excerpt from the 26th Kopan Course.
Topics: Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
In this excerpt from the 26th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche used the example of the table to explain emptiness according to the Prasangika Madhyamaka view.
Topics: Emptiness > How Things Exist
By Lama Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Yeshe: Lama's Concluding EEC1 Talk
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Tushita Retreat Centre, Dharamsala, India
Lama Yeshe gave this powerful teaching about bringing the Dharma to the Western world at the first Enlightened Experience Celebration (EEC1), 1982.
Topics: Introductory
