Teachings

By Lama Tsongkhapa

A praise to the Buddha, composed by Lama Tsongkhapa after he realized emptiness. Translated by Geshe Thupten Jinpa.

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush

Lama Zopa Rinpoche: You Are the Most Lucky Person

A praise to Tara, composed by Khadro-la (Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme) at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Tags: tara, prayers
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice and practices for students experiencing problems due to a business downturn and related financial crisis.

Business in Financial Crisis •
Business Losing Money •
Business Losing Money •
Trusting Advice Given by a Lama •

The Wheel of Sharp Weapons by Dharmarakshita, a ninth-century Indian scholar, combines teachings on lojong (mind training) with the lamrim, especially karma. This text is now freely available for download as a PDF file.

By Lama Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush

Lama Thubten Yeshe: The Bodhisattva Vows

Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on teaching children the values of loving kindness and compassion so that their lives become meaningful.

Dedication for Alice Project •
Starting a Buddhist School in India •
The Best Education for Children •
Advice to Schoolchildren in Bodhgaya •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on the qualities of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who is a living Compassion Buddha with perfect wisdom and compassion for every sentient being.

The Supreme Qualities of His Holiness the Dalai Lama •
Message to a Center Hosting His Holiness the Dalai Lama •
Pleasing His Holiness the Dalai Lama •
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Benefits Sentient Beings Limitlessly •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice for students planning to build at the Dharma center.

Completion of a Stupa •
Renovations at the Center •
Building a New Gompa After a Fire •
Thank You and Rejoice!  •

This supplication was composed by Khadro-la (Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme) on March 30, 2020, at the request of friends around the world.

By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Bodhgaya, India

This excerpt is from an introductory talk given to Western students who had traveled to Bodhgaya to receive the Kalachakra initiation from His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Topics: Introductory
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal

In this teaching excerpt Lama Yeshe discusses death and rebirth in various realms of cyclic existence.

By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Kopan Monastery, Nepal

"The best Dharma practice, the most perfect, most substantial, is without doubt the practice of bodhicitta." – Lama Yeshe

Chapters:
Bodhicitta: The Perfection of Dharma •
The Bodhisattva Vows •
By Lama Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush

Lama Thubten Yeshe: Sangha is Us Helping Each Other

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Chokyi Gyaltsen Center, Penang, Malaysia

In this teaching excerpt, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to experience disease and other problems for all sentient beings.

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