Teachings
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kurukulla Center, MA, 2012
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Offering Service at the Center
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal 1974
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Offerings to Holy Objects
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kathmandu, Nepal
Making offerings to holy objects is a remedy for attachment, whether physically offered or mentally transformed
Topics: Holy Objects
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kathmandu, Nepal
The teachings become beneficial for subduing the mind if we listen effectively with a pure motivation
Topics: Introductory
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kathmandu, Nepal
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the special meaning and purpose of this human rebirth in this excerpt from the Seventh Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1974.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kathmandu, Nepal
A strong understanding of karma gives energy to the mind and increases the fear of creating negative karma
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Karma
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Jinsiu Farlin Center, Taipei Taiwan, 1994
A short teaching on the benefits of purifying negative karma, given before a Vajrasattva jenang.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Tushita Meditation Centre and Bodhgaya
A compilation of teachings on the mandala offering, a practice that pacifies all hindrances to temporal and ultimate happiness
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices
Chapters:
How to Offer a Mandala •
The Actual Practice •
Four Ways of Offering the Mandala •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Lawudo Monastery, Nepal, and Instituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Italy
Self-grasping ignorance believes the I to be concrete and inherently existent
Topics: Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Offering Thanks to the Guru
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Chenrezig Institute, Australia 2000
Rinpoche explains the benefits of mani pills, the Thirty-five Buddhas practice, and the importance of purifying negative karma in this evening session during the 100 Million Mani Retreat at Chenrezig Institute, Australia.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Techniques for the practice of mind training
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal
The eight Mahayana precepts should be taken with the motivation of bodhicitta, remembering the kindness of other sentient beings
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Vows and Commitments
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal
When the mind is under the control of disturbing thoughts there is no peace or happiness
Topics: Negative Emotions > Delusions
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Each time we generate a realization in our mind, we have received a blessing
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Refuge
