Teachings
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Marzens, France
Lama Yeshe advises to make experiences beneficial by transforming all phenomena into Vajrayogini’s blissful nondual wisdom.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice > Tantra
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Yucca Valley, California
Lama Yeshe discusses the power and benefits of Vajrapani guru yoga, explaining how we can transform projections of the dualistic mind into peace, bliss and joy.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice > Tantra
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Pomaia, Italy
Lama Yeshe explains how to establish right view.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice > Tantra
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Advice about purification of past nonvirtuous actions and negative karma, through Vajrasattva and other practices.
How Vajrasattva Practice Purifies Negative Karma •
Purifying Negative Karma •
Mantras for Purifying Negativities •
Practices for Purification •
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Advice given to students who requested life practices. Rinpoche recommends essential daily prayers and practices to focus on for their lifetime.
Life Practices •
Ordination, Study and Service •
Beneficial Practices •
Advice for Life •
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Advice on tantric practices, including the generation and completion stages of Highest Yoga Tantra.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice > Tantra
Completion Stage Practices •
Request for Initiation •
Visualizing the Guru as Deity During Initiation •
Deity Practice •
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Advice about the benefits of taking vows, for example, the five lay vows and the eight Mahayana precepts.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Vows and Commitments > Taking Vows
Abandoning Harmful Actions •
Benefits of Taking Vows •
The Merit of Taking Precepts on Chokhor Duchen •
Motivation for Eight Mahayana Precepts •
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Advice for prisoners on how to use the situation to develop their mind on the path to enlightenment.
Being in Prison •
Preliminaries and Other Practices in Prison •
A Nun in Jail •
The Prison is Your Retreat House •
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Advice on nyung nä, a powerful two-day practice associated with Chenrezig, the Buddha of Compassion.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices > Nyung Näs
Continue With Nyung Näs and Lamrim •
We Can Be Free from Samsara •
Unable to Complete Nyung Näs •
Nyung Nä Advice •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Lawudo Retreat Centre, Solu Khumbu, Nepal
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings during a nyung nä retreat at Lawudo Retreat Centre, Solu Khumbu, Nepal, in June 1977.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices
Chapters:
1. The Benefits of Nyung Nä •
2. The Qualities of Chenrezig •
3. Purifying Ordinary Perception •
4. Meditation on the Six Deities •
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Advice on daily practices recommended by Lama Zopa Rinpoche for students on the path to enlightenment.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Daily Practices > Daily Practice Advice
Extensive Daily Practice Advice for an Artist •
The Main Practice is Lamrim •
Lamrim and Guru Yoga Daily Practice •
Connection to Practices •
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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 •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in New York, NY 2007
A commentary and oral transmission of Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri (Ārya-mañjuśrī-nāma-saṅgīti). His Holiness the Dalai Lama advised continuous recitation of this prayer for a few months, for the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s reincarnation.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
Chapters:
Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri: Commentary and Lung •
Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri: Lung Only •
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Advice for students who are experiencing difficulties with their Dharma practice.
No Progress in Practice •
Doubts •
Obstacles •
Difficulty with Prostrations •
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.
