Teachings

Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on raising children in the best possible way by teaching them the five basic qualities of kindness, rejoicing, tolerance, contentment and forgiveness.

A Good Education and a Meaningful Life •
Caring for a Child With Special Needs •
Taking Care of Your Child With Compassion •
Advice on Educating a Child •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on the importance of developing compassion, the good heart.

The Benefit of Pure Love and Joy •
Great Compassion for Others •
Great Compassion •
The Good Heart is the Root of Happiness •

Find links to the new translation of Enjoy Life Liberated from the Inner Prison, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, as well as many other Russian translations of books and teachings by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

Topics: Translations > Russian
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Read the Hebrew translation of Becoming Your Own Therapist, now available as a free PDF file.  

Topics: Translations > Hebrew
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By Lama Thubten Yeshe

The collected teachings in this book demonstrate Lama Yeshe's understanding of the Western psyche and his ability to express profound truths in simple terms.

Topics: Introductory
Chapters:
Knowledge-Wisdom •
Contents •
Preface •
7. The Experiential Nature of Lord Buddha’s Teachings •
By Lama Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush

Lama Thubten Yeshe: Dharma in Daily Life

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal

A brief outline of tonglen, the meditation practice of generating bodhicitta by taking on the suffering of others and giving them happiness,

Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on bodhicitta, the altruistic mind of enlightenment.

Practicing Patience •
Generating Bodhicitta  •
You Have So Much to Rejoice About in This Life •
Effortful Bodhicitta Motivation •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on karma, including how to create good karma and avoid nonvirtue.

Accepting Karma •
Many Obstacles Due to Karma •
Karma of a Group is More Powerful •
Everything is Produced by Karma •
By Lama Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush

Lama T hubten Yeshe: Teaching Dharma to Westerners

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 •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Root Institute, Bodhgaya, India

In this teaching excerpt, Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the great Kadampa master, Dromtönpa, who completely abandoned all worldly activities and devoted himself correctly to his guru, Lama Atisha.

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Root Institute, Bodhgaya, India

Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises the importance of having a pure motivation free from worldly concerns, so that our actions become Dharma. This excerpt is from a series of ten discourses that form the basis of Rinpoche's book The Door to Satisfaction.

By Lama Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush

Lama Thubten Yeshe: Anxiety in the Nuclear Age

By Lama Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush

Lama Thubten Yeshe: Refuge in Sangha

Tags: refuge, sangha

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