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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice for students doing a retreat on the lamrim, the graduated path to enlightenment. Rinpoche says taming the mind through the lamrim is the best offering and the best way to bring world peace.
Topics: Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Lam-rim Retreat
Basic Program and Lamrim Retreat •
Ten-Day Lamrim Retreat •
Progress in Retreat •
Lamrim Retreat Advice •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice for students on various transitions including education, relationships, career choices and other life decisions.
The Best Life Direction •
Continuing With School •
The Benefits of Experiencing Hardship •
Wanting to Be Ordained •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 32nd Kopan Meditation Course.
Chapters:
Kopan Course No. 32 Index Page •
1. The Essence of Buddhism is Compassion •
2. Buddha Nature •
3. The Thirty-Five Buddhas •
Browse our collection of translations into Vietnamese, now available as free PDF files. Our latest Vietnamese translation is Chapter 4: A Brief History of Maitreya Buddha of Universal Love.
Topics: Translations > Vietnamese
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Preparing for Death
Topics: Monthly E-letter
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on meditations and other practices which can help anxiety and panic disorder.
Panic Attacks, Paranoia and Confusion •
Severe Stress and Panic Disorder •
Anxiety and Depression •
Panic Attacks and Anxiety •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on how to utilize obstacles on the path to enlightenment by practicing thought transformation.
A Positive Way of Thinking •
Thought Transformation •
Practice Thought Transformation •
Enduring Hardships •
We have a new Tibetan text to share with you: Praises to the Twenty-One Taras, a daily prayer book containing the Praises and images according to the tradition of the early Indian Buddhist master, Suryagupta.
Topics: Translations > Tibetan
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Guru Is All the Buddhas
Topics: Monthly E-letter
Find links here to all the latest FPMT updates regarding Lama Zopa Rinpoche, our most precious guru and spiritual director, who showed the aspect of passing away on April 13, 2023.
Topics: Lineage Lamas > Praises and Tributes
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
In this teaching excerpted from Kopan Course No. 38, Rinpoche explains how to collect extensive merit in everyday life by making offerings to the Buddha.
Topics: Holy Objects > Making Offerings
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Rinpoche teaches on guru devotion, using Milarepa’s life story as an inspiring example, in this excerpt from the 38th Kopan Course.
Topics: Lineage Lamas > Biographies
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 •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on how to overcome attachment by reflecting on the nature of the body, the sufferings of samsara, and the emptiness, or lack of true existence, of the object of attachment.
Topics: Negative Emotions > Delusions > Desire and Attachment
Attachment and Ordination •
Disadvantages of Attachment •
The Pain of Attachment •
Attachment to a Good Reputation •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Rinpoche discusses the meaning of buddha nature, our potential to become a buddha, in this teaching excerpt from the 38th Kopan Course.
Topics: Introductory
