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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
Tags: translations
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush

Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Guru Is All the Buddhas

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.

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.

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.

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.

Attachment and Ordination •
Disadvantages of Attachment •
The Pain of Attachment •
Attachment to a Good Reputation •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal

Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses wrong view and the urgency of realizing emptiness in this excerpt from the 38th Kopan Course.

Topics: Emptiness
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
By Pabongka Rinpoche

The Heart’s Utmost Need: Urging Myself and Others to Remember Impermanence. This text, formerly known as Heart-Spoon, was extensively revised by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 2020, and further reviewed by Rinpoche in 2022.

By Lama Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush

Lama Thubten Yeshe: Lama Yeshe on Bodhicitta

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal

Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 38th Kopan Meditation Course.

Chapters:
Kopan Course No. 38 Index Page •
1. The Kopan Experience •
2. The Merely Imputed I •
3. Actualizing the Path to Enlightenment •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on various mantras including those specifically for long life, good health, success and for dispelling obstacles.

Namgyalma Protection •
Benefits of Chenrezig Mantra •
White Tara Mantras •
Two Million Manis •

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