Teachings
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Dharamsala , India
Lama Zopa Rinponche gives extensive advice on how to make waterbowl offerings.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
A guide to accomplishing the recommended preliminary practices
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Preliminary 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 Khamtrul Rinpoche in Himachal Pradesh, India
A teaching by the Eighth Khamtrul Rinpoche on commencing the preliminary practices
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings on offering practices during a Cittamani Tara Puja at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore in 1992.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Nepal
Detailed instructions on the refuge preliminary practice, compiled and edited by Ven. Thubten Wongmo
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Refuge
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Instructions on tong-len, the practice of “taking and giving"; the quickest way to generate bodhicitta and achieve enlightenment
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
Chapters:
Advice on Tong-len as a Preliminary Practice •
Tong-len: A Short Practice •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Maitreya Instituut, Netherlands
This commentary includes advice on combining the practice with prostrations and lam-rim meditation.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
The mandala offering is a powerful method to collect merit and purify miserliness.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Daily Practices
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India July 1986
Extensive instruction for making tsa-tsas as a practice and means to achieve a good rebirth, make extensive offerings, and receive the blessing of holy objects.
Topics: Holy Objects
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Bruchem, Holland 1981
Lama Yeshe: The Preliminaries
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in various locations
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: More Advice on Daily Practice
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in various locations
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Advice for Daily Practice
Topics: Monthly E-letter
