
Teachings
In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the benefits of offering to holy objects. Even a small offering to the Buddha creates the cause for ultimate happiness, due to the power of the object.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the direct and indirect benefits for all sentient beings that will result of the construction of a large Maitreya statue.
How to make eating the cause of enlightenment for oneself and all other sentient beings. Through the Mahayana practice of offering the food we eat, our lives become most beneficial, not only for ourselves but for all sentient beings.
Extensive advice on how to make waterbowl offerings, starting with the correct motivation.
A speech by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the opening of a new building for Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore.
A short teaching on Lama Chöpa (Guru Puja), an essential guru yoga practice
A teaching on the benefits of making offerings to holy objects
Topics include prostrations, offerings, rejoicing, the sufferings of samsara, bodhicitta and emptiness
Advice on how to make pilgrimage to the holy places as meaningful and beneficial as possible
A teaching about the kindness of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, given prior to a refuge ceremony at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Offerings to Holy Objects
Making offerings to holy objects is a remedy for attachment, whether physically offered or mentally transformed
Teachings on the Long-life Sutra, including the oral transmission and teachings on torma offering. Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings in Taipei, Taiwan, 15-16 April, 2007.
The mandala offering is a powerful method to collect merit and purify miserliness.