Teachings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Power of the Object
Rinpoche discusses the merit of offering to a holy object, even if we don’t have a pure motivation, in this teaching excerpt from the 32nd Kopan Course.
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.
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 from 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 by Lama Zopa Rinpoche 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