Teachings
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Instituto Lama Tsong Khapa, Pomaia, Italy
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.
Topics: Holy Objects > Making Offerings
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Katoomba, Australia
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the direct and indirect benefits for all sentient beings that will result of the construction of a large Maitreya statue.
Topics: Holy Objects > Maitreya Project
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Brisbane, Australia, 2000
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.
Topics: Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life
Chapters:
The Yoga of Offering Food •
Read The Yoga of Offering Food •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Dharamsala , India
Extensive advice on how to make waterbowl offerings, starting with the correct motivation.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Singapore
A speech by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the opening of a new building for Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Brisbane, Australia
A short teaching on Lama Chöpa (Guru Puja), an essential guru yoga practice
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Guru Devotion
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Singapore March 2013
A teaching on the benefits of making offerings to holy objects
Topics: Holy Objects
Chapters:
The Benefits of Making Offerings •
The Offering Cloud Mantra •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Aptos, CA, USA
Topics include prostrations, offerings, rejoicing, the sufferings of samsara, bodhicitta and emptiness
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices
Chapters:
Nyung-nä Practice: Prostrations •
Nyung-nä Practice: Offerings and Rejoicing •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Tibet
Advice on how to make pilgrimage to the holy places as meaningful and beneficial as possible
Topics: Holy Objects > Pilgrimage
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore.
A teaching about the kindness of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, given prior to a refuge ceremony at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore
Chapters:
The Kindness of His Holiness the Dalai Lama •
The Kindness of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, continued •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal 1974
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Offerings to Holy Objects
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kathmandu, Nepal
Making offerings to holy objects is a remedy for attachment, whether physically offered or mentally transformed
Topics: Holy Objects
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Taipei, Taiwan
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.
Chapters:
Long-life Sutra Oral Transmission •
Commentary on Peaceful Torma Purifying Pollution, Part A •
Commentary on Peaceful Torma Purifying Pollution, Part B •
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
