Teachings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the direct and indirect benefits for all sentient beings that will result from the construction of a large Maitreya statue.
Making offerings to holy objects is a remedy for attachment, whether physically offered or mentally transformed
An extensive teaching on the benefits and blessings of stupas; includes advice about the Great Stupa being built near Bendigo, Australia.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the power of the Buddha and holy objects at the 14th Kopan Course in 1981.
Days 4-6: includes teachings, oral transmissions of Maitreya prayer, King of Prayers and Stainless Beam Mantra
Days 1-3: Maitreya Buddha puja, teachings and meditation on Maitreya Buddha, and oral transmissions of the Maitreya mantra, Maitreya prayer and King of Prayers
A student wrote to Rinpoche asking for practices for the rest of his life. Rinpoche responded with this advice.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to accumulate merit and the causes of ultimate happiness by viewing, making and respecting holy objects, in this teaching given at Tushita Retreat Centre, Dharamsala, India, in May 1990.