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.
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.
A speech by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the opening of a new building for Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore.
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
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives a commentary on and confers the eight Mahayanaprecepts
A teaching by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the benefits and power of holy objects. The teaching includes many quotations from Buddhist sutras.
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.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's prayers and offerings to the holy objects.