Teachings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on how to care for others who are very ill and approaching death, with essential advice and practices for the moment of death.
Working With the Dying •
Close to Death •
Imminent Death •
When Someone Is Dying •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on how to prepare oneself for death, which can happen at any time. Includes practices for students whose death is imminent.
Premonition of Death •
Death Can Happen Anytime •
Rely on Amitabha •
Death Can Happen at Any Time •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal
Rinpoche discusses the shortcomings of samara in this excerpt from Kopan Course No. 40, 2007.
Topics: Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on how to make the best use of our life, which is very short.
Topics: Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
The Cause of Death •
Life is Short •
How to Use an Hourglass for Dharma Practice •
Impermanence and Death Don't Wait •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Tushita Meditation Centre, Dharamsala, India
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that the best way to help others prepare for death is by offering guidance when they have the capacity to understand and put Dharma into practice.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Brisbane, Australia
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises the importance of providing support for people who are dying, so they can die with a happy and peaceful mind, free from fear and negative emotions.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice for students on various transitions including education, relationships, career choices and other life decisions.
The Best Life Direction •
Continuing With School •
The Benefits of Experiencing Hardship •
Wanting to Be Ordained •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
A teaching by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on impermanence and death, excerpted from the 26th Kopan Course.
Topics: Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
In this excerpt from the 30th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that we need to practice mindfulness, seeing that all causative phenomena are in the nature of impermanence.
Topics: Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on practices to benefit those who have passed away.
Teacher Passed Away •
Medicine Buddha Practice •
Creating Merit For Future Lives •
Death on TV •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Russia and the Netherlands
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the death process and explains the signs which indicate that the consciousness has left the body. Rinpoche draws on his own experiences of seeing the deceased and gives a detailed account of Lama Yeshe's passing and cremation.
Topics: Death and Transitions > Death and Rebirth
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal
In this teaching excerpt Lama Yeshe discusses death and rebirth in various realms of cyclic existence.
Topics: Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Stockholm, Sweden
A public lecture on the death process, the intermediate state and rebirth, given by Lama Yeshe in Sweden on September 8, 1983.
Topics: Death and Transitions > Death and Rebirth
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Essential advice and practices for the moment of death.
Topics: Death and Transitions > Caring for Others at the Time of Death > Practices at the Time of Death
Support at Death Time •
Namgyalma Visualization •
Recitation of the Tengyur •
Brother Dying •
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Geneva, Switzerland
This multimedia series presents chapters from the LYWA book Life, Death and After Death in a format that includes written teachings enhanced by audio, video and images.
Chapters:
Life, Death and After Death Multimedia: About the Series •
Finding Peace in Everyday Life •
The Nature of the Mind •
The Death Process •
