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Advice on prayer wheels, both large and small hand-held ones. Includes advice on the benefits, how to dedicate the merit after turning the prayer wheel, and how to construct and fill them.
Topics: Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Prayer Wheels
A Prayer Wheel in the Ocean •
Yamantaka Mantras in Prayer Wheel •
Prayer Wheel and Tong-len Practice •
The Benefits of Prayer Wheels and Chenrezig Practice •
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Advice on the power of relics, from which we receive blessings that bring us closer to enlightenment.
Topics: Holy Objects > Relics > Blessings of the Relics
Blessings from the Relics on Tour •
Relic Tour Brings World Peace •
Benefits of Relics •
Benefits of Holy Relics •
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Advice on the amazing benefits of building a stupa and circumambulating a stupa, as well as instructions on how to fill a stupa and make it beautiful and inspiring.
Topics: Holy Objects > Monasteries and Stupas > Stupas
Building Stupas to Benefit Sick Dogs •
How to Make the Stupa Beautiful and Inspiring •
Circumambulation of Boudhanath Stupa •
Liberating Animals and Circumambulating Stupas With Them •
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Advice on making offerings to the Three Rare Sublime Ones.
Topics: Holy Objects > Making Offerings > Offering Practices
Verses to Inspire Offerings •
Offering to the Sangha •
Water Bowls Practice •
How to Generate Merit by Offering Music, Such as Bell, Gong or Conch Shell •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
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.
Topics: Holy Objects > Making Offerings
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
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.
Topics: Holy Objects > Making Offerings
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in North Carolina, USA
In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to show respect to Dharma texts, including digital devices containing Dharma.
Topics: Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Texts
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Advice on pilgrimage to the holy places including Bodhgaya, Rajgir and Nalanda, and practices which can be done at the sacred sites.
Topics: Holy Objects > Pilgrimage > Advice on Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage to Bodhgaya, Rajgir and Nalanda •
Advice and Practices for Pilgrimage •
More Talks on this Topic: Pilgrimage •
Why Bodhgaya Is So Important •
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 these teachings, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to make pilgrimage to Bodhgaya and other Buddhist sacred sites most meaningful.
Topics: Holy Objects > Pilgrimage
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bodhgaya, India
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this practice advice while he was circumambulating and reciting texts at the Mahabodhi Stupa, Bodhgaya.
Topics: Holy Objects > Pilgrimage
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bodhgaya, India
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the benefits of practicing in Bodhgaya and advises specific practices to be done while on pilgrimage.
Topics: Holy Objects > Pilgrimage
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bodhgaya, India
Verses from a sutra found in the Kangyur on the benefits of circumambulating stupas, translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. The teaching includes a commentary on the verses.
Topics: Holy Objects
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Advice on how to care for and respect statues of the Buddha. Rinpoche advises that holy objects such as statues contribute to world peace and help us create believable merit just by seeing them.
Topics: Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Statues
Climbing on a Statue •
Hosting the Jade Buddha •
Painting the Buddha’s Eyes •
Benefactor Building a Statue •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Zopa Rinpoche suggested these prayers and practices for a student who was going to Bodhgaya, Rajgir and Nalanda in India.
Topics: Holy Objects > Pilgrimage
