Teachings

Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice for students doing a long retreat, including guidance on motivation, specific practices, how to successfully complete the retreat and what to do if there are obstacles.

Life Retreat •
Completion of Three Year Retreat •
Continue With Lamrim in Long Retreat •
Gradual Completion Stage •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice for students doing a retreat on the lamrim, the graduated path to enlightenment. Rinpoche says taming the mind through the lamrim is the best offering and the best way to bring world peace.

Basic Program and Lam-rim Retreat •
Ten-Day Lam-rim Retreat •
Progress in Retreat •
Lamrim Retreat Advice •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bendigo, Australia

In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises students to make the retreat most beneficial by striving to subdue the mind.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Practice advice and instructions for students doing various types of retreat, including preliminaries, lamrim and deity practice.

Retreat Place •
Destroying Delusion •
Advice for Seven-Month Retreat •
Six-Month Retreat •
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Madrid, Spain

An interview with the directors and staff of O Sel Ling Retreat Centre about the benefits of the retreat center.

By Lama Thubten Yeshe in India

A description of chulen (taking the essence) pills and the methods for practicing a pill retreat. 

Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Thanks for Medicine Buddha Retreat •
Vajrasattva Practice is So Important •
Vajrasattva Retreat •
Yamantaka Retreat •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Retreat and Life Obstacles •
Life Obstacles •
Need for Harmony in Retreat •
Obstacles in Retreat •