Teachings

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Advice on how to help sick and dying people, and how to use the experience to develop renunciation.

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Deer Park, Madison USA

The loving, compassionate thought of bodhicitta is the best way to heal HIV/AIDS, cancer or any other disease

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1977

Uncontrolled attachment causes many problems, including addiction to alcohol and drugs

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this advice on how to think when diagnosed with cancer. When we experience the cancer for the sake of all sentient beings we collect skies of merit and it brings us closer to enlightenment.

By Nicholas Ribush in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 1985

Buddhist perspectives on sickness, health and death

By Nicholas Ribush

An article on the Buddhist approach to battling addiction, written by Dr. Nicholas Ribush for Around magazine in 1979.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on a wide range of illnesses, given to individuals with health problems who have written to Rinpoche for guidance.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Liver and Thyroid Problems •
Cured of Hepatitis C •
Meditations for Hepatitis C •
Practices for Hepatitis C •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
AIDS Advice and Practices •
Dharma is the Real Medicine •
Practices for HIV and AIDS •
HIV and Dharma Practice •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Sutras and Pujas for Severe Arthritis •
Arthritis Pain •
Severe Arthritis •
Rheumatoid Arthritis •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Degenerative Scoliosis •
Severe Back Pain •
Pain in Legs •
Experiencing Back Pain as a Result of Past Karma •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
How to Quit Smoking •
Advice on How to Stop Smoking •
Human Body Exhibition •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Major Bipolar Episode •
Bipolar Disorder and Suicidal Thoughts •
Practices for Bipolar Condition •
Mantras and Prayers for Bipolar Disorder •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Schizophrenia and Negative Thoughts •
Teenage Son with Schizophrenia •
Paranoid Schizophrenia •
Schizophrenia and Spirit Harm •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Various Practices for Life Obstacles •
Practices for Life Obstacles •
Removing Life Obstacles •
Long-life Sutra and Precepts for Life Obstacles •

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