Teachings
Advice for prisoners on how to use the situation to develop their mind on the path to enlightenment.
Advice on nyung nä, a powerful two-day practice associated with Chenrezig, the Buddha of Compassion.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings during a nyung nä retreat at Lawudo Retreat Centre, Solu Khumbu, Nepal, in June 1977.
Advice on daily practices recommended by Lama Zopa Rinpoche for students on the path to enlightenment.
Advice given to students who had requested lifetime practices. Rinpoche recommends essential daily prayers and practices to focus on for life.
In this collection of advice for those practicing in prison, Rinpoche explains how to use the situation in prison to develop the mind.
A commentary and oral transmission of Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri (Ārya-mañjuśrī-nāma-saṅgīti). His Holiness the Dalai Lama advised continuous recitation of this prayer for a few months, for the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s reincarnation.
Advice and methods for purifying past nonvirtuous actions.
Advice on tantric practices, including the generation and completion stages of Highest Yoga Tantra.
Advice for students who are experiencing difficulties with their Dharma practice.
A list of Rinjung Gyatsa initiations given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bodhgaya in 1982 and at Kopan Monastery in 1985. Rinjung Gyatsa is a collection of tantric deities, compiled in the sixteenth century by the Tibetan master Lama Taranatha.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the three principal aspects of the path—renunciation, bodhicitta and emptiness—as the foundation for tantric practice, in the excerpt from the 13th Kopan Course.
Three discourses excerpted from a series of talks about the Highest Yoga Tantra practice of Vajrayogini.
Advice on how to follow the Buddhist path and how to bring benefit and happiness to others through Dharma practice.
Advice on meditations and mantras for healing and purifying sickness, spirit harm, negative karma and obstacles to a long life.