Teachings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice for prisoners on how to use the situation to develop their mind on the path to enlightenment.
- Being in Prison •
- Preliminaries and Other Practices in Prison •
- A Nun in Jail •
- The Prison is Your Retreat House •
- Letter to Martha Stewart •
- Making Life in Prison Meaningful •
- Request for Practices from Prison •
- Request for Guru •
- Prison Is the Best Opportunity •
- How Fortunate You Are! •
- Let Go of Attachment •
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Chenrezig Institute, Australia
In this teaching Lama Yeshe advises the importance of pratimoksha vows and responds to students' questions about the five lay vows.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Vows and Commitments
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice to students about restoring their daily practice after it has lapsed.
- How to Restart Practices After Stopping •
- Dharma Practice Stopped After Disrobing •
- The Most Important Practice •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice for students who have broken their vows or stopped their daily practice commitments.
- Confessing Broken Commitments •
- Purifying Broken Commitments •
- Giving Up Lay Vows •
- Problem Doing Commitments •
- Giving Up Commitments •
- Giving Back Commitments •
- Confession of Broken Commitments •
- Broken Lay Vows •
- Unable to Keep Commitments •
- Illness During the Teachings •
- Broken Vows •
- More Talks on this Topic: Broken Vows and Commitments •
- Initiation and Tsa-tsa Commitment •
- The Effect of Broken Commitments •
- Too Busy for Daily Commitments •
- Broken Tantric Commitments •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on nyung nä, a powerful two-day practice associated with Chenrezig, the Buddha of Compassion.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices > Nyung-näs
- Continue With Nyung-näs and Lam-rim •
- We Can Be Free from Samsara •
- Unable to Complete Nyung-näs •
- Nyung-nä Advice •
- Practices for Purification and Collecting Merit •
- Two Thousand Nyung Näs and Other Life Practices •
- The Benefits of Nyung-näs •
- Thank you for Nyung-näs •
- A Powerful Practice •
- Continue Nyung-näs •
- Nyung-nä Brings Us Closer to Enlightenment •
- Completion of 300 Nyung-näs •
- The Greatest Purification •
- 700 Nyung-näs Seems Good •
- Dispelling Obstacles For Nyung-nä Retreat •
- A Quick Way to Purify Obscurations •
- Animal Liberation and Nyung Näs •
- Drinking During a Nyung Nä •
- Two Thousand Nyung Näs •
- Removing Life Obstacles Prior to Nyung Näs •
- A Billion, Zillion Thanks for Nyung Näs •
- The Real Women’s Liberation •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India
A commentary for retreatants, available to initiates as a spiral-bound text or pdf file.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice > Tantra
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
This book combines several teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on nyung nä, a powerful two-day practice associated with Chenrezig, the Buddha of Compassion.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices
Chapters:
Abiding in the Retreat •
Editor's Preface •
1: The Benefits of Nyung Nä Practice •
2: Chenrezig •
3: Bhikshuni Lakshmi •
4: The Nyung Nä Lineage Lamas •
5: The Benefits of the Eight Mahayana Precepts •
6: The Benefits of Reciting OM MANI PADME HUM •
7: The Benefits of Prostrations •
8: The Benefits of Offerings •
9: Brief Motivations •
10: Intermediate Motivation •
11: Extensive Motivations •
12: Ablution and Lamrim Prayers •
13: Taking the Restoring and Purifying Ordination •
14. Requests Through To Invocation •
15: The Seven-Limb Practice •
16: Meditation on the Self Generation •
17. Meditation on the Front Generation •
18: The Completion Practices •
19: Additional Advice •
Appendices •
Translations (Abiding in the Retreat) •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India
This puja for the success of all FPMT centers and activities was compiled by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in July 1982, and includes an explanation of the meaning of the prayer and advice on the visualization.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Vajrapani Institute, California
Lama Yeshe introduces the Six Yogas of Naropa, an advanced tantric practice.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice > Tantra
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Sera Je Monastery, Bylakuppe, India
Advice on sur, an offering practice to pacify obstacles and create merit.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice > Tantra
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
In this letter, Rinpoche gives extensive reasons supporting His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s advice not to practice Dolgyal (Shugden).
Topics: Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > Dorje Shugden
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Pomaia, Italy
A brief introduction to the tantric path and methods. Lama Yeshe gave this talk during His Holiness the Dalai Lama's tour through Europe in 1982.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Soquel, CA
A short Vajrasattva practice composed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and published in a pocket-sized format. Whenever we have broken a vow or created any other kind of negative karma, we can purify that negativity with the four opponent powers without a second’s delay.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices
Chapters:
Introduction •
A Short Vajrasattva Meditation •
Translations (Daily Purification) •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Dharamsala , India
Extensive advice on how to make waterbowl offerings, starting with the correct motivation.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
- Meditations to Generate Realizations •
- Practice Advice for a University Student •
- Practice Advice •
- Practice Advice •
- Practice Advice •
- Next Steps for a New Student •
- Practice Advice and Where to Study •
- Practice Advice •
- Practice Advice •
- Practice Advice •
- Study Advice •
- Practice Advice •
- Making Life Beneficial •
- Nature •
- Living a Good Life •
- The Special Qualities of Buddhism •
- Dedication of Merit •
- Practice Advice •
- Practice Advice for Benefactors •
- Making Life Meaningful •
- Practice Advice •
- Practice Advice •
- Practice Advice •
- Request for Practices •
- Lama Chöpa and Manjushri Prayer •
- Tradition in Past Life •
- Dharma Practice is Most Important •
- Letter to a Pen Pal •
- Dharma is Needed for the Happiness of Sentient Beings •
- Practice Advice •
- Advice for a Couple •
- Motivation for Dharma Practice •
- Guidelines for Practice •
- Practice Advice •
- Clairvoyance and Practice Advice •
- Practice Advice •
- Practice Advice •
- The Importance of Learning •
- Contemplate the Lam-rim •
- Practice Advice •
- Giving Practices •
- Practice Advice •
- Practice Advice •
- Advice for a Long-term Student •
- Solar Eclipse •
- Speaking in Tongues •
- Dharma is Most Important •
- Just Start the Practice •
- Please Continue to Practice Dharma •
- The Real Meaning of Life •
- An Introduction to Buddhism •
- How to Think When Doing a Puja •
- Advice for Merit Multiplying Days •
- Recitation of “Chanting the Names of Manjushri” •
- Family Dedication •
- Advice to Tame This Crazy Mind •
- Which Practices to Do Next •
