Teachings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on various practices and mantras for animals, including those which are sick and dying.
- How to Benefit Animals •
- Building an Animal Sanctuary •
- Compassion Brings Us Closer to Enlightenment •
- Advice About Caring for Dogs •
- Take Care of Animals with Compassion •
- Practices to Benefit a Cat •
- How to Help Animals Harmed by Gardening •
- How to Help Cows and All Sentient Beings •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Rinpoche asks students to abandon eating meat and become vegetarian. Rinpoche also discusses animal liberation and other ways to benefit animals, and explains our karmic connection with animals.
Topics: Benefiting Animals > Non-harming > Being Vegetarian
By Geshe Thubten Soepa in 1995 and 2005
A "must-read" for all Buddhists, this text presents a detailed discussion in support of vegetarianism and animal welfare. Now available as an ebook.
Topics: Benefiting Animals
Chapters:
Introduction •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
- Thanks for Liberating Animals •
- Thanks for Animal Liberation •
- Benefits of Liberating Animals •
- Buying Caged Birds for Release •
- Motivation for Animal Liberation •
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Topics: Benefiting Animals > Spare the Insects > Saving Insects' Lives
- Practices To Do When Invaded By Insects •
- Ants on the Road •
- Leading Insects to Enlightenment •
- Cockroaches in the House •
- Ants in the House •
- Many Ants in the House •
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- Permission to Bless Sentient Beings in the Ocean •
- Feeding the Ducks •
- Mantras to Benefit Dead Insects •
- Three Ways to Benefit Animals •
- Advice for a Dying Dog •
- Blessing Animals •
- Letter from a Dog •
- Animal Liberation Train •
- Protecting and Feeding Birds •
- Caring for Pets in Everyday Life and at Their Death •
- More Talks on This Topic: Various Practices for Animals •
- Benefiting Dude and Other Animals •
- How to Benefit Dead Insects •
- How to Make This Life Most Beneficial •
- Snakes in the Garden •
- How to Purify a Dog’s Karma •
- Concern for Ants and Worms •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Institut Vajra Yogini, France
Rinpoche responds to a question about FPMT promoting a policy of veganism.
Topics: Benefiting Animals
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Topics: Benefiting Animals > Non-harming > Avoid Killing Animals
- Animal Activist Board •
- Animal Sacrifice in Nepal •
- The Karma of Killing Animals •
- Karma of Killing •
- No Hunting, Please •
- On Eating Meat •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Topics: Benefiting Animals > Non-harming > Being Vegetarian
- Becoming Vegetarian •
- Inspired to Become a Vegetarian •
By Nicholas Ribush
Dr. Nicholas Ribush discusses the benefits of being vegan.
Topics: Benefiting Animals
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Mantras that will free animals from the lower realms and plant the seeds of enlightenment in their mind streams
Topics: Benefiting Animals
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Shakyamuni Center, Taichung, Taiwan
A talk at an Animal Liberation event at Shakyamuni Center, Taichung, Taiwan
Topics: Benefiting Animals
Chapters:
Animal Liberation Part A - English with Chinese Translation •
Animal Liberation Part B - English with Chinese Translation •
Animal Liberation - English Only •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Taichung, Taiwan, 2007
Saving the lives of others brings peace in this world and creates incredible merit
Topics: Benefiting Animals
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
All our past, present and future happiness is due to the kindness of the mosquito
Topics: Benefiting Animals
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Topics: Benefiting Animals > Non-harming > Thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving Prayer •
- Thanksgiving •
- Prayers for the Turkeys •
