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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on pilgrimage to the holy places including Bodhgaya, Rajgir and Nalanda, and practices which can be done at the sacred sites.
Topics: Holy Objects > Pilgrimage > Advice on Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage to Bodhgaya, Rajgir and Nalanda •
Advice and Practices for Pilgrimage •
More Talks on this Topic: Pilgrimage •
Why Bodhgaya Is So Important •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on the amazing benefits of building a stupa and circumambulating a stupa, as well as instructions on how to fill a stupa and make it beautiful and inspiring.
Topics: Holy Objects > Monasteries and Stupas > Stupas
Building Stupas to Benefit Sick Dogs •
How to Make the Stupa Beautiful and Inspiring •
Circumambulation of Boudhanath Stupa •
Liberating Animals and Circumambulating Stupas With Them •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on the power of relics, from which we receive blessings that bring us closer to enlightenment.
Topics: Holy Objects > Relic Tour > Blessings of the Relics
Blessings from the Relics on Tour •
Relic Tour Brings World Peace •
Benefits of Relics •
Benefits of Holy Relics •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on how to care for and respect statues of the Buddha. Rinpoche advises that holy objects such as statues contribute to world peace and help us create believable merit just by seeing them.
Topics: Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Statues
Climbing on a Statue •
Hosting the Jade Buddha •
Painting the Buddha’s Eyes •
Benefactor Building a Statue •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on making offerings to the Three Rare Sublime Ones.
Topics: Holy Objects > Making Offerings > Offering Practices
Verses to Inspire Offerings •
Offering to the Sangha •
Water Bowls Practice •
How to Generate Merit by Offering Music, Such as Bell, Gong or Conch Shell •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on holy objects such as statues, stupas, tsa-tsas, texts and prayer wheels, as well as advice on pilgrimage, monasteries and temples, the Maitreya Project and the Relic Tour.
Topics: Holy Objects
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Topics: Holy Objects > Monasteries and Stupas > Monasteries
Benefits of Building Monasteries •
Building a Temple •
Benefits of Building a Monastery •
Practices for Success of the Monastery •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Four Dharmakaya Relic Mantras Amulet •
The Benefits of Blessing Strings •
Lama Atisha Protection Stupa •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Topics: Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Prayer Flags
Benefits of Prayer Flags •
When to Hang Prayer Flags •
Prayer Flags and Banners •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Topics: Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Prayer Wheels
A Prayer Wheel in the Ocean •
Yamantaka Mantras in Prayer Wheel •
Prayer Wheel and Tong-len Practice •
The Benefits of Prayer Wheels and Chenrezig Practice •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Topics: Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Texts
Printing Tse.do, the Long Life Sutra •
Writing the Prajnaparamita •
How to Bless Texts •
Paranirvana Sutra •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Topics: Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Tsa-tsas
Dedicating the Merit of Making Tsa-tsas •
What to do with Tsa-tsas •
Tsa-tsas and Other Practices •
Making Tsa-tsas and Buddha Statues •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Topics: Holy Objects > Relic Tour > Benefits of Relic Tour
Benefits of Supporting the Relic Tour •
Letter Thanking Relic Tour Host •
Prayers When Relics Radiate Light •
Relics in the Sutras •
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Costs of the Maitreya Project •
Presenting the Project to Sponsors •
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Thanks for Prayers for the Maitreya Project •
Thanks to a Maitreya Project Benefactor •
Thanks for Prayers •
