Teachings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice given to those who practice healing or have been healed.
- Connection With Kuan Yin •
- Offering Comfort and Help to the Sick •
- Healing With Medicine Buddha Practice •
- Practice Advice for a Healer/Psychic •
- Study with Healer •
- Mantras for Healing •
- Healing With Tong-len •
- Healing With Compassion •
- Buddhism and Healing •
- Healing Sessions •
- A Discussion About Healing •
- Healing Mantra and Visualization •
- Compassion is Most Important for Healing Others •
By Lama Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Thubten Yeshe: Purifying the Dualistic Mind
Topics: Monthly E-letter
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice about lung, a state in which the winds within the body are unbalanced or blocked, thus causing various illnesses.
Topics: Sickness and Health > Wind Imbalance / Lung
- Lung After Retreat •
- Antidote to Lung •
- Severe Lung •
- Pujas for Lung •
- Practices for Lung •
- Practicing Tong-len for Lung •
- Advice for a Monk With Lung •
- Advices for Lung •
- Heart Sutra and Other Practices for Lung •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Khen Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup in Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1987
A transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 20th Kopan Course. Includes a discourse on the bodhisattva vows by Khen Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup, late abbot of Kopan Monastery.
Chapters:
Kopan Course No. 20 Index Page •
Lecture One: Refuge and Bodhicitta •
Lecture Two: Cherishing Others •
Lecture Three: The Good Heart •
Lecture Four: Labeling the I •
Lecture Five: The Merely Labeled I •
Lecture Six: Labeling Appearances •
Lecture Seven: The Eight Mahayana Precepts •
Lecture Eight: The Benefits of Precepts •
Lecture Nine: Emptiness of the I •
Lecture Ten: Equilibrium Meditation •
Lecture Eleven: Equanimity •
Lecture Twelve: The Cause of Happiness •
Lecture Thirteen: The Bodhisattva Vows (Lama Lhundrup) •
Lecture Fourteen: Samsara and the Twelve Links •
Lecture Fifteen: Refuge •
Lecture Sixteen: The Suffering of Samsara •
Lecture Seventeen: The Five Views •
Lecture Eighteen: How to Practice Dharma •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Essential advice and practices for the moment of death.
Topics: Death and Transitions > Caring for Others at the Time of Death > Practices at the Time of Death
- Support at Death Time •
- Namgyalma Visualization •
- Recitation of the Tengyur •
- Brother Dying •
- Preparing for Death •
- Friend Dying of Cancer •
- Father Dying •
- Mother Dying •
- Mother Close to Death •
- Practices for Mother Passing Away •
- How to Help Dying Mother •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice for students who are experiencing difficulties with their Dharma practice.
- No Progress in Practice •
- Doubts •
- Obstacles •
- Difficulty with Prostrations •
- Not Enough Merit to Practice Tantra •
- Cutting Distractions to Practice •
- Difficult Retreat •
- Faults in Practice •
- Needing Money for Retreat •
- Purifying Obstacles to Dharma Practice •
- Outer and Inner Obstacles to Dharma Practice •
- Purifying Obstacles to Dharma 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 the importance of compassion, the good heart.
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Developing Compassion > Compassion
- The Benefit of Pure Love and Joy •
- Great Compassion for Others •
- Great Compassion •
- The Good Heart is the Root of Happiness •
- Essential Advice •
- Why Compassion is Important •
- Results of Compassion •
- The Quick Path to Enlightenment •
- Compassion is the Basis of Achieving Enlightenment •
- The Advantages of Cherishing Others •
Browse our collection of LYWA books translated into German, including new translations, What is Meditation? by Lama Yeshe and How to Practice Dharma by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Topics: Translations > German
Browse our collection of translations into Vietnamese, now available as free PDF files. Our latest Vietnamese translations are The Foundation of All Good Qualities and several teachings by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Topics: Translations > Vietnamese
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Chenrezig Institute, Australia
Lama Yeshe discusses how to use intensive wisdom to gain insight into the illusory nature of reality. Also included is a short interview.
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Advice on the practice of giving and letters of thanks to benefactors of Rinpoche's centers and projects.
Topics: Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Generosity and Charitable Projects
- Kind Benefactor •
- Thanking Benefactors •
- Thanks for Donation to Kopan •
- Donation to Amdo Eye Center •
- Ways to Give Away Money •
- Investing for Real Profit •
- Helping a Business •
- The Center is of Utmost Importance •
- Thanks for Generosity to FPMT and His Holiness the Dalai Lama •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on how to resolve parenting problems by focusing on the good heart, loving kindness and compassion for others.
Topics: Family and Relationships > Parenting > Parenting Problems
- Problems With Children •
- Growing Up Too Fast •
- A Bad Mother? •
- Prayers For Child’s Return •
