
Teachings
Read Chapter 7 of Big Love: The Life and Teachings of Lama Yeshe. This chapter describes the lamas' pilgrimage to Lawudo and the beginnings of Kopan Monastery in 1969.
H.H. Ling Rinpoche: Illuminating the World with Dharma
Letters and cards thanking benefactors and students who have offered service to the Dharma in many different roles.
- Thanks for Volunteering •
- Thanks for Service and Advice about Pure Land •
- Welcome to Enlightenment •
- Thanks for Long Life Practices •
- Thanks for Tara Mantras •
- Thanks for Mitukpa Mantras •
- Thanks for Stupas •
- Inseparable from You •
- Thanks for Practices •
- New Stupa •
- A Burst Appendix •
- A Card for Rinpoche’s Sister •
- Get Well •
- Card With Gifts •
- Kind Heart Brilliance •
- Card and Gift for Student •
- Thanking Students For Practice •
- Thanks for Book •
- Drawing of Maitreya Buddha •
- Thanks For Helping •
- Thanks for Raising Money •
- Thanks for Your Kindness •
- Thanks to Long-time Student •
- Numberless Thanks For Everything •
- Thanks For Kind Service •
- Rejoice in Your Whole Life •
- Countless Skies of Thanks •
- Get Well Soon From Samsara! •
- Heartfelt Thanks For Helping the Center •
- Thanks for Your Generosity •
- Gift of Erma Jam •
- More Meaningful Than the Olympics •
- A Billion, Zillion Times Thanks •
- Skies of Thanks For Your Sincere Heart •
- Thank You For Your Service •
- A Billion, Zillion Thanks •
- Thanks for Dedicating Your Retreat •
- Numberless Bodhisattvas Love You Very Much •
- Numberless Skies of Thanks for the Thangka •
- Letter of Thanks to Thamthog Rinpoche •
- Skies of Thanks •
- The Whole World Comes from the Mind •
- Thanks for Your Kindness to FPMT •
Rinpoche encourages loving kindness, the good heart, so that children's lives are meaningful and beneficial for others.
- Giving Happiness to Others •
- Rejoicing in Practice •
- Gift for a Child •
- Advice for a Young Student •
- How Long to Live •
- Message for a Young Student •
- A Place for Children •
- Thanks for Devotion and Good Heart •
- Message to Maitreya School Children •
- The Cause of Real Happiness •
- Planting the Seeds of Enlightenment •
- The Happiest Life •
- Why the Sky is Blue •
- The Best Way to Be Happy •
- Rinpoche's Online Advice Book: Essence of Dharma •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the death process and explains the signs which indicate that the consciousness has left the body. Rinpoche draws on his own experiences of seeing the deceased and gives a detailed account of Lama Yeshe's passing and cremation.
In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche reminds us to practice contentment and to bring happiness to others instead of harming them.
This book presents Lama Zopa Rinpoche's advice to prison inmates drawn from more than 100 letters he has written to prisoners over the years. Read excerpts and order a copy.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: What is Bodhicitta?
In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the benefits of offering to holy objects. Even a small offering to the Buddha creates the cause for ultimate happiness, due to the power of the object.
In this teaching Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that rejoicing is a simple way to achieve enlightenment. Rinpoche says rejoicing is a genuine feeling of happiness and joy, appreciating one’s own qualities and those of others.
Advice on how to prepare oneself for death, which can happen at any time. Includes practices for students whose death is imminent.
- Premonition of Death •
- Death Can Happen Anytime •
- Rely on Amitabha •
- Death Can Happen at Any Time •
- Preparing for Death •
- Donating Organs •
- Dream of Death •
- Practices When Close to Death •
- Whether to Tell Family About Life Obstacles •
- Practices to Prepare for Death •
- Making a Will •
- More Talks on this Topic: Preparing for Death •
- Amitabha is Guiding You •
- Confession Before Passing Away •
- Imminent Death •
- Transference of Consciousness at Death Time •
- Rely on Guru Amitabha •
- Vajrayogini Visualization •
- Don’t Be Afraid of Death •
- Integrating the Five Powers •
- Student Close to Passing •
- Secular Program About Death and Dying •
Advice on the study and practice of lamrim, the path to enlightenment.
- Dedicate Oneself to the Lam-rim •
- A Letter to Students at Kopan •
- Reading Lam-rim Books •
- Lam-rim is the Main Thing •
- Focus on Lam-rim •
- Generating Faith •
- Lam-rim Realizations •
- Train in the Graduated Path •
- Practice Advice: Read Lam-rim •
- Practice Gone Dry •
- Benefits of the Lam-rim •
- Direction in Life •
- Advice on Lam-rim Study and Practice •
- Focus on Lamrim Practice •
- Lam-rim the Main Practice •
- Familiarity with the Dharma •
- Train the Mind in Lam-rim •
- Lam-rim Meditation •
- Attainment of Lam-rim Realizations •
- Which Lam-rim Text to Study •
- Stick With the Lam-rim •
- The Suffering of Samsara •
- Meditations on the Graduated Path •
- A Worthwhile Life •
- Renouncing Attachment to a Monk •
- Lamrim and Manjushri Practices •
- The Best Life for Yourself and Others •
- Effortful Lamrim Meditation •
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.
- 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 •
- Filling a New Stupa •
- Building a Stupa to Liberate Sentient Beings •
- Benefits of Stupas •
- You Are Fortunate to Build Stupas •
- The Stupa Will Benefit Numberless Beings •
- The Power of the Holy Object •
- A Powerful Place of Healing •
- A Billion, Zillion Thanks for Circumambulations •
- How to Use a Stupa to Bring You to Enlightenment •
- Dedication for Tree Offered to Stupa •
- The Story of Swayambhunath Stupa •
- The Stupa Will Give Happiness to Many Sentient Beings •
- Build the Stupa in a Public Place •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Practice Rejoicing
A brief overview of the path to enlightenment, as taught and followed by most of the Tibetan schools of Buddhism. This outline was written by Nicholas Ribush as the Preface for the book Teachings from Tibet.