Teachings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on tantric practices, including the generation and completion stages of Highest Yoga Tantra.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice > Tantra
Completion Stage Practices •
Request for Initiation •
Visualizing the Guru as Deity During Initiation •
Deity Practice •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the three principal aspects of the path—renunciation, bodhicitta and emptiness—as the foundation for tantric practice, in the excerpt from the 13th Kopan Course.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Chenrezig Institute, Australia, September 1979
Three discourses excerpted from a series of talks about the Highest Yoga Tantra practice of Vajrayogini.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
Chapters:
Introduction to a Vajrayogini Commentary •
First Introductory Discourse •
Second Introductory Discourse •
Third Introductory Discourse •
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Bodhgaya, India
This excerpt is from an introductory talk given to Western students who had traveled to Bodhgaya to receive the Kalachakra initiation from His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Topics: Introductory
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on how to practice guru devotion, including seeing the guru as Buddha, offering service and pleasing the guru.
Fortunate to Receive Advice from the Guru •
The Guru Brings You to Enlightenment •
Pleasing the Guru •
Offering Thanks to the Guru •
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 •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Maitripa College, Portland, Oregon 2009
Extracts from a series of teachings given prior to a chöd initiation
Chapters:
This Precious Human Rebirth •
Dharma in Daily Life •
Chöd: Slaying the Ego •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Taichung, Taiwan
Lightly edited teachings from the Amitabha and White Tara initiations and retreat held at Shakyamuni Center, Taiwan, in February 2007.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
Chapters:
Amitabha and White Tara Index Page •
Lamrim Teaching; Amitabha Practice •
Bodhisattva Vows; Amitabha Practice •
White Tara Initiation; Bodhisattva Vows •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Shakyamuni Center, Taichung, Taiwan
Teachings during Amitabha and White Tara long-life initiations and a White Tara retreat. Included is the lung (oral transmission) of the Amitayus mantra and the long-life sutra.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
Chapters:
Precious Human Rebirth •
Dharma and Non-Dharma, Studying Lamrim, Amitabha Practice and Pure Land •
Bodhisattva Vows, Amitabha Practice and Pure Land •
Samsara, Emptiness, Trehor Kyorpen Rinpoche, Gen Jampa Wangdu, Prison Practice •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Taiwan
A lightly edited transcript of teachings given before the Mitukpa initiation at Shakyamuni Center, Taichung, Taiwan, 25 – 26 Feb 2007.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
Chapters:
Day 1: Teachings at Mitukpa Initiation •
Day 2: Discourse •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Shakyamuni Center, Taiwan 2007
Teachings given before a Mitukpa initiation at Shakyamuni Center, Taichung, Taiwan in February 2007.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
Chapters:
Mitukpa Initiation Part One: Introduction •
Mitukpa Initiation Part Two: What is Dharma •
Mitukpa Initiation Part Three: The Results of Negative Karma •
Mitukpa Initiation Part Four: Motivation and Initiation Preparation •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Adelaide, Australia
Excerpts of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings given at the Mahamudra Retreat hosted by Buddha House, in Mylor, South Australia, in 2004.
Chapters:
Day 2 Part A: Teachings before the Gyalwa Gyatso initiation •
Day 2 Part B: Preparation for Gyalwa Gyatso initiation (continued) •
Day 3 Part A 1: Recitations from the combined Jorchö and Lama Chöpa Puja •
Day 3 Part A 2: Recitations from the combined Jorchö and Lama Chöpa Puja (continued) •
By HH Trijang Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India
An overview of tantric practice, excerpted from a teaching given to Western students in Dharamsala.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India 1982
An address to students doing a Vajrasattva group retreat
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Boulder Creek, CA USA 1997
Teachings on emptiness and dedication prayers, excerpted from a series of talks about the Highest Yoga Tantra practice of Yamantaka.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
Chapters:
A Teaching on Yamantaka •
Editor's Introduction •
Chapter Eight: Emptiness •
Chapter Ten: Dedication •
