
Sickness and Health
Working in a Hospital
Advice on how to help sick and dying people, and how to use the experience to develop renunciation.
Advice on Quitting Intoxicants
Rinpoche discusses the reasons for giving up alcohol, cigarettes and other addictive substances
Dealing with Cancer
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this advice on how to think when diagnosed with cancer. When we experience the cancer for the sake of all sentient beings we collect skies of merit and it brings us closer to enlightenment.
Meditation Against Drug Dependence
An article on the Buddhist approach to battling addiction, written by Dr. Nicholas Ribush for Around magazine in 1979.
Bodhicitta is the Best Medicine
The loving, compassionate thought of bodhicitta is the best way to heal HIV/AIDS, cancer or any other disease
Attachment to Alcohol and Drugs
Uncontrolled attachment causes many problems, including addiction to alcohol and drugs
Medical Controversies and Buddhist Youth
Buddhist perspectives on sickness, health and death
