On Being Vegetarian
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to benefit animals by becoming vegetarian. Rinpoche also discusses tsog offering, a Highest Yoga Tantra practice.
Topics:
Benefiting Animals > Non-harming
Teachings
Why Be a Vegetarian
Rinpoche asks students to abandon eating meat and become vegetarian. Rinpoche also discusses animal liberation and other ways to benefit animals, and explains our karmic connection with animals.
Topics:
Benefiting Animals > Non-harming > Being Vegetarian
Thanksgiving
Advice and prayers for the millions of turkeys being killed for the Thanksgiving holiday in the USA.
Topics:
Benefiting Animals > Non-harming > Thanksgiving
How to Help the Turkeys at Thanksgiving
Prayers for the Turkeys
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Prayer
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Practices to Purify Killing Animals
Advice on how to purify the negative karma resulting from killing. This advice was given to students who had to kill or harm animals in their daily life and work.
Animal Experimentation
Animals Killed During Construction of a Temple
Fishing
Killing Insects and Mice
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Kadampa Teachings
Commentary on the teachings of Atisha and the Kadampa geshes, the exemplary practitioners of Buddhism in Tibet.
Topics:
Lineage Lamas > Kadampa Teachings
Chapters:
Kadampa Teachings
Editor's Preface (Ailsa Cameron)
Kadampa Teachings 1: Bodhgaya, January 2003
Kadampa Teachings 2: Bodhgaya, December 2003 - January 2004
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Kadampa Teachings (Audio and Unedited Transcripts), Continued
Teachings given at Root Institute, Days 5 - 7; includes a commentary on Atisha's Jewel Garland
Topics:
Lineage Lamas > Kadampa Teachings
Chapters:
Day Five: Jewel Garland Commentary - Cherishing the practice and turning away from samsaric happiness
Day Five: Jewel Garland Commentary - Protecting ordination by reflecting on impermanence and suffering of samsara
Day Five: Jewel Garland Commentary - Protecting the senses by analyzing how attachment arises
Day Five: Dedications
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Kadampa Teachings (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
Teachings at Root Institute, Days 1 - 4; includes an oral transmission and commentary on Atisha's Jewel Garland
Topics:
Lineage Lamas > Kadampa Teachings
Chapters:
Day One: The cause of problems
Day One: Seeing suffering of others and developing the wish to offer them the highest benefit
Day One: Developing the wish to repay the kindness of others, Dedications
Day Two: Precious Human Rebirth
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Eight Verses of Thought Transformation (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
A commentary given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on an essential mind training text composed by Kadampa Geshe Langri Tangpa.
Topics:
Lineage Lamas > Kadampa Teachings
Chapters:
Day One: Perfect Human Rebirth
Day One: Renunciation
Day One: Shortcomings of Desire Part A
Day One: Shortcomings of Desire Part B
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The Lineage of the Teachings
The lineage of the teachings was handed down to the Kadampas by Atisha, an Indian pandit who revived Buddhism in Tibet.
Topics:
Lineage Lamas > Kadampa Teachings
Commentary on "A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment"
A commentary on Atisha's text, given to Western monks and nuns in Boudhanath, Nepal, in 1975. The teaching is translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and edited by Nicholas Ribush.
Topics:
Lineage Lamas > Kadampa Teachings