Advice and prayers for the millions of turkeys being killed for the Thanksgiving holiday in the USA.
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.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to benefit animals by becoming vegetarian. Rinpoche also discusses tsog offering, a Highest Yoga Tantra practice.
The Heart’s Utmost Need: Urging Myself and Others to Remember Impermanence. This text, formerly known as Heart-Spoon, was extensively revised by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 2020, and further reviewed by Rinpoche in 2022.
This text by the great Indian pandit Nagarjuna is famous for its descriptions of the bodhisattva's path of compassion and for its clear, concise analysis of the Buddha's teachings on emptiness.
A praise to the Buddha, composed by Lama Tsongkhapa after he realized emptiness. Translated by Geshe Thupten Jinpa.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has recommended this prayer for protection and healing from the coronavirus COVID-19.
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.
A prayer for peace in Tibet and compassion in the world.
A short lamrim prayer that contains the essence of the whole path to enlightenment
A short prayer that helps us develop the correct attitude toward the virtuous friend.
A seminal text that sets out the stages of the path to enlightenment (lamrim)
A classic mind training (lojong) text by Kadampa Geshe Langri Tangpa.
