Life Practices
A student wrote to Rinpoche asking for practices for the rest of his life. Rinpoche responded with this advice.
A student wrote to Rinpoche asking for practices for the rest of his life. Rinpoche responded with this advice.
An explanation of beginningless mind, reincarnation and the causes and effects of karma
An obituary by Nicholas Ribush and a brief remembrance written by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Rinpoche discusses in depth the process one should take when making preparations for death and giving the gift of life through organ donation
Establishing the value of meditating on death and impermanence as motivation for practice and preparation for death.
Published as the foreword to "Death, Intermediate State and Rebirth" by Lati Rinpoche and Jeffrey Hopkins
Liberation from samsara is possible by remembering impermanence and death and purifying negative karma
Prayers, practices and mantras for the time of death
A teaching on the technique for transferring consciousness at the time of death
In this extensive teaching, Lama Yeshe explains the practice of powa, a special technique to gain rebirth in Amitabha's pure land.
A last letter from Lama Yeshe, written when he was seriously ill in hospital.
This meditation is an excerpt from a weekend seminar on death, intermediate state and rebirth that Lama Yeshe taught in Switzerland in September 1983.
Advice on impermanence and death, including how to care for others at the time of death and practices for the deceased.