Advice about bhikshuni ordination, excerpted from a teaching given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bendigo, Australia, on May 7, 2018. 

In this multimedia title, Lama Yeshe speaks frankly about the challenges and opportunities facing Western Sangha.

Watch the video and read the transcript of this talk, as Rinpoche discusses the importance of living in vows and purifying negative karma, while staying focused on the goal, enlightenment.

The mandala offering is a powerful method to collect merit and purify miserliness.

Extensive advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on which practices should be done daily.

How to purely dedicate the merit for the happiness of others

Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Geshe Thubten Sherab on the study programs of Tibetan Buddhist monks

A student wrote to Rinpoche asking for practices for the rest of his life. Rinpoche responded with this advice. 

An article by Nicholas Ribush about becoming a Western Buddhist monk, written for the Tibetan Review, January 1979.

A small collection of talks by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche to their ordained students.

This meditation is an excerpt from a weekend seminar on death, intermediate state and rebirth that Lama Yeshe taught in Switzerland in September 1983.