Advice about purification of past nonvirtuous actions and negative karma, through Vajrasattva and other practices.
Advice on prayer wheels, both large and small hand-held ones. Includes advice on the benefits, how to dedicate the merit after turning the prayer wheel, and how to construct and fill them.
Advice on nyung nä, a powerful two-day practice associated with Chenrezig, the Buddha of Compassion.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings during a nyung nä retreat at Lawudo Retreat Centre, Solu Khumbu, Nepal, in June 1977.
Advice on the power of relics, from which we receive blessings that bring us closer to enlightenment.
Advice on the amazing benefits of building a stupa and circumambulating a stupa, as well as instructions on how to fill a stupa and make it beautiful and inspiring.
Advice on making offerings to the Three Rare Sublime Ones.
Rinpoche discusses the merit of offering to a holy object, even if we don’t have a pure motivation, in this teaching excerpt from the 32nd Kopan Course.
In this teaching excerpted from Kopan Course No. 38, Rinpoche explains how to collect extensive merit in everyday life by making offerings to the Buddha.
In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to show respect to Dharma texts, including digital devices containing Dharma.
Advice on pilgrimage to the holy places including Bodhgaya, Rajgir and Nalanda, and practices which can be done at the sacred sites.
In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the benefits of offering to holy objects. Even a small offering to the Buddha creates the cause for ultimate happiness, due to the power of the object.
In these teachings, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to make pilgrimage to Bodhgaya and other Buddhist sacred sites most meaningful.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this practice advice while he was circumambulating and reciting texts at the Mahabodhi Stupa, Bodhgaya.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the benefits of practicing in Bodhgaya and advises specific practices to be done while on pilgrimage.
