Taking Vows
Advice about the benefits of taking vows, for example, the five lay vows and the eight Mahayana precepts.
Advice about the benefits of taking vows, for example, the five lay vows and the eight Mahayana precepts.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the death process and explains the signs which indicate that the consciousness has left the body. Rinpoche draws on his own experiences of seeing the deceased and gives a detailed account of Lama Yeshe's passing and cremation.
In this teaching Lama Yeshe advises the importance of pratimoksha vows and responds to students' questions about the five lay vows.
A public lecture on the death process, the intermediate state and rebirth, given by Lama Yeshe in Sweden on September 8, 1983.
Advice for students who have broken their vows or stopped their daily practice commitments.
The eight Mahayana precepts should be taken with the motivation of bodhicitta, remembering the kindness of other sentient beings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives a commentary on and confers the eight Mahayanaprecepts
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to analyze reincarnation
The Practice and Benefits of the Eight Mahayana Precepts
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.
Published as the foreword to "Death, Intermediate State and Rebirth" by Lati Rinpoche and Jeffrey Hopkins