Caring for the Dying
Advice on how to care for others who are very ill and approaching death, with essential advice and practices for the moment of death.
Teachings
Preparing for Death
Advice on how to prepare oneself for death, which can happen at any time. Includes practices for students whose death is imminent.
Amitabha is Guiding You
Confession Before Passing Away
Death Can Happen Anytime
Death Can Happen at Any Time
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After Meeting Is Separation; After Birth Is Death
Rinpoche discusses the shortcomings of samara in this excerpt from Kopan Course No. 40, 2007.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
Impermanence and Death
Advice on how to make the best use of our life, which is very short.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
Death Can Come at Any Time
Death Can Happen Suddenly
Death Comes Suddenly
Death Comes at Any Time
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Helping Others Prepare for Death
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that the best way to help others prepare for death is by offering guidance when they have the capacity to understand and put Dharma into practice.
Support for the Dying: A Talk at Karuna Hospice
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises the importance of providing support for people who are dying, so they can die with a happy and peaceful mind, free from fear and negative emotions.
Various Transitions
Advice for students on various transitions including education, relationships, career choices and other life decisions.
Celebrating a Birthday
Continuing With School
Making Life Decisions that Benefit Others
Sunflowers for the Elderly
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How to Meditate on the Refuge and Bodhicitta Prayer
In this meditation on the refuge and bodhicitta prayer, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to make the prayer most meaningful and heartfelt.
Topics:
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Refuge
This Life Can Stop at Any Time
A teaching by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on impermanence and death, excerpted from the 26th Kopan Course.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
The Buddha Liberates by Guiding Us
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explained that the Buddha guides us by revealing the teachings and leading us to practice Dharma, in this excerpt from the 13th Kopan Course.
We Need Mindfulness to Ascertain Impermanence
In this excerpt from the 30th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that we need to practice mindfulness, seeing that all causative phenomena are in the nature of impermanence.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
Prayers and Practices for the Deceased
Advice on practices to benefit those who have passed away.
Creating Merit For Future Lives
Daily Sur Practice for Deceased Person
Death on TV
Help at the Time of Death
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Signs of Death
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.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Death and Rebirth
Refuge in Buddha, Dharma and Sangha: The Doctor, Medicine and Nurse
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains why there is an urgent need for refuge in Buddha, Dharma and Sangha in this teaching excerpt from the 36th Kopan Meditation Course.
Topics:
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Refuge
The Cycle of Death and Rebirth
In this teaching excerpt Lama Yeshe discusses death and rebirth in various realms of cyclic existence.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death