Actualizing the Perfection of Patience
Lama Yeshe teaches on Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend and the importance of developing patience in situations where strong emotions arise.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Delusions > Anger
Teachings
Prayer Wheels
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.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Prayer Wheels
A Prayer Wheel for the Ocean in Vietnam
A Prayer Wheel in the Ocean
Benefits of Prayer Wheels
Building a Universal Peace Wheel
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Blessings of the Relics
Advice on the power of relics, from which we receive blessings that bring us closer to enlightenment.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Relics > Blessings of the Relics
Benefits of Holy Relics
Benefits of Relics
Blessings from the Relics on Tour
Heruka Relic from Mount Kailash
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Stupas
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.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Monasteries and Stupas > Stupas
A Billion, Zillion Thanks for Circumambulations
A Powerful Place of Healing
Banners Are Essential in Stupa Construction
Benefits of Stupas
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Don't Be Shortsighted
Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that Dharma practice needs continual effort for a long time in order to achieve liberation and enlightenment, in this excerpt from the 39th Kopan Course.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Delusions
Offering Practices
Advice on making offerings to the Three Rare Sublime Ones.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Making Offerings > Offering Practices
Benefits of Offering Gold to Buddha Statues
Circumambulating and Offering Music to Holy Objects
Flower Offering Card
How to Dedicate a Money Offering
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The Power of the Object
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.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Making Offerings
The Benefits of Offering to the Buddha
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.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Making Offerings
Desire and Attachment
Advice on how to overcome attachment by reflecting on the nature of the body, the sufferings of samsara, and the emptiness, or lack of true existence, of the object of attachment.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Delusions > Desire and Attachment
A Vacation from Attachment
Attachment and Ordination
Attachment to a Good Reputation
Clinging to Worldly Pleasure
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Proper Respect for Dharma Texts (Video)
In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to show respect to Dharma texts, including digital devices containing Dharma.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Texts
Advice on Pilgrimage
Advice on pilgrimage to the holy places including Bodhgaya, Rajgir and Nalanda, and practices which can be done at the sacred sites.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Pilgrimage > Advice on Pilgrimage
A Piece of the Pure Land
Advice and Practices for Pilgrimage
Amitayus Meditation at Maratika
More Talks on this Topic: Pilgrimage
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Anger
Advice on how to eliminate anger by practicing patience and thus contributing to world peace.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Delusions > Anger
The Importance of Offering to Holy Objects (Video)
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.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Making Offerings
Advice on Pilgrimage
In these teachings, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to make pilgrimage to Bodhgaya and other Buddhist sacred sites most meaningful.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Pilgrimage
Advice on Practices at the Mahabodhi Stupa
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this practice advice while he was circumambulating and reciting texts at the Mahabodhi Stupa, Bodhgaya.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Pilgrimage