A translation and short commentary on the meaning of the eight auspicious signs and how they can be used for success.

Rinpoche discusses the reasons for giving up alcohol, cigarettes and other addictive substances

Advice on a simple method for practicing circumambulation with body, speech and mind

A teaching on the benefits of making offerings to holy objects

A teaching on the power of holy objects and the benefits of building a very large Maitreya Buddha statue

Whatever place in the external world we think is holy is, in reality, within this precious human body.

Advice on how to help sick and dying people, and how to use the experience to develop renunciation.

Advice on how to make pilgrimage to the holy places as meaningful and beneficial as possible

Making offerings to holy objects is a remedy for attachment, whether physically offered or mentally transformed

An extensive teaching on the benefits and blessings of stupas; includes advice about the Great Stupa being built near Bendigo, Australia.

The loving, compassionate thought of bodhicitta is the best way to heal HIV/AIDS, cancer or any other disease

Uncontrolled attachment causes many problems, including addiction to alcohol and drugs

Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the power of the Buddha and holy objects at the 14th Kopan Course in 1981.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this advice on how to think when diagnosed with cancer. When we experience the cancer for the sake of all sentient beings we collect skies of merit and it brings us closer to enlightenment.

A teaching by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the benefits and power of holy objects. The teaching includes many quotations from Buddhist sutras.