Advice for students doing a long retreat, including guidance on motivation, specific practices, how to successfully complete the retreat and what to do if there are obstacles.
Advice about bhikshuni ordination, excerpted from a teaching given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bendigo, Australia, on May 7, 2018.
In this multimedia title, Lama Yeshe speaks frankly about the challenges and opportunities facing Western Sangha.
Watch the video and read the transcript of this talk, as Rinpoche discusses the importance of living in vows and purifying negative karma, while staying focused on the goal, enlightenment.
Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Geshe Thubten Sherab on the study programs of Tibetan Buddhist monks
An article by Nicholas Ribush about becoming a Western Buddhist monk, written for the Tibetan Review, January 1979.
A small collection of talks by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche to their ordained students.
Advice for Sangha (monks and nuns) about ordination and Dharma practice.
