Holy Objects and Monasteries
- 1. Benefits of Building a Monastery (Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche)
- A talk by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Nalanda Monastery, France, in March 2001
- Tags > sangha | vows
- 2. Commentary on Tsa-tsa Practice (Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche)
- Extensive instruction for making tsa-tsas as a practice and means to achieve a good rebirth, make extensive offerings, and receive the blessing of holy objects.
- Tags > bodhicitta | death | dedication | dependent arising | emptiness (shunyata) | enlightenment | liberation | mantra | merit | obstacles | offering | preliminary practices | purification | seven-limb practice | samsara (cyclic existence) | holy objects
- 3. How to Make Offerings and Prayers in Front of Holy Objects (Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche's prayers and offerings to the holy objects
- Tags > offering | holy objects | prayers | merit | guru devotion
- 4. Offerings to Holy Objects (Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche)
- Making offerings to holy objects is a remedy for attachment, whether physically offered or mentally transformed
- Tags > holy objects | offering | attachment | karma
- 5. Prayer Flags and Auspicious Days (Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche)
- Advice about hanging prayer flags
- Tags > holy objects | success | tibetan calender | astrology
- 6. The Benefits of Having Many Holy Objects (Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche)
- An explanation of the benefits of holy objects.
- Tags > holy objects | sutras | merit | offering
- 7. The Benefits of Prayer Wheels (Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche)
- Explanation of the different types of prayer wheels as a means of purifying negativities and accumulating merit
- Tags > holy objects | purification | merit | visualization
- 8. The Benefits of Stupas (Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche)
- An extensive teaching on the benefits and blessings of stupas; includes advice about the Great Stupa being built near Bendigo, Australia.
- Tags > holy objects | merit | karma | Q&A | purification | enlightenment
- 9. The Benefits of the Existence of Statues and of Making Statues (Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche)
- How to accumulate merit and the causes of ultimate happiness by viewing, making and respecting holy objects.
- Tags > merit | holy objects | holy objects | liberation | enlightenment | holy objects | offering | karma | shrine | causality | conditions | accumulation | happiness
- 10. The Eight Places of Buddhist Pilgrimage (Jeremy Russell)
- A description of the eight places of significance in the Buddha's life
- Tags > pilgrimage | holy objects | buddha
- 11. The Power of the Buddha (Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche)
- By the power of the Buddha and holy objects, our actions become Dharma
- Tags > buddha | holy objects | emptiness (shunyata) | happiness | karma |
