Teachings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: 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.
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.
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.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the direct and indirect benefits for all sentient beings that will result from the construction of a large Maitreya statue.
Extensive advice on how to make waterbowl offerings, starting with the correct motivation.
A teaching on the benefits of making offerings to holy objects
Advice on how to make pilgrimage to the holy places as meaningful and beneficial as possible
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Offerings to Holy Objects
Making offerings to holy objects is a remedy for attachment, whether physically offered or mentally transformed
A teaching by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the benefits and power of holy objects. The teaching includes many quotations from Buddhist sutras.
Days 1-3: Maitreya Buddha puja, teachings and meditation on Maitreya Buddha, and oral transmissions of the Maitreya mantra, Maitreya prayer and King of Prayers
A student wrote to Rinpoche asking for practices for the rest of his life. Rinpoche responded with this advice.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to accumulate merit and the causes of ultimate happiness by viewing, making and respecting holy objects, in this teaching given at Tushita Retreat Centre, Dharamsala, India, in May 1990.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's prayers and offerings to the holy objects.