Teachings
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Shakyamuni Center, Taiwan 2007
These teachings include extensive commentary on the Thirty-five Buddhas practice, the offering bath and dedications, along with recitation of the puja
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
Chapters:
Motivation for Thirty-five Buddhas Practice •
How to Collect More Merit With Prostrations •
Dedicating the Merit of Prostrations •
Medicine Buddha Puja, Continued •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Taiwan
A lightly edited transcript of teachings given before the Mitukpa initiation at Shakyamuni Center, Taichung, Taiwan, 25 – 26 Feb 2007.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
Chapters:
Day 1: Teachings at Mitukpa Initiation •
Day 2: Discourse •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Shakyamuni Center, Taiwan 2007
Teachings given before a Mitukpa initiation at Shakyamuni Center, Taichung, Taiwan in February 2007.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
Chapters:
Mitukpa Initiation Part One: Introduction •
Mitukpa Initiation Part Two: What is Dharma •
Mitukpa Initiation Part Three: The Results of Negative Karma •
Mitukpa Initiation Part Four: Motivation and Initiation Preparation •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Root Institute, Bodhgaya, India 2006
Days 4-6: includes teachings, oral transmissions of Maitreya prayer, King of Prayers and Stainless Beam Mantra
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
Chapters:
Day Four: Benefits of Circumambulation Part A; Four opponent powers •
Day Four: Meaning of Guru Devotion •
Day Four: Benefits of Circumambulation Part B •
Day Four: Benefits of Circumambulation Part C; Stainless Beam mantra •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Root Institute, Bodhgaya, India 2006
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
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
Chapters:
Day One: Maitreya Buddha Puja Part A •
Day One: Maitreya Buddha Puja Part B •
Day One: Maitreya Buddha Puja Part C •
Day One: Maitreya Buddha Puja Part D •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Zopa Rinpoche answers questions in an interview with a student.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
The Practice and Benefits of the Eight Mahayana Precepts
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Vows and Commitments
Chapters:
The Direct and Unmistaken Method •
Translator’s Preface •
The Benefits of Protecting the Eight Mahayana Precepts •
The Way in Which the Mahayana Ordination Is Taken •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
A student wrote to Rinpoche asking for practices for the rest of his life. Rinpoche responded with this advice.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Daily Practices
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Soquel, CA USA 2001
Intro to Teachings from the Medicine Buddha Retreat, a book by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
Chapters:
Teachings from the Medicine Buddha Retreat •
Contents •
Editor's Preface •
Chapter 1 & Chapter 2 •
By His Holiness Trijang Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India
An overview of tantric practice, excerpted from a teaching given to Western students in Dharamsala.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Boulder Creek, CA USA 1997
Teachings on emptiness and dedication prayers, excerpted from a series of talks about the Highest Yoga Tantra practice of Yamantaka.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
Chapters:
A Teaching on Yamantaka •
Editor's Introduction •
Chapter Eight: Emptiness •
Chapter Ten: Dedication •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India 1982
An address to students doing a Vajrasattva group retreat
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, September, 1984
A teaching on the Chenrezig Gyalwa Gyatso sadhana, given by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to a group of Westerners in 1984. The teaching was requested by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Eudlo, Australia, 2000
Teachings during a retreat to recite one hundred million Chenrezig mantras.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
Chapters:
Teachings from the Mani Retreat •
Teachings from the Mani Retreat: Preface •
Prologue: Rinpoche's Invitation to Join the Mani Retreat •
Friday, December 22 •
By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New York City, NY September 2005
A commentary on the self-generation sadhana of Avalokiteshvara
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
