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Teachings

Making Offerings

Advice on various offering practices, including water bowls, incense, and music.  

Karma

Advice on karma, including how to avoid nonvirtue and how to purify negative karma previously created.

Meditation and Visualization

Advice on meditation practice, including how to improve one's visualization, how to meditate on the path to enlightenment (lamrim), mahamudra and chöd. 

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Lama Zopa Rinpoche receives thousands of  letters every year from people seeking guidance on a variety of issues. His advice is made available here in the Online Advice Book, so it may be of benefit to others. 

Impermanence and Death

Advice on how to meditate on death and how to make the best use of our life, which is very short.

Bodhicitta

Advice on bodhicitta, the altruistic mind of enlightenment.

Politics and Conflict

Advice for politicians, practices for various countries, advice on the Middle East conflict and prayers for peace.

Refuge

This topic contains advice on the preliminary practice of refuge, and includes a short talk by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the qualities of the Buddha.

 

Monasteries and Stupas

Advice on the amazing benefits of building monasteries, temples and stupas. Rinpoche also advises on how to fill a stupa, how to make the stupa beautiful and inspiring, and how to benefit animals by circumambulating with them.

Relics

Advice on the benefits of the relics tour, which plays an important role in world peace.