Making Offerings
Advice on various offering practices, including water bowls, incense, and music.
Advice on various offering practices, including water bowls, incense, and music.
Advice on karma, including how to avoid nonvirtue and how to purify negative karma previously created.
Advice on meditation practice, including how to improve one's visualization, how to meditate on the path to enlightenment (lamrim), mahamudra and chöd.
Advice on how to study and meditate on emptiness (shunyata).
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.
Advice about taking vows, and also for those who have broken vows and commitments.
Advice and practices for protection from black magic and spirit harm.
Advice on how to make life meaningful by integrating Dharma into everyday life.
Advice on how to meditate on death and how to make the best use of our life, which is very short.
Advice on bodhicitta, the altruistic mind of enlightenment.
Advice for politicians, practices for various countries, advice on the Middle East conflict and prayers for peace.
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.
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.
Advice on holy objects, including statues, stupas, tsa-tsas, texts and prayer wheels.
Advice on the benefits of the relics tour, which plays an important role in world peace.