Perfect Human Rebirth
In this teaching excerpt from Kopan Course No. 31, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that with a precious human body we have the opportunity to achieve enlightenment in one lifetime.
Teachings
Why This Human Body is Most Precious
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the perfect human rebirth in this teaching excerpt from the 36th Kopan Course. Rinpoche advises us not to waste this precious opportunity, as we have this human body for just a short time.
Freedom More Precious Than Skies Filled with Gold, Diamonds and Sapphires
In this unedited excerpt, Rinpoche encourages us to take advantage of this precious and rare opportunity to study the profound meaning of emptiness.
Attitude to Work
Advice on how to integrate the three principal aspects of the path—renunciation, bodhicitta and right view (of emptiness)—into our working life.
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Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life > Attitude to Work
Bodhisattva Attitude
Motivation for Paying Tax
The Real Purpose of Our Life
The Three Principal Aspects of the Path in Business
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The Perfect Human Rebirth
The third book in our FPMT Lineage Series, drawn from Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s graduated path to enlightenment (lamrim) teachings
Chapters:
The Perfect Human Rebirth
Publisher's Acknowledgments: PHR
Editor's Preface: PHR
Chapter 1: What is Dharma?
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Perfect Human Rebirth and Bodhicitta (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
Excerpts from teachings on Geshe Langri Tangpa's Eight Verses of Thought Transformation
Chapters:
The Benefits of Thought Transformation
The Precious Human Rebirth; Bodhicitta Motivation
Bodhicitta Motivation, continued
Making the Precious Human Rebirth Meaningful
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Taking the Essence of the Perfect Human Rebirth
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the special meaning and purpose of this human rebirth in this excerpt from the Seventh Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1974.
For the Visually Impaired
LYWA publications in Braille and large print, and links to our audiobook collection.
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For the Visually Impaired
Only With this Human Body Can We Practice Dharma
With this human body we have the opportunity to practice virtue and abandon nonvirtue