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Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition
The FPMT is an organization devoted to preserving and spreading Mahayana Buddhism worldwide by creating opportunities to listen, reflect, meditate, practice and actualize the unmistaken teachings of the Buddha and based on that experience spreading the Dharma to sentient beings. We provide integrated education through which people’s minds and hearts can be transformed into their highest potential for the benefit of others, inspired by an attitude of universal responsibility and service. We are committed to creating harmonious environments and helping all beings develop their full potential of infinite wisdom and compassion. Our organization is based on the Buddhist tradition of Lama Tsongkhapa of Tibet as taught to us by our founders Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche.
- Willkommen
Die Stiftung zur Erhaltung der Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) ist eine Organisation, die sich weltweit für die Erhaltung und Verbreitung des Mahayana-Buddhismus einsetzt, indem sie Möglichkeiten schafft, den makellosen Lehren des Buddha zuzuhören, über sie zur reflektieren und zu meditieren und auf der Grundlage dieser Erfahrung das Dharma unter den Lebewesen zu verbreiten.
Wir bieten integrierte Schulungswege an, durch denen der Geist und das Herz der Menschen in ihr höchstes Potential verwandelt werden zum Wohl der anderen – inspiriert durch eine Haltung der universellen Verantwortung und dem Wunsch zu dienen. Wir haben uns verpflichtet, harmonische Umgebungen zu schaffen und allen Wesen zu helfen, ihr volles Potenzial unendlicher Weisheit und grenzenlosen Mitgefühls zu verwirklichen.
Unsere Organisation basiert auf der buddhistischen Tradition von Lama Tsongkhapa von Tibet, so wie sie uns von unseren Gründern Lama Thubten Yeshe und Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche gelehrt wird.
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La Fundación para la preservación de la tradición Mahayana (FPMT) es una organización que se dedica a preservar y difundir el budismo Mahayana en todo el mundo, creando oportunidades para escuchar, reflexionar, meditar, practicar y actualizar las enseñanzas inconfundibles de Buda y en base a esa experiencia difundir el Dharma a los seres.
Proporcionamos una educación integrada a través de la cual las mentes y los corazones de las personas se pueden transformar en su mayor potencial para el beneficio de los demás, inspirados por una actitud de responsabilidad y servicio universales. Estamos comprometidos a crear ambientes armoniosos y ayudar a todos los seres a desarrollar todo su potencial de infinita sabiduría y compasión.
Nuestra organización se basa en la tradición budista de Lama Tsongkhapa del Tíbet como nos lo enseñaron nuestros fundadores Lama Thubten Yeshe y Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
A continuación puede ver una lista de los centros y sus páginas web en su lengua preferida.
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L’organisation de la FPMT a pour vocation la préservation et la diffusion du bouddhisme du mahayana dans le monde entier. Elle offre l’opportunité d’écouter, de réfléchir, de méditer, de pratiquer et de réaliser les enseignements excellents du Bouddha, pour ensuite transmettre le Dharma à tous les êtres. Nous proposons une formation intégrée grâce à laquelle le cœur et l’esprit de chacun peuvent accomplir leur potentiel le plus élevé pour le bien d’autrui, inspirés par le sens du service et une responsabilité universelle. Nous nous engageons à créer un environnement harmonieux et à aider tous les êtres à épanouir leur potentiel illimité de compassion et de sagesse. Notre organisation s’appuie sur la tradition guéloukpa de Lama Tsongkhapa du Tibet, telle qu’elle a été enseignée par nos fondateurs Lama Thoubtèn Yéshé et Lama Zopa Rinpoché.
Visitez le site de notre Editions Mahayana pour les traductions, conseils et nouvelles du Bureau international en français.
Voici une liste de centres et de leurs sites dans votre langue préférée
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L’FPMT è un organizzazione il cui scopo è preservare e diffondere il Buddhismo Mahayana nel mondo, creando occasioni di ascolto, riflessione, meditazione e pratica dei perfetti insegnamenti del Buddha, al fine di attualizzare e diffondere il Dharma fra tutti gli esseri senzienti.
Offriamo un’educazione integrata, che può trasformare la mente e i cuori delle persone nel loro massimo potenziale, per il beneficio di tutti gli esseri, ispirati da un’attitudine di responsabilità universale e di servizio.
Il nostro obiettivo è quello di creare contesti armoniosi e aiutare tutti gli esseri a sviluppare in modo completo le proprie potenzialità di infinita saggezza e compassione.
La nostra organizzazione si basa sulla tradizione buddhista di Lama Tsongkhapa del Tibet, così come ci è stata insegnata dai nostri fondatori Lama Thubten Yeshe e Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Di seguito potete trovare un elenco dei centri e dei loro siti nella lingua da voi prescelta.
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“护持大乘法脉基金会”( 英文简称：FPMT。全名：Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition) 是一个致力于护持和弘扬大乘佛法的国际佛教组织。我们提供听闻，思维，禅修，修行和实证佛陀无误教法的机会，以便让一切众生都能够享受佛法的指引和滋润。
我们全力创造和谐融洽的环境， 为人们提供解行并重的完整佛法教育，以便启发内在的环宇悲心及责任心，并开发内心所蕴藏的巨大潜能 — 无限的智慧与悲心 — 以便利益和服务一切有情。
FPMT的创办人是图腾耶喜喇嘛和喇嘛梭巴仁波切。我们所修习的是由两位上师所教导的，西藏喀巴大师的佛法传承。
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護持大乘法脈基金會”（ 英文簡稱：FPMT。全名：Found
ation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition ） 是一個致力於護持和弘揚大乘佛法的國際佛教組織。我們提供聽聞， 思維，禪修，修行和實證佛陀無誤教法的機會，以便讓一切眾生都能 夠享受佛法的指引和滋潤。 我們全力創造和諧融洽的環境，
為人們提供解行並重的完整佛法教育，以便啟發內在的環宇悲心及責 任心，並開發內心所蘊藏的巨大潛能 — 無限的智慧與悲心 – – 以便利益和服務一切有情。 FPMT的創辦人是圖騰耶喜喇嘛和喇嘛梭巴仁波切。
我們所修習的是由兩位上師所教導的，西藏喀巴大師的佛法傳承。 察看道场信息:
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You can see from your own life experiences how the environment can affect you. When you’re among peaceful, generous, happy people, you’re inclined to feel happy and peaceful yourself. When you’re among angry, aggressive people, you tend to become like them. The human mind is like a mirror. Therefore, it is very important to be conscious of your surroundings and how they affect your mind.
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Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Please find below collected advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on a number of topics. This page is updated regularly.
Featured Advice
Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: How to Have a Happy Life With a Happy Mind
Advice By Topic
Find teachings and advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on specific topics below.
- Advice about Caring for Dogs (September 21, 2016)
- Helping Stray Dogs: A Thank You Letter from Rinpoche (February 20, 2017)
- How to Benefit a Cat (January 21, 2019)
- How to Benefit Insects and Other Small Beings [Video] (January 4, 2017)
- How to Help Sentient Beings Say Goodbye to the Suffering of Samsara (February 17, 2022)
- ‘I Am a Most Fortunate Kangaroo’ (January 23, 2015)
- Just Giving Food and Shelter to Our Pets Is Not Enough (March 24, 2022)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche on How to Help Turkeys on Thanksgiving (November 27, 2019)
- Video of Lama Zopa Rinpoche on How to Bless Beings in the Water (June 1, 2020)
- Wish-fulfillment for all Animals (March 20, 2023)
- Prayers and Practices to Do for Turkeys at Thanksgiving (November 9, 2011)
- Stop Animal Sacrifice (April 27, 2011)
For more advice from Rinpoche on this subject in the form of short talks and letters, please go to Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
- Benefits of Working at a Dharma Center (April 29, 2019)
- The Benefits of Serving a Dharma Center (October 17, 2016)
- The Benefits of Working for the Guru (February 23, 2015)
- Advice for a New Director
- Annual Review 2020: Advice From Our Spiritual Director Lama Zopa Rinpoche (posted April 14, 2021)
- Attitude for Offering Service
- Attitude for Our Work
- Benefits of Offering Service To the Guru (July 2014; teaching on video)
- Benefits of Working for Dharma Centers
- Benefit of Working for the Center – Wow!
- Creating Merit for the Center, Project or Service
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Directors – How to Practice
- How to Rejoice about Hardships Borne Working for the Center and Thanks
- How to Run a Dharma Organization
- Lama Zopa’s Letter to New Center Director and Study Group Coordinator (given November 5, 2009)
- Message to Directors
- Overwhelmed? Advice
- Pay Attention to Geshes and Visitors
- Qualities of a Leader
- Service as a Path to Enlightenment
- Service is the Best Offering, and Thanks
- Successful Service due to Guru Devotion
- Talking on the Phone – How to Make it Beneficial
- Thank you for Volunteering
- The Real Professional (excerpt from How to Be a Real Professional)
- Volunteers – Importance of and Thanks to
- Work at the Center so Important and Beneficial
- How to Bless Tea Sold at a Center: Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche (January 30, 2017)
- ‘In the Centers, Everything That Is Done Is for Sentient Beings’ (September 20, 2017)
- Take Refuge in the Three Jewel to Be Free from Suffering (November 12, 2021)
- The Center Is of Utmost Importance (May 6, 2019)
- The Head of the FPMT Organization (September 4, 2018)
- The Proper Motivation for Dharma Centers (September 28, 2018)
- Use Problems to Vanquish the Self-Cherishing Thought (August 23, 2019)
- Whatever Appearances We See Are the Result of Past Karma (August 12, 2019)
- Why We Need Dharma Centers! [AUDIO] (October 22, 2015)
- Benefit of Centers (April 28, 2011)
- Sur Offering (February 28, 2011)
- Advice for FPMT Sangha
- Benefits of Study Groups and Centers
- Can’t Think Like a Normal Organization
- Centers Must Help Their Own Students
- Collect Merit So Easily at the Center
- Dharma Centers – Why Do They Exist
- Dharma is Needed for the Happiness of Sentient Beings
- Dragons at the Doors of Centers
- FPMT Organization – How it Started
- FPMT Education – Essence of
- FPMT Education and Organization
- FPMT Helps at the Time of Death
- Gong to Call All Buddhas & Bodhisattvas
Drawing of Gong » - How Fortunate and Happy We Are!
- How to Practice: Advice to a Study Group (condensed advice for each of us on how to practice for our entire lives)
- Incredible Benefit Offered by FPMT Centers, Projects and Services
- Need for Organization
- Remembering the Kindness Prayer
Rinpoche would like this prayer used throughout the organization. The prayer should be done following the Prayer that Spontaneously Fulfills All Wishes (Tong nyi nying je ….) at the end of dedication prayers.
Prayers for His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Tibet (for those without Prayer Books) - The Role of the Center and Study Group in Providing a Dharma Education
- The Purpose of the Center Building
- Sangha Are the Heroes
- Why We Need Dharma and Dharma Centers
- Wish for Us to Achieve Realizations
For more advice from Rinpoche on Centers and the FPMT Organization in the form of short talks and letters, please go to Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.
- Help at the Time of Death (December 19, 2014)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Advice to Ven. Kunsang and Caregivers (August 1, 2016)
- Now Available! Liberation Cloth to Help Others at Time of Death (October 28, 2022)
- Pithy Advice (October 18, 2013)
- Recognizing Impermanence-Death Reminds You to Practice Dharma Right Now! (May 26, 2021)
- Rejoice before Dying (March 4, 2016)
- Your Death Can Happen at Any Time (October 1, 2018)
For more advice from Rinpoche on this subject in the form of short talks and letters, please go to Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive – “Death and Transitions” and Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive – “Sickness and Health”.
- Benefits of Offering Gold to Statues (January 27, 2015)
- Benefits of Offering to Stupas (December 20, 2013)
- Create Skies of Merit by Making Offerings and Circumambulating Stupas (March 30, 2023)
- Every Holy Object Comes from Every Sentient Being (March 10, 2021)
- How to Use a Stupa to Bring You to Enlightenment (April 1, 2019)
- Making Offerings to Boudha Stupa (October 1, 2021)
- New Practice Advice: Offerings to the Boudha Stupa (April 18, 2022)
- The Work of Seeing the Guru as a Buddha Has to Come from Your Side (August 24, 2020)
- This Perfect Human Body Is So Precious Because You Can Use It to Do Prostrations (June 16, 2020)
- This Perfect Human Body Is So Precious Because You Can Use It to Make Offerings (June 20, 2020)
- Essential Mantras for Holy Objects (April 28, 2011)
- Benefits of Having Many Holy Objects
- Benefits of the Prayer Wheel
- Display Lama Atisha’s Stupa (added August 2018)
- Eight Auspicious Symbols
- Holy Relics
- Mantras for Microfilm
- Padmasambhava statue: Prayer for inviting statue to new home
- Prayer Wheel (a card for display)
- Sixteen Arhats, Benefits of Making Offerings and Requests to
- Stupas – Benefits of Offering to
- Why Holy Objects are Precious and Wish-fulfilling
- Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Regard to Guru Devotion (May 31, 2019)
- Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: On Feeling Loved (March 29, 2017)
- Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Merit of Offering to the Guru (November 28, 2023)
- Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Why the Guru Shows the Aspect of Making Mistakes (August 22, 2023)
- All the Buddhas Manifest as the Guru in Ordinary Aspect to Guide You (August 31, 2020)
- Bearing Difficulties to Follow the Guru’s Advice Is Like Doing Hundreds of Thousands of Prostrations (February 2, 2022)
- Each Time You Follow the Advice of the Guru Is One Step Closer to Enlightenment (July 26, 2019)
- Everyone Needs to Take Care of and Subdue Their Mind (May 16, 2020)
- Fulfilling the Guru’s Wishes and Advice Is the Most Enjoyable Thing in Life (August 10, 2020)
- Happiness and Suffering Depend on How You Think (May 13, 2020)
- Happiness Comes from Abandoning Desire (May 1, 2020)
- Jealousy Comes from I-Grasping Ignorance, and We Are All in the Process of Dying (May 30, 2020)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche Gives an Introduction to Mind Training (August 2, 2019)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Advice: Overcoming Obstacles with Lojong (August 14, 2025)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Wish for Us to Actualize Realizations (September 20, 2013)
- Make Offerings on the Anniversary of Your Guru’s Passing Away (March 22, 2021)
- Make Offerings Thinking You Are Offering Them to Your Guru’s Pores (March 26, 2021)
- Make Prayers by Means of the Six Remembrances (March 30, 2021)
- ‘Put All the Blame to One’ (August 9, 2017)
- The Benefits of Serving the Guru (April 5, 2019)
- The Benefits of Working for the Guru (February 23, 2015)
- The Most Essential Thing to Achieve Enlightenment (January 18, 2019)
- The Ten Innermost Jewels of the Kadampas and Give Up Desire (April 30, 2020)
- The True Meaning of the Guru (November 30, 2018)
- The Way to Practice Lojong Is to Stop Disliking Suffering and Generate Happiness (May 22, 2020)
- The Work of Seeing the Guru as a Buddha Has to Come from Your Side (August 24, 2020)
- There Is No Liberation without the Guru, Even with All the Qualities Completed (April 8, 2019)
- Thought Transformation (August 4, 2015)
- To Serve the Guru and Sentient Beings You Need to Know the Lamrim (May 4, 2020)
- With Awareness of the Kindness of the Guru, You Generate Respect (August 26, 2020)
- Life Practice Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche (November 15, 2023)
“Life Practice” consists of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s advice to students who consulted him on what to do as daily practices and as preliminary practices. Rinpoche referred to this advice as “Life Practices.” These practices comprise Essential Daily Practices that include lamrim meditation, and Life Preliminary Practices that consist of the nine standard Gelug preliminary practices and eight additional practices. Find Rinpoche’s advice and practice materials on the web page Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Life Practice Advice.
- Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Earthquakes (January 15, 2025)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche Advises Urgent Practices for Pacifying an Earthquake in California (November 18, 2015)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Advice for Dispelling Fires (January 10, 2025)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Advice for Severe Weather Conditions (January 16, 2023)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Advice on Dealing with Intensely Hot Conditions (July 2, 2021)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Advice to Dispel Fires (December 25, 2019)
- Mitigating Severe Conditions of the Elements (August 4, 2023)
- Rinpoche’s Advice on California Wildfires (October 18, 2017)
- Three New Advices (August 15, 2014)
- Protection from Radiation (April 28, 2011)
- Tsunami and Earthquakes (April 28, 2011)
- Disasters of the Elements, letter from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, 2002
- Fire: Practices and Advice to Dispel Fires (links to practices updated January 2020)
This advice is also for tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, and any of those dangers from water, air, earth, and fire. - Rain: How to Stop
For more advice from Rinpoche on this subject in the form of short talks and letters, please go to Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.
- A Pacifying Prayer for Peace (August 5, 2019)
- Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Practices for Ukraine (February 25, 2022)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Advice: Prayers to Stop War (June 23, 2025)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Recent Advice for Generating Peace in the World (September 2, 2022)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Advice for After the US Election (November 16, 2016)
- Prayer for Peace (January 10, 2020)
- Recite the Golden Light Sutra for World Peace (January 13, 2020)
- The Best Way to Live Your Life (June 28, 2019)
- Three New Advices (August 15, 2014)
- Treat Others Peacefully, Be a Good Example for the World (April 26, 2019)
- Advice Given After Sept 11th 2001 (March 9, 2011)
- Avoid Negative Rejoicing (March 9, 2011)
- Practices for Peace in the World (March 9, 2011)
- For Peace and Harmony in Israel and Palestine (given July 2014, updated November 2014)
- Practices to Benefit the Whole Country
- Recite the Golden Light Sutra for peace in the world (given May 7, 2007)
- Support His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Tibet (given March 27, 2008)
- Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: How to Have a Happy Life With a Happy Mind (August 22, 2025)
- Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: On Feeling Loved (March 29, 2017)
- Advice on Practices to Do for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Health and Long Life (February 5, 2016)
- Advice While Breaking Up with a Partner (March 11, 2016)
- Check Carefully When Meditating on Emptiness (March 4, 2019)
- Collecting Merits and Purification Is First (March 18, 2019)
- How a True Dharma Practitioner Bears Hardship (October 19, 2018)
- How to Bless Food with OM AH HUM (March 11, 2015)
- How to Find a Guru (February 25, 2019)
- How to Make Your Life Most Beneficial for Sentient Beings, Even with Your Speech (September 7, 2016)
- How to Think During Relationship Problems (August 3, 2015)
- How to Think When Doing a Puja (March 8, 2019)
- How to Think When Washing or Brushing Your Teeth [Video] (January 15, 2018)
- Importance of Studying and Applying Lamrim in Daily Life (July 12, 2019)
- Keep Your Wisdom in the Pure Path (June 4, 2018)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche Offers Oral Transmission of Verses for the Eight Auspicious Noble Ones to Bring Success (March 30, 2020)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche Offers Thanks for Practices for Tibet and Fulfilling the Wishes of His Holiness the Dalai Lama (August 31, 2018)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche on How to Help Turkeys on Thanksgiving (November 27, 2019)
- Life Practice Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche (November 15, 2023)
- Living with Bodhichitta Is the Happiest Life (June 17, 2019)
- Plan to Practice Never Seems to Happen (March 18, 2015)
- Prison Is the Best Opportunity (March 21, 2016)
- Prostrations and Benefiting People You’ve Killed (May 28, 2015)
- Purifying Your Forefathers’ Killing Karma (June 1, 2015)
- ‘Put All the Blame to One’ (August 9, 2017)
- Recognize All the Wrong Views and See Things as a Hallucination (May 26, 2016)
- ‘Bodhisattvas Learn Anything to Benefit Sentient Beings’: The Benefits of Knowing How to Cook (February 9, 2015)
- The Best Way to Develop Bodhichitta (March 25, 2019)
- ‘The Friend Who Is Angry Can Be the Most Kind Person in Your Life’ (July 17, 2017)
- ‘The Main Thing Now Is Attainment’ (May 26, 2015)
- The Meaning of Defective View (March 11, 2019)
- ‘The Remedy Is to Think of Reincarnation’ (July 28, 2015)
- The True Meaning of the Guru (November 30, 2018)
- There Is No Liberation without the Guru, Even with All the Qualities Completed (April 8, 2019)
- What to Focus On, for Experienced Students (August 27, 2018)
- Whatever Appearances We See Are the Result of Past Karma (August 12, 2019)
- You Have So Much to Rejoice About in This Life (July 31, 2015)
- Your Death Can Happen at Any Time (October 1, 2018)
- Advice for New Students and Prisoners (July 31, 2012)
- Advice on Buddhist Marriage Ceremonies (March 9, 2011)
- Bodhichitta Mindfulness (November 4, 2010)
- Bodhisattva Attitude: (January 26, 2011)
- Compassion Is of the Utmost Need (October 17, 2011)
- Guru Rinpoche Prayer to Eliminate Obstacles (April 28, 2011)
- Attitude to Have After Being Robbed
- Avoid the Ten Non-Virtues
- Change has to Come From the Mind
- Chenrezig Practice and Mantra
- Cooking – How to Use in the Path
- Daily Practice Advice
- Daily Taking and Giving
- Depression: How to Overcome (given September 2015)
- Depression: No Time For As So Much to Rejoice About
- Dharma is Needed for the Happiness of Sentient Beings
- Dharma Essential for Happiness
- Dharma Protector Explanation (April 2021)
- Discovering Dharma
- Don’t Waste your Perfect Human Rebirth
- Driving – The Wheel of Sharp Weapons of My Negative Karma When Driving
- Essential Daily Practice Advice
- Financial Anxieties – Put in Perspective
- Heart Advice of Achos Rinpoche, with commentary from Rinpoche (letter version and A4 version)
- Hell or Enlightenment Depends on Your Mind
- How to Be a Real Professional
- How to Make your Life Most Beneficial for Sentient Beings, Even Your Speech (posted September 6, 2016)
- Importance of Meditation
- Learning about Dharma: Give Trillions of Dollars for
- Merit Multiplying Days, Advice for (posted April 12, 2019)
- Morality Is the Support and Foundation for All Good Qualities
- Most Important for Success
- Ordinary Life Actions – Make Them Meaningful
- Pacifying the Date of Cutting Hair
- Parenting – Advice for Parents
- Patience – need for and benefit of
- Patience – We Must Practice Patience (from FPMT Annual Review 2022)
- Pilgrimage, How to Go On
- Pithy Advice
- Prayer Book Updates: Essential Buddhist Prayers Volumes 1 & 2 and Retreat Prayer Book Updates
- Prayers after an Election (posted November 16, 2016)
- Real Chöd Practice
- Reasons to Practice Dharma
- In Response to Appreciation after Following Rinpoche’s Advice
- Studying and Making Life Dharma
- Taking Care of Sentient Beings is the Most Meaningful Life
- What Brings the Happiest Life
- What Students Need to Do (given 2010)
“Within the FPMT organization we are doing well studying the words. Now students need to experience the lam-rim.”
For more advice from Rinpoche on this subject in the form of short talks and letters, please go to Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
- Clean Your Mind to Prepare for Retreat (April 22, 2019)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Advice: The Importance of Retreat (August 7, 2025)
- How to check which day is good and which is bad for offering fire puja (February 28, 2011)
- Additional Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche to Protect from the Coronavirus (January 28, 2020)
- Advice for Cancer and Chemotherapy (March 25, 2016)
- ‘By Having This Sickness I Can Practice Pure Dharma’: Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche (September 18, 2017)
- How to Think about Caring for the Sick (February 22, 2017)
- How to Think About Obstacles and Look at Everything as Positive (October 4, 2022)
- How to Think While Getting Chemo (June 9, 2015)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche Offers Advice to Protect from the Coronavirus (January 25, 2020)
- Your Broken Arm Is Another Form of Teaching (April 1, 2016)
- Advice for Bird Flu (Nov 2005) (March 9, 2011)
- Counteract the Sars Virus (April 28, 2011)
- Practices to do for Contagious Diseases (April 28, 2011)
- The Dharani Called “Possessing the Limbs of All the Buddhas” (April 28, 2011)
- Best practices to do: Lama Zopa Rinpoche always recommends Medicine Buddha practice and Using Sickness for the Path
- The Merits of Taking Refuge Don’t Fit in the Three-Thousand-Fold Galaxies (October 11, 2021)
- The Sutra ‘Going for Refuge to the Arya Three Rare Sublime Ones’ (October 18, 2021)
- Collection of Advice Regarding Shugden (Dolgyal) (February 28, 2010)
- Recueil de recommandations à propos de Shougdèn (Dholgyal) (July 18, 2014)
- UNA SERIE DE CONSEJOS REFERENTES A SHUGDEN (Dholgyal) (February 28, 2010)
- Advice for Merit Multiplying Days (April 12, 2019)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the Qualities of Lama Yeshe (February 12, 2021)
- New Practice Booklet from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Advice for the Anniversary of the Guru’s Passing Away (February 24, 2022)
- Remembering Lama Yeshe on Losar (February 4, 2019)
- Sutra of Great Liberation on Lhabab Duchen (November 17, 2020)
- Thought Transformation Teaching: Wake Up—Don’t Waste the Four Holy Days (July 21, 2023)
- Upcoming Merit Multiplying Solar Eclipse – June 21 (June 17, 2020)
- Wake Up—Don’t Waste the Four Holy Days of Guru Shakyamuni Buddha (July 29, 2020)
- Practice during Solar and Lunar Eclipses (October 26, 2023)
- Practice on His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Birthday (June 29, 2018)
- Practice on the Four Great Holy Days (February 28, 2011)
- Practices for Ganden Ngamchoe, Lama Tsongkhapa Day (February 28, 2011)
- Always Remember the Benefits of Correctly Following the Virtuous Friend (June 15, 2020)
- Anyone Who Listens to ‘Sutra of Great Liberation’ Gets the Most Unbelievable Merits (October 14, 2020)
- Buddhism Has So Many Ways to Rescue Us from Suffering (June 24, 2020)
- Do Your Best in This Life! (June 12, 2020)
- Don’t Just Squeeze Your Mind Thinking ‘I’m Going to Die’ (April 8, 2021)
- Even by Hearing the Title of ‘Sutra of Great Liberation,’ You Say Goodbye to Depression (December 7, 2020)
- Everything You Do with Bodhichitta Benefits the Six Realm Sentient Beings (April 5, 2021)
- For Anyone Who Desires Peace, Recite the Sutra of Golden Light (January 7, 2021)
- Holding the I as Real and Most Precious Is the Most Frightening Garbage (November 3, 2020)
- ‘I Is Empty, Emptiness Is I’ Shows the Meaning of ‘Dependent Arising’ (October 23, 2020)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Emptiness Teachings Shared during the 2024 Heart Sutra Retreat (May 24, 2024)
- Recite the Golden Light Sutra for World Peace (January 13, 2020)
- Some Ways in Which Rinpoche Is Benefiting People (April 6, 2021)
- ‘Sutra of Great Liberation’ Is Exactly What Is Needed at This Dangerous Time (October 12, 2020)
- Sutra of Great Liberation on Lhabab Duchen (November 17, 2020)
- The Last Session of the Sutra of Great Liberation Oral Transmission (April 19, 2021)
- The Most Important Practice Is to Control Your Mind (August 24, 2021)
- The Numberless Buddhas Are Giving You the Oral Transmission (April 1, 2021)
- The Sutra ‘Going for Refuge to the Arya Three Rare Sublime Ones’ (October 18, 2021)
- The Sutra of Great Liberation: Unbelievable Benefits (August 9, 2024)
- This Perfect Human Body Is So Precious Because You Can Use It to Do Prostrations (June 16, 2020)
- This Perfect Human Body Is So Precious Because You Can Use It to Keep Even One Vow (July 6, 2020)
- This Perfect Human Rebirth Is So Precious Because You Can Use It to Generate Loving Kindness (June 22, 2020)
- Thought Transformation Teaching: Wake Up—Don’t Waste the Four Holy Days (July 21, 2023)
- Wake Up—Don’t Waste the Four Holy Days of Guru Shakyamuni Buddha (July 29, 2020)
- Without Self Discipline, It’s Like You Throw a Bomb on Your Life (June 27, 2020)
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice BookFor more advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on a wide range of topics in the form of short talks and letters go to the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive. |
*Important to Note
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these offerings of advice out of compassion in response to the requests of specific individuals for specific situations. All of the names have been changed to respect each individual's privacy. We make these offerings of advice available to give an idea of different ways to think and practice in different situations. They are provided for informational purposes only; apply them at your own discretion. We do not guarantee that these practices will help you in your specific case and can’t be held responsible if they do not bring the result you expect.
Sometimes people who don’t have a qualified teacher to whom they can turn to have found that when following these suggestions for practice, it has been helpful. Rinpoche said that sometimes people see a piece of advice and have a strong feeling to try it and that this is the Buddha’s action guiding the person toward the correct method to help them. We encourage you to consult a qualified teacher before applying the advice.
The health (physical and mental) advice provided is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment from a doctor or health care professional. Always contact your health care professional regarding any medical advice. Do not disregard medical advice or delay seeking it because of information on this website.
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