Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Spiritual Director of FPMT
This page is updated regularly.
Current Advice
“Within the FPMT organization we are doing well studying the words. Now students need to experience the lam-rim.”
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Conseils en français (Advice in French)
Animals- Bird Flu (Nov 2005)
- How to Benefit Animals
- Rinpoche’s request to stop animal sacrifice in Nepal (Nov 2009)
English
French
Spanish
Please recite any number of the Golden Light Sutra and the Padmasambhava
Padmasambhava Prayer for Removing Obstacles
Prayer for Removing Obstacles [see below] for quick success.
English
French A4
French A5
Portuguese - Liberating Animals Practice
- Turkeys - Help Them on Thanksgiving
For more advice from Rinpoche on this subject in the form of short talks and letters, please go to Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
Centers and FPMT Organization
- Attitude For Offering Service
- Benefit of Centers:
- Benefits of Working for Dharma Centers
- The Dharani of Glorious Vajra Claws
(Dorje Dermo)
English LTR
English A4
English Reader Spread
French A4
Spanish A4
- Dharma Centers - Why Do They Exist
- Dragons at the Doors of Centers
- FPMT Education and Organization
- Gong to Call All Buddhas & Bodhisattvas
Drawing of Gong » - How Fortunate and Happy We Are!
- How to Practice: Advice to a Study Group
This is a condensed advice for each of us on how to practice for our entire lives.
- Lama Zopa's Letter to New Center Director and Study Group Coordinator (Nov 5, 2009)
- Need for Organization
- The Purpose of the Center Building
- The Real Professional
- Sangha are the Heroes
- Successful Service due to Guru Devotion
- Suggested Monthly Pujas for FPMT Centers
- Sur Offering
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
- Counteract the SARS Virus
- The Dharani Called
“Possessing the Limbs of All the Buddhas” English
French
Indonesian
Tibetan
(To protect from cancer, swine flu as well as new diseases) - Essential Practices for the Time of Death
- How to Make Your Possessions Meaningful
- The Liberation Box, Tools for a Fortunate Rebirth
- Methods to Counteract Spirit Harm
- Practices to do for Contagious Diseases
(Please note: These documents are in booklet format and need to be printed out, 2-sided photocopied and then folded into booklets to be properly used.) - Using Sickness For the Path
For more advice from Rinpoche on this subject in the form of short talks and letters, please go to Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive - transitions and Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive - health
Education Practice Material Updates
Holy Objects- Benefits of Having Many Holy Objects
- Benefits of the Prayer Wheel
- Prayer Wheel card for display
- Essential Mantras for Holy Objects (March '09)
- Holy Relics
- Mantras for Microfilm
- Why Holy Objects are Precious and Wish-fulfilling
- Disasters of the Elements
hurricanes, earthquakes, etc - Earthquake in Haiti and Tsunami Disaster
English
French - Practices for Burma and China (2008)
For more advice from Rinpoche on this subject in the form of short talks and letters, please go to Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
Peace in the World
- Support His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Tibet - advice given March 27th 2008
- “Anyone who wants peace in the world should recite the Golden Light Sutra…” advice given in May 2007
- Advice given June 28 2004, specifically for Iraq and “for people who desire peace for themselves and for others”
- For World Peace (advice given after Sept 11th 2001)
- Avoid Negative Rejoicing (advice given after Sept 11th 2001)
- Attitude to Have After Being Robbed
- Avoid the Ten Non-Virtues
- Buddhist Marriage Ceremonies
- Daily Taking and Giving
- Driving - The Wheel of Sharp Weapons of My Negative Karma When Driving
- Heart Advice of Achos Rinpoche, with commentary from Rinpoche
- How to be a Real Professional
(Excerpt from How to Be a Real Professional) - Importance of Meditation
- Most Important for Success
- New Students and Prisoners
- Ordinary Life Actions - Make Them Meaningful
- Pacifying the Date of Cutting Hair
- Real Chöd Practice
For more advice from Rinpoche on this subject in the form of short talks and letters, please go to Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
- The Liberation Box, Tools for a Fortunate Rebirth
- Namgyalma Card, to purify and liberate beings from the lower realms
5" x 7" Namgyalma Card
8" x10" Namgyalma Card - Namgyalma Protection Amulet
- Samantabhadra Protection, for success and prevention of extreme elements
Samantabhadra Protection - PDF (LTR)
Samantabhadra Protection - PDF (A4)
Samantabhadra Protection Card - Short Consecration Ritual
- Vairocana Protection, protection from fire, water, air, earth
Vairocana Protection - PDF
Vairocana Protection Card
Sutras - various
- Entering the Great City of Vaishali
- Golden Light Sutra -Various Languages
- Heart Sutra
- Sanghata Sutra -Various Languages
- Vajra Cutter Sutra -Various Languages
For more advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on a wide range of topics in the form of short talks and letters go to - http://www.lamayeshe.com/lamazopa/advicebook/index.shtml