Death and Dying: Heart Practices and Advice

Heart Practices |  Additional Advice

Heart Practices for Dying and Death

These are Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s heart practices to perform when someone is dying or has died. The Medicine Buddha Puja and “Eight Prayers to Benefit the Dead” are the most essential practices to do.

• Medicine Buddha Puja, Wish Fulfilling Jewel
• 8 Prayers to Benefit the Dead (various formats)
• Additional Practices to Benefit the Dead
• 10 Powerful Mantras for the Time of Death
• Mantras to Place on a Dead Body
• Practicing the Five Powers Near the Time of Death
• Rinchhen Tsugtor Verse Rinpoche advised that this verse is the very first thing to recite in a person or animal’s ear when they are dying or dead (during the Light of the Path retreat, 2010)
• Heart Advice for Death and Dying (various formats for individuals and centers), an education course that provides practical instructions for the time of death to students who are interested in learning about death and dying from the Tibetan Buddhist perspective.
• Heart Practices for Death and Dying The practices above and many more for assisting others at the time of death are included in this book.
• Request Prayers for the Dead

Additional Advice

In addition to the above, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has given extensive advice on preparing for death and caring for others at the time of death.

• Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s latest book on death and dying, How to Enjoy Death: Preparing for Life’s Final Challenge without Fear. This book takes much of the material that students who have studied Heart Practices for Death and Dying will be familiar with, but it has been radically restructured and reorganized as an easy-to-use handbook.
• How to Help Your Loved Ones Enjoy Death and Go Happily to Their Next Rebirth: A Handbook by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. This book takes much of the material that students who have studied Heart Practices for Death and Dying will be familiar with, but it has been radically restructured and reorganized as an easy-to-use handbook.
  
• Practicing the Five Powers Near the Time of Death: Buy the book or digital eBook
• How to Make Your Possessions Most Meaningful at the Time of Death
• Caring for the Dying (Letter)  (A4)
• Liberation Box: Tools for a Fortunate Rebirth

List of FPMT Hospice Services

FPMT Hospice Services and other FPMT Centers, Projects and Services: Additional practical information and advice is available in the Death and Dying Resources section of the FPMT Affiliates Area.