According to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, “This text is very precious and there is so much benefit in printing or writing it. This is one of the texts that, if written in gold, mountains of negative karma get purified … It’s very good to print for people who have cancer, and for the success of activities and projects. If a business has difficulties, or is difficult to start, if you have difficulty finding a job, or the job is not going well, you can print many copies to make merit, not particularly for mundane success but generally to collect merit for realizations, conditions for Dharma practice. Then you can dedicate the merits of printing for all sentient beings. This is one solution for success and long life. Also, when you die you will get born in Amitabha’s pure land.”

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Completely Dispelling the Darkness of the Ten Directions – An Extremely Abbreviated Version (Chogchu munsel)

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Entering the Great City of Vaishali is an incredibly powerful sutra that one can listen to, read when one is in intense pain or very sick, suffering from spirit harm or other ailments.

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The Heart Sutra is the most widely known sutra of the Mahayana tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. It is part of the Prajnaparamita Sutras, which is a collection of about 40 sutras composed between 100 BCE and 500 CE. The Heart Sutra is a presentation of profound wisdom on the nature of emptiness.

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This sutra is said to be good for dispelling inauspicious energies.

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According to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, “This practice is for overcoming financial difficulties, especially if someone is causing you financial problems, but also to empower financial endeavors that are dependent on others to bring success.”

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This “King of Glorious Sutras,” contains everything needed, from daily happiness to complete enlightenment. It contains a profound practice of confession and rejoicing, profound teachings on dependent arising, reliable assurances of protection, guidelines for ideal government, and awe-inspiring stories of the Buddha’s previous lives.

Visit the Sutra of Golden Light homepage to download the sutra, find resources, and report your recitations.

The Sutra of Great Liberation is an important Mahayana sutra that is also often recited and greatly cherished in Tibet. The sutra contains teachings on various topics, as well as the names of many enlightened beings. The sutra is often recited for those who have passed away, and even just having a copy of it has great benefits. Lama Zopa Rinpoche began giving the oral transmission of the Sutra of Great Liberation during the Teachings on Thought Transformation during the Time of COVID-19, an online teaching series that began during the coronavirus pandemic. Rinpoche teaches that receiving the oral transmission of the sutra, reading it, reciting it, and writing it out, etc., has many spiritual benefits. The translation into English of the Sutra of Great Liberation is underway.

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche recommends reciting this sutra on merit multiplying days.

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The Sanghata Sutra promises to transform all those who read it. Like other sutras, the Sanghata Sutra records an oral teaching given by the Buddha, but unlike other sutras, Buddha explains that he himself had heard this sutra from a previous buddha. The Sanghata Sutra is a text that talks about itself by name and talks in great detail about what it will do to anyone who encounters it. It is also an extraordinary literary adventure, full of stories of death, discovery and transformations.

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Further resources:

• • Sunghata sutra formatted for tracing
  • Sanghata Sutra website
  • Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teaching on the benefits of the Sanghata Sutra

This sutra from the vinaya discusses the meaning of and motivations for monastic engagement, exploring what kind of mind constitutes one of monastic practice. It explains why that which a monk holds most dear is his mind of renunciation and commitment to his vows.

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Along with the Heart Sutra, the Vajra Cutter Sutra (also known as the Diamond Cutter Sutra or Diamond Sutra) is one of most well-known sutras of Mahayana Buddhism. The Vajra Cutter Sutra is a discourse on the Buddhist concept of emptiness or “Wisdom Gone Beyond.”

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Further resources:

• • Dedication Prayer by Mipham Rinpoche: English | Spanish
  • Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the Benefits of the Vajra Cutter Sutra
  • Notes on the Chinese translation

Contained in The Method for Water Charity, page number 7

Lama Zopa Rinpoche advised reciting this mantra, when the Ebola crisis first arose. Lhamo Loma Gyonma or Parnashavari, in Skanskrit, is a deity invoke for eliminating contagious disease.

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche indicated this was one practice that could be done to help prevent the spread of the Ebola virus.

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Buddha pledged that those who take up, retain, recite, and memorize it will be protected from all infectious diseases, fear, and harm, including from fires, poisons, and persecution. Lama Zopa Rinpoche recommended for the sangha to recite during the Covid outbreak at Kopan Monastery and Kachoe Ghakyil Ling Nunnery in May 2021.

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This Dharani contains the methods to relieve the poverty of sentient beings.

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The recitation of the 108 names of Ksitigarbha and the associated dharani bestows good qualities, removes obstacles and ultimately acts as a cause for the attainment of liberation.

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These mantras purify all the negative karma of the continuum of the body, and at the time of death, intense suffering at the end of life won’t occur and you will only die with happiness

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According to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, “This practice is wrathful, performed in order to not receive harm, to not suffer, when there is a powerful need to solve problems, when you have tried every other way to benefit.”

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