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Students performing Lama Chopa, Tushita Meditation Centre, Dharamsala, India, September 2018. Photo by Simon Houlton.
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Advice to Correctly Follow the Virtuous Friend with Thought and Action: The Nine Attitudes of Guru Devotion (PDF, .epub, .mobi)
Avalokiteshvara Guru Yoga, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s
Black Manjushri, The Meditation-Recitation of
Buddha Multiplying Days, Practice on
- Calling the Guru from Afar (Extensive and Brief Versions) (PDF, .epub, .mobi)
- Audio of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, extensive version chant
- Audio of Ven. Dechen, extensive version chant
Consecration Ritual: Extremely Abbreviated Rab Nä
Contagious Diseases, Practices to Do
Cultivating Mindfulness of Bodhichitta
Death and Dying: Heart Advice and Practices
The Direct and Unmistaken Method (Eight Mahayana Precepts)
FPMT Prayers for Teaching Occasions (PDF, .epub, .mobi)
How to Make Life Most Beneficial for Sentient Beings, Even with Your Speech
Kshitigarbha
- 108 Names of Kshitigarbha
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche Chanting the Long Kshitigarbha Mantra (MP3)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche giving a short explanation of the mantra, and conferring the lung in Australia, 2014 (video)
Kshitigarbha Mantra and Practice
- How to Chant Lama Chöpa, video and audio recordings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Ven. Thubten Dechen
Lama Tsongkhapa Day (Ganden Ngamchoe), Practices for
Long Life Prayers
Long Life Pujas
- Long Life Lama Chopa with Request to the Dakinis
- Abbreviated Long Life Puja to Lama Zopa Rinpoche (Lama Chopa with Sixteen Arhats)
- How to Offer an Abbreviated Long Life Puja to Lama Zopa Rinpoche (Lama Chopa with Sixteen Arhats)
Maitreya, Prayer for a Statue of
Medicine Buddha
- Medicine Buddha Puja (standard)
- Medicine Buddha Sadhana (short)
- Medicine Buddha Puja (extensive)
- Medicine Buddha Mantras, on FPMT.org’s “Mantra” page
- Benefits of Medicine Buddha Mantra and Practice by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment) with Additional Practices
- Czech
- English
- German
- French
- Italian
- Khmer
- Polish
- Vietnamese
- The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment) with Additional Practices: A Commentary by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- Essential motivation for this practice by Lama Zopa Rinpoche which Rinpoche is recommending students do daily “How to Make Your Life Most Meaningful for Sentient Beings”
- In module “The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness” from the Living in the Path program students can find commentary from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on this practice.
Migtsema (Five Line Prayer to Lama Tsongkhapa)
Mitrugpa, the Immovable Buddha
- A Short Practice of Mitrugpa
- A Short Practice of Mitrugpa (French)
- A Short Practice of Mitrugpa (Spanish)
- Mitrugpa Mantra by Ven. Drimay (MP3)
Most Secret Hayagriva Mantra with Supplication
Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) Prayers
- Illuminating the Obstacles and Accomplishing the Wishes
- Nölsang (Incense Ritual by the Great Master Padmasambhava Called “The Divine Blue Water Clearing Away Contamination)
- Prayer to Clear Obstacles on the Path
- Requesting Prayer to Padmasambhava
Pilgrimage Manuals
- Guide to Sekhar Guthog, Tsuglag Khang, Drowolung, Zang Phug, and Tagnya
- Guide to Yerpa
- Guide to Tsarita
Practices for the Benefit of a Whole Country
Prayer of Auspiciousness from the Mani Kabum, by Dharma King Songtsen Gampo, translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Prayer to Chenrezig, Compassionate-Eye-Looking One, by Dharma King Songtsen Gampo, translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Prostration Instructions, Mantras, and Meditation (Advice for Prostrations from Lama Zopa Rinpoche)
Protection from Tsunamis, Earthquakes and the Four Elements, practices for
Reciting the Names of Buddhas for Great Benefit
Recognizing the False I compiled and translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche (PDF, .epub, .mobi)
Seven-Point Thought Transformation
Song of the Four Mindfulnesses by the Seventh Dalai Lama
Spirit Harm, Methods to Counteract
- Praises to the Twenty-one Taras
- Tara Puja (Four-Mandala Ritual to Chittamani Tara)
- Prayer to Mother Tara: The Crying Child’s Tormented Calling of the Perfect Destroyer Qualified Gone Beyond Exalted Mother Tara
Tsog, How to Offer 1,000 Offerings
Verses for the Eight Auspicious Noble Ones
White Umbrella Deity/Sitatapatra
- White Umbrella Deity Sadhana
- Practices of Arya Sitatapatra (White Umbrella Deity) is a collection of two practices, “The Supreme Accomplishment of Sitatapatra,” and “Praises and Repelling Practices of Sitatapatra.
Wish-fulfilling Golden Sun
Published in 1975, this text has been preserved in its original form and should be used with the understanding that many standard styles, pronunciations, and prayers have been revised and updated since the time of publication.
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