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Bringing Happiness to the World
“My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one, “… You are so precious, so kind, so dear and so wish-fulfilling just like a flower bud about to gradually blossom and to shine, giving great happiness and peace to your ... Read more »
Releasing Self-Cherishing
“As soon as your object of concern changes from yourself to someone else, your heart is released from the bondage of the self-cherishing thought. As soon as you change the object of your cherishing, there is peace in your heart.” ... Read more »
‘True Dharma Practitioners Welcome Trouble’
“If you’re not tested, you take teaching after teaching and think you’re OK, but when you’re confronted with a difficult situation, it’s possible that you’ll find you’re not OK at all. So that’s why true Dharma practitioners welcome trouble. It ... Read more »
Loving Kindness
“Each one of us is responsible for all other living beings’ happiness, besides our own. As a result, your loving kindness is the most wish-fulfilling thing in life, more precious than anything else in this world. That makes for a ... Read more »
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Blesses Giant Padmasambhava Thangka
During the recent Jangchub Lamrim teachings at Sera Monastery, His Holiness the Dalai Lama blessed a giant Padmasambhava thangka which was sponsored by the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund. The impressive thangka, which with its brocade board measures 90-feet (27-meters) ... Read more »
The Benefits of Practice in Bodhgaya
“I think you are very fortunate to be able to come to Bodhgaya, where a thousand buddhas will descend, place their holy feet, display holy deeds, and achieve enlightenment. Guru Shakyamuni Buddha is the fourth of the thousand buddhas. The ... Read more »
Considerations for Animal Blessings and Animal Liberations
Animal liberation is a practice often recommend to students for removing obstacles and to create the causes for a long life . With animal liberation, special care needs to be taken since the practice involves direct contact with living beings. ... Read more »
Without Dharma There Is No Happiness
“Your inspiration to practice Dharma is the most important thing in your life. Without Dharma there is no happiness, and there is no question that you can’t achieve enlightenment. You can’t liberate sentient beings from all the sufferings and causes ... Read more »
Top Scholars Awarded in Annual Oral Examination
For over ten years the Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund has sponsored a special annual oral examination of Sera Je Monastery’s top scholars who have shown incredible aptitude for memorization. In 2013, 225 students were awarded new robes and khatas (cost ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Children from Ladakh
In January, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave many oral transmissions and teachings to school children from the Ngari Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Ladakh, India. The school was set up by the monks of Ngari Khangtsen at Sera Je Monastery in South India. The children had been brought to Sera Je ... Read more »
‘Ultimately, the Real Guru Is Inside Ourselves’
“Ultimately, the real guru is inside ourselves. We are our own guru, we are by ourselves. So it’s up to us to walk the path, always. We are born by ourselves in this body, and we will die by ourselves. ... Read more »