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With Patience, We Have Genuine Peace
The Six Perfections: The Practice of the Bodhisattvas by Lama Zopa Rinpoche has recently been released in a paperback edition. In the book, Rinpoche walks us through the six perfections, which are a key Mahayana Buddhist teaching. Here’s an excerpt ... Read more »
Rejoicing in Twenty-one Tara Statues Completed at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore
Recently, Amitabha Buddhist Centre (ABC) in Singapore completed an ambitious holy object project advised by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. The three-year project added statues of all the Twenty-one Taras, each standing twenty-four inches high, to the altar in ABC’s beautiful gompa. ... Read more »
Reflections on a Three Year Retreat: Know Yourself, Love Yourself
The French nun Ven. Thubten Lhamo took refuge at Kopan Monastery in Nepal with Lama Thubten Yeshe in December 1979. She was ordained at Kopan in April 2017, on her sixty-sixth birthday. On November 13, 2017, under Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s ... Read more »
The Real Meaning of Practicing the Dharma
In the following short video from a teaching given in Madrid, Spain, in 2018, Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses what it means to truly practice Dharma. At beginning of this video, Rinpoche recalls how, many years ago while staying at Lawudo ... Read more »
We Can Use Our Perfect Human Rebirth to Purify Negative Karma
With the new year approaching, many of us are reflecting on the past year— rejoicing in the blessings we received, and also assessing mistakes we have made. Fortunately, we have methods at our disposal to help us purify negative karma ... Read more »
Buddha House in Australia Celebrates Its Fortieth Anniversary
Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche inspired thousands of students from around the world through the teachings they offered at Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the 1970s and 80s. The centers started by those early students formed the basis for ... Read more »
About the Importance of Bodhicitta
In the following short video from a teaching given in Singapore in 2018, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the vast benefits of practicing bodhicitta. Here’s a summary of this teaching: Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses how having the mind of bodhicitta is ... Read more »
Lama Yeshe on Christmas and Buddhist Practice
Around Christmas time between 1971 and 1975, Lama Yeshe gave several talks related to Christmas to the Western students at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in case some of them were missing their families and being at home at that festive time ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Progress of Forty-two Foot Stupa in Hunsur, India
Earlier this year we shared the news that a magnificent new forty-two foot stupa was sponsored and being built at Rabagayling Tibetan Settlement in Hunsur, India. We have been supporting an elderly home at this settlement caring for twenty residents ... Read more »
Lama Tsongkhapa Day (Ganden Ngamchoe) Is on December 29
Ganden Ngamchoe, literally “Ganden Offering of the Twenty-Fifth Day,” is also known as Lama Tsongkhapa Day. It is a celebration of the anniversary of the parinirvana of Lama Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), the founder of the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. This ... Read more »
Open the Door to Your Happiness Now
In the following short video from a teaching Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave in Munich, Germany, in 2018, Rinpoche explains the shortcomings of self cherishing and the benefits of cherishing others. Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins by talking about the great bodhisattva ... Read more »