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Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Benefiting Turkeys During the US Thanksgiving Holiday

Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Benefiting Turkeys During the US Thanksgiving Holiday

Every year in the United States, tens of millions of turkeys are killed for the holiday of Thanksgiving, which is this Thursday, November 23, 2023. Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered advice in a 2018 teaching to help benefit the turkeys killed, ... Read more »
Rejoicing in Support offered to the Sangha in 2023

Rejoicing in Support offered to the Sangha in 2023

The Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund (SOSF) is offering comprehensive support to nunneries, monasteries, and individual monks and nuns across the globe. With a wide range of charitable activities, including providing food, accommodation, healthcare, education, and practice resources, the SOSF aims ... Read more »
November 2023 e-news Now Available

November 2023 e-news Now Available

Our November e-News is now available! This issue brings you news, resources, and special announcements including: 31-foot Amoghapasha above Lawudo, White Tara oral transmission and visualization from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Daily and Lifetime practice advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Compassion ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Offering White Tara Oral Transmission and Visualization

Lama Zopa Rinpoche Offering White Tara Oral Transmission and Visualization

On April 8, 2023, five days before showing the aspect of passing away, Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered a White Tara oral transmission and visualization at Kopan Monastery to Glen H. Mullin and a group of his students. This was one ... Read more »
Life Practice Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Life Practice Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche

One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s highest priorities was providing guidance to students’ requests for advice on daily and lifetime practices. We are so happy to let you know we have created a new page that is based on Rinpoche’s essential ... Read more »
Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri for the Swift Return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri for the Swift Return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche

In October we shared the very precious advice we received from His Holiness the Dalai Lama to recite Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri continuously for a few months, for the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s reincarnation. With great ... Read more »
Lhabab Duchen at Lawudo, a Most Auspicious and Amazing Celebration

Lhabab Duchen at Lawudo, a Most Auspicious and Amazing Celebration

Lhabab Duchen, one of the four great holy days of the Buddhist calendar, took place this year on November 4 and meritorious activities took place around the world. At Lawudo Gompa, Nepal, an incredible day of auspicious activities occurred and ... Read more »
Universal Love: Compassion and Emptiness

Universal Love: Compassion and Emptiness

Universal Love is a collection of Lama Yeshe’s teachings on the yoga method of Maitreya, which he taught at Maitreya Institute, Holland, in 1981. Also included are some introductory lectures on Buddhism from Lama’s 1975 teachings in the USA. In ... Read more »
Milarepa Center’s Solar Project

Milarepa Center’s Solar Project

In October 2023 Milarepa Center, situated on 276 acres of land in Barnet, Vermont, on the northeast coast of the US, completed a 500 kW AC solar array project in cooperation with Norwich Solar, a local clean technology company. The ... Read more »
Accomplishing the Guru’s Wishes: 31-Foot Tall Amoghapasha on Drak Karma Cliff Above Lawudo

Accomplishing the Guru’s Wishes: 31-Foot Tall Amoghapasha on Drak Karma Cliff Above Lawudo

Twenty-five years ago, Lama Zopa Rinpoche began expressing the wish for a large painting of 1,000-Armed Chenrezig to be painted on a 100-foot high cliff named Drak Karma above Lawudo in Nepal, approximately 4,200 meters above sea level (over 13,000 ... Read more »
Kṣitigarbha Ten Wheels Mahāyāna Sūtra from the Great Collection

Kṣitigarbha Ten Wheels Mahāyāna Sūtra from the Great Collection

For the benefit of students, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advised the translation of the Kṣitigarbha Ten Wheels Mahāyāna Sūtra from the Great Collection into English, kindly sponsored by Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore. This 292 page translation is now available according to ... Read more »
This Is the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, This Is the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life

This Is the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, This Is the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life

As we all are now very aware, on April 13, 2023, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, our most precious guru and spiritual director, entered his final meditation at Kopan Monastery. Although it is difficult to convey the extraordinariness of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s ... Read more »