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Lama Yeshe

Be wise.Treat yourself, your mind sympathetically, with loving kindness.

About Me

Top Friends Contact Box Generator Icons Collage MySpace Layouts Poll Generator(1935-1984) born in Tibet, where he studied until 1959, when the Chinese invasion of Tibet forced him into exile in India. Lama Yeshe continued to study and meditate under the direction of the foremost Tibetan masters of the time in India until 1967, when, with his chief disciple, Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, he went to Nepal. Two years later he established Kopan Monastery , in order make Buddhism available to Westerners. In 1974, requested by their students, the Lamas began making annual teaching tours to the West and as a result of these travels a worldwide network of Buddhist teaching and meditation centres--the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition --began to develop. In 1984, at the age of forty-nine, Lama Yeshe passed away.
For lama's life story, teachings, and stories by students and friends, visit the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive , which is devoted to the teachings of Ven Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

My Interests

To listen to Lama Yeshe giving teachings, visit the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive's online recordings page

Movies:

Watch Lama Yeshe on DVD:
Anxiety in the Nuclear Age
The Three Principal Aspects of the Path
Introduction to Tantra
Offering Tsok to Heruka Vajrasattva

Books:

These books are free:
Becoming Your Own Therapist and Make Your Mind an Ocean ;
Advice for Monks and Nuns ;
The Essence of Tibetan Buddhism ;
The Peaceful Stillness of the Silent Mind ;
Ego, Attachment and Liberation ;

My Blog

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Posted by Lama Yeshe on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:41:00 PST

For much more stuff

For many more of Lama Yeshe's teachings and related material, please check out the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive. You can also order free books.Note that the great Lama Yeshe passed away in 1984 and this ...
Posted by Lama Yeshe on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:32:00 PST

How We Started Teaching Dharma to Westerners

Lama Yeshe was asked: How did you first get involved in teaching Dharma to Western people? ..> Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Zina 1970..> I began teaching Westerners in the late 1960s. At that time I was...
Posted by Lama Yeshe on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:02:00 PST

The Purpose of Meditation

We meditate to experience how our mind works, not to change our ideas and philosophy or to try out some Eastern trip. We meditate to investigate the basic energy we already have, the energy of our bod...
Posted by Lama Yeshe on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:43:00 PST

An Introduction to Tantra

..> ..> I'd like here to give just a brief introduction to tantra. The first thing to understand is that Buddhism has broad and far-reaching array of teachings for human development. However, befo...
Posted by Lama Yeshe on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:14:00 PST

What is Buddhism?

Although different people have different views of what Buddhism is, I think it's difficult to say, "Buddhism is this, therefore it should be like that." It's difficult to summarize Buddhism in a simpl...
Posted by Lama Yeshe on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:45:00 PST

Lama Yeshe lectures at google video

The first video is a teaching in California in 1980, given as an introduction to Lama Yeshe's commentary on the Thousand-Arm Chenrezig yoga method, and constitutes a wonderful explanation on...
Posted by Lama Yeshe on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST