Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

(1946–2023) Buddhist Monk

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Thubten Zopa Rinpoche was a Buddhist monk, best known for Virtue & reality: method and wisdom in the practice of dharma.

Quick Facts About Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

Born: December 3, 1946
Died: April 13, 2023
Profession: Buddhist Monk
Notable works: Virtue & reality: method and wisdom in the practice of dharma

About Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

Thubten Zopa Rinpoche was a Tibetan Buddhist lama in the Gelug school. He is known for founding the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition and Maitripa College in Portland, Oregon.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.

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Meditation

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It is great that even before we become enlightened or generate any lam-rim realizations we are able to offer incredible benefit to…

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Able

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As long as the mind is unsubdued, there is always outside harm. Once the mind is subdued, once there is no anger…

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Anger inside

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If one does not remember death, one does not remember Dharma.

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Buddhist

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If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living…

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Accepting

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When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if…

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Anger

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Live with compassion. Work with compassion. Die with compassion. Meditate with compassion. Enjoy with compassion. When problems come, experience them with compassion.

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Compassion