Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. Lama Zopa Rinpoche speaks at the memorial ceremony for Lama Yeshe held at Buddha House Adelaide in August 1984, approximately five months after Lama Yeshe’s passing. The recording opens with Lama Zopa reading directly from Lama Yeshe’s will, conveying Lama Yeshe’s instructions that students recite the Vajrasattva mantra for one year near his body, receive Vajrasattva initiation, and gather at their respective FPMT centres if a single location proves impractical. Lama Zopa then describes plans for distributing Lama Yeshe’s ashes and relics to centres in stupas, and for creating a large statue of Lama Yeshe in monk form. He closes with a heartfelt personal reflection on how every Dharma teaching and opportunity he and the students have came solely through Lama Yeshe’s kindness, followed by warm thanks to all who donated toward Lama Yeshe’s operation, offered prayers, and helped care for him in his final months.
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File: 1984-08-03 – 1B – Memorial – LY.mp3
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Speakers: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Subject: Memorial ceremony for Lama Thubten Yeshe — reading from his will
Collection: Lama Yeshe Memorial 1984
Date: 1984-08-03 (Buddha House Adelaide ceremony)
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 11.2 minutes
Words: ~1,090
Model: Deepgram Nova-3, AI re-corrected 2026-04-30
In the daytime. In the afternoon. Daytime. After the translations of the this text, you know, and it was given to the constituted translator, and this is to be used this is to be used in general, you know, to be used in a long past to to treat these ceremonies. I hope everything will be prepared during the time.
Then then student should recite the Vajrasattva recitation, mantra one million, one year. One year. One year. Then, yeah, they should do the Vajrasattva practice near my body. By doing these practices, they can keep my body one year.
So how do do this? I will discuss this in this form. Then wherever my body is, all the students should come. One year for one year without interruption, they should do the Vajrasattva recitation. Means, you know, some people well, simply go to some people some go up, some people go over, then And then they should arrange that, you know, the students receive Vajrasattva initiation.
So perfectly happy, you know, in the blessing going through together. Then as many as students should come Also, there should be a Vajrasattva initiation. This is exactly what happened, you know, before I received this letter. Then the Vajrasattva initiation. That’s the one should be here.
So this I think this has something that needs to be discussed, you know, either to do either everybody come to one place to do the one year or or if that’s too difficult, if if that’s not manageable if that’s not manageable, then I think, you know, the relics we make, stays at the center, then that country students, you know, gather at the at the center and do one year, you know, you know, one year with teachings. If that’s too difficult to organize in one place for one year. If if that’s if that’s that’s okay, then I think the ones in New Zealand, Spain, which is far from those centers, can come once or twice for the observation. I think it’s a place where, you know, where the whole center starts, you see. Yeah.
Then the rest of the ashes, you know, will be also distributed with the different centers and the thing we put in, either stupa or, you know, statue, you know, you see. Yeah. Mhmm. So we try to make large, you know, statue of lama in a monk form. It’s like a small thing.
And then but in Vajrasattva, we see a neutral, a bit of this. Then similar after this after, you know, the medicine then, I saw one message from Nick that as soon as he advised, Lama advised to make one statue of the lama and type of You know, the main thing. Yeah. So now I would I’ll put let let’s talk about Lama’s kindness, how, you know, the best, Lama’s kindness, how, how long it’s, you know, how to recall it, you know, in this, in a perseverance, you know, is it in as a whole, you know, good heart. And that actually, I don’t need to say much, you know, you met one or so many times, you see.
You know, I don’t need to say, you all those things. However, you know, However, all the dharma knowledge that we have, and not only that, all the opportunities that we have The whole thing whole thing came from Lam, whole thing here. Yeah. We heard we went to Lam’s lecture and yeah. Before, you know, before the mind didn’t have that, there’s no refuge, there’s no karma, no feeling, karma at all, mind’s completely dark, you know, complete dark, you know, completely.
Yeah. You see? No. I just know, you know, what’s good and what’s bad, you know, about happiness and suffering. So now, yeah, you see?
So now we have, you know, see, we have that much diamond knowledge. We are able to always to practice, you know, even countless profound methods like this every day. How about this, What we have, know, all those major, everything came from Lama. And first time, while listening, wanting to see, wanting to hear in the Lama’s lecture, and then we see inspiration came. So they have a, you know, a huge number, kind of Lama, you know, a lot of time.
Okay? Even we study from other as a it’s almost said, even we study, you know, you learn from other Geshes, and so on, to understand Lam Rim. All this by kind of, you know, complete. However yeah. And then I what I would like to say, main thing is one one main thing is I would like to say thank everybody who sent money for Lama’s operation, you know, all the donations.
And then and then those who, you know, did so much prayer, this time I sent to thank them, prior to this, and do that, you know. So everything that you did, I want to say, thank you very much. Maybe the best that, you know, Lama lived, you know, even seven more months. And however, you know, all those, mostly in the US. But the helpers, the people and people, you know, who worked so hard and you know, you know, yeah, in the past, you know, in in in the past, even now, in this time, you know, so much dedicated, you know, in doing the work so nicely without confusion, doing so harmonious.
Yeah. I would like to say many things from the heart. Then also nurses, you know, who took care of Lama, which we very much appreciate. Yeah. How do you go over time?
We were okay. We did. We two doctors were there. I don’t know if they actually could. I don’t know.
Two doctors. Don’t know if they are helping or not, staying for them. Yeah. I think that’s that’s all. Then, yeah, then if you if you, you know, follow lama’s wishes, you see, as a, you know, the advice that lama gave and we could practice, then I think that, you know, something in mind, you know, then you see, you know, could cause the link, to meet again.
So maybe it comes, Maybe I’m not sure if maybe it comes in America. You know? K. Yeah. Then also, okay.
Yeah. I think that’s all. Let’s go. Thank you so much.