Lama Zopa Rinpoche has specifically compiled this essential daily practice for his students and anyone else wishing to start their day, and all their activities, with a perfect Dharma intention and bodhichitta motivation. It includes the following practices and mantras to make one's life highly beneficial for oneself and others. The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment) is a compilation of an inspiring lamrim prayer by Dorje Chang Lozang Jinpa, two key thought transformation verses, and special verses from Shantideva's Engaging in a Bodhisattva's Deeds about how to live your life for others.

• "Blessing the Speech According to the Instructions of Great Yogi Khyungpo" involves the recitation of several mantras to make the power of your speech perfect, multiply the power of your mantra recitation by ten million, prevent the power of your speech from being taken away by eating wrong foods, and transform even your gossiping into the recitation of mantra.


• Daily Mantras include mantras to bless your rosary; to multiply whatever virtuous activity you do by a hundred thousand; to purify anyone who talks to you, hears your voice, and touches your body; to purify heavy negative karmas and consecrate holy objects and rocks, trees, and so forth; and to bring about the fulfillment of all wishes.


• "Mantras for Specific Occasions" includes a mantra that multiplies whatever Dharma texts you read millions of times and a mantra to bless your feet, as well as car wheels, so that any sentient beings who die under them are reborn in a deva realm.

Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment), Lama Zopa Rinpoche, FPMT, Paperback, 28 pp., $9.99

Lama Zopa Rinpoche: born in 1946 in Thami, in the Mount Everest region of Nepal, not far from the Lawudo cave where his predecessor had meditated for the last 20 years of his life. Lama Zopa Rinpoche is now the Spiritual Director of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition and oversees all of its activities.

Ngulchu Dharmabhadra: Born in the upper region of Tsang Ya Ru'i Cha in the region of Rong To Chug Mo, in 1772. When he was eleven years old, he learned the alphabet from his elderly uncle. From then on, whenever he met someone learned, he would seize the opportunity to study the alphabet with them. As he spent most of his time tending sheep, whenever he found a flat, smooth rock or level ground, he would practice his writing using only his fingers, which would often cause them to bleed. This didn't discourage him, and he became an expert at reading and writing. Later on, this Venerable One was to become a holder of the treasury of secrets of all the conquerors.

Technical Note	4
A Guide to Pronouncing Sanskrit	5
The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (including Enlightenment)	7
Additional Practices
-- Blessing the Speech According to the Instructions of Great Yogi Khyungpo	15
-- Daily Mantras	19
-- Mantras for Specific Occasions	22
Notes	25