Teachings

By His Holiness the Dalai Lama

A talk on the need for a greater sense of human community in order to bring about peace in our world

By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, September, 1984

A teaching on the Chenrezig Gyalwa Gyatso sadhana, given by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to a group of Westerners in 1984. The teaching was requested by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. 

By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New Delhi, India, November, 1982

Teaching on how to gain happiness and the path to liberation from suffering

Topics: Introductory
Tags: happiness, karma, mind
By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New Delhi, India, November, 1982

An Interview with His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

Topics: Introductory
By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Cambridge, MA USA

His Holiness explains the Buddhist concept of mind to the participants of a Mind Science symposium at MIT

Topics: Introductory
By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New Delhi, India, 1960s

In this short teaching, His Holiness the Dalai Lama discusses the basics of Buddhism and how to make this life useful.

Topics: Introductory
By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Los Angeles, CA 2000

In this book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama offers readers one of the clearest and most authoritative expositions of the Tibetan Buddhist path ever published.

Now available as an audiobook

Chapters:
Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment •
Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment: Foreword •
Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment: Prologue •
Chapter One: General Introduction •
By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New York City, NY September 2005

A commentary on the self-generation sadhana of Avalokiteshvara

By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in London, England, 1988

A survey of all the Buddhist practices including the systems of both sutra and tantra undertaken in the Tibetan tradition.

By His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Published as the foreword to "Death, Intermediate State and Rebirth" by Lati Rinpoche and Jeffrey Hopkins

By His Holiness the Dalai Lama

The development of compassion as the key to a happier and more successful world

By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Melbourne, Australia, May 1992

Compassion as the core value of all the world's religions

By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, 1981

Commentary by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the mind training text written by Kadampa Geshe Langri Tangpa.

By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India 1981

His Holiness the Dalai Lama outlined each of the four noble truths in this teaching in Dharamsala in 1981.

By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New York

Teachings on renunciation, bodhicitta, and emptiness, along with a Manjushri blessing

Chapters:
Session One: The Twelve Links and Renunciation •
Session Two: Bodhicitta •
Session Three: Emptiness •
Session Four: Manjushri Blessing and a conversation with Ven. Master Sheng Yen •

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