Kopan Course No. 52 (2019)

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Kopan Monastery, Nepal (Archive #2120)

The teachings presented here are the first four lectures given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 52nd Kopan Meditation Course, held at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in November–December 2019. Transcribed and edited by Ven. Joan Nicell, and subsequently lightly edited by Gordon McDougall. You can find videos, audio files and transcripts of all Rinpoche’s lectures from Kopan 2019 here, along with two discourses by Khadro-la, given during this course. 

Forthcoming: LYWA will be publishing an ebook of the teachings from this course, as part of a new series which will convert all the Kopan courses into ebooks, including those already published on our website and those not yet published.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, November 2019. Photo: Lobsang Sherab.
Kopan Course No. 52 Index Page

The Index Page provides an outline of the topics discussed in each of the lectures. Click on the links below to go directly to a particular lecture.

Introduction
  • About the LYWA Kopan eBook Project
Lecture 1: November 29
  • The Reason You Have Come to Kopan
  • The Three Great Meanings
  • We Are Here to Serve Others
  • Making Each Day Meaningful
  • The Three Great Meanings (Back to)
  • Having a Good Heart
  • Milarepa
  • Dedications
Lecture 2: November 30
  • Seeing Things as a Hallucination
  • Emptiness and Dependent Arising
  • The Heart Sutra
  • The Graduated Path of the Three Capable Beings
  • Look at the Hallucinated Mundane World
  • Dedications
Lecture 3: December 1
  • Meditating on the Nature of Causative Phenomena
  • Subtle Karma and Examining Our Life
  • The Four Unknowing Minds
  • With Dependent Arising We Eliminate Ignorance
  • The Subtle Middle Way Between Eternalism and Nihilism
  • Only Prasangika Have a Perfect View of Emptiness
  • “Nothing Exists and Yet It Appears”
  • Dedications
Lecture 4: December 3
  • That Which is Dependent Arising Is Empty
  • Looking Back on the Mirage of True Existence
  • Four Ways to Achieve Realizations
  • The I on the I
  • The Importance of Preliminary Practices
  • Everything Is Created by the Mind
  • Dedications

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