Teachings
Browse our collection of translations into Vietnamese, now available as free PDF files. Our latest Vietnamese translation is Seeing How the I Exists, a teaching on emptiness by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Topics: Translations > Vietnamese
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush
Welcome to our latest e-letter. Thanks so much for your interest and support.
Topics: Monthly E-letter
We have a new Tibetan text to share with you: Praises to the Twenty-One Taras, a daily prayer book containing the Praises and images according to the tradition of the early Indian Buddhist master, Suryagupta.
Topics: Translations > Tibetan
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Guru Is All the Buddhas
Topics: Monthly E-letter
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Topics: Lineage Lamas > Praises and Tributes
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
In this teaching excerpt from the 38th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that we can collect extensive merit in our everyday life by making offerings to the Buddha.
Topics: Holy Objects > Making Offerings
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Rinpoche teaches on guru devotion, using Milarepa’s life story as an inspiring example, in this excerpt from the 38th Kopan Course.
Topics: Lineage Lamas > Biographies
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Rinpoche discusses the karma of relationships and offers advice and practices for family reconciliation when there has been disharmony and conflict.
Practices for Family Conciliation and Purification •
Difficulties With Son •
Angry Teenager •
Disturbed Family Member •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on how to purify negative karma in relation to the guru, given to students confessing mistakes.
Regretting Anger Toward Rinpoche •
Confession of Anger •
Confessing Mistakes •
Confessing Negative Thoughts •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on how to overcome attachment by reflecting on the nature of the body, the sufferings of samsara, and the emptiness, or lack of true existence, of the object of attachment.
Topics: Negative Emotions > Delusions > Desire and Attachment
Attachment and Ordination •
Disadvantages of Attachment •
The Pain of Attachment •
Attachment to a Good Reputation •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses wrong view and the urgency of realizing emptiness in this excerpt from the 38th Kopan Course.
Topics: Emptiness
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Rinpoche discusses the meaning of buddha nature, our potential to become a buddha, in this teaching excerpt from the 38th Kopan Course.
Topics: Introductory
By Pabongka Rinpoche
The Heart’s Utmost Need: Urging Myself and Others to Remember Impermanence. This text, formerly known as Heart-Spoon, was extensively revised by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 2020, and further reviewed by Rinpoche in 2022.
Topics: Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Root Texts
By Lama Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Thubten Yeshe: Lama Yeshe on Bodhicitta
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 38th Kopan Meditation Course.
Chapters:
Kopan Course No. 38 Index Page •
1. The Kopan Experience •
2. The Merely Imputed I •
3. Actualizing the Path to Enlightenment •
