Teachings

By His Holiness Ling Rinpoche in New Delhi, India November 1979

Bodhicitta, with love and compassion as its basis, is the essential seed producing the attainment of buddhahood

By His Holiness the Dalai Lama

A prayer composed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama for Kyabje Ling Rinpoche, who passed away in 1983.

By Gelek Rimpoche in New Delhi, India, 1980

A teaching on the development of single-pointed concentration (samadhi).

By Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche in New Delhi, India, 1979

A teaching on renunciation, first published in Teachings at Tushita

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 Khunu Lama Rinpoche in Boudhanath, Nepal, 1975

The great bodhisattva Khunu Lama Rinpoche gave this teaching on Lama Tsongkhapa's text to the monks and nuns of the International Mahayana Institute at Boudhanath, Nepal, in 1975.

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kathmandu, Nepal April 1974

Establishing the value of meditating on death and impermanence as motivation for practice and preparation for death.

By Gomchen Gampala in Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1975

A teaching to students in a lamrim retreat and the monks and nuns of the International Mahayana Institute.

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 Khunu Lama Rinpoche in Boudhanath, Nepal, 1975

A commentary on Atisha's text, given to Western monks and nuns in Boudhanath, Nepal, in 1975. The teaching is translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and edited by Nicholas Ribush.

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