Teachings
Advice on the merit of offering service, which pleases the guru, purifies our negative karma and brings us closer to enlightenment.
Advice for students doing a retreat on the lamrim, the graduated path to enlightenment. Rinpoche says taming the mind through the lamrim is the best offering and the best way to bring world peace.
Advice for students on various transitions including education, relationships, career choices and other life decisions.
Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 32nd Kopan Meditation Course.
Browse our collection of translations into Vietnamese, now available as free PDF files. Our latest Vietnamese translation is Chapter 4: A Brief History of Maitreya Buddha of Universal Love.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Preparing for Death
Advice on meditations and other practices which can help anxiety and panic disorder.
Advice on how to utilize obstacles on the path to enlightenment by practicing thought transformation.
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.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Guru Is All the Buddhas
Find links here to all the latest FPMT updates regarding Lama Zopa Rinpoche, our most precious guru and spiritual director, who showed the aspect of passing away on April 13, 2023.
In this teaching excerpted from Kopan Course No. 38, Rinpoche explains how to collect extensive merit in everyday life by making offerings to the Buddha.
Rinpoche teaches on guru devotion, using Milarepa’s life story as an inspiring example, in this excerpt from the 38th Kopan Course.
Rinpoche discusses the karma of relationships and offers advice and practices for family reconciliation when there has been disharmony and conflict.
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.