
Teachings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches on the negative mind and the nature and value of bodhicitta, especially for those wishing to cultivate world peace.
Forthcoming in May 2025: This collection contains teachings Lama Yeshe gave in England in 1976 and the Netherlands in 1980. Lama taught mainly on refuge and bodhicitta and also gave a public lecture on the nature of the mind.
A talk on meditation, excerpted from a commentary on the Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig) yoga method, given at Grizzly Lodge, California, in May 1980.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses buddha nature in this teaching excerpted from Kopan Course No. 40.
In this teaching Rinpoche advises the importance of protecting our mind from anger, attachment and ignorance.
Lama Thubten Yeshe: The Positive Vibration of Mantra
Rinpoche discusses the meaning of buddha nature, our potential to become a buddha, in this teaching excerpt from the 38th Kopan Course.
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises students to make the retreat most beneficial by striving to subdue the mind.
In this excerpt from the 50th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that happiness and suffering arise from the mind, just as a shadow follows the body.
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that all our happiness and suffering come from the mind, and if there is no anger, there is no external enemy.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: We All Have Many Lifetimes
A brief overview of the path to enlightenment, as taught and followed by most of the Tibetan schools of Buddhism. This outline was written by Nicholas Ribush as the Preface for the book Teachings from Tibet.
Lama Yeshe discusses the meaning of "buddha" and how to become completely open and free from ignorance, in this excerpt from a public talk on the four noble truths.
Lama Thubten Yeshe: The First Clear Step
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Path to Ultimate Happiness