Teachings
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal
Rinpoche discusses the shortcomings of samara in this excerpt from Kopan Course No. 40, 2007.
Topics: Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Pomaia, Italy
In this teaching Rinpoche advises the importance of protecting our mind from anger, attachment and ignorance.
Topics: Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
In this teaching excerpt from Kopan Course No. 32, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that temporary samsaric pleasure doesn’t last and it eventually becomes the suffering of pain.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explained that the Buddha guides us by revealing the teachings and leading us to practice Dharma, in this excerpt from the 13th Kopan Course.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
In this excerpt from the 30th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses bodhicitta, the determination to achieve enlightenment for all sentient beings
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Twofold Benefit of Bodhicitta
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Pomaia, Italy
In this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that the realization of emptiness is the most important goal in our life, so that we can cease suffering and its cause, delusion and karma.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Being in Prison Is an Incredible Opportunity
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in North Carolina, USA
In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that the wisdom realizing emptiness eradicates ignorance, just as a vacuum cleaner or broom removes dust.
Topics: Emptiness > Advice on Emptiness Practice
The Wheel of Sharp Weapons by Dharmarakshita, a ninth-century Indian scholar, combines teachings on lojong (mind training) with the lamrim, especially karma. This text is now freely available for download as a PDF file.
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal
In this teaching excerpt Lama Yeshe discusses death and rebirth in various realms of cyclic existence.
Topics: Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the suffering of the lower realms of samsara (cyclic existence) in this teaching excerpted from the Fourth Kopan Meditation Course in 1973.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Renunciation
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how freedom from the eight worldly concerns creates real peace, in this teaching excerpt from the Fourth Kopan Meditation Course.
Happy New Year to all our friends and supporters! This special e-news includes a teaching on karma by Lama Thubten Yeshe.
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Gyalwa Gyatso Center, San Jose, California
In this unedited excerpt, Rinpoche encourages us to take advantage of this precious and rare opportunity to study the profound meaning of emptiness.
