Teachings
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush
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Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India
In this meditation on the refuge and bodhicitta prayer, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to make the prayer most meaningful and heartfelt.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Refuge
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
In this excerpt from the 26th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche used the example of the table to explain emptiness according to the Prasangika Madhyamaka view.
Topics: Emptiness > How Things Exist
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
In this excerpt from the 30th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that we need to practice mindfulness, seeing that all causative phenomena are in the nature of impermanence.
Topics: Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
In this excerpt from the 30th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that all things are transitory and empty of inherent existence.
Topics: Emptiness > How Things Exist
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 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
By Nicholas Ribush
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.
Topics: Introductory
This text by the great Indian pandit Nagarjuna is famous for its descriptions of the bodhisattva's path of compassion and for its clear, concise analysis of the Buddha's teachings on emptiness.
Topics: Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Root Texts
By Lama Tsongkhapa
A praise to the Buddha, composed by Lama Tsongkhapa after he realized emptiness. Translated by Geshe Thupten Jinpa.
Topics: Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Root Texts
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Chokyi Gyaltsen Center, Penang, Malaysia
In this teaching excerpt, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to experience disease and other problems for all sentient beings.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bodhgaya, India
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to meditate on emptiness in daily life in this excerpted teaching.
Topics: Emptiness > How Things Exist
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bodhgaya, India
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the merely labeled I in this excerpt from a teaching given at Root Institute, Bodhgaya, in 2012.
Topics: Emptiness > How Things Exist
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Cumbria, England
Lama Yeshe discusses meditation experience in tantric practice.
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.
