Teachings
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.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kadampa Center, Raleigh, USA
In this teaching, Rinpoche offers advice on the practice of the good heart and the role of parents in guiding their children. Rinpoche also discusses emptiness and gives a commentary on the Eight Verses of Thought Transformation.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim)
Chapters:
How to Live Life With the Good Heart •
Where Is the Real I? •
Eight Verses of Thought Transformation •
By Nicholas Ribush, Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Where is the Real I?
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Dharamsala, India
Lama responds to student questions about the practice of mahamudra.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Leeds and London, UK
A remarkable series of powerful and clear Dharma teachings given by Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche to students in Leeds and London, United Kingdom, in 2014.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim)
Chapters:
Sun of Devotion, Stream of Blessings •
Editor's Preface •
Chapter 1. Taking Care of the Mind •
Chapter 2. Our Happiness Is in Our Hands •
Chapter 3. The Hallucination of the Real I •
Chapter 4. The Need for Ethics and Refuge •
Chapter 5. The Room Before It Is Named •
Chapter 6. The Guru Is the Most Powerful Object •
Chapter 7. A Talk about Dolgyal •
Chapter 8. Khadro-la •
Chapter 9. The Importance of Guru Devotion •
Chapter 10. Seeing the Guru as a Buddha •
Chapter 11. More Precious Than a Wish-granting Jewel •
Chapter 12. Cutting the Root of Samsara •
Chapter 13. Practicing Tantra •
Translations (Sun of Devotion, Stream of Blessings) •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Tara Institute, Melbourne, Australia
A two-day seminar in which Rinpoche teaches on emptiness, compassion, guru devotion and other topics.
Chapters:
We are Extremely Fortunate •
Make the Mind Wet •
How We Hold Onto the I •
Meditation on Emptiness •
Ego Wants So Many Things •
A Good Heart a Day •
You Have Time to Get It Done •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
How to recognize that everything is like an illusion or a dream.
Topics: Emptiness > How Things Exist
