Teachings
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Preparing for Death
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Advantages of Taking Vows
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that this human body is a result of our past virtuous karma, in this excerpt from the 31st Kopan Course.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Karma > Understanding Karma
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Root Institute, Bodhgaya, India
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises the importance of having a pure motivation free from worldly concerns, so that our actions become Dharma. This excerpt is from a series of ten discourses that form the basis of Rinpoche's book The Door to Satisfaction.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Karma > Understanding Karma
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: What is Dharma?
Topics: Monthly E-letter
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 Bendigo, Australia
Advice about bhikshuni ordination, excerpted from a teaching given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bendigo, Australia, on May 7, 2018.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: How Living in Morality Brings Peace
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
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.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Karma
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Institut Vajra Yogini, Marzens, France
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that everything comes from karma, so we can create suffering or happiness, enlightenment or hell.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Karma > Understanding Karma
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: We All Have Many Lifetimes
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
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
By Lama Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Thubten Yeshe: The Reality of What You Are
Topics: Monthly E-letter
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.
