Teachings

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 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 Yucca Valley, California

Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how Dharma provides us with a method to achieve happiness and avoid suffering in this excerpt from a two-week lamrim course held in California in 1977.

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal

A teaching on the first of the six types of suffering

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal

If there is no true cause of suffering, there is no reason why we should have to experience suffering or problems

By Lama Thubten Yeshe in UCSC, California

After attaining enlightenment, how Buddha began teaching the spiritual path to others, commonly known as turning the wheel of Dharma.

By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India 1981

His Holiness the Dalai Lama outlined each of the four noble truths in this teaching in Dharamsala in 1981.

By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in London, England 1996

Two days of teachings on this core topic in Buddhism.