Teachings
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 36th Kopan Meditation Course, Nepal, in 2003.
Chapters:
Kopan Course No. 36 Index Page •
Lecture 1: Universal Responsibility •
Lecture 2: Golden Light and Arya Sanghata Sutras •
Lecture 3: The Kindness of the Enemy •
Lecture 4: The Shortcomings of Desire •
Lecture 5: Pervasive Compounding Suffering •
Lecture 6: Refuge and Bodhicitta •
Lecture 7: The Yoga of Offering Food •
Lecture 8: A Direct Meditation on the Graduated Path •
Lecture 9: Golden Light Sutra and Refuge Ceremony •
Lecture 10: The Seven-Limb Practice •
Lecture 11: The Emptiness of the Ice Cream •
Lecture 12: Practicing Dharma After Kopan •
Lecture 13: The Purpose of Our Life •
Lecture 14: The Nature of Causative Phenomena •
Lecture 15: Golden Light Sutra Oral Transmission •
Lecture 16: Preliminary Prayers •
Lecture 17: The Need for Purification •
Lecture 18: How Vajrasattva Practice Purifies Negative Karma •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Khen Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup in Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1987
A transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 20th Kopan Course. Includes a discourse on the bodhisattva vows by Khen Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup, late abbot of Kopan Monastery.
Chapters:
Kopan Course No. 20 Index Page •
Lecture One: Refuge and Bodhicitta •
Lecture Two: Cherishing Others •
Lecture Three: The Good Heart •
Lecture Four: Labeling the I •
Lecture Five: The Merely Labeled I •
Lecture Six: Labeling Appearances •
Lecture Seven: The Eight Mahayana Precepts •
Lecture Eight: The Benefits of Precepts •
Lecture Nine: Emptiness of the I •
Lecture Ten: Equilibrium Meditation •
Lecture Eleven: Equanimity •
Lecture Twelve: The Cause of Happiness •
Lecture Thirteen: The Bodhisattva Vows (Lama Lhundrup) •
Lecture Fourteen: Samsara and the Twelve Links •
Lecture Fifteen: Refuge •
Lecture Sixteen: The Suffering of Samsara •
Lecture Seventeen: The Five Views •
Lecture Eighteen: How to Practice Dharma •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
In these teachings Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses our potential to bring benefit and happiness, including full enlightenment, to all sentient beings. Now available as an ebook, The Path to Ultimate Happiness.
Chapters:
The Path to Ultimate Happiness eBook •
Table of Contents •
Lecture One •
Lecture Three •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
An ebook series of teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 24th Kopan Course.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
A transcript of teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 41st Kopan Course. Includes a talk by Ven. Roger Kunsang on the beginnnings of FPMT.
Chapters:
Kopan Course No. 41: Index Page •
Lectures 1 & 2: The Infallible Path •
Lectures 3 & 4: Cherishing Others •
Lectures 5 & 6: Causative Phenomena •
Lectures 7 & 8: Creating the Cause for Happiness •
Lecture 9: The Founding of Kopan •
Lectures 10, 11 & 12: The Basic Philosophy of Buddhism •
Lecture 13: How FPMT Began •
Lectures 14-17: Mahayana Refuge •
Lectures 18 & 19: Pilgrimage and the Power of Holy Objects •
Lecture 20: The Four Suffering Results •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
A transcript of teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 43rd Kopan Course
Chapters:
Kopan Course No. 43: Index Page •
Lecture One: December 6, 2010 •
Lecture Two, December 6, 2010 •
Lecture Three, December 7, 2010 •
Lecture Four: December 8, 2010 •
Lecture Five: December 9, 2010 •
Lecture Six: December 9, 2010 •
Lecture Seven: December 11, 2010 •
Lecture Eight: December 11, 2010 •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1994
A transcript of teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 27th Kopan Course
Chapters:
Kopan Course No. 27 Index Page •
Lecture One: November 30,1994 •
Lecture Two: December 2,1994 •
Lecture Three: December 3, 1994 •
Lecture Four: December 3, 1994 •
Lecture Five: December 4, 1994 •
Lecture Six, December 4, 1994 •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Teachings on patience, bodhicitta, and reincarnation from the 29th Kopan Course, 1996.
Chapters:
The Kindness of the Enemy •
Benefits of Bodhicitta •
Reincarnation: First Beliefs and Q&A •
Reincarnation: Proof and Q&A •
Reincarnation: Proof by Experience •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976
Transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 19th Kopan Course
Chapters:
Kopan Course No. 19 Index Page •
Section One: Lectures 1 & 2 •
Section Two: Lectures 3 & 4 •
Section Three: Lectures 5 & 6 •
Section Four: Lectures 7 & 8 •
Section Five: Lectures 9 & 10 •
Section Six: Lectures 11 & 12 •
Section Seven: Lecture 13 •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kathmandu, Nepal
Excerpts from Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings at the Fourteenth Kopan Course in 1981.
Chapters:
Lecture 1: Qualities of Dharma and Teachers •
Lecture 1: White Tara •
Lecture 2: Manjushri; Why There Are Different Aspects of Buddha •
Lecture 2: How to Remove Suffering; Emptiness of the I •
Lectures 2-3: Emptiness of the I, continued; Nature of Mind •
Lecture 3: Nature of Mind, continued; Labeling I •
Lectures 3-4: Labeling I, continued •
Lecture 4: Three Types of Valid Knowledge; How the I Exists •
Lectures 5-6: Samsaric Suffering; Shortcomings of Self-Cherishing Thought •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976
A transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 10th Kopan Course
Chapters:
Kopan Course No. 10 Index Page •
Section One: Lectures 1 to 4 •
Section Two: Lectures 5 to 8 •
Section Three: Lectures 9 to 12 •
Section Four: Lectures 13 to 16 •
Section Five: Lectures 17 to 20 •
Section Six: Lectures 21 to 24 •
Section Seven: Lectures 25 to 26 •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1975
A transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the Eighth Kopan Course
Chapters:
Kopan Course No. 8 Index Page •
Section One: Lectures 1 to 5 •
Section Two: Lectures 6 to 10 •
Section Three: Lectures 11 to15 •
Section Four: Lectures 16 to 20 •
Section Five: Lectures 21 to 25 •
Section Six: Lectures 26 to 30 •
Section Seven: Lectures 31 to 35 •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal.
Audio recordings and transcripts of Lectures 6-10, given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 33rd Kopan Course.
Chapters:
Day 6: How Things Appear to Exist from their Own Side •
Day 6: The Emptiness of the I: Not One-ness With Aggregates, Not Separate From the Aggregates •
Day 6: What Exists is Merely Imputed by Mind •
Day 7: Merely Labeled by Mind, Bodhicitta Meditation, The Kindness of Mothers •
Day 7: Repaying the Kindness, Generating Loving Kindness •
Day 7: Bodhicitta - Special Attitude, Dedications •
Day 8: Mahayana Motivation, Shortcomings of Self-Cherishing •
Day 8: Shortcomings of Self-Cherishing, Bodhicitta, The Ten Non-Virtues: Stealing, Lying •
Day 8: The Ten Non-Virtues: Slander, Gossip, Harsh Speech, Covetousness, Ill Will, Heresy •
Day 8: Karma, Six Ways of Purifying, How to Live With Bodhicitta, Dedications •
Day 9: Definition of Death, The Suffering Nature of Samsara •
Day 9: The Death Process, Understanding Reincarnation •
Day 9: Reincarnation and Past Lives •
Day 9: Refuge in the Triple Gem, The Importance of Taking Vows, Refuge Ceremony •
Day 9: How To Practice Refuge, Oral Transmission of Medicine Buddha Mantra, The Vajrasattva Mantra, Dedications •
Day 10: Prajnaparamita Teachings, Oral Transmission of Diamond Cutter Sutra Continued •
Day 10: The Power of Mantras, Oral Transmission Continued •
Day 10: Practice Mindfulness, Oral Transmission Continued, Advice for Daily Practice •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
An edited transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 33rd Kopan Course.
Chapters:
Kopan Course No. 33 Index Page •
Lecture One •
Lecture Two •
Lecture Three •
Lecture Four •
Lecture Five •
Lecture Six •
Lecture Seven •
Lecture Eight •
Lecture Nine •
Lecture Ten •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Audio recordings and transcripts of the first five lectures by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 33rd Kopan Course.
Chapters:
Day 1: Introduction, Purpose of Meditation •
Day 1: Emptiness of the I, Oral Transmissions of the Heart Sutra and Diamond Cutter Sutra •
Day 2: The Nature of the Aggregates, Emptiness •
Day 2: Emptiness, Oral Transmission of the Diamond Cutter Sutra •
Day 2: Emptiness of the A, Everything Comes From the Mind •
Day 3: Guru Devotion, How the Mind Labels, Q&A •
Day 3: The Kindness of the Enemy, Rinpoche's Early Life •
Day 3: Geshe Rabten, Good and Bad Labeled by Mind, Seeing Problems as Opportunities •
Day 4: Compassion is the Essence of Religion, Emptiness Meditation; Transforming Problems •
Day 4: Practicing Patience, The Enemy is the Kindest Person •
Day 4: Thought Transformation is Most Beneficial, The Four Noble Truths, The Twelve Links •
Day 5: The Four Noble Truths, Karma •
Day 5: Completed Karma, The Ten Non-Virtues: Killing and Sexual Misconduct •
