
Teachings
Lamrim teachings and guided meditations from a one-month course in 1975.
This book presents Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings on bodhicitta, the mind of enlightenment, based on verses from two inspiring bodhicitta texts, The Jewel Lamp: A Praise of Bodhicitta, by Khunu Lama Rinpoche, and A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, by Shantideva
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises students to make the retreat most beneficial by striving to subdue the mind.
A transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 12th Kopan Meditation Course held at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in November 1979.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: How Living in Morality Brings Peace
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to relate the four immeasurable thoughts to our daily life, with a strong determination to make our life beneficial for others.
In this short excerpt from the 50th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the benefits of having positive messages, mantras and Namgyälma protection on his car.
In this excerpt from the 50th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses tonglen, the meditation practice of generating bodhicitta by taking on the suffering of others and giving them happiness.
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.
A transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the Eleventh Kopan Course in 1978.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Happiest Life is When You Practice Bodhicitta
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to make charity to beggars by remembering the bodhicitta attitude and reflecting on emptiness, so that the action of giving becomes the cause of enlightenment.
Advice given to students on the practice of Shugden (Tib: Dolgyal). This practice is strongly discouraged by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Advice on powerful mantras with many benefits including healing, purifying negative karma and dispelling obstacles.
A transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 10th Kopan Course