Teachings

By Nicholas Ribush in Singapore, 2010

Letters from Nick's travel to Singapore and Malaysia Feb-Mar 2010

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Discovering the Meaning of Dharma

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Tara Institute, Australia, June 3, 2006

Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings at Tara Institute, Australia, June 3, 2006.

Chapters:
How the Kopan Courses Started •
The Qualities of the Bhumis •
Developing Guru Devotion •
Developing Lamrim Realizations •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Root Institute, Bodhgaya

Commentary on the teachings of Atisha and the Kadampa geshes, the exemplary practitioners of Buddhism in Tibet.

Chapters:
Kadampa Teachings •
Editor's Preface (Ailsa Cameron) •
Kadampa Teachings 1: Bodhgaya, January 2003 •
Kadampa Teachings 2: Bodhgaya, December 2003 - January 2004 •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on animal health care, including various practices and mantras that benefit animals.

Animals in Pain •
Animal Welfare •
A Stupa for Horses •
Support For Stray Dogs in Bhutan •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bodhgaya, India 2006

Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Shortcomings of Samsara

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Chin-liang, Taichung County, Taiwan

Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings during a Thousand-Arm Chenrezig Retreat held in Taichung, Taiwan, February-March 2001.

Chapters:
Retreat Preparations, Impermanence and Death •
Cherishing Others, Bodhicitta Motivation, Oral Transmission of Chenrezig Mantra and Heartspoon •
Importance of Faith, Offerings •
Offering to the Guru, How to Dedicate Merit •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Crestone, Colorado

Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings in Crestone, Colorado, in June 2008.

Topics: Emptiness > Mahamudra
Chapters:
First Discourse, 5 June 2008 •
Second Discourse, 6 June 2008 •
Third Discourse, 6 June 2008 •
Fourth Discourse, 7 June 2008 •
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Geneva, Switzerland 1983

Lama Yeshe: Understanding Emptiness

Tags: selflessness
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Shakyamuni Center, Taichung, Taiwan

Nyung nä teachings at Shakyamuni Center, Taiwan, in February 2007.

Tags: nyung nä
Chapters:
Aryamanjushrisanghiti Sutra; Benefits of Nyung Nä •
Oral Transmission of Nyung Nä Text; Songtsen Gampo •
Offerings; Vase Water; Torma Mantras; Dedications •
Benefits of Nyung Nä; Oral Transmission (continued); Tormas •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Geshe Thubten Sherab on the study programs of Tibetan Buddhist monks

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bodhgaya, India, December 2003

Lama Zopa Rinpoche: How To Be Happy To Practice Dharma

Tags: death, nonvirtue
By Nicholas Ribush

Our Most Important Work

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in 1989

Rinpoche's advice on the benefits of working for Dharma centers

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Soquel, CA 2001

The teachings offered here form the basis for Chapters 8 to 10 of the book Teachings From the Medicine Buddha Retreat.

Chapters:
Chapter 8 Part A: Thirty-five Buddhas practice; Making Offerings •
Chapter 8 Part B: Meditating on Emptiness; Tea Offering to the Protectors •
Chapter 8 Part C: Dedications; Chapter 9 Part A: Meditation on Emptiness •
Chapter 9 Part B: Meditating on Emptiness •

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