Teachings

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

A prayer composed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche for the swift return of Geshe Jampa Gyatso

Tags: prayers
By The Buddha

The Arya Sanghata Sutra is a teaching given by Buddha Shakyamuni on Vulture's Peak in Rajagriha, India. Like all Mahayana sutras, this discourse was memorized by the Buddha's disciples and later written down in Sanskrit.

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Lama Zopa Rinpoche chants the Praises to the Twenty-one Taras.

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Sydney, Australia September 1996

Praise and request to His Holiness the Dalai Lama given at the long-life puja offered to His Holiness in September 1996, after the Kalachakra initiation in Sydney, Australia

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Liberation from samsara is possible by remembering impermanence and death and purifying negative karma

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1987

How the meaning of life and everlasting happiness may be actualized by Tara practice.

By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New York

Teachings on renunciation, bodhicitta, and emptiness, along with a Manjushri blessing

Chapters:
Session One: The Twelve Links and Renunciation •
Session Two: Bodhicitta •
Session Three: Emptiness •
Session Four: Manjushri Blessing and a conversation with Ven. Master Sheng Yen •
By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Bloomington, Indiana, USA 1999

A commentary on Chapter 8—the chapter titled "Meditation"—of Shantideva's Bodhicaryavatara (A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life)

Chapters:
Bodhicaryavatara Commentary: Index of Teachings •
Section One: August 20th AM •
Section Two: August 20th PM •
Section Three: August 21st AM •
By Lama Thubten Yeshe, Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in various locations

A small collection of talks by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche to their ordained students.

Chapters:
Advice for Monks and Nuns •
Advice for Monks and Nuns: Editor's Introduction •
Chapter One: The First Talk - Lama Yeshe •
Chapter Two: The Advantages of Monastic Life (Part I) - Lama Yeshe •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973

Equanimity meditation, with techniques for overcoming anger and developing patience.

By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New York, NY 1991

Teachings given prior to the Kalachakra Initiation, 1991. 

By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in London, England 1996

Two days of teachings on this core topic in Buddhism.

By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Barcelona, Spain 1994

Teachings prior to the Kalachakra initiation in Spain in 1994.

Topics: Introductory
By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Santa Monica, CA USA 1989

His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave these preliminary teachings at the Kalachakra Initiation, 1989.

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Soquel, CA USA 1999

Teachings from a three-month Vajrasattva retreat covering many lamrim topics, purification practices, mantras, pujas and more.

Chapters:
Teachings from the Vajrasattva Retreat •
Editor's Introduction •
Chapter 1: February 6 •
Chapter 2: February 7-a •

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