How to Bring Up Children
Advice about parenting, relationships and work-life balance.
Kopan eBook Series
Links and synopses for all titles in the ebook series of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings from the annual Kopan meditation courses held in Nepal since the early 1970s.
Emptiness Meditation
Advice on how to correctly meditate on emptiness (shunyata).
Kopan Course No. 52 (2019): eBook
Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 52nd Kopan Meditation Course.
Practices to Purify Killing Animals
Advice on how to purify the negative karma resulting from killing. This advice was given to students who had to kill or harm animals in their daily life and work.
Caring for the Dying
Advice on how to care for others who are very ill and approaching death, with essential advice and practices for the moment of death.
Taking Vows
Advice about the benefits of taking vows, for example, the five lay vows and the eight Mahayana precepts.
Offering Service to the Guru
Advice on the merit of offering service, which pleases the guru, purifies our negative karma and brings us closer to enlightenment.
Having a Good Heart
Rinpoche discusses the importance of practicing bodhicitta and the good heart in this teaching excerpt from the 52nd Kopan Course.
The Purpose of Our Life
In this teaching excerpt from the 52nd Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that our purpose in life is to bring all sentient beings to buddhahood, the awakened state.