Lama Zopa Rinpoche wrote this foreword for the anthology, Becoming Buddha: Wisdom Culture for a Meaningful Life.

This book features over a hundred plush toys decorated and blessed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, each inscribed with meaningful messages and mantras that reflect his great love for us and his wish to inspire and open our hearts. Read excerpts online or order your free copy of Rinpoche's Animal Friends from our online store.

Rinpoche explains how Dharma practice protects us from the delusions in this teaching excerpt from Kopan Course 39.

Rinpoche discusses the meaning of buddha nature, our potential to become a buddha, in this teaching excerpt from the 38th Kopan Course. 

In this excerpt from the 13th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that if we listen to the teachings but don't practice, our mind will not be transformed.

In this excerpt from the 13th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises the importance of a long-term plan to practice Dharma, generate realizations and seek enlightenment for the benefit of others.

In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that all our happiness and suffering come from the mind, and if there is no anger, there is no external enemy.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche wrote this article at the request of Renuka Singh for her anthology, The Path of the Buddha, published in 2004. 

This Dharma celebration was held in India in 1982 from January to June 1982, and was hosted by International Mahayana Institute. Find links to teachings and videos from this event, and read the EEC1 report, with advice from His Holiness Ling Rinpoche, a summary of the program and a Tara practice by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

A talk about Dharma practice in daily life, given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to a group of Russian students who were visiting Bodhgaya.

An outline of the Buddhist path, excerpted from the 41^st Kopan Course.

Teachings on the Buddha, at Shakyamuni Center, Taichung, Taiwan. March 3 and 6, 2007.

Excerpts from teachings given in Singapore. Includes a talk on how the Kopan courses began.  

The story of events leading up to the first Kopan meditation course in 1971.

The teachings become beneficial for subduing the mind if we listen effectively with a pure motivation