Rinpoche teaches on guru devotion, using Milarepa’s life story as an inspiring example, in this excerpt from the 38th Kopan Course.

Read Chapter 7 of Big Love: The Life and Teachings of Lama Yeshe. This chapter describes the lamas' pilgrimage to Lawudo and the beginnings of Kopan Monastery in 1969.

Extensive advice on how to make waterbowl offerings, starting with the correct motivation.

A guide to accomplishing the recommended preliminary practices

A teaching about the life of Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen, a great bodhisattva and scholar from the Kinnaur region of Himachal Pradesh, northern India. 

A compilation of teachings on the mandala offering, a practice that pacifies all hindrances to temporal and ultimate happiness

Rinpoche explains the benefits of mani pills, the Thirty-five Buddhas practice, and the importance of purifying negative karma in this evening session during the 100 Million Mani Retreat at Chenrezig Institute, Australia.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings on offering practices during a Cittamani Tara Puja at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore in 1992.

Milarepa achieved enlightenment by following the path, with much hardship

Lama Zopa Rinpoche describes the life and work of the great bodhisattva Atisha.

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