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

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In this teaching Lama Yeshe advises the importance of pratimoksha vows and responds to students' questions about the five lay vows.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives a commentary on and confers the eight Mahayanaprecepts 

The Practice and Benefits of the Eight Mahayana Precepts

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

The eight Mahayana precepts should be taken with the motivation of bodhicitta, remembering the kindness of other sentient beings

Milarepa achieved enlightenment by following the path, with much hardship

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