In this teaching excerpt from Kopan Course No. 32, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that temporary samsaric pleasure doesn’t last and it eventually becomes the suffering of pain.

In this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that the realization of emptiness is the most important goal in our life, so that we can cease suffering and its cause, delusion and karma.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how Dharma provides us with a method to achieve happiness and avoid suffering in this excerpt from a two-week lamrim course held in California in 1977.

This multimedia presentation is based on a talk given by Lama Yeshe in Berkeley, California in 1983. The teachings are presented in a format that weaves together transcripts, video, audio and images.

Lama Yeshe articulates his far-reaching vision for universal education.

In two public lectures in California in July 1983, Lama Yeshe addressed the perils of the First Nuclear Age, exacerbated at that time by the Cold War and Americans' worries over the Soviet nuclear threat.

Two days of teachings on this core topic in Buddhism.

A teaching on the significance of His Holiness' visit to Europe in 1982.

A teaching on the first of the six types of suffering

If there is no true cause of suffering, there is no reason why we should have to experience suffering or problems

After attaining enlightenment, how Buddha began teaching the spiritual path to others, commonly known as turning the wheel of Dharma.

A talk on how compassion and universal responsibility lead to a peaceful world

A message from His Holiness for the turn of the century

A talk on the need for a greater sense of human community in order to bring about peace in our world

His Holiness the Dalai Lama outlined each of the four noble truths in this teaching in Dharamsala in 1981.