Lama Yeshe explains that our experience of life is shaped primarily by the mental attitudes we cultivate.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the shortcomings of the self-cherishing thought in this excerpt from the 39th Kopan Course.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the suffering of the lower realms of samsara (cyclic existence) in this teaching excerpted from the Fourth Kopan Meditation Course in 1973.

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.

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

Explaining how by overcoming attachment to ordinary pleasure, we open the way to the joy of inner liberation.

We are under the control of karma and delusion and this keeps us circling in samsara.

This teaching on the shortcomings of the self-cherishing thought is an excerpt from the 33rd Kopan Course.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the nature of samsara in this excerpt from a teaching at the 25th Kopan Course.

Renouncing the eight worldly dharmas brings real happiness and peace of mind

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

A message from His Holiness for the turn of the century