Lama Yeshe explains the meaning of yana, the vehicle or path that carries us toward enlightenment.

This excerpt comes from a teaching Lama Yeshe gave on the importance of cultivating mindful awareness in our actions and a clear understanding of karma.

An interview with His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama for the tenth anniversary of Maitreya magazine. His Holiness discusses spiritual experience and how we can be inspired by those who have attainments on the path to enlightenment. 

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. 

Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that this human body is a result of our past virtuous karma, in this excerpt from the 31st Kopan Course.

The collected teachings in this book demonstrate Lama Yeshe's understanding of the Western psyche and his ability to express profound truths in simple terms.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises the importance of having a pure motivation free from worldly concerns, so that our actions become Dharma. This excerpt is from a series of ten discourses that form the basis of Rinpoche's book The Door to Satisfaction.

Lama Yeshe gave this powerful teaching about bringing the Dharma to the Western world at the first Enlightened Experience Celebration (EEC1), 1982.

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 excerpt from the 50th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that happiness and suffering arise from the mind, just as a shadow follows the body.