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 discusses the death process and explains the signs which indicate that the consciousness has left the body. Rinpoche draws on his own experiences of seeing the deceased and gives a detailed account of Lama Yeshe's passing and cremation.

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.

A public lecture on the death process, the intermediate state and rebirth, given by Lama Yeshe in Sweden on September 8, 1983.

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

Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to analyze reincarnation

An explanation of beginningless mind, reincarnation and the causes and effects of karma

An obituary by Nicholas Ribush and a brief remembrance written by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

A teaching on renunciation, first published in Teachings at Tushita