Rinpoche discusses the shortcomings of samara in this excerpt from Kopan Course No. 40, 2007.

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

A teaching by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on impermanence and death, excerpted from the 26th Kopan Course.

In this excerpt from the 30th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that we need to practice mindfulness, seeing that all causative phenomena are in the nature of impermanence.

Read Chapter 7 of Big Love: The Life and Teachings of Lama Yeshe. This chapter describes the lamas' pilgrimage to Lawudo and the beginnings of Kopan Monastery in 1969.

In this teaching excerpt Lama Yeshe discusses death and rebirth in various realms of cyclic existence.

A teaching on impermanence at the Seventh Kopan Meditation Course, November, 1974.

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

Teachings by Lama Yeshe on impermance and death, adapted by T. Y. Alexander

Milarepa achieved enlightenment by following the path, with much hardship

Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches via live stream to students in Singapore and around the world.

Life finishes quickly, like autumn clouds or lightning in the sky

Death is definite and this precious human body is more valuable than a mountain of diamonds.

Meditation on impermanence and death is a powerful method to protect us from the delusions.