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

This mantra, which protect from all diseases and harm, was taught by the Buddha to Ananda. The text is translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. The mantra brings happiness, frees us from punishment and weapons, and neutralizes poison. 

Teachings on the eight conditions most conducive to practicing Dharma, excerpted from Lama Zopa Rinpoche's The Perfect Human Rebirth: Freedom and Richness on the Path to Enlightenment.

Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 3rd & 4th Kopan Meditation Courses. 

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.

Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 51st Kopan Meditation Course.

Links and synopses for all titles in the ebook series of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings from the annual Kopan meditation courses held in Nepal since the early 1970s.

In this teaching excerpt from the 52nd Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that our purpose in life is to bring all sentient beings to buddhahood, the awakened state.

Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 52nd Kopan Meditation Course.

Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 40th Kopan Meditation Course.

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

Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 39th Kopan Meditation Course.

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.

Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 32nd Kopan Meditation Course.