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.

In this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that the realization of emptiness is the most important goal in our life, so that we can cease suffering and its cause, delusion and karma.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how Dharma provides us with a method to achieve happiness and avoid suffering in this excerpt from a two-week lamrim course held in California in 1977.

A two-day seminar in which Rinpoche teaches on emptiness, compassion, guru devotion and other topics.

Teachings on the Long-life Sutra, including the oral transmission and teachings on torma offering. Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings in Taipei, Taiwan, 15-16 April, 2007.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this teaching in Malaysia, 10-13 April 1997.

A commentary and oral transmission of the Sanghata Sutra

A two-day commentary and partial oral transmission of the Sutra of Golden Light.

A commentary and partial oral transmission of the first seven chapters of the Golden Light Sutra given at New York's Tibet House, September 2007.

Rinpoche gives a partial oral transmission of the Golden Light Sutra and teaches extensively on emptiness and other topics, including how to achieve happiness, why we need compassion and karma.

Two days of teachings on this core topic in Buddhism.