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.

Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 13th Kopan Course in Nepal.

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 transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 20th Kopan Course. Includes a discourse on the bodhisattva vows by Khen Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup, late abbot of Kopan Monastery.

Transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 19th Kopan Course

Transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 17th Kopan Course

A transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 16th Kopan Course in 1983. 

Transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 15th Kopan Course.

A transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 14th Kopan Course. Includes a short talk and question and answer session with Lama Yeshe.

Excerpts from Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings at the Fourteenth Kopan Course in 1981.

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.