The Wisdom of Renunciation
Lama Yeshe discusses renouncing unrealistic grasping attitudes.
Lama Yeshe discusses renouncing unrealistic grasping attitudes.
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.
This text by the great Indian pandit Nagarjuna is famous for its descriptions of the bodhisattva's path of compassion and for its clear, concise analysis of the Buddha's teachings on emptiness.
A praise to the Buddha, composed by Lama Tsongkhapa after he realized emptiness. Translated by Geshe Thupten Jinpa.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has recommended this prayer for protection and healing from the coronavirus COVID-19.
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 prayer for peace in Tibet and compassion in the world.
The Heart’s Utmost Need: Urging Myself and Others to Remember Impermanence. This text, formerly known as Heart-Spoon, was extensively revised by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 2020, and further reviewed by Rinpoche in 2022.
A short lamrim prayer that contains the essence of the whole path to enlightenment
A short prayer that helps us develop the correct attitude toward the virtuous friend.
A seminal text that sets out the stages of the path to enlightenment (lamrim)
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.
A classic mind training (lojong) text by Kadampa Geshe Langri Tangpa.