Days 1-3: Maitreya Buddha puja, teachings and meditation on Maitreya Buddha, and oral transmissions of the Maitreya mantra, Maitreya prayer and King of Prayers

Lama Zopa Rinpoche answers questions in an interview with a student.

The Practice and Benefits of the Eight Mahayana Precepts

A student wrote to Rinpoche asking for practices for the rest of his life. Rinpoche responded with this advice. 

Introduction to Teachings from the Medicine Buddha Retreat, a book by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

Written for the newsletter of the Australia Tibet Council

Impressions of Tibet from a 1995 visit, which included pilgrimage to Mt. Kailash, Lake Mansarovar and other sacred sites.

An overview of tantric practice, excerpted from a teaching given to Western students in Dharamsala.

Identifying the cause of suffering and how to end it

An address to students doing a Vajrasattva group retreat

A prayer for peace by the great yogi Thangtong Gyalpo,translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the time of the terrorist attack in New York and Washington.

Teachings on emptiness and dedication prayers,  excerpted from a series of talks about the Highest Yoga Tantra practice of Yamantaka. 

A talk on how compassion and universal responsibility lead to a peaceful world

A message from His Holiness for the turn of the century

Advice about how to respond to news of war