Lama Yeshe explains why it is worthwhile to take refuge in that which can truly liberate us—the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.

Advice on the need for FPMT students to actualize the lamrim teachings and achieve realizations

A series of ten teachings given during a nyung nä retreat at Lawudo Gompa, Nepal, in 1978.

This book is drawn from Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s graduated path to enlightenment (lamrim) teachings given over a four-decade period, starting from the early 1970s.

Two discourses on topics including emptiness of the I, impermanence and death, and transforming problems

A teaching on the first of the six types of suffering

Topics include prostrations, offerings, rejoicing, the sufferings of samsara, bodhicitta and emptiness

In this excerpt from Kopan Course No. 27, Rinpoche explains that if our actions are done with renunciation, right view and bodhicitta, our lives become meaningful

In this excerpt from Kopan Course No. 27 in 1994, Rinpoche explains that if the cause is not created, the result cannot be experienced.

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Tenzin Ösel Hita gave these Dharma talks during the 45th Kopan Course,  November 27, and December 07, 2012.

Teachings on Lama Tsongkhapa's Lamrim Chenmo, the Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, July 2008.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the special meaning and purpose of this human rebirth in this excerpt from the Seventh Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1974.

A strong understanding of karma gives energy to the mind and increases the fear of creating negative karma

A short teaching on the benefits of purifying negative karma, given before a Vajrasattva jenang.