Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that this human body is a result of our past virtuous karma, in this excerpt from the 31st Kopan Course.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises the importance of having a pure motivation free from worldly concerns, so that our actions become Dharma. This excerpt is from a series of ten discourses that form the basis of Rinpoche's book The Door to Satisfaction.

In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that everything comes from karma, so we can create suffering or happiness, enlightenment or hell.

In this teaching Lama Yeshe discusses the fundamentals of karma, the actions of body, speech and mind.

Compassion for all living beings is at the heart of Mahayana Buddhist practice

An audio recording and unedited transcript of Chapter One of "How Things Exist."

The good heart as the source of all happiness