Rinpoche teaches on guru devotion, using Milarepa’s life story as an inspiring example, in this excerpt from the 38th Kopan Course.

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A teaching about the life of Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen, a great bodhisattva and scholar from the Kinnaur region of Himachal Pradesh, northern India. 

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.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche describes the life and work of the great bodhisattva Atisha.

Milarepa achieved enlightenment by following the path, with much hardship