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The Meaning of Dharma

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Yucca Valley, California.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how Dharma provides us with a method to achieve happiness and avoid suffering in this excerpt from a two-week lamrim course held in California in 1977.

Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Four Noble Truths

Tags: happiness suffering dharma

Teachings on the Heart Sutra

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Tara Institute, Melbourne, Australia.

A two-day seminar in which Rinpoche teaches on emptiness, compassion, guru devotion and other topics.

Topics: Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Sutras and Sutra Commentaries

Tags: emptiness (shunyata) samsara (cyclic existence) ignorance suffering continuity of consciousness

Chapters:

We are Extremely Fortunate Make the Mind Wet How We Hold Onto the I Meditation on Emptiness + View all

The Four Noble Truths (Members Only)

By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in London, England 1996.

Two days of teachings on this core topic in Buddhism.

Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Four Noble Truths

Tags: four noble truths suffering emptiness (shunyata)

Chapters:

The Four Noble Truths Index Page Session One Session Two Session Three + View all

Sanghata Sutra Commentary and Lung (Audio and Unedited Transcript)

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Shakyamuni Center, Taiwan 2007.

A commentary and oral transmission of the Sanghata Sutra

Topics: Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Sutras and Sutra Commentaries

Tags: sanghata sutra

Chapters:

Part A: Introductory teachings Part B: More introductory teachings Part C: Preliminary prayers Part D: Sanghata Sutra recitation and commentary + View all

Heart Sutra Retreat (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Genting View Resort, Malaysia.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this teaching in Malaysia, 10-13 April 1997.

Topics: Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Sutras and Sutra Commentaries

Tags: heart sutra retreat emptiness (shunyata) vajrasattva

Chapters:

Purpose of Life; Awareness of Impermanence and Death Oral Transmission of the Vajrasattva Mantra and Heart Sutra Searching for the I; Mental Factors; Subtle Mind Four Proofs of Reincarnation + View all

Long-life Sutra and Torma Offering (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Taipei, Taiwan.

Teachings on the Long-life Sutra, including the oral transmission and teachings on torma offering. Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings in Taipei, Taiwan, 15-16 April, 2007.

Topics: Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Sutras and Sutra Commentaries

Tags: sutras offering

Chapters:

Long-life Sutra Oral Transmission Commentary on Peaceful Torma Purifying Pollution, Part A Commentary on Peaceful Torma Purifying Pollution, Part B + View all