Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to avoid burnout and maintain a happy mind while offering service at the center.

In this multimedia title, Nicholas Ribush shares an account of traveling with Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche to Lawudo, Solu Khumbu, Nepal.

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

Read Chapter 7 of Big Love: The Life and Teachings of Lama Yeshe. This chapter describes the lamas' pilgrimage to Lawudo and the beginnings of Kopan Monastery in 1969.

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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. 

An article by Nicholas Ribush about the growth of Tibetan Buddhist publishing in the West.

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

Milarepa achieved enlightenment by following the path, with much hardship