Lama Zopa Rinpoche full length teachings
This podcast brings to you the teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in full length. Our current focus for new episodes lies on older teachings by Rinpoche that have not been published in video yet as well as major retreats that Rinpoche had led over the years. These episodes are mostly unedited in terms of content but often improved in terms of sound quality. See their video counterparts on our RAN page at fpmt.org/media/streaming/teachings-of-lama-zopa-rinpoche/
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 124 minutes
- Episodes
- 133
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
The Foundation of Thought Transformation Is to Understand the Kindness of Sentient Beings - Teaching #128
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings on thought transformation. Here is a summary of a teaching given on June 26 from Kopan Monastery, Nepal, at the request of Telo Tulku Rinpoche, Ganden…
The Foundation of Thought Transformation Is to Stop Harming Others - Teaching #127
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings on thought
transformation. Here is a summary of a teaching given on June 25 from
Kopan Monastery, Nepal, at the request of Telo Tulku Rinpoche, Ganden…
Your Main Practice in Life Should Be Cherishing Others - Teaching #126
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings on thought
transformation from Kopan Monastery in Nepal, offered to students from
China and Malaysia via Zoom on June 13.
All of the 84,000 teachings o…
The Real Refuge Practice Is Cherishing Sentient Beings - Teaching #125
Rinpoche offered this teaching to students from China and Malaysia via Zoom on June 12, 2022 from Kopan Monastery, Nepal.
By taking refuge in the Dharma, we should stop harming sentient beings, Rinpoc…
Having Taken Refuge, What to Abandon and What to Practice - Teaching #124
Rinpoche offered this teaching, recorded on June 11, 2022, at Kopan Monastery in Nepal for a group of students in China and Malaysia.
Numberless buddhas of the past, present, and future can see our s…
The Real Refuge Is Your Wisdom Realizing the Ultimate Nature
This podcast is from a teaching that Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave about Buddhist refuge for the graduation ceremony of the first cohort of Human Spirit, an Israel-based Buddhist-psychoanalytic training pr…
All About Vajrasattva
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this teaching to students attending the three-month Vajrasattva retreat at Kopan Monastery in Nepal on April 28, 2022.
Abandoning Nonvirtue Is a Source of Happiness for You
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this teaching to students attending the three-month Vajrasattva retreat at Kopan Monastery in Nepal on April 27, 2022. Here’s a summary of Rinpoche’s teaching.
If you want to …
By Doing Vajrasattva, You Are Doing Exactly What You Need to Do
“Your coming here to do Vajrasattva, wow, that’s really what you need,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche told the students attending the three-month Vajrasattva retreat at Kopan Monastery in Nepal on April 26, 202…
Why Buddhism Is So Important
Our minds are wrapped up in hallucination, Lama Zopa Rinpoche says in this highly charged teaching recorded on March 30, 2022.
Speaking to students attending the three-month Vajrasattva retreat at Ko…
Milarepa's Hymn Teaching in Shivapuri Village
On April 6, 2022 Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered this teaching to students prior to giving a Milarepa Initiation in Shivapuri Village, Nepal.
Taking Refuge Is Not Merely Reciting Words Like a Robot - Teaching #123
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues teaching on refuge in this new video. Rinpoche explains how “taking refuge is not only reciting words." He offers the example of a robot, which does not have a mind and w…
It Is Good to Know About the Bön Religion - Teaching #122
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his teachings on refuge from Kopan Monastery in Nepal. In this video Rinpoche reminds us that understanding the topic of refuge is so important because it can take a whol…
Rely on a Mind That Is Upset with Samsara - Teaching #121
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues teaching on refuge. Quoting from Lama Seringpa, Rinpoche explains how we should immediately cast away our self-cherishing thought, which creates all our suffering. Then w…
You Tie Yourself to Samsara - Teaching #120
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues teaching on refuge, emphasizing that refuge is not something simple that you hear and chant. Instead, one has to understand the four noble truths extensively and also und…
The Sutra “Going for Refuge to the Arya Three Rare Sublime Ones” - Teaching #119
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues teaching on refuge, emphasizing how important it is to not belittle the guru with whom you have made a Dharma connection. Quoting the Fifth Dalai Lama, Rinpoche explains …
The Merits of Taking Refuge Don't Fit in the Three Thousand Fold Galaxies - Teaching #118
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues discussing refuge in this recent teaching, reminding us that there are many ways in which we can help others, even with limited experience with and understanding of the p…
Don’t Think Taking Refuge Is Something Easy - Teaching #117
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues discussing refuge in this new video, reminding us that we must be careful about the objects in which we take refuge and making the point that it is best to go for refuge …
You Go for Refuge to Buddha, Buddha Definitely Guides You - Teaching #116
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the importance of taking refuge in Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha while we have this precious human rebirth; explains why Buddha can definitely guide you, especially if you g…
Making Offerings to Boudha Stupa - Teaching #115
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the benefits of making offerings to stupas, in particular Boudha Stupa in Nepal. Then, joined by Kopan senior Sangha, Rinpoche leads an offering practice to Boudha Stupa,…