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Geshe Doga and Students from Tara Institute Attend Long Life Puja for His Holiness the Dalai Lama
On Christmas Eve 2025, a long-life puja was offered to His Holiness at Drepung Monastery in Mundgod, India, this year’s host of the Annual Winter Debate. Several thousand (mostly monks) attended this event. Cynthia Karena of Tara Institute (TI), Melbourne, ... Read more »
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Attends Annual Winter Debate at Drepung Monastery
As a tremendous blessing to all of the monks participating, His Holiness the Dalai Lama attended the annual Winter Jang Debate, held this year at Drepung Monastery, South India. Two-thousand monks participated from over twenty monasteries. This annual debate dates ... Read more »
100,000 Candles Lit at Rinchen Jangsem Ling, Malaysia
The grounds of Rinchen Jangsem Ling retreat center (RJL) in Triang, Malaysia, were illuminated by 102,647 tea lights during its recent 100,000 Light Offerings to Thousand-Armed Chenrezig on the evening of December 6, 2025, breaking a record for the most ... Read more »
Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Practicing Compassion is Taking Care of Your Life
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave teachings at the Golden Abode of Buddha Shakyamuni in Elista, Kalmykia, Russia. October 4-6, 2019. These teachings were preliminary to the Great Chenrezig Initiation offered during this time. He continued to teach during the 100 Million ... Read more »
Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa Captures Treasured Memories of Lama Yeshe
Over the course of 2025, Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa (ILTK) in collaboration with Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive (LYWA) celebrated what would have been the 90th birthday of the FPMT’s co-founder, Lama Thubten Yeshe. To honor his profound legacy, ILTK invited ... Read more »
Precious Commentary on the Practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa
FPMT Education Services is pleased to present this volume of teachings on the six yogas of Naropa by Gyume Khenzur Rinpoche Lobsang Jampa, A Detailed Commentary on the Practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa. Lama Zopa Rinpoche held Khenzur ... Read more »
Amitabha Buddhist Centre and Tara Lanka Join Efforts to Offer Aid to Flood Victims in Sri Lanka
In a collaborative effort between Amitabha Buddhist Centre (ABC), Singapore; Tara Lanka Study Group, Sri Lanka; and dedicated selfless volunteers, disaster relief was offered to those devastated by recent floods in Sri Lanka. Ven. Tenzin Lekdon of Tara Lanka Study ... Read more »
Dharma Discourses on Vegetarianism: A Translation from Geshe Tenzin Namdak
Several years ago Lama Zopa Rinpoche requested Geshe Tenzin Namdak to translate sections of Geshe Thubten Soepa’s book on vegetarianism, Dharma Discourses on Abandoning Killing, Harming and Consuming the Meat of Innocent Sentient Beings, titled ‘The Melody of Willows Bending ... Read more »
Purification is the Answer!
With the new year approaching, many of us are reflecting on the past year— rejoicing in the blessings we received, and also assessing mistakes we have made in relation to ourselves and others. Fortunately, we have methods at our disposal ... Read more »
Fifty Years of FPMT: Dr. Nick Ribush Remembers
December 2025 marks 50 years since Lama Yeshe famously said, “We need an organization to keep this together,” during an eight-and-a-half month tour of nine countries–the most extensive Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche would ever make. What an unbelievable ... Read more »
Lama Yeshe on Christmas: Timeless Teaching and Video
Around Christmas time between 1971 and 1975, Lama Yeshe gave several talks related to Christmas to the Western students at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in case some of them were missing their families and being at home at that festive time ... Read more »