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Ganden Lha Gyama Retreat Teachings on the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Full-Length Teachings Podcast
We are happy to announce a new addition to the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Full-Length Teachings Podcast featuring teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche given at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa (ILTK) in 2004. New episodes of this series will be released every ... Read more »
Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Medicine Buddha is Important for Dharma Centers
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advised that Dharma centers should perform the Medicine Buddha puja to bring peace and happiness, as well as inner and outer prosperity. Here we share Rinpoche discussing these benefits of Medicine Buddha practice in a teaching excerpt ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Offering “The Array of Sukhavati Pure Land” Oral Transmission
In this most precious video we are sharing today, Lama Zopa Rinpoche offers the oral transmission (*lung) of The Array of Sukhavati Pure Land: A Concise Mahayana Sutra , a prayer that came from Buddha Amitabha. This is an incredibly ... Read more »
Join Nalanda Monastery’s Gelug Monlam Festival Starting February 28!
During the Fifteen Days of Miracles, many Tibetan monasteries hold a Great Prayer Festival, which originates from Lama Tsongkhapa. Kopan Monastery has continued to host the Great Prayer Festival on behalf of the FPMT annually since 1998. The Monlam is ... Read more »
Rejoicing in and Remembering the Pujas and Prayers During these Fifteen Days of Miracles
During these Fifteen Days of Miracles (February 18-March 3), any merit created is magnified 100 million times. On behalf of the entire organization, the FPMT Puja Fund has arranged and sponsored a vast number of pujas and prayers, including the ... Read more »
100 Million Times the Merit During the Fifteen Days of Miracles
For fifteen days from Losar (February 18, 2026) through Chotrul Duchen (March 3, 2026)–the Great Prayer Festival during the Fifteen Days of Miracles–merit from virtuous actions performed on each of these days is multiplied by 100 million! We want to ... Read more »
February 2026 E-Newsletter is Now Available
Welcome to this month’s e-newsletter! We at FPMT International Office wish all of our dear friends and supporters a most happy and healthy Tibetan New Year of the Fire Horse! We have entered an incredibly powerful period through March 3, ... Read more »
An Update from the FPMT Inc. Board of Directors: February, 2026
Dear Friends, Losar Tashi Delek! It is the beginning of the Tibetan New Year, and there is still so much to convey about the last one! Today, we are sharing our progress on developing the Strategic Plan, appointing our new ... Read more »
Warmest Losar Greetings for the Year of the Fire Horse!
Losar Tashi Delek! Happy Tibetan New Year to all our dear friends! With love from everyone at FPMT International Office The Great Prayer Festival during the Fifteen Days of Miracles—from the first day of the Tibetan new year, Losar, (February ... Read more »
Richard Gere’s Moving Tribute to Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Last year we shared a very moving moving and heartfelt interview with Richard Gere on the qualities of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Today we are resharing this video for those who may have missed it. Richard Gere, a long-time friend ... Read more »
Losar and 15 Days of Miracles– A Powerful Opportunity for Practice
The Fifteen Days of Miracles commemorate the special time when Guru Shakyamuni Buddha showed miraculous powers in order to subdue six tirthikas, or non-Buddhist teachers, who lacked faith in him, and to inspire more faith in his followers. It begins ... Read more »