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Kopan Monastery’s Birthday Celebration for Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Upcoming Long Life Puja

Kopan Monastery’s Birthday Celebration for Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Upcoming Long Life Puja

Birthday Celebration On Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s birthday, December 3, the Kopan community, joined by monks and nuns, locals, and November Course participants, offered a Sixteen Arhats long-life puja to Rinpoche, and organized a joyous celebration for FPMT’s spiritual director, which ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Achievements of Sangye Sherpa, Longtime Director of Lawudo Retreat Center

Rejoicing in the Achievements of Sangye Sherpa, Longtime Director of Lawudo Retreat Center

This letter below by Frances Howland was originally published in the Love Lawudo Newsletter #14, November 2022. It celebrates the service of Sangye Sherpa, the brother of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and the development of the Lawudo Gompa and Retreat Center ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Teaching from Kopan Monastery – Join in the Livestreams!

Lama Zopa Rinpoche Teaching from Kopan Monastery – Join in the Livestreams!

Yesterday Lama Zopa Rinpoche officially started teaching from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery in Nepal. In this teaching Rinpoche discussed the importance of the lamrim teachings and he stressed to the participants how meaningful it is for ... Read more »
Blessing Sentient Beings in the Ocean

Blessing Sentient Beings in the Ocean

Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered this video teaching on July 8, 2022 from Bedok Jetty, a popular fishing and walking pier, in Singapore. In this intimate video, Rinpoche shares prayers and mantras which are most beneficial for blessing beings in the ... Read more »
Big Love Summit 2022

Big Love Summit 2022

We recently announced that the Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom (FDCW) will now serve as the FPMT organization’s official hub for the Universal Education for Compassion and Wisdom (UECW) Pillar of Service, to provide secular tools inspired by Dharma ... Read more »
A Most Happy Birthday and Long Life to Lama Zopa Rinpoche!

A Most Happy Birthday and Long Life to Lama Zopa Rinpoche!

Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s birthday is celebrated on December 3. We invite you to join the entire FPMT community as we rejoice in another year of Rinpoche’s compassionate and inspiring life, and transformative teachings. A celebration for Rinpoche will begin at ... Read more »
His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Transformative Teachings, September 2022

His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Transformative Teachings, September 2022

Buddhist students around the world have learned to appreciate technology and the blessings of Zoom since the Covid-19 pandemic halted travel and large events or gatherings for most of us for nearly three years. In September, His Holiness the Dalai ... Read more »
Fifty-third Kopan Meditation Course is Underway!

Fifty-third Kopan Meditation Course is Underway!

Lama Zopa Rinpoche has said, “Coming to a Kopan Course is the most important education of your Life.” On November 25, 2022, after a two year break due to the COVID restrictions and safety concerns, 175 students started the fifty-third ... Read more »
Magnificent New Forty-two Foot Stupa at Rabgayling Tibetan Settlement

Magnificent New Forty-two Foot Stupa at Rabgayling Tibetan Settlement

The Rabgayling Tibetan Settlement in Hunsur, South India is home to the Rabgayling Old Aged Home, a care facility serving approximately twenty residents. FPMT Charitable Projects, through the Social Services Fund, has been supporting this home since 2015, providing grants ... Read more »
New Podcast Episode: #16 Meditate on Emptiness While Walking

New Podcast Episode: #16 Meditate on Emptiness While Walking

There is a new episode of the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast. You can listen to the new episode on our website or find it in your favorite podcast app by searching for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts.” New ... Read more »
Practice Resources to Support Health

Practice Resources to Support Health

As many communities worldwide are entering flu season, we wanted to share some practice materials specific to supporting and protecting our health. Here are some available for download through the Foundation Store: The Dharani of the Goddess Parnashavari: Parnashavari, or ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Advice for Benefiting Turkeys on the U.S. Thanksgiving Holiday

Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Advice for Benefiting Turkeys on the U.S. Thanksgiving Holiday

Every year in the United States, tens of millions of turkeys are killed for the holiday of Thanksgiving, which is this Thursday, November 24, 2022. Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered advice in a 2018 teaching to help benefit the turkeys killed, ... Read more »