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Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Transforming Loss into Virtuous Action
In The Six Perfections: The Practice of the Bodhisattvas (2020), Lama Zopa Rinpoche walks us through the six perfections, which are a key Mahayana Buddhist teaching. Today we share an excerpt from Rinpoche’s teaching on the perfection of charity from ... Read more »
Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Patience Is of Utmost Importance
In a 2022 letter to an FPMT center director, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, the perfect epitome of patience, offered an unmissable teaching on why patience is critically important, and how to protect and cultivate it through applying conscientious effort. Explaining the ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Activities Supported by the FPMT Education & Preservation Fund in 2023
In 2023, an incredible US$173,156 was disbursed in grants from the FPMT Education and Preservation Fund to promote the development of Buddhist education programs and the preservation of the Dharma through the publication of Buddhist practice materials and translations. We ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Preparing Apple Strudel on the Path to Enlightenment
In late September 2017, Lama Zopa Rinpoche visited Panchen Losang Chogyen Gelugzentrum in Vienna, Austria. This was Rinpoche’s first official stay in Austria and his first visit to the FPMT center. Following the 2017 Light of the Path retreat, and ... Read more »
January 2024 e-News is Now Available
FPMT International Office wishes you a happy and auspicious new year! This issue of our monthly e-news brings you news, resources, and special announcements including: News about Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Stupa of Complete Victory, Wisdom Publications releases a new book ... Read more »
FPMT Students Attend His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Teachings on “In Praise of the Dharmadhatu”
His Holiness the Dalai Lama offered teachings on “In Praise of the Dharmadhatu” by Nagarjuna in Bodhgaya, India, from December 29-31, 2023. Cynthia Karena, Tara Institute (Australia) student stayed at Root Institute during these teachings and was able to talk ... Read more »
Lama Yeshe’s Wisdom: The Experiential Nature of Lord Buddha’s Teachings
Lama Thubten Yeshe (1935–1984), who founded the FPMT organization with Lama Zopa Rinpoche, was able to translate Tibetan Buddhist teachings into clear ideas that resonated with the Western students he met and taught in the 1970s and ’80s. These teachings ... Read more »
The Four Verses Altar Card Available
The Four Verses pays homage to the buddhas in their corporeal and non-corporeal manifestations, and to the places where the historical Shakyamuni Buddha had displayed his twelve deeds or visited. Seeing the immense benefit of reading and making offerings to ... Read more »
Construction of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Stupa of Complete Victory Has Begun!
We are so excited to share the news that the Stupa of Complete Victory being built at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s swift return is well underway. In October 2023 special pujas for the groundbreaking and blessing of ... Read more »
Important FPMT Geshe Conference Underway at Kopan Monastery
With great rejoicing we share that a truly auspicious meeting is occurring (January 9-14) at Kopan Monastery which has incredible significance for the FPMT organization. More than thirty FPMT geshes and geshemas from around the world, joined by five FPMT ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Life of Lee Chung Han: A Legacy of Compassion and Generosity
Lee Chung Han passed away at age 43 on October 22, 2023 in Malaysia from leukemia. Below we share an obituary for Lee Chung Han and also a special interview with Gomo Tulku Rinpoche detailing the close friendship and mutual ... Read more »