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True Dharma Practitioners Welcome Trouble
The following teaching from Lama Thubten Yeshe, who founded FPMT with Lama Zopa Rinpoche, encourages us to use our Dharma practice in difficult times. Sometimes when people first hear Dharma teachings on happiness and suffering they think that happiness depends ... Read more »
Langri Tangpa Centre Created Australia’s 2,500th Street Library
Langri Tanga Centre (LTC), the FPMT center in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, used a US$300 International Merit Box Project grant they received in 2019 to create a “Street Library” on the center’s outside property. The International Merit Box Project was created ... Read more »
‘To Purify and Do Vajrasattva Practice Is the Ultimate Answer’
“Of course by purifying negative karma collected since beginningless rebirth and by collecting extensive merits, this allows you to have realizations on the path to enlightenment and for your mind to change,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche wrote to a student who ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Plushy Dharma Friends!
During Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Teachings on Thought Transformation during the Time of COVID-19, Rinpoche has brought many “friends” to the teachings. More than twenty-five stuffed animals with profound words of wisdom written on their bodies have joined Rinpoche on the ... Read more »
The First Vital Point Is Recognizing the Object to Be Refuted
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings on thought transformation from Kopan Monastery in Nepal. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching: Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins this teaching going over the first vital point of the four vital ... Read more »
Celebrating with the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion during the COVID-19 Pandemic
In 1981, Lama Thubten Yeshe laid out the original plans for the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, an FPMT project near Bendigo in Victoria, Australia. On Tuesday, December 17, 2019, the community celebrated as the final pieces of the Great ... Read more »
See Everything as a Golden Flower
With the celebration of the seasonal holidays interrupted because of the global pandemic, we have an opportunity to reflect on our usual attitudes and habits at this time of year, and perhaps change them. Lama Yeshe spoke about how to ... Read more »
Prison Is Not the Real Prison
Enjoy Life Liberated from the Inner Prison is a new book from Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Lama Zopa Rinpoche, who serves as the spiritual director of the Liberation Prison Project, asked Ven. Robina Courtin, who ran the project until 2009, to ... Read more »
FPMT Study Group Making History: First Stupa Built in Transylvania, Romania
Center of White Mahakala an FPMT study group in Romania is building a 7.5-foot Kadampa stupa in Tranisu, Transylvania, fifty miles from where the study group is located. This will be the first stupa built in Transylvania! The final plan ... Read more »
Science & Wisdom LIVE: Bringing Science and Contemplative Traditions Together
Jamyang Buddhist Centre, the FPMT center in London, UK, launched their new project, Science & Wisdom LIVE, on November 11, 2020, with a dialogue between two scientists and two contemplative practitioners. Project managers Marco Colnaghi and Dr. Sajda van der ... Read more »
Warm Season’s Greetings, and News
We send you warm season’s greetings from Lama Zopa Rinpoche and his FPMT International Office! We also share this month’s FPMT e-News. Highlights include: Official Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche, How to Say Goodbye to Depression, New and ... Read more »