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Lama Zopa Rinpoche News & Advice
Your Mind Can Turn a Loss into an Offering
The Six Perfections: The Practice of the Bodhisattvas is a recent book from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, in which Rinpoche walks us through this key Mahayana Buddhist teaching. Here’s an excerpt from Rinpoche’s teaching on the perfection of charity: Keeping our …
FPMT International Office has created this page of resources and advice for individuals and centers worldwide in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
You can also find Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s advice and video teachings on thought transformation for the time of the coronavirus pandemic.
Current Events
Tentatively rescheduled to 2022:
Light of the Path Retreat, Kadampa Center, North Carolina, USA
TENTATIVELY rescheduled for pre-Easter 2022
Bodhicaryavatara and Rinjung Gyatsa Retreat, including the initiation of Guhyasamaja. The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, Bendigo, Australia
Current Advice
Your Mind Can Turn a Loss into an Offering
The Six Perfections: The Practice of the Bodhisattvas is a recent book from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, in which Rinpoche walks us through this key Mahayana Buddhist teaching. Here’s an excerpt from Rinpoche’s teaching on the perfection of charity: Keeping our …
For more advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on a wide range of topics in the form of short talks and letters go to – Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
Rinpoche Available Now (RAN)
Teachings of Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives teachings throughout the year at FPMT centers around the world. Many of these teachings are livestreamed – these video and audio recordings together with other resources are available as part of our Rinpoche Available Now (RAN) project.
Additional Video Resources
Essential Extracts of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings
Choose from a large collection of video extracts that represent the essence of Lama Zopa Rinpoche teachings.
Photo Galleries
Enjoy browsing our extensive FPMT photo galleries of Lama Zopa Rinpoche as he leads teachings and retreats around the globe. Galleries are added monthly. Archives include: Extensive Offerings at Kachoe Dechen Ling and Buddha Amitabha Pure Land, Paintings and Drawings, Animal Art, Lama Zopa Rinpoche selection of best photos, Lama Yeshe and Rinpoche old photos, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Rinpoche. View Photos »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Zopa Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist scholar and meditator who for 30 years has overseen the spiritual activities of the worldwide network of 160-plus centers, projects and social services that form the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) which he founded with Lama Thubten Yeshe.
Read more about Lama Zopa Rinpoche including: updates on his health, news blog, photos, videos, schedule, advice and how to contact.
FPMT News
Education: The Heart of FPMT
Now Available: New Edition of the FPMT Retreat Prayer Book
The FPMT Retreat Prayer Book has become a valued resource for students attending longer teaching events and retreats with Lama Zopa Rinpoche as well as for those doing personal retreats, pilgrimage, and daily practice. The prayer book, which was first ...Charitable Activities
New 35-Foot Stupa Sponsored at Rabagayling Tibetan Settlement, Hunsur India
Since 2015, FPMT Charitable Projects has been supporting Rabgayling Old Aged Home in Hunsur, India, which is part of the Rabagayling Tibetan Settlement and serves 20 elderly residents. Over several grants, funds have been offered for daily food for the ...FPMT Community News
Ganden Tendar Ling Center Is Sharing the Tsa-Tsa Making Practice in Russia
Ganden Tendar Ling Center, the FPMT center in Moscow, Russia, has been teaching the tsa-tsa making practice since November 2019 and has introduced the tsa-tsa making practice to the two FPMT study centers in Russia, Aryadeva Study Group and Lama ...Education
Education is the very heart of FPMT. Through comprehensive study programs, practice materials, training programs, and scholarships, FPMT nourishes the development of compassion, wisdom, kindness, and true happiness in individuals.
Whether you are a beginner or an advanced practitioner, take the next step to take on your spiritual journey. Education Programs »
Charitable Projects
Gifts to the Most Needed Fund will be used where they will do the greatest good to fulfill the mission of FPMT. This includes supporting all of the activities of the FPMT International Office, and providing for urgent needs and critical shortfalls in ongoing commitments and grants from FPMT charitable projects. Donations may also fund new projects and unanticipated needs not provided for elsewhere. more…
Friends of FPMT
Friends of FPMT members help us make the Dharma accessible to thousands of students, expand our programs and publications, and support our service to local FPMT communities around the world. Members also receive access to online studies, downloadable prayers, practices, ebooks, and a subscription to Mandala! Learn more and join…
Online Learning
With over 50 modules available in English, Spanish and French, and more than 10,000 registered users, the FPMT Online Learning Center provides an enormous opportunity to learn. Students can engage in the comprehensive programs developed by FPMT Education Services without leaving home.
The Foundation Store
The Foundation Store is FPMT’s online shop and features a vast selection of Buddhist study and practice materials written or recommended by our lineage gurus.
Browse our online programs, practices and prayers in PDF and ebook formats, materials for children, and other resources; the majority of which are offered using a generosity-based system.
Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
LYWA is the Archive of FPMT. It contains the recordings and transcripts of Lama Thubten Yeshe’s and Kyabje Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings dating back to the early 1970s. You can read transcripts, view photos and listen to teachings. more…
