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Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Chenerzig Institute, Eudlo, Australia, June 2018. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.
We invite you to read our October 2018 FPMT International Office e-News. This month you’ll find:
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s schedule updates
- highlights and advice from our most recently published blogs
- The Path to Ultimate Happiness, a new ebook by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- an inspiring video of MAITRI Charitable Trust
- The Inner Job Description (IJD) App now available in six languages
… and much more!
French and Spanish speakers will find the FPMT International Office News translated each month in the “Bienvenue” and “Bienvenidos” tabs on the FPMT homepage.
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Washington State, USA, June 2018. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab
We hope you will enjoy our latest e-News, out now!
This month we bring you:
- New Advice and a New Book from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- New Opportunities to Rejoice with us:
Millions of Mani Mantras Recited
A Fruitful Foundation Service Seminar
…and more!
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching at Chag-tong Chen-tong Center, Tasmania, Australia, May 2018. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.
We hope you will enjoy the July FPMT International Office e-News!
This month we bring you:
- Updates on Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Schedule
- News about the Ongoing Investment by the FPMT Puja Fund
- How the International Merit Box Project is Helping
…and more!
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Australia, May 2018. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.
We hope you will enjoy the June FPMT International Office e-News, out now!
This month we bring you:
- Highlights of Recent Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- The Updated FPMT Mission Statement
- Sutra of Golden Light Resources
- News from our Foundation Store
…and more!
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche offering to pretas and doing Dzambhala practice at the lake near Thubten Shedrup Ling Monastery, Bendigo, Australia, April 2018. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang. Read about and listen to the recordings of the teachings given by Rinpoche during the retreat.
We invite you to read our May FPMT International Office e-News!
This month you will find:
- An Addition to Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Schedule
- An Update on the Steps on the Path to Enlightenment Series
- An Invitation to Work a Day for Rinpoche
- New Materials from our Education Services Department
- An Introduction to the Newest FPMT Study Group!
… and more!
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Ganden Tri Rinpoche, India, November 2017. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.
We hope you enjoy the April edition of the FPMT International Office e-News!
This month we bring you:
- Updates to Rinpoche’s schedule, including an initiation particularly beneficial to those serving in the organization;
- New materials from Education Services;
- More to rejoice about, including news about a recent Foundation Service Seminar, and dates of upcoming FPMT Service Seminars!
… and more!
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche and his sister, Anila Ngawang Samten, Nepal, February 2018. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.
Welcome to the March edition of the monthly FPMT International Office e-News!
This month we bring you:
- Highlights of Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- An Invitation to Read Our 2017Annual Review: Serving the Teachings of the Buddha
- Rejoice in Our Investment in the Entire Organization
- New Materials from Education Services
- New FPMT Study Groups
- Tara Introduced to Australia!
..and more!
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FPMT International Office is happy to announce FPMT Annual Review 2017: Serving the Teachings of the Buddha is now available to read as an eZine and a downloadable PDF.
International Office, also called Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s office, helps fulfill the vision of FPMT’s founders Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, assists with the actualization of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s vast vision for the FPMT organization, and supports 164 centers, projects, and services in 39 countries that comprise the international FPMT network. Each year, International Office shares our accomplishments and rejoices in what has been achieved.
“From the bottom of my heart and bones, thank you numberless times for all your service; dedication; practice of holy Dharma with your body, speech, and mind; and for your devotion and good heart,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche says in his letter in this year’s annual review.
“The ultimate aim is to benefit sentient beings, whose minds are obscured and suffering, and for them to achieve happiness in this life and happiness in future lives, then the ultimate happiness of liberation from samsara and of buddhahood, the total cessation of obscurations and completion of realizations,” Rinpoche continues.
“Therefore, sentient beings receive all the peace and happiness up to enlightenment by serving the teachings of Buddha, so that the teachings exist continually and develop, and also by serving the Sangha, who preserve and spread Dharma in this world.”
Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Ven. Roger Kunsang in Vienna, Austria, September 2017. Photo by Andrea Husnik.
In addition to Rinpoche’s letter, FPMT Annual Review 2017 includes an update from FPMT CEO Ven. Roger Kunsang, an overview of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s tireless Dharma activities, and highlights from International Office’s departments.
New this year, we’ve made a special online photo album for the annual review, sharing photos from Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s 2017 travels to India, Nepal, Mongolia, Russia, the United States, Austria, and Italy. Scroll or click through to see Rinpoche throughout the year bringing benefit to all sentient beings and giving us so much in which to rejoice!
We invite you to read FPMT Annual Review 2017: Serving the Teachings of the Buddha, now available online in eZine and PDF formats:
https://fpmt.org/fpmt/annual-review/
See photo highlights from Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s 2017:
https://fpmt.org/teachers/zopa/gallery/lama-zopa-rinpoches-2017/
FPMT International Office is Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s office and works daily to achieve its mission of “preserving and spreading Mahayana Buddhism worldwide by creating opportunities to listen, reflect, meditate, practice, and actualize the unmistaken teachings of the Buddha, and based on that experience, spread the Dharma to sentient beings.”
Lama Zopa Rinpoche during Root Institute’s 30th anniversary celebration, India, January 2018. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.
All good wishes for Losar (Tibetan New Year) to you, from Lama Zopa Rinpoche and all at FPMT International Office.
Our Losar greetings are part of the February FPMT International Office e-News.
In addition to our Losar message, we invite you to enjoy:
- Updates to Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Schedule
- How we can keep you updated daily!
- Why it’s time to empty your Merit Box
- News about Foundation Service Seminars in Spanish
and more…..
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche during the official long life puja offered at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, December 14, 2017. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.
We invite you to enjoy our January e-News.
This month we bring you:
- How to Report your Recitations for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Health
- Rejoicing in Another Year of Charitable Giving
- Two New Stories from Mandala magazine
- Two New FPMT Study Groups
… and more, with lots of lovely photos!
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Italy, October 2017. Photo by Piero Sirianni.
Warm Seasons Greetings from Lama Zopa Rinpoche and FPMT International Office!
Our greetings come as part of the December FPMT International Office e-News.
As well as our greetings of the season, we bring you:
- A Reminder about Updates to Rinpoche’s Schedule
- Our Year-End Generosity Campaign
- Welcome to the New Issue of Mandala magazine!
- Rejoicing about: A New FPMT Center, and 2 New Study Groups!
Two Fruitful Foundation Service Seminars!
… and more, with lots of lovely photos!
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Venerable Bhikshus, whoever sees dependent and relative origination, sees the Dharma.
Whoever sees the Dharma, sees the Buddha.
What is this dependent and relative origination of which I speak?
It is this: because this exists, that arises. Because this is born, that is born.
It is like this: through the condition of ignorance, compounding factors. From the condition of compounding factors, consciousness … name and form … the six sense spheres … contact … feeling … craving … grasping … existence … birth … aging and death. From the condition of aging and death, agony, wailing, suffering, unhappiness, and mental disturbance all arise. Like that, merely this enormous heap of suffering arises.
—From the Salistamba, or Rice Seedlings Sutra, [translation by Ven. Tenzin Gache] the primary source of teachings on the twelve links of dependent arising.
In his new article for Mandala titled “Personalizing the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination,” Ven. Tenzin Gache shares a comprehensive view of what Lama Tsongkhapa considered to be the most profound teaching from the Buddha.
Exploring each of the twelve links, Ven. Tenzin offers a clear depiction of this Dharma topic, which many practitioners consider to be an elusive subject, and in doing so he offers a thorough account of one of Mahayana Buddhism’s most significant teachings.
Read Ven. Tenzin Gache’s new article “Personalizing the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination” in its entirety:
https://fpmt.org/mandala/online-features/personalizing-the-twelve-links-of-dependent-origination/
Find more in-depth stories and interviews on Mandala:
https://fpmt.org/mandala/online-features/
Mandala is offered as a benefit to supporters of the Friends of FPMT program, which provides funding for the educational, charitable and online work of FPMT.
