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Dagri Rinpoche has for many years been one of the Tibetan teachers on FPMT’s Tibetan Teachers List.
The Indian police last week received a formal complaint from a woman who was on a commercial airline flight with Dagri Rinpoche in India, accusing Dagri Rinpoche of inappropriate behaviour during the flight. Furthermore, another woman recently made allegations about misconduct by Dagri Rinpoche 10 years ago, which she shared via a YouTube video.
FPMT International Office understands that best practice is to suspend a teacher from teaching while an investigation is ongoing, in order to protect students, and the teacher. The investigation into what happened on the flight is currently being conducted by the Indian police.
We have therefore temporarily suspended Dagri Rinpoche from the FPMT Tibetan Teachers List with immediate effect, pending the conclusion of the police investigation. This means that Dagri Rinpoche may not teach, or be invited to teach, in any FPMT center during this suspension. FPMT teacher suspension does not indicate an assumption of guilt.
Dagri Rinpoche sent International Office this personal statement regarding the allegations.
Regarding the allegations made on YouTube, we have reached out directly to the woman who posted the video. In 2011, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Private Office informed us that they had received an allegation by this woman against Dagri Rinpoche. The Private Office informed us that they had investigated the allegations, and that they had resolved the matter with the woman. They informed us that Dagri Rinpoche understood the seriousness of the allegations and committed to avoid situations which could give rise to similar allegations in the future.
Therefore, we maintained Dagri Rinpoche’s listing on the FPMT Tibetan Teachers List. However, we took our responsibility to students seriously, and alerted FPMT regional and national coordinators about the matter, asking them to inform any center which had invited or was planning to invite Dagri Rinpoche, so that they could consider their invitation in light of this information. We also took the opportunity to review FPMT policies and processes to see if any further amendments were needed to ensure the safety of students, teachers, and centers.
We sent a reminder about this to the coordinators last year, as we were told that talk was circulating about Dagri Rinpoche.
We have received no complaints about Dagri Rinpoche since 2011.
Our recent decision to suspend Dagri Rinpoche is consistent with the emphasis which the FPMT organization places on ethical behavior.
FPMT policies and guidelines are instituted to help individuals in positions of authority to uphold a safe, respectful environment in their local center, project, or service. These include:
- Abiding within the Law
- FPMT Ethical Policy
- Grievance procedure guideline
- Teacher Policy and guidelines, which help ensure that Dharma teachings are provided only by those who are qualified to teach Dharma (FPMT registered teachers)
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has given this advice for Dagri Rinpoche’s students on how to relate to this situation from a Dharma perspective.
Find new updates and advice here.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching and giving initiations, Kopan Nunnery, Nepal, April 2019. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.
We hope you enjoy the April FPMT International Office e-News.
This month we bring you:
- Highlights of Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- How FPMT Invests in Education in Nepal
- An Offer from the Foundation Store
…and more!
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nepal, December 2018. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.
We hope you enjoy our March FPMT International Office e-News!
This month we bring you:
- A beautiful portrait photo of Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- News about our Annual Review 2018!
- New Materials, including Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Recognizing the False I
- Updates from the Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program
…and more!
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FPMT International Office is happy to announce FPMT Annual Review 2018: Live with Compassion. The new annual review is 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 40 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, thank you all 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 writes in this year’s annual review.
In addition to advice from Rinpoche, the FPMT Annual Review 2018 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.
Please note: The FPMT Annual Review 2018 is available in digital format only, meaning it will not be printed and posted to FPMT centers, projects, and services.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche during a teaching organized by Gendun Drupa Center, Savièse, Switzerland, November 2018. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.
We invite you to read FPMT Annual Review 2018: Live with Compassion, now available online in eZine and PDF formats:
https://fpmt.org/fpmt/annual-review/
See photo highlights from Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s 2018:
https://fpmt.org/teachers/zopa/gallery/#2018
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.”
Mandala January-June 2019
The cover story from the January-June 2019 issue of Mandala magazine, “Sustaining the Pure Unbroken Lineage of Buddha’s Teachings in This World: The Legacy of the Sera Je Food Fund,” shares the history and success of the Sera Je Food Fund. Through the extraordinary generosity of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and the supporters of the fund, an endowment was created large enough to support the long-term health of the Sera Je Food Fund. Interest from this endowment covers the entire cost of offering the monks at Sera Je Monastery three nutritious meals a day throughout the year.
You can read the complete article on the food fund, “Sustaining the Pure Unbroken Lineage of Buddha’s Teachings in This World: The Legacy of the Sera Je Food Fund,” in eZine format and as a PDF.
The latest print edition also includes the story “Buxa Chogar: Saving Tibetan Buddhism in Exile” by Robyn Brentan. The article looks at the extraordinary hardships the Tibetan monastic refugee community experienced as they dedicated themselves to preserving the authentic Dharma in exile. The kindness these refugee monastics demonstrated by going on to rebuild the monasteries in India and to teach Dharma to Westerners is beyond measure. In this issue’s online content, you can read stories from and about FPMT geshes, sharing some of their personal experiences of Buxa Chogar and exile.
Mandala magazine is published twice a year. Mandala January-June 2019 has been mailed to Friends of FPMT supporters and to the FPMT centers, projects, and services who offer the magazine as a benefit.
If you would like to have future issues of Mandala sent to you in the mail, sign up for Friends of FPMT at the Foundation Friends level or higher. Friends of FPMT can also read the full issue online or download it to their electronic reading devices. They can also choose to donate their print issue to an incarcerated person, facilitated by the Liberation Prison Project.
For those wishing to purchase a copy, the January-June 2019 issue is also available through the FPMT Foundation Store.
We hope you enjoy the January-June 2019 issue of Mandala magazine.
If you want to help Sangha, please learn more about FPMT Charitable Project’s Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund and the ways it supports monasteries and nunneries around the world.
FPMT.org and Mandala Publications brings you news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and of activities, teachings, and events from over 160 FPMT centers, projects, and services around the globe. If you like what you read, consider becoming a Friend of FPMT, which supports our work.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered lunch to Dagri Rinpoche and his attendant, Ven. Tenzin Gyaltsen, Root Institute, Bodhgaya, India, January 2019. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.
Out now – the February FPMT International Office e-News!
- This month we bring you:
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Schedule Updates - Thanks from Rinpoche for the Sera Je Food Fund
- We’re Seeking New Friends!
…and more!
Have this translated into your native language by using our convenient translation facility located on the right-hand side of the page. French and Spanish speakers will find the FPMT International Office News translated each month in the “Bienvenue” and “Bienvenidos” tabs on the FPMT homepage.
The FPMT International Office e-News comes from your FPMT International Office. Visit our subscribe page to receive the FPMT International Office News directly in your email box.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Tenzin Phuntsok Rinpoche, Bodhgaya, India, December 2018. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.
We hope you enjoy our January FPMT International Office e-News!
This month we bring you news about:
- Updates to Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Teaching Schedule
- Time to Empty Your Merit Box!
- 2019 LPP Calendar Available to Order
…and more!
Have this translated into your native language by using our convenient translation facility located on the right-hand side of the page. French and Spanish speakers will find the FPMT International Office News translated each month in the “Bienvenue” and “Bienvenidos” tabs on the FPMT homepage.
The FPMT International Office e-News comes from your FPMT International Office. Visit our subscribe page to receive the FPMT International Office News directly in your email box.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche, December 2018. Photo by Ven Lobsang Sherab.
Please find Season’s Greetings from Lama Zopa Rinpoche and all of us at Rinpoche’s Office, together with our latest e-News!
In addition to our Season’s Greetings, we bring you news of:
How to Give A Gift to Benefit Others
New Materials from Education Services
Rejoicing in Completion of the Thame Stupa Rebuild
Two New Online Stories from Mandala
…and more!
Have this translated into your native language by using our convenient translation facility located on the right-hand side of the page. French and Spanish speakers will find the FPMT International Office News translated each month in the “Bienvenue” and “Bienvenidos” tabs on the FPMT homepage.
The FPMT International Office e-News comes from your FPMT International Office. Visit our subscribe page to receive the FPMT International Office News directly in your email box.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Madrid, Spain, November 2018. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.
Out Now – the FPMT International Office e-News for November!
This month we bring you news about:
- Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- Our new project to protect the environment
- Results of our recent Translation Fund campaign
- A new book by Lama Yeshe
- Opportunities to offer service
…and more!
Have this translated into your native language by using our convenient translation facility located on the right-hand side of the page. French and Spanish speakers will find the FPMT International Office News translated each month in the “Bienvenue” and “Bienvenidos” tabs on the FPMT homepage.
The FPMT International Office e-News comes from your FPMT International Office. Visit our subscribe page to receive the FPMT International Office News directly in your email box.
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!
The FPMT International Office News comes from your FPMT International Office. Visit our subscribe page to receive the FPMT International Office News directly in your email box.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche showing relics to Ling Rinpoche, Aptos, USA, August 2018. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab
We hope you will enjoy the September FPMT International Office e-News.
This month we bring you:
- The Date for the Official Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- Highlights of Advice from Lama Zopa RInpoche
- Problem Solving in the FPMT Organization
- News About the First Teacher Development Service Seminar
…and more!
Have this translated into your native language by using our convenient translation facility located on the right-hand side of the page. French and Spanish speakers will find the FPMT International Office News translated each month in the “Bienvenue” and “Bienvenidos” tabs on the FPMT homepage
The FPMT International Office e-News comes from your FPMT International Office. Visit our subscribe page to receive the FPMT International Office News directly in your email box.
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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