Participants in the 2025 Wheel of Sharp Weapons retreat at Kopan Monastery. Photo courtesy of Nalanda Monastery.

Kopan Monastery Spiritual Program Coordinator, Francisca Riaño and retreat leader Geshe Legtsok shared details of the Wheel of Sharp Weapons retreat, an expressed wish of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, which recently ended at Kopan:

In the spirit of honoring Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s wishes, we were blessed to host the first Wheel of Sharp Weapons retreat, led by Geshe Tenzin Legtsok from April 17-23, following the CPMT Summit and the anniversary of Rinpoche’s mahaparinirvana on April 13. With 53 participants, many of whom had just taken part in the CPMT meeting, the retreat offered a profound space for deep practice and transformation. 

The days began with one of the twelve international monks or nuns, who volunteered to guide the precepts ceremony and morning meditation. Afterward, Ven. Dechen from Malaysia and our dear Kopan nun, Ven. Tenzin (Ani Janne), led the Lama Chopa practice. Their leadership greatly enriched the retreat, ensuring participants could experience the practices authentically. Ven. Dechen’s voice, a true gift, brought an added sense of devotion and peace to the space. 

Our retreat leader, Geshe Legtsok, was a source of inspiration. With humor and humility, he shared his vast knowledge and infused every session with his deep devotion to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche. His teachings not only enlightened our minds but also touched our hearts, reminding us of the interconnectedness of our practice and spiritual family. 

Each day, we were fortunate to watch two videos of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings, seamlessly integrated into our morning and afternoon sessions. These teachings were deeply inspiring and brought Rinpoche’s presence into the retreat, blessing us with his timeless wisdom and boundless compassion. The collective energy in the gompa throughout the retreat felt like a mandala of joyful perseverance. Each day felt like an opportunity to deepen our commitment to the path. 

The retreat was a transformative experience, bringing together wisdom, devotion, and heartfelt connection as we practiced in honor of our precious teachers. It was an embodiment of the teachings of The Wheel of Sharp Weapons and a powerful reminder of the importance of perseverance, wisdom, and compassion on the spiritual path.

About the retreat, Geshe Legtsok shared: “Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s intention for the Wheel of Sharp Weapons retreat was that students actually develop realizations. Among the participants about 40 had attended the CPMT meeting, and many were senior students or ordained sangha. During the meditation sessions one could feel that all were very focused and making sincere effort in deepening their understanding and transformation. The essential aim was seeing how suffering fundamentally arises from selfishness and self-grasping ignorance; and how we can reduce and destroy these tendencies with powerful wisdom, compassion, and ethical conduct. At the conclusion many said they were deeply moved by their experiences in the retreat. The combination of Lama Chopa, Rinpoche’s teaching videos, a classic text, and explanations worked well a as basis for meditation. Also, practicing as a harmonious group definitely generates a special positive power. I’m grateful to all who made this possible and look forward to more such retreats.”

With grateful thanks to Francisca and Geshe Legtsok for the report on this very special retreat. 

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Lama Yeshe with children and families at Istituto Lama Tsongkhapa, Italy, 1983. Photos by Ueli Minder, courtesy of Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.

The April 2025 e-News is now available and brings many causes for rejoicing including:

• News regarding the reincarnation of Lama Zopa Rinpoche
• Advice for swift return prayers at this time
• Teachings and advice from Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche
• Lama’s 90th birthday approaching: A request for interviews! 
• An update on the 2025 CPMT Summit
• Wheel of Sharp Weapons retreat ends at Kopan Monastery
• Second annual Lawudo anniversary pilgrimage begins
• Resources and opportunities
• Changes in the FPMT organization

and much more!

Please read this month’s e-news in its entirety. 

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Yeshin Norbu, Sweden, is inviting  the entire FPMT community to join in a very special initiative dedicated to the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Students are requested to recite the OM MANI PADME HUM mantra as many times as one is able or wishes to do. The total of all the recitations will be offered to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama on July 6, 2025 for his 90th birthday. 

The motivation of this initiative is to offer these mantras for His Holiness’s long, healthy and stable life, for the fulfillment of all his projects, for world peace/universal compassion, and to fulfill Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s wishes by offering our practices to His Holiness.

Please learn about how to join this collective accumulation of MANI mantras to be offered to His Holiness! Several FPMT centers have joined the initiative, we rejoice! 

His Holiness is respectfully held as a manifestation of Chenrezig (Avalokiteshvara), the buddha of compassion, by his disciples.. Additional prayers to Chenrezig recommended by Lama Zopa Rinpoche can be found under Chenrezig Practices and Mantras,

For more on His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his beneficial activities, please visit DalaiLama.com.

2025 CPMT participants in front of the main gompa, Kopan Monastery, Nepal. Photo by Capucine Dekyong.

The 2025 CPMT Summit: Advancing Our Gurus’ Vision of a World Guided by Compassion and Wisdom has finished at Kopan Monastery in Nepal where 185 participants from 70 FPMT centers, projects and services, representing 25 different countries, gathered to discuss, debate, dream, collaborate, plan, and connect for six days. 

We look forward to sharing a full report and photos of this momentous event, which is so important for the FPMT organization at this time. Meanwhile, please join us in REJOICING that this productive, challenging, meaningful, and inspiring meeting has happened for the FPMT organization at our heart location, Kopan Monastery. May this coming together be the cause for the FPMT organization to continue serving others long, long into the future, based on the wishes of our most kind lamas who envisioned a world guided by compassion and wisdom. 

Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), is a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama smiling at guests gathered for a long life ceremony for His Holiness, Dharamsala, India, June 24, 2022. Photo by Tenzin Choejor, courtesy of DalaiLama.com.

The 2025 CPMT Summit at Kopan Monastery has commenced with 195 participants from 70 FPMT centers, projects and services represented from 25 different countries.

This momentous meeting, entitled: Actualizing Our Guru’s Vision of a World Guided by Compassion and Wisdom, began this evening, Sunday, April 6, 2025 and will be followed by the commemoration of Lama Zopa Rinpoche showing the aspect of passing away on April 13.

Kopan Abbot and FPMT Inc. Board member Khenrinpoche Geshe Chonyi welcomed all to the event and led the initial motivation, and FPMT Inc. Board member Ven. Pemba Sherpa shared a letter of support and encouragement for the meeting from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. We share this letter with great rejoicing!

Letter from His Holiness the Dalai Lama to CPMT Participants

I am pleased to know that representatives of all the centers belonging to the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) in different parts of the world will be meeting in Kathmandu, Nepal, to discuss the future direction of the organization.

First of all I want to recall the contribution your founder teachers, Lama Yeshe and Lama Thubten Zopa have made to the Dharma. Through this organization they have enabled many people to appreciate the potential of the Buddha Dharma to contribute to the wellbeing of sentient beings. Since 1979 at their request I have also given teachings to your members on many occasions – so we have established a special bond with each other.

Since both Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa have now passed away, it is appropriate that you discuss the future direction of your community. Soon after Lama Zopa passed away, members of the FPMT Board came to see me. One of the issues they raised was the future of the organization. As I understand it, the FPMT has a sound structure, with teachers and prominent disciples holding leadership positions, which you can reinforce on the basis of discussion and agreement. As I told them, I will continue to offer the FPMT encouragement and support in your service to benefit others.

Buddhism is a source of wisdom-you can use it to transform your minds. This involves reading or listening to the teachings, thinking them over again and again, then meditating on what you have understood. I sometimes describe this as the way to be a 21st century Buddhist.

These days there are also growing numbers of people, interested in understanding the workings of the mind and emotions as explained in Buddhist psychology which are both scientific and of practical value. I hope you will be able to provide opportunities for people to learn aspects of Buddhist knowledge purely from a secular approach.

In terms of what is of practical value, some of you may have heard me say that as soon as I wake every morning, I generate the awakening mind of bodhichitta, the aspiration to attain enlightenment to help other sentient beings, as well as the view that things do not exist as they appear. I find this very helpful-it warms my heart and brings me peace of mind. It can do that for you too.

With prayers and good wishes.

May this meeting achieve its mission to actualize our gurus’ vision of a world guided by compassion an wisdom! 

We will share news from the event in the coming days. 

Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), is a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

Eleven-year-old Tsering Dorje recognized as reincarnation of Geshe Champa Gyatso by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Photo by Manuela Ferro.

Sangha Lhungtok Choekhorling Monastic Association and Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa recently announced the joyful news that His Holiness the Dalai Lama has officially recognized eleven-year-old Tsering Dorje as the reincarnation of Geshe Jampa Gyatso, who served as the resident teacher of the ILTK for twenty-seven years and was the first abbot of Lhungtok Choekhorling Monastery.

The recognition ceremony was held on March 28, 2025 at House Number 3 of Sera Jey Monastery, where Tsering Dorje received from Ven. Massimo Stordi a letter from His Holiness the Dalai Lama informing him of his reincarnation as Geshe Jampa Gyatso.

Please read the full update from Sangha Lhungtok Choekhorling which includes information on upcoming events related to Tsering Dorje’s enthronement.

Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), is a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

Three Steps Plus One Prostration participants. Photo courtesy of Wong Kah Thim.

Prior to the pandemic, Rinchen Jangsem Ling (RJL) had organized two prostration events. Recently a student recalled these events with much joy, and it was determined that another event should be organized right away. With the Tibetan New Year (Losar) and the Fifteen Days of Miracles approaching, RJL decided to take advantage of this merit-making opportunity and hold the event right away. With barely a month for preparations once they decided to host this event, arrangements were swiftly put into place. On the eve of the event, the participants assembled at RJL to listen to Ven. Jampa’s explanation of the significance of prostrations.  Beginners were also taught the proper way to do prostrations, to generate maximum merit.

Three Steps Plus One Prostration participants. Photo courtesy of Wong Kah Thim.

Ven. Sonam leading prostrations. Photo courtesy of Wong Kah Thim.

The next morning before the break of dawn, participants started to gather at a designated spot downhill, approximately half a mile (1 kilometer) from RJL’s gompa. Despite the morning darkness, the atmosphere was charged with excitement and anticipation. Like a pied piper, Ven. Sonam started the ball rolling and led the prostrations, guiding participants to the resonant chants of OM MANI PADME HUM, further punctuated by the rhythmic ringing of the bell. 

Step by step, prostration by prostration, the group snaked their way along the gravel-filled dirt roads.  It was truly moving to witness individuals of all ages, including the disabled, elderly and children, taking part.  By midway, some started to lag behind, prompting a pause for them to catch up.  Two hours later, the group finally reached the foothill of RJL.  With the ascent now steeper, some became fatigued and changed to a slow walk up the hill.  Others however persisted, prostrating all the way to the gompa. 

Upon entering the gompa, a mixture of exhaustion, relief and exhilaration filled the atmosphere. With the merit generated from each prostration being multiplied by 100 million times and an estimated excess of 1,000 prostrations made that morning, the cumulative merits were mind-bogglingly huge!  Extensive dedications were made with much joy.  After the event, many chose to stay on and participate in the Guru Puja, as it also happened to be a tsog day as well.

Three Steps Plus One Prostration participants. Photo courtesy of Wong Kah Thim.

It was undeniably a day of merit-making and purification of negativities at RJL!  Plans are already underway for another prostration event in a few months time.  Rejoice!

Recounted by RJL’s Centre Director Ven. Sonam to Selina Foong, FPMT ESEA coordinator.

Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), is a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

15 Days of Swift Return Prayers were held at the Buddha’s place of enlightenment in Bodhgaya, from February 28-March 14, 2025. Photo courtesy of Root Institute.

During the entire Fifteen Days of Miracles (February 28-March 14, 2025), Root Institute organized fifteen days of pujas and offerings under the Bodhi Tree at the Mahabodhi Stupa for the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, combining the prayers and offerings of the Festival of Lights and Merits with swift return practice at the stupa.

Prayers and chanting occurred every evening during the Fifteen Days of Miracles, dedicated to the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Other activities included offering prayer flags around the pond inside the Mahabodhi Stupa complex; taking offering bowls filled with fruits and flowers in procession into the main temple to offer to the Shakyamuni Buddha statue; robes and khatas offered to the Shakyamuni Buddha statue; protector puja and Tara puja offered at Namgyal Monastery in Bodhgaya. Lights were offered around the stupa, sponsored by people from all around the world. Fresh flower offerings were made every day. Names of all who donated to this event were read aloud and dedications made.

Procession to offer bowls to the main image of Shakyamuni Buddha in the Bodhgaya stupa on behalf of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Photo courtesy of Root Institute.

Ven. Sarah Thresher shares moving details about the experience:

Proclaimed by buddhas of the eons past,
And to be taught by buddhas yet to come;
And taught not once but time and time again
By all the buddhas of the present age (v.12, Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri)

Bodhgaya is the center of the Buddhist universe, where pilgrims from all over the world gather to pray, practice, and pay homage to the Buddha, his teachings and noble community. I can think of no other place quite like it in this world. Below the sacred Bodhi Tree is the seat of enlightenment, an ancient throne said to mark the vajra ground where all the buddhas of this fortunate eon achieve enlightenment—the only support firm enough for such a realization. At times, this whole complex with its kora and numerous stupas and meditation places, truly seems to be a portal to other limitless dimensions beyond our current apprehension.

Robes and five khatas were offered to Shakyamuni Buddha statue on behalf of Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

And so it was for fifteen magical evenings this Losar—the days of miracles—seated under the Bodhi Tree next to the image of Manjushri, bathed in continually flowing shades of colored light. A small group of us somehow came together in a most spontaneous way, to recite the Sutra Remembering the Three Rare Sublime Ones; chant the Names of Noble Manjushri—the profound essence of all tantras—along with King of Prayers—summation of all the aspirational prayers of the bodhisattvas; and offer numberless lights to all the Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, statues, stupas, scriptures in numberless universes whose essence is the Dharmakaya holy mind of all the buddhas—the guru—while praying fervently for the swift return of our most precious lama, Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche. “It doesn’t seem real,” we would say to ourselves each evening as we finished our practice, the words of these profound and vast prayers circling through our mind over again.

Perception, its object, and the perceived all dissolve within the expanse,
The blissful clarity of suchness, A. (A Lamenting Wail: A Supplication for the Swift Return of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche)

This is the second year running that Root Institute has combined the prayers and offerings of the Festival of Lights and Merits with a swift return practice at the stupa—maximizing the most powerful prayers, most powerful days, most powerful time and most powerful place to make offerings and requests to the most powerful objects. It is common to hear the continual resounding of Dharma in different languages at the Mahabodhi Stupa day and night—but it is uncommon to hear these prayers and practices chanted in English, and that itself is a great tribute to our own precious teacher who spread the Buddha’s wisdom and compassion throughout the world. People stopped, they listened, they commented.

15 Days of Swift Return Prayers were held at the Buddha’s place of enlightenment in Bodhgaya, from February 28-March 14, 2025. Photo courtesy of Root Institute.

We plan to continue this tradition until a new incarnation of our precious teacher can join us at the stupa; and we offer gratitude to all the sponsors for their support. Please join us next year for the prayers in February 2026. 

With grateful thanks to Ven. Sarah Thresher for this report, and Root Institute Director, Ugyen Shola for providing details and updates of this incredible event which required so much effort and organization. 

All are welcome to please utilize the resources available to you, in order to sincerely pray for Rinpoche’s return. Additionally, Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive also offers Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s own commentary and oral transmission of Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri which is available to all.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche (1945-2023) was the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service. 

Ven. Tencho, photo courtesy of Kunsang Yeshe Retreat Centre.

Ven. Tencho (Tenzin Chozum) passed away on February 19 after a lengthy illness in Northern New South Wales, Australia. 

Kunsang Yeshe Retreat Centre shares:

Ven, Tencho, photo courtesy of Kunsang Yeshe Retreat Centre.

Ven. Tencho first took rabjung vows in 1998 and received getsul vows from His Holiness Dalai Lama in 2000. From 2002 to 2009 she undertook Buddhist philosophy studies at Chenrezig Institute in Queensland, AUS, and then came to Kunsang Yeshe Retreat Centre in Katoomba where she taught a range of Buddhist philosophy and meditation classes.

Venerable Tencho worked tirelessly for the center, dedicating many hours to keeping the center financially afloat and becoming well known and loved at the community markets. She cooked countless meals and supported anyone attending the center on retreat, for teachings, or seeking company and community. 

She brought many extraordinary teachers to the Blue Mountains and was found day and night giving encouragement, food, and sustenance of every kind to all. May Ven. Tencho be reborn in a pure realm and return to continue her work in facilitating the teachings and showing respect, joy, and love in living the Dharma. A true spiritual friend.

A special puja will be held for Ven. Tencho on Sunday March 30 at 11a.m. AEST via Zoom and in the Gompa at Kunsang Yeshe Retreat Centre, 116 Bathurst Road, Katooomba. Details can be found here:
https://kunsangyeshe.com.au/puja-for-venerable-tenchos-passing/

With grateful thanks to Anne Sinclair for collecting and providing the above information. 

Ven. Tencho’s personal story illustrates how powerful studying the Dharma can be. Her journey from prison inmate to ordained nun to Basic Program student at Chenrezig Institute to center director at Kunsang Yeshe Retreat Centre is offered with the hope of inspiring all of us in our practice of transforming our minds. Please read this short piece written by Ven. Tencho in 2014, Curiosity, Disillusionment, Knowledge for Mandala magazine. 

Please pray that Ven. Tencho may never ever be reborn in the lower realms, may she be immediately born in a pure land where she can be enlightened or to receive a perfect human body, meet the Mahayana teachings and meet a perfectly qualified guru and by only pleasing the guru’s mind, achieve enlightenment as quickly as possible. More advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on death and dying is available, see Death and Dying: Practices and Resources (fpmt.org/death/).

To read more obituaries from the international FPMT mandala, and to find information on submission guidelines, please visit our new Obituaries page (fpmt.org/media/obituaries/).

15 Days of Swift Return Prayers were held at the Buddha’s place of enlightenment in Bodhgaya, from February 28-March 14, 2025. Photo by Rohini Bobis.

Our March 2025 e-News is now available and brings many causes for rejoicing including:

• Teachings and advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe
• The release of FPMT International Office’s 2024 Annual Review
• 15 days of swift return prayers for Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bodhgaya
• An update on the Stupa of Complete Victory
• News about the second Gelug Monlam festival at Nalanda Monastery
• Pujas and prayers offered during Losar and the Fifteen Days of Miracles
• Resources and opportunities
• Changes in the FPMT organization

and much more!

Please read this month’s e-news in its entirety. 

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe meditating in Delhi, India, 1975. Photo by Nick Ribush, courtesy of the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.

We are so delighted to share our FPMT Annual Review 2024: “What a Difference We All Have Made Together.”

As you will read in the many summaries included in the review, we continued to offer access to our lamas’ teachings; kept the international community connected and informed about news and advice; offered guidance and structure to FPMT centers, projects, and services; facilitated charitable giving to many beneficial initiatives dedicated to helping others and based on the wishes of Lama Zopa Rinpoche; and disseminated the Dharma to all who wish to receive it.

Ven. Roger Kunsang shared in his CEO letter: “In recent times Rinpoche often mentioned how he felt the FPMT community around the world was more compassionate. Lama Yeshe called it the “family feeling”. Maybe they meant something similar? Think about it for a little while … So many people are more kind, compassionate, and wise. So many animals and insects have been blessed and saved with a chance of a better rebirth. It is very difficult to understand what a difference we all have made together.”

Some photos from this year’s photo gallery.

Please join us in this overview of some of our more notable accomplishments from this past year. This is a critical time in the FPMT organization’s history and we are so happy with and grateful for the enthusiasm and thoughtful engagement from the entire FPMT family as we work together to actualize the wishes of our lamas, to put into practice what they taught us, and to collectively formulate a plan of success long into the future, in order to create a wiser, more compassionate world. Please read FPMT International Office’s Annual Review 2024. 

Please note, the FPMT Annual Review 2024 is available only online:
https://fpmt.org/fpmt/annual-review-2024/

Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), is a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

Participants of the Second Gelug Monlam Festival, Nalanda Monastery. Photo courtesy of Nalanda Monastery.

The Second Gelug Monlam Festival was held at Nalanda Monastery in France from March 11-March 15, 2025. Lama Zopa Rinpoche had expressed the wish to bring this special tradition to the West and the geshes and monks at Nalanda made that wish a reality. Director of Nalanda Monastery, Ven. Thubten Sherab, shares the inspiring details:

To implant and extend the new tradition of the Gelug Monlam in the West according to Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s holy wish, is an incommensurable source of rejoicing! Forty monks and nuns including Khenrinpoche Geshe Chonyi (Abbot of Kopan Monastery and member of the FPMT Inc. Board), Geshe Jamphel (Abbot of Nalanda Monastery), Geshe Gyaltsen (resident teacher at Nalanda), Metok Rinpoche, Geshe Loden, Geshe Dakpa, Ven. Steve, Ven. Robina, Ven. Elisabeth and others have actively participated in this second edition. The four and half days of this Great Prayer Festival were graced by the deep impactful voice of Gen Kuncho Namdro, a chant leader from Gyutö Monastery who specially joined us for the event.

Every day, we had more than a hundred participants, the culminating point being Chotrul Duchen, on March 14, the full moon of the Fifteen Days of Miracles.

Procession and offering bath to Maitreya during the Gelug Monlam at Nalanda Monastery. Photo courtesy of Nalanda Monastery.

Other prestigious guests such as Thoesam Rinpoche (from Tibethaus in Frankfurt), Antony Boussemart (co-president of the Union Bouddhiste de France), and Thubten Tsering (from the Paris Office of Tibet) contributed to a larger representation of the various Gelug branches in Europe. We also received  two supportive video messages from His Holiness Ganden Trisur Rinpoche Lobsang Tenzin and His Eminence Kyabje Dagpo Rinpoche.

Therefore, this year, the seeds of the Gelug Monlam have taken root even deeper, with an event that unfolded very harmoniously.

The Third Gelug Monlam Festival at Nalanda will take place from February 27 to March 4, 2026. More prestigious guests will be in attendance in order to continue to bless and nurture this immense purification and great accumulation of merits dedicated to the swift return of Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche and the long and healthy life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

To learn more about the Gelug Monlam, please watch The Seed of Gelug Monlam in the West:

With thanks to Ven. Thubten Sherab for this report, which we share with great rejoicing! 

Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), is a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.