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        The FPMT is an organization devoted to 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 spreading the Dharma to sentient beings. We provide integrated education through which people’s minds and hearts can be transformed into their highest potential for the benefit of others, inspired by an attitude of universal responsibility and service. We are committed to creating harmonious environments and helping all beings develop their full potential of infinite wisdom and compassion. Our organization is based on the Buddhist tradition of Lama Tsongkhapa of Tibet as taught to us by our founders Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche.

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      • Die Stiftung zur Erhaltung der Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) ist eine Organisation, die sich weltweit für die Erhaltung und Verbreitung des Mahayana-Buddhismus einsetzt, indem sie Möglichkeiten schafft, den makellosen Lehren des Buddha zuzuhören, über sie zur reflektieren und zu meditieren und auf der Grundlage dieser Erfahrung das Dharma unter den Lebewesen zu verbreiten.

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      • La Fundación para la preservación de la tradición Mahayana (FPMT) es una organización que se dedica a preservar y difundir el budismo Mahayana en todo el mundo, creando oportunidades para escuchar, reflexionar, meditar, practicar y actualizar las enseñanzas inconfundibles de Buda y en base a esa experiencia difundir el Dharma a los seres.

        Proporcionamos una educación integrada a través de la cual las mentes y los corazones de las personas se pueden transformar en su mayor potencial para el beneficio de los demás, inspirados por una actitud de responsabilidad y servicio universales. Estamos comprometidos a crear ambientes armoniosos y ayudar a todos los seres a desarrollar todo su potencial de infinita sabiduría y compasión.

        Nuestra organización se basa en la tradición budista de Lama Tsongkhapa del Tíbet como nos lo enseñaron nuestros fundadores Lama Thubten Yeshe y Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

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      • L’organisation de la FPMT a pour vocation la préservation et la diffusion du bouddhisme du mahayana dans le monde entier. Elle offre l’opportunité d’écouter, de réfléchir, de méditer, de pratiquer et de réaliser les enseignements excellents du Bouddha, pour ensuite transmettre le Dharma à tous les êtres. Nous proposons une formation intégrée grâce à laquelle le cœur et l’esprit de chacun peuvent accomplir leur potentiel le plus élevé pour le bien d’autrui, inspirés par le sens du service et une responsabilité universelle. Nous nous engageons à créer un environnement harmonieux et à aider tous les êtres à épanouir leur potentiel illimité de compassion et de sagesse. Notre organisation s’appuie sur la tradition guéloukpa de Lama Tsongkhapa du Tibet, telle qu’elle a été enseignée par nos fondateurs Lama Thoubtèn Yéshé et Lama Zopa Rinpoché.

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      • L’FPMT è un organizzazione il cui scopo è preservare e diffondere il Buddhismo Mahayana nel mondo, creando occasioni di ascolto, riflessione, meditazione e pratica dei perfetti insegnamenti del Buddha, al fine di attualizzare e diffondere il Dharma fra tutti gli esseri senzienti.

        Offriamo un’educazione integrata, che può trasformare la mente e i cuori delle persone nel loro massimo potenziale, per il beneficio di tutti gli esseri, ispirati da un’attitudine di responsabilità universale e di servizio.

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        La nostra organizzazione si basa sulla tradizione buddhista di Lama Tsongkhapa del Tibet, così come ci è stata insegnata dai nostri fondatori Lama Thubten Yeshe e Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

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        “护持大乘法脉基金会”( 英文简称:FPMT。全名:Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition) 是一个致力于护持和弘扬大乘佛法的国际佛教组织。我们提供听闻,思维,禅修,修行和实证佛陀无误教法的机会,以便让一切众生都能够享受佛法的指引和滋润。

        我们全力创造和谐融洽的环境, 为人们提供解行并重的完整佛法教育,以便启发内在的环宇悲心及责任心,并开发内心所蕴藏的巨大潜能 — 无限的智慧与悲心 — 以便利益和服务一切有情。

        FPMT的创办人是图腾耶喜喇嘛和喇嘛梭巴仁波切。我们所修习的是由两位上师所教导的,西藏喀巴大师的佛法传承。

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        護持大乘法脈基金會”( 英文簡稱:FPMT。全名:Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition )是一個致力於護持和弘揚大乘佛法的國際佛教組織。我們提供聽聞,思維,禪修,修行和實證佛陀無誤教法的機會,以便讓一切眾生都能夠享受佛法的指引和滋潤。

        我們全力創造和諧融洽的環境,為人們提供解行並重的完整佛法教育,以便啟發內在的環宇悲心及責任心,並開發內心所蘊藏的巨大潛能 — 無限的智慧與悲心 –– 以便利益和服務一切有情。

        FPMT的創辦人是圖騰耶喜喇嘛和喇嘛梭巴仁波切。我們所修習的是由兩位上師所教導的,西藏喀巴大師的佛法傳承。

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May
18
2016

‘The Real Holiday’

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching at Mahayana Buddhist Association, Hong Kong, May 2016. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching at Mahayana Buddhist Association, Hong Kong, May 2016. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

On May 16, Ven. Roger Kunsang shared on his Twitter page this brief teaching from Lama Zopa Rinpoche:

“Lama Zopa; the real holiday is keeping the mind free of the eight worldly dharmas.”

Ven. Roger Kunsang, Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s assistant and CEO of FPMT Inc., shares Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s recent pith sayings on Ven. Roger’s Twitter page.

Video recordings from Rinpoche’s recent teachings at Mahayana Buddhist Association (Cham Tse Ling) in Hong Kong have just been added to the “Rinpoche Available Now” page on FPMT.org:
https://fpmt.org/media/streaming/teachings-of-lama-zopa-rinpoche/

More information, photos and updates about FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche can be found on Rinpoche’s webpage. If you’d like to receive news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche via email, sign up to receive FPMT News

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May
15
2016

Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the Recognition of Lama Lhundrup’s Reincarnation

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Tenzin Rigsel

Lama Zopa Rinpoche sent the following message upon the announcement that His Holiness the Dalai Lama officially recognized the three-year-old Tenzin Rigsel as the reincarnation of the beloved former abbot of Kopan Monastery Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup Rigsel.

My dear students seeking total elimination of suffering and completion of Buddhahood, and my dear friends,

This news is so great and encouraging to our minds, to develop Dharma wisdom and compassion to all sentient beings, whose minds are obscured and suffering, and to help with our body, speech and mind, and bring perfect peace and happiness in this world, at least.

This is just about one time that we have received this perfect human rebirth and met the Buddha Dharma, with the opportunity to learn and practice and to overcome the oceans of samsaric sufferings, by overcoming delusion and karma – including laziness, not laziness towards removing suffering and its causes, but laziness in Dharma practice and achieving enlightenment.

This is to inform you the ex-abbott of Kopan Monastery Lama Lhundrup, who is heart disciple of Lama Yeshe, who is kinder than all the three time Buddhas, including Buddha Vajradhara. Lama Lhundrup was invited by Lama Yeshe to look after Kopan Monastery and was the principal teacher of the monks and nuns, giving advice and looking after the Dharma discipline. Then after Lama Yeshe showed the aspect of passing away, Lama Lhundrup looked after the finances and with all his heart and life he looked after Kopan Monastery. It was from Kopan Monastery that FPMT started. Lama Lhundrup also dedicated and put effort into developing Lama Tsongkhapa’s teachings in Kopan and in all of Nepal.

Now Lama Lhundrup has been recognized by Buddha Chenrezig His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who said, “Tenzin Rigsel to be recognized as a reincarnation of the late Lhundrup Rigsel comes out extremely positive.”

What made Lama Lhundrup to have this special reincarnation was his pure morality, compassion to sentient beings and wish to liberate all sentient being by spreading the teachings of Lama Tsongkhapa. I think this incarnation will be continually more and more beneficial as his life goes on and also as his lives go on.

Please everybody enjoy, especially the students in the East and the West.

With much love and prayers,

Lama Zopa

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is 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.

You can read more about Tenzin Rigsel’s recognition on FPMT.org.

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May
13
2016

Lama Zopa Rinpoche Teaching on Emptiness [Video]

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching at Rinchen Jangsem Ling, Malaysia, April 2016. Photo by Bill Kane.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching at Rinchen Jangsem Ling, Malaysia, April 2016. Photo by Bill Kane.

During the Medicine Buddha retreat at Rinchen Jangsem Ling in Malaysia in April, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave an exceptional teaching on emptiness over two sessions on April 14, which can be watched online with all of Rinpoche’s other teachings in Malaysia.

Here is a short excerpt from the lightly edited transcript of the teaching: 

“… I explained one night – night or day I don’t remember – that the I exists in mere name, merely labeled by the mind, by the valid mind, because there is a valid base, the aggregates. So the five aggregates we have, the association of that is the valid base, the aggregates, a valid base. The base to be labeled I, self, I, not this eye with which you can see things but the I, the self. And the ‘I’ is the label. The aggregates are the base to be labeled and the I is what is labeled on that. Those two do not exist separately but they exist differently. That is important to know. They do not exist separately like the self, the I, and the table, throne, or light. They do not exist separately from the aggregates but they exist differently: one is the base to be labeled and one, the I, is what is labeled on that. The I is also merely labeled by the valid mind. It exists in mere name, merely labeled by the valid mind, because there is a valid base. I, action, object, also object, what is the object? In reality it exists in mere name, merely labeled by the mind, by the valid mind, because there is a valid base. Like that the whole entire hell and enlightenment, samsara and nirvana, happiness and problems in everyday life, so everything, everything exists in mere name. What exists is in mere name, merely labeled by the mind.

“So it is explained, let me see if I can remember, what exists is explained in the Madhyamaka: that which does not receive harm from the absolute wisdom. So the real I, truly existent I, I existing from its own side, I existing by its nature, in our common language the real I, so that is what is totally empty. It does not exist at all. That real I receives harm from the absolute wisdom, the wisdom realizing absolute truth, emptiness only. It receives harm from that. Because that wisdom, absolute wisdom, that ultimate wisdom, sees the real I, what appears to us from beginningless rebirths up to now, from this morning, from birth, from beginningless rebirths, and you hundred percent without doubt you believe it, and you work for it, you believe and work for it, your body, speech, and mind works for the real I. Do you understand? For the real I.

“There are numberless buddhas and non-bodhisattva, numberless ordinary sentient beings, arhats, bodhisattvas, ordinary sentient beings, arhats, arya sangha, the ordinary sentient beings, they are numberless, numberless hell beings, hungry ghosts, animals, human beings, sura beings, asura beings, intermediate state beings. They are numberless, but you from beginningless rebirths up to now have been working only for the real I, working for the real I from beginningless rebirths, not only now, but it didn’t exist. You understand? But it didn’t exist, at all. You understand? That you have to know, to realize, to discover. …”

Watch Rinpoche teach on emptiness at Rinchen Jangsem Ling: 6 p.m. teaching (https://youtu.be/aNcQo1yBW7Y), 8 p.m. teaching (https://youtu.be/SK5Ibft87LI)

Free, on-demand videos of many of Rinpoche’s international teachings are made available on FPMT’s Rinpoche Available Now page.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is 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.

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May
11
2016

Behind the Scenes at the Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche [Video]

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche during the long life puja for him at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore, March 13, 2016. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

The long life puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche held in March at Amitabha Buddhist Centre (ABC) in Singapore brought FPMT students together from around the world. Ven. Roger Kunsang, CEO of FPMT, wrote of the puja, “[It] went very well. I think this was due to so many people making the effort to come, and so many making the effort to participate in some way in the puja. ABC staff and students made such an excellent effort in organizing and hosting the event.”

Amitabha Buddhist Centre recently published a short video called “Prelude to a Puja,” which highlights how remarkable the puja was and shares a small glimpse into the preparations that went into it.

Watch “Prelude to a Puja” on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/X7L4mZW_WBc

The long life puja for Rinpoche was offered by the entire FPMT organization to dispel any obstacles for Rinpoche this year based on advice from Khadro-la (Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme). More than 100 representatives from FPMT centers, project, services, and national and regional offices worldwide attended the puja and participated in the offering procession. The entire puja can be watched on FPMT’s YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd3YWIA0vLx_YFdzi_rVxmE3mLUfd1AUA

FPMT’s Long Life Puja Fund gives students an opportunity to support the long life pujas offered by FPMT to Lama Zopa Rinpoche and to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. To learn more about the benefits of long life pujas and the fund, and to make donations, please visit the Long Life Puja Fund page:
https://fpmt.org/projects/fpmt/long-life-puja/

More information, photos and updates about FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche can be found on Rinpoche’s webpage on FPMT.org. If you’d like to receive news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and FPMT via email, sign up to FPMT News.

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May
9
2016

Make the Mind Wet [Video]

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Cham Tse Ling, Hong Kong, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Cham Tse Ling, Hong Kong, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

“If we have very strong guru devotion to all the gurus from whom we have received a Dharma connection, even an oral transmission of a mantra or whatever, so to everyone, we look at them as a buddha from our side,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche taught in March 2000 in Melbourne, Australia, published as “Make the Mind Wet” in Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive’s April 2016 e-letter.

“… It’s not a dry mind where there’s no wetness of devotion. It’s not like a desert, a hot desert place where there’s no water and nothing grows. It’s not like that. Our mind is filled with devotion by seeing everyone that we have a connection with as a buddha. Our mind is very much in a positive state, it’s a positive mind toward them, a pure mind toward them, like that.

“The stronger devotion there is, then the experience of other meditations – whether it’s emptiness, whether it’s compassion or whether it’s impermanence, anything – is very easy to experience, very easy to feel. When our mind has strong guru devotion then also the prayers like Guru Puja and so forth, any prayer, any meditation or lam-rim prayer, that we didn’t have any feeling before; when our mind is in a great devotional state toward the guru then the same prayer that we have been saying for many years, for a long time now, with every single word we find great taste. With every single word we find great taste, great meaning, it’s very rich. While we’re saying the prayer, we feel the meaning in our heart.

“While we’re saying the prayer we feel the meaning of it in our heart. While we’re doing the prayer, our mind feels the meaning of the prayer. Before it was just words, but now with this strong guru devotion, while we’re saying the prayer our mind feels the meaning of the prayer. We experience the meaning of the prayer. Then we feel the prayer that we have been reciting is so precious, such a precious one, we feel that. …”

Watch “Make the Mind Wet” on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/aM89A7m23Ss?list=PLeGpGqjz7TIUwyf7ea19KYjnoka6DQIgE

You can read Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive’s April 2016 e-letter to find the complete “Make the Mind Wet” and other teachings from Lama Zopa Rinpoche:
 https://www.lamayeshe.com/article/e-letter-no-154-april-2016

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is 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.

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May
6
2016

It’s the Way You Think

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Cham Tse Ling, Hong Kong, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Cham Tse Ling, Hong Kong, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

On April 28, Ven. Roger Kunsang shared on his Twitter page this brief teaching from Lama Zopa Rinpoche:

“Normally people think happiness and suffering comes from outside. That’s not true! Happiness and suffering depends on the way you think.”

Video recordings from Rinpoche’s recent teachings at Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore and at Chokyi Gyaltsen Center, Losang Dragpa Centre, Kasih Hospice and Rinchen Jangsem Ling in Malaysia are now available on FPMT.org. And Rinpoche’s teachings in Hong Kong will be added soon to the “Rinpoche Available Now” page:
https://fpmt.org/media/streaming/teachings-of-lama-zopa-rinpoche/

Ven. Roger Kunsang, Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s assistant and CEO of FPMT Inc., shares Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s recent pith sayings on Ven. Roger’s Twitter page.

More information, photos and updates about FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche can be found on Rinpoche’s webpage. If you’d like to receive news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche via email, sign up to receive FPMT News.

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May
4
2016

Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Visit to Hong Kong

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche during public teaching organized by Cham Tse Ling at Buddhist Wong Fung Ling College, Hong Kong, May 2016. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche during a public teaching organized by Mahayana Buddhist Association (Cham Tse Ling) at Buddhist Wong Fung Ling College, Hong Kong, May 2016. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche arrived in Hong Kong last week. During his first few days there, Rinpoche visited a student in critical condition in an intensive care unit and did prayers for him. Rinpoche over the next few days did an extensive Medicine Buddha puja in the gompa of Mahayana Buddhist Association (Cham Tse Ling), the FPMT center in Hong Kong, that went until 6 a.m., specifically for a few students in Hong Kong who are seriously ill. Rinpoche also recited the Guhyasamaja root tantra for a sick student. And during an outing on a naga day, Rinpoche went to the harbor and offered a naga torma.

Cham Tse Ling organized the events with Rinpoche, which included a Vajrayogini initiation at the center on April 28-30, a public teaching on May 1 and a Vajrapani, Hayagriva and Garuda jenang on May 2. 

Lama Zopa Rinpoche getting some exercise in a park with (from left) Esther Ngai, Ven. Tenzin Pemba, Ven. Holly Ansett and Ven. Thubten Tendar, Hong Kong, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche getting some exercise in a park with (from left) Esther Ngai, Ven. Tenzin Pemba, Ven. Holly Ansett and Ven. Thubten Tendar, Hong Kong, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

Rinpoche with students in the gompa at Cham Tse Ling, Hong Kong, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

Rinpoche with students in the gompa at Cham Tse Ling, Hong Kong, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

About 160 people squeezed into the small yet very beautiful Cham Tse Ling gompa and one additional room that had a video feed for the Vajrayogini initition. The initiation was scheduled for two days, but took an extra day, finally ending at 4 a.m. 

The public teaching on May 1 took place at a larger venue and included Rinpoche giving an oral transmission of The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment) with Blessing the Speech and Daily Mantras. Both the teaching on May 1 and the teaching before the May 2 jenang were streamed live over the internet and can be watched as recordings on FPMT’s Livestream page (http://livestream.com/FPMT/HKK2016).

Lama Zopa Rinpoche during public teaching organized by Cham Tse Ling at Buddhist Wong Fung Ling College, Hong Kong, May 2016. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche during a public teaching organized by Cham Tse Ling at Buddhist Wong Fung Ling College, Hong Kong, May 2016. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Ven. Tenzin Pemba and Esther Ngai, who serve as co-directors for Mahayana Buddhist Center (Cham Tse Ling) and who took care of everything very well, Hong Kong, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

A close up of a statue that is part of Cham Tse Ling's beautiful and intricate altar, Hong Kong, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

A close-up of a statue that is part of Cham Tse Ling’s beautiful and intricate altar, Hong Kong, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

Rinpoche teaching at Cham Tse Ling, Hong Kong, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

Rinpoche teaching at Cham Tse Ling, Hong Kong, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

Video recordings from Rinpoche’s recent teachings at Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore and at Chokyi Gyaltsen Center, Losang Dragpa Centre, Kasih Hospice and Rinchen Jangsem Ling in Malaysia are now available at:
https://fpmt.org/media/streaming/teachings-of-lama-zopa-rinpoche/

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is 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.

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May
2
2016

The Main Way to Protect Yourself

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching at Mahayana Buddhist Associate (Cham Tse Ling) in Hong Kong, May 2016

Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching at Mahayana Buddhist Association (Cham Tse Ling) in Hong Kong, May 2016

On April 28, Ven. Roger Kunsang shared on his Twitter page this brief teaching from Lama Zopa Rinpoche:

Lama Zopa; main way to protect yourself is for you to not harm others! It’s not sufficient to just study Dharma, you have to put it into practice!

Rinpoche arrived last week in Hong Kong to give teachings and initiations organized by Mahayana Buddhist Association (Cham Tse Ling).  You can watch Rinpoche give teachings in Hong Kong on FPMT Livestream page:
http://livestream.com/FPMT/HKK2016

Ven. Roger Kunsang, Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s assistant and CEO of FPMT Inc., shares Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s recent pith sayings on Ven. Roger’s Twitter page.

More information, photos and updates about FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche can be found on Rinpoche’s webpage. If you’d like to receive news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche via email, sign up to receive FPMT News.

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Apr
29
2016

Watch Lama Zopa Rinpoche Teach in Hong Kong

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Cham Tse Ling, Hong Kong, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang via Twitter.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Mahayana Buddhist Association (Cham Tse Ling), Hong Kong, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang via Twitter.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche arrived in Hong Kong this week to give teachings and initiations organized by Mahayana Buddhist Association (Cham Tse Ling). Rinpoche’s teachings on May 1 and 2 are scheduled to be streamed live on FPMT’s Livestream page from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. local time (UTC +8).

Visit FPMT’s Livestream page for more information and updates on the Hong Kong Livestream events: 
http://livestream.com/FPMT/HKK2016

(Sign up for updates by clicking the green “Follow” button in the upper-right corner of the FPMT Livestream page.)

Video recordings from Rinpoche’s recent teachings at Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore and at Chokyi Gyaltsen Center, Losang Dragpa Centre, Kasih Hospice and Rinchen Jangsem Ling in Malaysia are now available at:
https://fpmt.org/media/streaming/teachings-of-lama-zopa-rinpoche/

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is 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.

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Apr
27
2016

Rinpoche Liberates Three Goats at Maratika Cave [VIDEO]

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Ven. Sangpo liberating goats, Maratika Caves, Nepal, February 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Ven. Sangpo Sherpa liberating goats, Maratika Caves, Nepal, February 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

In late February, Lama Zopa Rinpoche liberated three goats at Maratika, Nepal, site of the famed Maratika Caves associated with Padmasambhava and long life. In a new video on FPMT’s YouTube channel, Rinpoche leads an extensive motivation for the animal liberation before blessing the goats by chanting various mantras, reciting beneficial prayers, and tying blessed red cloth around their necks. Rinpoche ends the practice with several dedication prayers.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche regularly preforms animal liberations, that is, saving animals in threat of being killed and exposing them to Dharma to benefit their future lives. Rinpoche has taught that in addition to helping the animals, “the person who liberates animals, or whoever wants to dedicate the merit to those with life obstacles, this practice helps them to obtain long life.”

Benefiting animals is part of Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for FPMT, which includes ongoing animal liberations offered by Sangha and students dedicated to the long life of others and sustained by the Animal Liberation Fund.

Watch “Animal Liberation for Three Goats at Maratika Cave” on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/A48PHOa2hI0

You can watch more video clips of Lama Zopa Rinpoche on FPMT.org: https://fpmt.org/media/streaming/videos-of-lama-zopa-rinpoche/

For longer videos of Rinpoche teaching, visit: http://bit.ly/rinpoche-available-now

Learn more about Lama Zopa Rinpoche, spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), and Rinpoche’s vision for a better world. Sign up to receive news and updates.

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Apr
25
2016

Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Rinchen Jangsem Ling Retreat Centre

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching at Rinchen Jangsem Ling Retreat Center, Malaysia, April 2016. Photo by Bill Kane.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching at Rinchen Jangsem Ling Retreat Centre, Malaysia, April 2016. Photo by Bill Kane.

On April 8, Lama Zopa Rinpoche traveled from Kuala Lumpur, where he taught at Losang Dragpa Centre, to Rinchen Jangsem Ling Retreat Centre (RJL), arriving in the early evening. The beautiful, rural center is located in the middle of a palm plantation and sits on the top of a large hill, with a panoramic view of the area.

Statues on the altar at Rinchen Jangsem Ling, Malaysia, April 2016. Photo by Bill Kane.

Statues on the altar at Rinchen Jangsem Ling, Malaysia, April 2016. Photo by Bill Kane.

When Rinpoche arrived there, a number of people from the local village who regularly go to RJL or support it greeted Rinpoche in the center’s large gompa. Rinpoche spontaneously gave an hour-long teaching on emptiness and then offered gifts to all there. 

The next day, the Great Medicine Buddha initiation was scheduled to start, beginning with a welcoming ceremony in the early afternoon attended by local dignitaries, sponsors, students and supporters. Rinpoche spoke about the importance of having a Dharma center.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche touring the grounds around the gompa at Rinchen Jangsem Ling, which include white beautiful marble statues, like the pictures Dzambala, Malaysia, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche touring the grounds around the gompa at Rinchen Jangsem Ling, which include beautiful, white marble statues, like the Namthose statue pictured here, Malaysia, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

That evening, instead of the Great Medicine Buddha initiation, Rinpoche gave a teaching. Over the following two days Rinpoche gave the initiation each evening. About 200 people took the initiation and about 150 of them remained for the April 12-19 retreat, staying in the small village of Triang nearby. Buses were arranged throughout the day to bring the retreatants up and down the hill.

This was the first time RJL hosted such an extensive and large retreat. They started preparing months before to make sure there would be adequate water and facilities for guests. The local villagers cooked food for everyone, and the whole retreat went very smoothly. All the participants were very well taken care of, especially the ordained Sangha.

During the retreat Rinpoche gave the oral transmission of the extensive 35 Buddha practice and requested that this practice be done at the beginning of each session of the retreat. Each day Rinpoche taught for a number of hours, giving inspiring teachings and constantly reminding the retreatants of the real purpose of retreat. He also gave an exceptional teaching on how to meditate on emptiness. On the last day, everyone did Dorje Khadro fire puja to conclude the retreat.

Students during the Great Medicine Buddha initiation, Rinchen Jangsem Ling, April 2016. Photo by Bill Kane.

Students during the Great Medicine Buddha initiation, Rinchen Jangsem Ling, April 2016. Photo by Bill Kane.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Selina Foong, director of Rinchen Jangsem Ling, and Ven. Losang Sherab, touring the retreat center grounds, Malaysia, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Selina Foong, director of Rinchen Jangsem Ling, touring the retreat center grounds, Malaysia, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

Kuan Yin and White Dzambala statues at Rinchen Jangsem Ling, Malaysia, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

Kuan Yin and White Dzambala statues at Rinchen Jangsem Ling, Malaysia, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

Rinpoche also gave a teaching on karma to about 150 people at a home for the elderly in Triang. In the past Rinpoche had sponsored a large marble Medicine Buddha statue for the elderly home, and while visiting, Rinpoche offered US$5,000 to support the home.

While at Triang, Rinpoche gave a teaching at a home for elderly people, Malaysia, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

Rinpoche giving a teaching to about 150 people at a home for the elderly, Malaysia, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche had visited the home for the elderly before and had sponsored this statue of Medicine Buddha, Malaysia, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

The statue of Medicine Buddha that Lama Zopa Rinpoche had sponsored for the elderly home during an early visit, Malaysia, April 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is 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.

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Apr
22
2016

Chenrezig Meditation and Mantra

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche (seated) with Khen Rinpoche Geshe Chonyi, Peter Griffin and Ven. Losang Sherab, Amitabha Buddhist Center, March 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang. Rinpoche is looking at the recently completed Chenrezig statue, created by Peter and Denise Griffin.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche (seated) with Khen Rinpoche Geshe Chonyi, Peter Griffin and Ven. Losang Sherab, Amitabha Buddhist Centre, March 2016. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang. Rinpoche is looking at the recently completed Chenrezig statue, created by Peter and Denise Griffin.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave a photo of Chenrezig to a waitress he met at a restaurant in Darjeeling, India. Later, he sent her this advice, recently published on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, which includes an explanation of the visualization, the numberless benefits of reciting OM MANI PADME HUM and how to dedicate the merits. Here’s a short excerpt from Rinpoche’s advice:

“[Recite] OM MANI PADME HUM with bodhichitta, the precious thought of enlightenment, to free the numberless sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric sufferings and bring them to the peerless happiness, the state of omniscient mind, and then for oneself to achieve the peerless happiness, the state of omniscient mind. This is the precious thought called bodhichitta. If you recite OM MANI PADME HUM with that motivation then no question there is far greater merit, unbelievable, most unbelievable. It is so great. If it was materialized the merit would be greater than the sky, even if you recite the mantra only one time with bodhichitta.

“You can see that this makes it a quick way to actualize the path to buddhahood, the state of omniscient mind and particular to develop compassion for the numberless hell beings, numberless hungry ghosts, numberless animals, numberless human beings, numberless suras, numberless asuras and numberless intermediate state beings. Then to generate bodhichitta, to free them from the oceans of samsaric suffering, to free everybody and bring them to the peerless happiness, the total elimination of obscurations and completion of all the realizations.

“I gave you a picture of Chenrezig, but please don’t think it’s just a picture. Think it is the actual living Chenrezig, huge as a snow mountain or like Mount Everest. Think it is actually living, the formation of light, not just material but the actual living compassion of numberless buddhas. This is the manifestation of numberless buddhas’ omniscient mind – the perfect understanding and perfect power to be able to do perfect works for all the sentient beings, including you. …”

You can read this advice in its entirety and find more advice from Rinpoche, in “Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Online Advice Book” on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive website:
https://www.lamayeshe.com/advice/lama-zopa-rinpoches-online-advice-book

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