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Each center which teaches how to develop compassion step-by-step makes a contribution to world peace every day.
—Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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All FPMT centers, projects and services welcome students, visitors and enquiries. These centers host resident teachers. Some centers offer Retreat Facilities. Some focus on Community Services. FPMT Monasteries and Nunneries provide opportunities to train as a monk or nun. FPMT publishers make the Dharma available in different languages.
There are 165 centers, projects and services (and probationary centers, projects and services – known as study groups) in 40 countries worldwide which are under the spiritual direction of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and FPMT International Office.
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