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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.

        Wir bieten integrierte Schulungswege an, durch denen der Geist und das Herz der Menschen in ihr höchstes Potential verwandelt werden zum Wohl der anderen – inspiriert durch eine Haltung der universellen Verantwortung und dem Wunsch zu dienen. Wir haben uns verpflichtet, harmonische Umgebungen zu schaffen und allen Wesen zu helfen, ihr volles Potenzial unendlicher Weisheit und grenzenlosen Mitgefühls zu verwirklichen.

        Unsere Organisation basiert auf der buddhistischen Tradition von Lama Tsongkhapa von Tibet, so wie sie uns von unseren Gründern Lama Thubten Yeshe und Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche gelehrt wird.

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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.

        Il nostro obiettivo è quello di creare contesti armoniosi e aiutare tutti gli esseri a sviluppare in modo completo le proprie potenzialità di infinita saggezza e compassione.

        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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Oct
20
2016

‘This Is Going to Happen to You,’ A Living in the Path Teaching on Death [Video]

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In the Living in the Path module “Realizing the Lam-rim,” students can find “This Is Going to Happen to You,” a free course based on Pabongka Rinpoche’s Heart Spoon, one of the most graphic and heart-wrenching poems on death ever written.

The Heart Spoon, with its strong language and disturbing images, is a clear admonishment to stop postponing our practice of virtue and use our lives well. “It is meditation on impermanence and death that persuade us to practice Dharma,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains. “Otherwise, we will continue to wait for the perfect conditions, thinking, ‘Not now, but later I will practice Dharma.'” 

The text is meant to be “taken personally” and taken to heart. As Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises, it is best read, thinking, “This is going to happen to me.”

The course’s format encourages students to not only read and listen to Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings, but to deepen their personal understanding and experience through meditation and practice. For this reason, course readings are interspersed with guidelines for meditation, for keeping the teachings present throughout the day with mindfulness practices, and for offering service to others.

In a 20-minute video, “This Is Going to Happen to You: The Inevitability of Death,” Ven. Amy Miller introduces Heart Spoon and discusses the nature of death and more. 

Watch “This Is Going to Happen to You: The Inevitability of Death” on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVW_owiEVAc&feature=youtu.be

All of the modules of Living in the Path program are available on the FPMT Online Center. This program is ideal for anyone who wishes to deepen their personal practice and develop the realizations of the path to enlightenment by relying on Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s heart advice and teachings. As the teachings often assume familiarity with the lam-rim, participants are recommended to have previously received teachings in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.


Ven. Amy Miller (Lobsang Chodren) attended the one-month lam-rim November course at Kopan Monastery in Nepal in 1987 and ordained in 2000. She has offered service in a variety of FPMT centers since 1992 and has led pilgrimages to India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sikkim. She has completed the FPMT Basic Program and is the co-author of Buddhism in a Nutshell and a contributor to Living in the Path. Ven. Amy is an FPMT registered teacher.

Living in the Path is an FPMT program taught exclusively by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, spiritual director of the FPMT. Plans are underway to also draw from the teachings of Lama Yeshe, FPMT’s founder, to offer a program that preserves the entire FPMT lineage.

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Oct
13
2016

Mantras for Bringing Benefit and Eliminating Obstacles

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche painting mantras onto rock, Manali, India, July 2013. Photo by Maya.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche painting mantras onto rock, Manali, India, July 2013. Photo by Maya.

FPMT Education Services makes available many commonly used mantras, which students can download freely for their personal use. 

Mantras, meaning “mind protection,” are Sanskrit syllables usually recited in conjunction with the practice of a particular meditational deity. As they embody the qualities of the deity with whom they are associated, they bring benefit to all who see, touch, hear or speak them and can even help eliminate obstacles to one’s progress on the path.

For extensive advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche about the benefits and protective qualities of particular mantras, please visit the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Online Advice Book and FPMT.org for Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche.


If you are in need of mantras not listed on this page, feel free to contact FPMT Education Services at education@fpmt.org and we will do our best to get you what you need. 

Through comprehensive study programs, practice materials, training seminars, and scholarships, FPMT Education nourishes the development of compassion, wisdom, kindness, and true happiness in individuals of all ages.

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Oct
6
2016

Long Life Prayers for Lama Zopa Rinpoche

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche during a long life puja at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore, March 13, 2016. Photo by Piero Sirianni.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche during a long life puja at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore, March 13, 2016. Photo by Piero Sirianni.

It is said that making sincere requests for one’s guru to live long and to continue teaching creates the causes and conditions needed to receive benefit from that teacher for a very long time. With this in mind, we wanted to remind you of the long life prayers we have available for Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

Rinpoche has suggested that “Bestowing Supreme Immortality” is particularly effective as it was composed by Rinpoche’s root guru, His Holiness Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Khadro-la having tea after long life puja at Kopan Monastery, April 29, 2013. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Khadro-la having tea after long life puja at Kopan Monastery, April 29, 2013. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

FPMT Education Services offers a number of other long life prayers for Lama Zopa Rinpoche on our website, all of which can be used in personal practice. We now have the long life prayer that Khadro-la (Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme) spontaneously composed for Rinpoche’s long life available in English with Tibetan phonetics, Tibetan, Italian, Spanish, and Chinese. 


In 1989, Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered advice in response to requests by students to help them understand how best to prolong the life of the guru and how to avoid creating obstacles that can cause the guru sickness and a shortened life. 

Through comprehensive study programs, practice materials, training seminars, and scholarships, FPMT Education nourishes the development of compassion, wisdom, kindness, and true happiness in individuals of all ages.

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Sep
29
2016

‘Everything Comes from Mind,’ A Living in the Path Module [Video]

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The main topic of the Living in the Path module “Everything Comes from Mind” is summed up by Lama Zopa Rinpoche: “The view of Buddhism, Buddhist philosophy, the very foundation, the very essence, is that everything comes from your mind.” 

But how does everything come from mind? In this module, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that everything that appears to us comes from our karma–the mental factor of intention–as well as from our mind labeling phenomena and our mind projecting the hallucination of true existence on phenomena. The teachings also include a variety of methods to help stop anger and develop patience based on understanding karma and emptiness.

In a short video, “Mind: The Creator,” just one of several videos included in the module, Ven. Robina Courtin, in her usual engaging and dynamic style, introduces the Buddha’s explanation of mind and karma.

Watch “Mind: The Creator” on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL_2yXFv-Mk

All of the modules of Living in the Path program are available on the FPMT Online Center. This program is ideal for anyone who wishes to deepen their personal practice and develop the realizations of the path to enlightenment by relying on Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s heart advice and teachings. As the teachings often assume familiarity with the lam-rim, participants are recommended to have previously received teachings in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.


FPMT registered teacher Ven. Robina Courtin met Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche in 1976 and ordained in 1977. She has served as editorial director of Wisdom Publications, editor of Mandala magazine, director of the Liberation Prison Project, and now teaches extensively around the world.

Living in the Path is an FPMT program taught exclusively by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, spiritual director of the FPMT. Plans are underway to also draw from the teachings of Lama Yeshe, FPMT’s founder, to offer a program that preserves the entire FPMT lineage.

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Sep
22
2016

New! Cultivating Mindfulness of Bodhichitta in Daily Activities

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FPMT Education Services is pleased to announce the release of Cultivating Mindfulness of Bodhichitta in Daily Activities, a collection of essential daily bodhichitta mindfulness practices.

In Cultivating Mindfulness of Bodhichitta in Daily Activities, Lama Zopa Rinpoche shows us how to take the essence of our precious human life by transforming our normal daily activities — such as sitting down, standing up, washing, and dressing — into a cause for enlightenment by accompanying them with a bodhichitta motivation to benefit all sentient beings.

As Rinpoche explains in the text:

Anyone who is seeking the state of omniscience needs to attend to the many methods for collecting merits and purifying delusions. The Omniscient One, who was very skillful and had great compassion for us sentient beings, explained that even the activities that we normally do — such as eating, sleeping, sitting, walking, and doing our jobs — can become ways to collect unfathomable virtue and skies of merit. With mindfulness of bodhichitta, they can become not only beneficial to oneself, but beneficial to all sentient beings. The Buddha explained this to us who do not have a bodhichitta realization. This is how everything we do can be dedicated to become a cause of happiness for all sentient beings. This is something that we can practice immediately. Then all the activities we do in the breaks between our lam-rim meditations will be done with bodhichitta and the thought to make them beneficial for all sentient beings. Our daily activities will become a cause for us to attain omniscience so that we can liberate sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric sufferings and bring them to enlightenment. 

Rinpoche has been teaching these mindfulness practices at various retreats and teaching events for the past several years and has been gradually adding more practices and advice to this collection. Rinpoche strongly emphasizes that these are beneficial practices to be done in daily life as well as in a retreat setting.

This free downloadable PDF is available through the FPMT Foundation Store.

Students who would like to delve deeper into this topic are invited to engage in the Living in the Path course “Taking the Essence,” which includes the module “Bodhichitta Mindfulness.” This Online Learning Center module includes video teachings from Lama Zopa Rinpoche as well as an introduction to the practices by Ven. Sarah Thresher, additional readings, access to a discussion forum, and other helpful resources for those wishing to study and practice this material in an organized way.  


Through comprehensive study programs, practice materials, training seminars, and scholarships, FPMT Education nourishes the development of compassion, wisdom, kindness, and true happiness in individuals of all ages.

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Sep
15
2016

Resources for Retreat

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Participants of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s 2016 Light of the Path Retreat in North Carolina. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

Participants of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s 2016 Light of the Path Retreat in North Carolina. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

“By entering into retreat, we enter into a situation where it is possible to fulfill our basic human potential and develop all the positive qualities within us. Retreat gives one the time and the space to allow for the growth of this basic human quality,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains in Heart Advice for Retreat. “There will always be problems and dissatisfaction as long as we think that the causes of happiness and the causes of suffering lie outside ourselves. But the experiences of our life – and what the omniscient mind says – tell us that the source of happiness is within one’s own mind. You can find satisfaction, peace and happiness only within your own mind. Therefore, retreat and meditation practice become the ultimate solution for any and all of our problems.”

For those who are interested in engaging in long and short retreat, FPMT Education Services would like to remind students about the many resources available to them. 

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Heart Advice for Retreat eBook

The great Pabongka Dechen Nyingpo said, “Knowing Dharma is not enough; you must practice.” This collection, Heart Advice for Retreat, is a must-have for all practitioners, especially those engaging in longer retreats. Lama Zopa Rinpoche offers advice and commentary on the essential aspects of retreat and how to bring about the result of enlightenment. 

FPMT Retreat Prayer Book PDF

FPMT Retreat Prayer Book is an essential book for FPMT teaching events, pilgrimages, and personal daily practices and retreats. The collection is made up of prayers and practices drawn from various FPMT materials.

Retreat Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche PDF

Retreat Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche is a compilation of essential instructions and commentary for those interested in retreat. 

Retreat Advice from Pabongka Dechen Nyingpo PDF

Retreat Advice from Pabongka Dechen Nyingpo contains three separate lam-rim texts with heart instructions for how to make the most out of retreat. Includes detailed explanation of how to meditate on the stages of the path to gain realizations. Lama Zopa Rinpoche has advised that this is an essential retreat companion as well as important instructions for practicing in daily life.

Schedule for Three Day Lam-rim Retreat PDF

Schedule for Three Day Lam-rim Retreat provides a comprehensive schedule for completing a three-day, six-day, nine-day or longer lam-rim retreat according to the instructions of Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

Rituals and Procedures for Commencing Retreat PDF

Rituals and Procedures for Commencing Retreat includes practice instructions for both commencing and finishing any retreat from Lama Yeshe, Pabongka Rinpoche and Jampa Trinley Tenzin Gyatso.


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8
2016

New and Updated Essential Practices Now Available to Students

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FPMT Education Services would like to remind you that we have several new and updated practice materials that are essential resources for FPMT students. 

FPMT Retreat Prayer Book

The FPMT Retreat Prayer Book was originally compiled in 2008 in preparation for the first Light of the Path Retreat and has become a critical resource for those attending longer teaching events and retreats with Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Many students have also found it to be very useful when attending other teaching events, going on pilgrimage, and for their own personal daily practices and retreats. The collection is made up of various FPMT prayers and practices. 

A recently updated and revised version of this prayer book is now available. 

Lama Zopa Rinpoche reading from The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness, April, 2016. Photo by Bill Kane.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche reading from The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness, April 2016. Photo by Bill Kane.

The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness 

Included in the revised FPMT Retreat Prayer Book was an update to The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment), a practice on which Lama Zopa Rinpoche has put a great deal of emphasis as essential for all FPMT students.

In this practice, Rinpoche has carefully compiled, and in many cases provided translation for, the prayers, practices, and meditations needed to start one’s day or activities with a perfect Dharma intention and bodhichitta motivation. While mornings are an ideal time to set up one’s aspirations for the day, students are encouraged to engage in this practice whenever one is able.

This practice is available for free as a downloadable PDF or ebook from the FPMT Foundation Store.

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Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga

Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga is a particularly powerful practice for receiving the blessings of one’s personal teacher and developing the realization of guru devotion.

Also known as the Hundred Deities of Tushita (Ganden Lha Gyama), it is a seven-limb practice related to Lama Tsongkhapa, a great Tibetan scholar, saint, and yogi of the 14th century. To supplement and complete this short text, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has added a preliminary practice of the “Four Immeasurable Thoughts,” the lam-rim prayer “Foundation of All Good Qualities” by Lama Tsongkhapa, and two visualizations to do while reciting the “Five-Line Migtsema Prayer to Lama Tsongkhapa,” one for purifying negative karmas and one for achieving seven special types of wisdom. The appendices consist of short teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on how to do extensive meditations on making offerings, confessing, and rejoicing.

This is a suitable practice text for the preliminary practice of collecting 100,000 recitations of the Migtsema prayer.

Heart Sutra 1209.inddNgulchu Dharmabhadra’s Thirty-Five Buddhas Practice

Ngulchu Dharmabhadra’s The Flowing Water of the Ganga: A Thorough Praise of the Thirty-Five Sugatas is a versified homage to the Thirty-Five Confession Buddhas that has been expanded by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to include the recitation of the names of the Medicine Buddhas, as well as the confession prayer from the “Bodhisattva’s Confession of Moral Downfalls” (also known as the “Confession of Downfalls to the Thirty-Five Buddhas”).

Several authentic lineages for visualizing the Thirty-Five Confession Buddhas exist within the Gelug tradition. These include: a system stemming from Nagarjuna and Taranatha; a system stemming from Lama Tsongkhapa; and a system taught by teachers such as Sakya Pandita and explained by Pabongka Dechen Nyingpo in Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand. This latter system of visualization as taught by Pabongka, which is based on the five types (or families) of buddhas, is the commonly practiced version in the FPMT.

The Flowing Water of the Ganga, on the other hand, describes these buddhas according to Nagarjuna’s tradition of visualization. The text also describes the color of the buddhas, their hand implements, the pure lands in which the buddhas reside, as well as the specific negative karmas that the recitation of their names purify.

This valuable practice is available as a free downloadable PDF. 

Through comprehensive study programs, practice materials, training seminars, and scholarships, FPMT Education nourishes the development of compassion, wisdom, kindness, and true happiness in individuals of all ages.

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Sep
1
2016

New from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Sun of Devotion, Stream of Blessings

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Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive (LYWA) recently announced the arrival of our latest book from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Sun of Devotion, Stream of Blessings. 

Sun of Devotion, Stream of Blessings is the record of a remarkable series of powerful and clear Dharma teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to students in Leeds and London, United Kingdom, in 2014. In this book, Rinpoche explains how to take care of the mind so that our happiness is in our own hands, gives profound teachings on the Buddhist philosophy of emptiness, and discusses the need for ethics and a solid refuge. He explains how to cut the root of samsara, explores why practicing certain tantras is important and especially emphasizes how the guru is the most powerful object of our Dharma practice. There are also chapters on the great qualities of Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme (Khadro-la) and the shortcomings of practicing Dolgyal.

This is the latest in LYWA’s series of free Dharma books. Sun of Devotion, Stream of Blessings can be downloaded as a PDF for free from www.LamaYeshe.com. 

Practice materials and translations by Lama Zopa Rinpoche can be found on the FPMT Foundation Store. 

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Aug
25
2016

Bringing the Light of the Path Retreat to Students Around the World

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300 participants are attending Lama Zopa Rinpoche's 2016 Light of the Path retreat in North Carolina. This includes 40 ordained Sangha and directors, spiritual program coordinators, and students from various countries including Australia, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. Photo by Ven. Sherab.

Three hundred participants are attending Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s 2016 Light of the Path Retreat in North Carolina. This includes 40 ordained Sangha and directors, spiritual program coordinators, and students from various countries around the world. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

Light of the Path Retreat 2016 is four days from completion in Black Mountain, North Carolina. This retreat is the fourth in a series of teaching retreats led by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and hosted by FPMT’s Kadampa Center. 

While 300 individuals are attending the retreat, many others are tuning in on YouTube and FPMT’s livestream channel from home.

Additionally, English transcription of the teachings are being streamed in real time, which students can open in a second window and watch alongside the live teaching. This service has been particularly useful for deaf and students hard of hearing. We received one comment explaining, “You are the first group that offers accommodations for the deaf and hard of hearing. I am in tears that finally a Tibetan Buddhist organization is accommodating deaf and hard of hearing citizens. Thank you so much for this.” Recorded video, audio and transcripts of the teachings are also posted as they become available. 

The FPMT Media Team has done incredible work facilitating all of these resources for students, and Kadampa Center has organized a beautiful retreat for on-site participants and students at home. 

FPMT Education Services recently made available a revised edition of the FPMT Retreat Prayer Book, which is an essential resource for those attending longer teaching events and retreats with Lama Zopa Rinpoche.


All teachings from the 2009, 2010 and 2014 are available on the FPMT Online Learning Center.

Together with many additional resources, the Living in the Path online program has been created from the Light of the Path retreat teachings. Organized into structured modules, you will find this program on the FPMT Online Learning Center.

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Aug
18
2016

Collection of Sutras and Dharanis Available to FPMT Students

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche giving the oral transmission of the Vajra Cutter Sutra at the Mahabodhi Temple, Bodhgaya, India, March 2015. Photo by Ven. Losang Sherab.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche giving the oral transmission of the Vajra Cutter Sutra at the Mahabodhi Temple, Bodhgaya, India, March 2015. Photo by Ven. Losang Sherab.

FPMT Education Services would like to invite you to take advantage of the sutras and dharanis available to you for free download on FPMT.org. 

Students read the Golden Light Sutra in front of Lama Yeshe's Stupa, Tushita Meditation Centre, Dharamsala, India, June 13, 2014. Photo courtesy of Tushita Meditation Centre.

Students read the Golden Light Sutra in front of Lama Yeshe’s Stupa, Tushita Meditation Centre, Dharamsala, India, June 13, 2014. Photo courtesy of Tushita Meditation Centre.

Sutras are records of teachings given by the historical Buddha. The Buddha’s discourses were memorized by his disciples and later written down in various languages, the most complete collections of teachings being in Pali and Sanskrit.

Because sutras contain the actual words spoken by the Buddha, by reproducing his speech ourselves during sutra recitations, our voice becomes a conduit for Buddha’s teachings in the world.

A special set of sutras called dharmaparyayas or “transformative teachings,” including the Sanghata Sutra, function to transform those who hear, recite or write out them in particular ways, in the same way as meeting a buddha in the flesh.

Dharanis also contain the essence of a teaching, but are often compared to mantras due to their intended ritual vocalization. Generally, however, dharanis are longer than mantras and are more likely to have intelligible phrases, like sutras. The word dharani is from a Sanskrit root word that means “to hold or maintain.” Dharanis are said to have the power to heal and protect from harm.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche reciting the Sutra of Golden Light for long-time student Anila Ann McNeil, who passed away February 2015, Bodhgaya, India. Photo by Ven. Sarah Thresher.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche reciting the Sutra of Golden Light for long-time student Anila Ann McNeil, who passed away February 2015, Bodhgaya, India. Photo by Ven. Sarah Thresher.


FPMT Education Services has created a webpage dedicated to sutras and dharanis: 
fpmt.org/education/teachings/sutras 

The FPMT Foundation Store also stocks a variety of sutras and sutra-related materials for your practice and exploration. 

Through comprehensive study programs, practice materials, training seminars, and scholarships, FPMT Education nourishes the development of compassion, wisdom, kindness, and true happiness in individuals of all ages.

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Aug
11
2016

Revised Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga Practice

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Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga is a particularly powerful practice for receiving the blessings of one’s personal teacher and developing the realization of guru devotion.

Also known as the Hundred Deities of Tushita (Ganden Lha Gyama), it is a seven-limb practice related to Lama Tsongkhapa, a great Tibetan scholar, saint, and yogi of the 14th century. To supplement and complete this short text, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has added a preliminary practice of the “Four Immeasurable Thoughts,” the lam-rim prayer “Foundation of All Good Qualities” by Lama Tsongkhapa, and two visualizations to do while reciting the “Five-Line Migtsema Prayer to Lama Tsongkhapa,” one for purifying negative karmas and one for achieving seven special types of wisdom. The appendices consist of short teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on how to do extensive meditations on making offerings, confessing, and rejoicing.

This is a suitable practice text for the preliminary practice of collecting 100,000 recitations of the Migtsema prayer.

FPMT Education Services is pleased to release a revised version of this practice, based on Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s latest advice. This updated edition is available as a downloadable PDF from the FPMT Foundation Store. 


Through comprehensive study programs, practice materials, training seminars, and scholarships, FPMT Education nourishes the development of compassion, wisdom, kindness, and true happiness in individuals of all ages.

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Aug
4
2016

The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment) Update

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Recently, FPMT Education Services announced a revision of the FPMT Retreat Prayer Book, a critical resource for those attending longer teaching events and retreats with Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Included in this revision was an update to The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment), a practice on which Lama Zopa Rinpoche has put a great deal of emphasis as essential for all FPMT students.

In this practice, Rinpoche has carefully compiled, and in many cases provided translation for, the prayers, practices, and meditations needed to start one’s day, or activities, with a perfect Dharma intention and bodhichitta motivation. While mornings are an ideal time to set up one’s aspirations for the day, students are encouraged to engage in this practice at any time, whenever one is able.

This practice is available for free as a downloadable PDF or eBook from the FPMT Foundation Store. We hope that you will take a moment to update your files with this updated version. 


Through comprehensive study programs, practice materials, training seminars, and scholarships, FPMT Education nourishes the development of compassion, wisdom, kindness, and true happiness in individuals of all ages.

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