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Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche near Lawudo Retreat Center, Nepal, 1970. Photo by Terry Clifford and courtesy of Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.
We are so pleased to share FPMT International Office’s Annual Review 2021: Sharing and Preserving the Dharma in a Changing World. The year 2021 continued to bring many uncertainties, fears, threats, and changes to the world in which we live. As evidenced by this year’s online annual report, despite the challenges, we continued our work to help fulfill the wishes of FPMT’s founders Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. This includes activities such as offering access to Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s precious teachings, helping keep the international community connected and informed, providing guidance and structure to our affiliates, facilitating charitable giving to many worthy initiatives, and disseminating the Dharma around the world.
Please join us in this overview of some of our more notable accomplishments as an office and organization this past year. You will also find new valuable advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche for the entire organization, an inspiring and personal letter from CEO Ven. Roger Kunsang, and a photo gallery of some of this year’s many activities and achievements.
Please view our 2021 annual report and join us in rejoicing in another year of helping to actualize Lama Yeshe’s and Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s wishes for the FPMT organization and the world.
Please note, the FPMT Annual Review 2021 is available only online:
fpmt.org/fpmt/annual-review
FPMT International Office is Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s office and works daily to achieve its mission of “preserving and spreading Mahayana Buddhism worldwide by creating opportunities to listen, reflect, meditate, practice, and actualize the unmistaken teachings of the Buddha, and based on that experience, spread the Dharma to sentient beings.”
Dr. Giorgio Armato.
Dr. Giorgio Armato, 74, died at home in Genoa, Italy, on January 21, of cancer.
Dr. Giorgio Armato graduated from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in Genoa, Italy, and specialized in oncology. He met Lama Zopa Rinpoche in 1975 and spent many years at Kopan Monastery in Nepal. Among his many achievements, he first built an emergency room in Kopan itself and another at the foot of the hill. He then built a small three-story hospital there, thanks to his own work and donations from friends.
In his practice in Genoa, Giorgio helped and cared for the poor and needy, and he went on missions to offer surgical operations in Zaire, Burundi, Madagascar, Guatemala, and Nepal.
Friend Ven. Siliana Bosa shared, “Giorgio was very devoted to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and he loved Kopan. He had a strong connection also with the Catholic church and often, during his summer holiday, went to Africa with a Franciscan organization to do surgical operations in areas of great conflict.”
Dr. Giorgio Armato at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, with Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup, his sister Graziella, a doctor, and a nurse, 1999.
“He put others before himself and helped many people with acupuncture and gave all the offerings he received to people in need. Giorgio had a good sense of humor. Because of his broken English, he would say [the Italian word] ‘allora’ every few words, and so in Kopan they called him Doctor Allora. His main practices were Medicine Buddha and Vajrayogini, which helped him to face the last months of his sickness with serenity. He actually told me that he was not afraid to die, so he had a peaceful departure,” Ven. Siliana said.
Ven. Lucia Bani shared, “Giorgio has been a dear Dharma friend for many years and for many years he was my sponsor. Giorgio was a man of few words but many actions. He was honest and sincere, and totally dedicated to help others. He was an example of great strength especially for how he faced his illness and death. He never complained, remained serene, and had a mind always ready to ask, ‘How are you?’ Giorgio had a meaningful life and left with great dignity and courage. What a wonderful gift!”
With thanks to Dr. Giorgio’s sister, Graziella Armato, for providing details for this obituary.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche requests that students who read obituaries pray that the person mentioned finds a perfect human body, meets a Mahayana guru, and becomes enlightened quickly, or be born in a pure land where the tantric teachings exist and they can become enlightened.” While reading obituaries we can also reflect on our own death and impermanence prompting us to live our lives in the most meaningful way. More advice from Lama Zopa Ripoche 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/).
Maitreya Project Trust Director Virginia Roche with His Eminence Ling Rinpoche during a visit to the Maitreya Buddha Project Kushinagar property, October 2021.
Ling Rinpoche blessing the Maitreya Project land as Virginia Roche explains the project to him.
The creation of Holy Objects for World Peace is an important aspect of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s vast vision for the FPMT organization. As part of this, Rinpoche envisions the creation of many statues of Maitreya Buddha, the future Buddha, around the world. Currently, there are two separate projects to build large Maitreya Buddha statues in India, one in Bodhgaya, Bihar, and one in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh.
We are pleased to share some news and causes for rejoicing from Maitreya Buddha Project Kushinagar, including an auspicious visit from His Eminence Ling Rinpoche in October and news of some new initiatives that will benefit the local community.
In October 2021, while His Eminence Ling Rinpoche was in Kushinagar as a special guest of the Indian Prime Minister Modi at the inauguration of a new international airport, Lama Zopa Rinpoche invited him to visit the Maitreya Buddha Project Kushinagar site. Virginia Roche, Maitreya Project Trust director, made the necessary arrangements for this special visit. While on the premises, Ling Rinpoche offered special prayers and pujas in the gompa, and received an update from the director about the entire project, its history, challenges, and current situation.
When asked for advice about the project, Ling Rinpoche expressed that the most important thing to be done to actualize the project as soon as possible is to help the local community in any way that could benefit them. This is the same advice offered by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. The director was also able to receive valuable advice from influencers, government administrative officers, and politicians. Inline with the advice received, the following initiatives are being pursued:
Kopan Monastery monks blessing the land at Maitreya Buddha Project Kushinagar.
Weekly Income Generating Program for Rural Women: Social Enterprise initiatives that could help rural women earn a livelihood.
Vocational Training for Men: To reskill or upskill unemployed male members of the local community and teach them a trade like carpentry, painting, bricklaying, and plaster work; and also support and facilitate placing them in jobs and eventually to also provide them with jobs within Maitreya Buddha Project Kushinagar when construction begins.
Education for Children: To make progress in local higher education and encourage good job placement, it is important for every individual to know English. Maitreya Buddha Project Kushinagar would like to facilitate English courses to students and adults wishing to learn this important language. There are other NGOs that offer such programs. So the idea is to either align with and request them to deliver these learning programs or for Maitreya Buddha Project Kushinagar to provide them through volunteer programs.
Local Evening Clinic: To provide evening doctor consultation and treatment to local poor and needy individuals in and around the project site. Maitreya Buddha Project Kushinagar is in the process of shortlisting doctors who could visit at least two times a week for a few hours initially to offer consultation and treatment to the sick and needy.
Maitreya Buddha Project Kushinagar Meditation Center.
Since 2018, the following highlights have been completed:
- Completion of land fencing for 250 acres
- Construction of gompa/ meditation center
- Construction and completion of site office
- Construction of three guest accommodations
- Construction of bathing rooms and toilets for large gatherings of over 100 visitors
- Planting of 15,000 trees in Kushinagar
- Purchase of vehicles for site
Map of the Maitreya Buddha Project Kushinagar site.
Of course, along with the causes for rejoicing and forward movement, there have also been quite a few challenges as well. Director Virginia Roche remains optimistic that the obstacles faced should be expected given the magnitude of this project, which is being built on the land where Shakyamuni Buddha showed the aspect of passing away. She shares, “One of the lead officers on the assignment of this project was a student of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and if it wasn’t for him and all his struggle, the project would not have even come this far. I would really like to express my deep gratitude to all students and benefactors. Thank you for coming this far.”
You can learn more about the Maitreya Projects and read stories in particular about the Maitreya Buddha Project Kushinagar on FPMT.org.
To learn more about the incredible holy objects of FPMT and offer support, visit the Holy Objects Fund page:
fpmt.org/projects/fpmt/holy-objects-fund
Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Pokhara, Nepal, December 2021.
Welcome to the March 2022 edition of our e-news! This issue features news, updates, resources, opportunities, and causes for rejoicing including:
- An update on the long life puja offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche on March 11
- Teachings and excerpts from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- Rejoicing in new holy objects created for the success of FPMT and all beings
- A list of new resources available in the Foundation Store
- News about opportunities and changes within the organization
And much more!
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Pokhara, Nepal, December 2021. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.
Losar Tashi Delek!
Happy Tibetan new year to all our dear friends!
With love from Lama Zopa Rinpoche and everyone at FPMT International Office.
Read more about Losar, the Fifteen Days of Miracles, and what practices to do during this auspicious period, which begins on March 3 this year!
The Liberation Tibetan Calendar 2022: Year of the Water Tiger 2149 is now available. Many thanks to the Liberation Prison Project for continuing to produce this calendar, which also supports the work of the project. A limited view of the calendar is always available on “Dharma Practice Dates” as a courtesy to FPMT students around the world.
We Invite New Friends for the New Year
Friends of FPMT supporters have complimentary access to our online study programs like Discovering Buddhism, Heart Advice for Death & Dying, and Basic Program, downloadable materials from FPMT Education Services, ebooks from Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, the Mandala Magazine e-archive, the 2022 Liberation Calendar, and more.
We’re hoping to welcome at least 108 new Friends during these fifteen merit-multiplying Buddha Days. Learn more about the Friends program and giving levels.
FPMT.org and Mandala Publications brings you news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and of activities, teachings, and events from 150 FPMT centers, projects, and services around the globe. If you like what you read, consider becoming a Friend of FPMT, which supports our work.
Telo Tulku Rinpoche looking through Nalanda Monastery Workshops’s catalog of silicone tsa-tsa molds, Moscow, Russia, November 2021. Photo by Nima-Handa.
The Tsa-tsa Workshop, an educational project of Ganden Tendar Ling Center, the FPMT center in Moscow, Russia, has been teaching the tsa-tsa making practice since November 2019. Center director Andrey Lomonosov shared the following update on the workshop.
At the beginning of 2021, a community from Kalmykia asked us to help make tsa-tsas for the construction of a temple complex in the village Ketchenery. Kalmykia is a republic in Russia where Buddhism is the primary religion. Ketchenery is special because it is the birthplace of Geshe Ngawang Wangyal (1901-1983), who played a key role in introducing Tibetan Buddhism to the West. In 1958, Geshe Wangyal established the first Tibetan Buddhist Dharma center in the United State, where leading Western scholars such as Robert Thurman, Jeffrey Hopkins, and Alexander Berzin studied. The temple complex that is being built in Ketchenery is on a site that His Holiness the Dalai Lama personally chose and consecrated when he visited Kalmykia thirty years ago.
Image of temple complex planned for Ketchenery, Kalmykia
For the construction of the temple complex, it was necessary to produce 10,000-12,000 tsa-tsas by the end of 2021. Local residents make tsa-tsas from clay, but it is difficult for them to make a large amount without the help of others. At the beginning of 2021, we began making tsa-tsas for Ketchenery as group practices on weekends.
Making tsa-tsas in Ketchenery, Kalmykia, Russia, May 2021. Photo by Nima-Handa.
In May 2021 by the blessing of Telo Tulku Rinpoche—who is the Shadjin Lama of the Kalmyk Republic (Head of Kalmyk Buddhists) and the representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Russia, Mongolia, and Commonwealth of Independent States countries—a group of eight volunteers led by Nima-Handa, the coordinator of the workshop, went to Ketchenery to make tsa-tsas on site. It took eighteen hours to drive from Moscow to Ketchenery by car. The volunteers brought with them all the necessary equipment—silicone molds, plaster, paints, as well as books that the Ganden Tendar Ling Center presented to the villagers. During one week, the volunteers were able to make about 1,500 tsa-tsas. It was intended for them to stay longer and make more, but, unfortunately, due to the outbreak of the pandemic in the village, the volunteers had to return to Moscow.
Telo Tulku Rinpoche looking at tsa-tsas, Moscow, Russia, November 2021. Photo by Liana.
In Moscow, we continued to make tsa-tsas for Ketchenery. In September the directors of Ganden Tendar Ling decided to rent a special room for the workshop that allowed people to make tsa-tsas not only on weekends but on other days as well. Every week around twenty people engaged in making tsa-tsas in our workshop.
On November 28, Telo Tulku Rinpoche visited the workshop to consecrate the next batch of ready-made tsa-tsas before being sent to Kalmykia. It was a great honor for the volunteers to receive Rinpoche in the workshop. We talked in detail about the process of making a tsa-tsas from plaster and showed him all of our tools and materials. Rinpoche was very pleased with our success and noted that this is a real contribution to the revival of Buddhist art in Russia, lost during the years of repression in the last century. Rinpoche recommended that next year we should travel to Kalmykia to train local residents in the practice of making tsa-tsas.
By the end of 2021 the total quantity of tsa-tsas sent to Kalmykia exceeded 3,000 pieces. We were very happy to make our contribution to fulfilling the wish of His Holiness Dalai Lama to build a temple complex in the village Ketchenery in Kalmykia. Our special thanks to Nalanda Monastery Tsa-Tsa Workshop, which supported us in learning the practice of making tsa-tsas.
Telo Tulku Rinpoche with Tsa-tsa Workshop volunteers, Moscow, Russia, November 2021. Photo by Nima-Handa.
To learn more about Ganden Tendar Ling Center, visit their website:
https://fpmt.ru/
FPMT.org and Mandala Publications brings you news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and of activities, teachings, and events from 150 FPMT centers, projects, and services around the globe. If you like what you read, consider becoming a Friend of FPMT, which supports our work.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Chandragiri Hill Resort, Nepal, November 2021. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.
We are pleased to share our February e-News with you!
This issue features news, updates, resources, opportunities, and causes for rejoicing including:
- A long life puja being offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche on March 11
- Teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- Resources for your practice on Losar and Fifteen Days of Miracles
- Information about this year’s Merit Box collection
- New FPMT Masters Program offered in two locations
- Opportunities and changes within the FPMT organization
And much more!
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Tenzin Ösel Hita and his son, Norbu. Photo courtesy of One-Big-Love.com.
On behalf of the entire FPMT organization, FPMT International Office wishes Tenzin Ösel Hita a very happy birthday and a long, healthy life. May his beneficial activities, including his Global Tree Initiative, flourish and may his wishes manifest without delay!
Tenzin Ösel Hita, the recognized reincarnation of FPMT founder Lama Yeshe, turns 37 this year. He shared this on his Facebook page:
“For my birthday this year, February 12, I am asking for donations to the Global Tree Initiative! This is the best present you can offer.
“We are entering a new age. I feel that the One Universal Family, through the Global Tree Initiative (PlantGrowSave.org) is going to unite people from all religions into a harmonious whole as we participate and collaborate around this life-generating activity. This is one of the pillars of the Dalai Lama—religious harmony.
“We are living a non-sustainable, consumerist life. Therefore, the least we can do is collaborate in planting a few trees. Individually but together, we will make a difference in the next two hundred years. The trees that we plant, now, will bring benefits for hundreds of years, long after we are gone.”
Learn more about Ösel and his projects on his website:
https://one-big-love.com/
Rowena Mayer, 81, died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, on January 26, 2022, of cancer
By Don Handrick
Rowena Mayer, 2010. Photo courtesy of Rowena’s Facebook page.
Rowena Mayer met the Dharma for the first time in the early 1980s when she attended a teaching with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Santa Cruz, California. After that she started going to Vajrapani Institute in Boulder Creek for classes and retreats while raising her family in Big Sur. One of her California Dharma friends David Molk recalled Rowena’s cheerful perseverance in her practice as she worked as a school teacher. She lived right at Pacific Valley School in Big Sur in chaotic, cramped circumstances, which might have discouraged or distracted a less stable and persistent practitioner.
Rowena moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 2002, and shortly afterward connected with Thubten Norbu Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center(TNL), where she served as the center director from 2006 until early 2018, guiding the development of its programs and events, and helping the community to grow into one of the largest Buddhist centers in Santa Fe. As the “mommy” of the center, Rowena was a constant presence, greeting and welcoming nearly everyone who came through its doors.
During her years as center director, she persisted in inviting Geshe Thubten Sherab to return to New Mexico, where he had worked at FPMT’s International Office when it was located in Taos from 2001-2003. It was her strong wish that Geshe Sherab become the center’s first resident geshe, and in 2013 he agreed to do that on a part-time basis, sharing the teaching duties for half of each year with TNL’s other resident teacher, myself.
Rowena with Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Geshe Thubten Sherab, and Don Handrick at Thubten Norbu Ling, Santa Fe, 2017. Photo by Ven. Sarah Thresher.
She also continually invited Lama Zopa Rinpoche to come to Santa Fe. And her years of dedication to TNL, the FPMT organization, and Rinpoche resulted in his weeklong visit in August 2017, which included several teachings and initiations that were attended by over 200 people. The blessings of Rinpoche’s visit continue to benefit TNL in that it has grown into a large community of practitioners with an expanded program and a new building that is set to open later in 2022.
Nearly a hundred members of the TNL and FPMT community who knew Rowena joined an online Medicine Buddha puja that was conducted for her by Geshe Sherab on the evening of January 26, 2022. Rowena’s daughters and other family members watched the puja that night with her, and she took her last breath shortly before the puja ended. A few days before she passed, she had mentioned to one of her daughters that Medicine Buddha had visited and spoke with her, so it seemed most auspicious that her final moments came during that particular puja.
Rowena will be remembered for her incredible kindness and the loving concern she showed to so many. Moreover, as a practitioner, she demonstrated a genuine enthusiasm for the Dharma that will continue to inspire all those who practiced with her. What a blessing it was to have had her in our lives!
*After reading this obituary, Lama Zopa Rinpoche commented: “From the person’s side, to live the life as a very good human being and from Medicine Buddha’s side, the most powerful is to make prayers to and practice in degenerate times (from sutra and from tantra). Hence Rowena had no worries at the time of death. Whoever one practices in the life can therefore appear to oneself at death time.”
Lama Zopa Rinpoche requests that students who read obituaries pray that the person mentioned finds a perfect human body, meets a Mahayana guru, and becomes enlightened quickly, or be born in a pure land where the tantric teachings exist and they can become enlightened.” While reading obituaries we can also reflect on our own death and impermanence prompting us to live our lives in the most meaningful way. More advice from Lama Zopa Ripoche 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/).
Eléa Redel, 74, died of rheumatoid polyarthritis, on January 7, 2022, in Lavaur, France
By Christian Charrier
Eléa Redel, 2021. Photo courtesy of Institut Vajra Yogini.
Eléa Redel was finally released from her long-term physical suffering on January 7, 2022, at Institut Vajra Yogini, France. Geshe Loden, our resident teacher, was at her side and informed Lama Zopa Rinpoche, who responded immediately. Instructions were given and Eléa, lying on her bed, entered straightaway into meditation while Geshe-la and IVY director Nicolas Brun offered practices. She remained absorbed for five days without showing any external sign of death. A message came from His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s secretary expressing that Chenrezig was taking care of the departure of our dearest friend.
Eléa was born in France in 1947. She met Lama Yeshe in 1979 in Dharamsala and became actively involved in the FPMT organization. In France, she served as a translator and founder of Vajra Yogini Publications (now “Editions Mahayana”). In India, she was the director of Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program, one of the leading schools in the training of specialized interpreters and translators from Tibetan.
Eléa was a charismatic and sensitive person, and people enjoyed her company. She was also an intelligent student, who got her inspiration and wisdom from her kind heart. Although she never studied in a strictly academic way, her knowledge of Dharma was both very thorough and practical. She had an unwavering devotion to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lama Yeshe, and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, whose words she translated or helped to translate into French. She was a reliable and meticulous translator and copy editor.
Eléa was the first person I met when I arrived at Institut Vajra Yogini in 1981 during Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s visit. She immediately struck me as being a leading figure there. At this time, she would wear rainbow-colored woolen gloves with cut-off fingers as she spent her days typing on an old machine. (We did not have computers or even heaters in those days.) I soon discovered that behind her rainbow gloves were fingers that had started to swell and take on a deformed aspect. Day by day, as her whole body slowly transformed, pain and infirmity became more and more vicious. But she was brave and did not let her crippling disease stop her from serving the community and the Dharma. She also continued to travel to India and Nepal for teachings and retreats, and went on a pilgrimage to Tibet with Rinpoche.
Eléa with Ven. Charles Trebaol. Photo courtesy of Institut Vajra Yogini.
Although tortured physically, her inner rainbow light continued to shine through and illuminate her environment and friends. Her suffering gradually became a catalyst for spiritual growth. And her way of accepting her illness, with forbearance and patience, revealed a true bodhisattva heart. Her courage was indeed a source of admiration and inspiration for many of us.
In the last years of her life she could not eat, drink, stand up, walk, go to bed, or get up by herself. She needed assistance every time she moved and had to cope mentally with her dependence on others for whatever activity she had to perform or anything she wished to do. Very tough to take for such an independent person!
Gradually she had to let go of her work as a translator and copy editor. In the last years, she concentrated mainly on doing her practices and advised whoever came to visit her. During one of my last visits, she told me that if she had the chance to find another precious human life, she would like to come back as a graceful and sensuous lady whose practice of Dharma would benefit others by “mere sight.” Isn’t it strange that we all wish to be what we already are! Eléa was indeed a beautiful lady, wearing the armor of patience and perseverance, and exemplifying a bodhisattva training in the six perfections. Remembering her, my yo-yo heart fluctuates between sadness and joy.
You can read “Changing Suffering into Happiness” written by Eléa Redel in 1999 for Mandala magazine. This piece has also now been translated into French.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche requests that students who read obituaries pray that the person mentioned finds a perfect human body, meets a Mahayana guru, and becomes enlightened quickly, or be born in a pure land where the teachings exist and they can become enlightened.” While reading obituaries we can also reflect on our own death and impermanence prompting us to live our lives in the most meaningful way. More advice from Lama Zopa Ripoche on death and dying is available on Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s advice page.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Paris, 2006. Photo by Duc (pixiduc) from Paris, France, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Buddhist monk, Vietnamese Zen Master, engaged-buddhism proponent, and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh passed away on January 22, 2022, at the age of 95. Spiritual leaders as well as FPMT students and centers around the world have been sharing the deep appreciation they had for this teacher of non-violence and mindfulness.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama released the following message of condolence:
“In his peaceful opposition to the Vietnam war, his support for Martin Luther King and most of all his dedication to sharing with others not only how mindfulness and compassion contribute to inner peace, but also how individuals cultivating peace of mind contributes to genuine world peace, the Venerable lived a truly meaningful life. I have no doubt the best way we can pay tribute to him is to continue his work to promote peace in the world.”
His Eminence the 7th Kyabje Ling Rinpoche encouraged everyone to rejoice and to be inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh’s exemplary life of tireless service to the Buddhadharma and to promoting non-violence, peace and harmony in Vietnam and throughout the entire world.
We invite you to read two teachings from Thich Nhat Hanh previously published in Mandala magazine, Embracing Anger, and Going Home to Yourself.
For more on Thich Nhat Hanh and his passing, please visit the Plum Village website.
FPMT.org brings you news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and of activities, teachings, and events from FPMT centers, projects, and services around the globe as well as from students, teachers, and others in the FPMT community. If you like what you read, consider becoming a Friend of FPMT, which supports our work.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Pokhara, Nepal, December 2021. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.
Best wishes for an auspicious new year from FPMT International Office!
We are happy to bring you our first e-News of 2022. This issue offers news, updates, and causes for rejoicing including:
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s recent activities and a new photo album
- Continued progress on a stupa being built in Hunsur, India
- New prayers, practices, and MP3s available from FPMT Education Services
- Opportunities and changes within the FPMT organization
and much more!
Please enjoy this month’s e-news in its entirety.
Have the e-News translated into your native language by using our convenient translation facility located on the right-hand side of the page.
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