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Wheel of Sharp Weapons Retreat at Kopan Monastery

Wheel of Sharp Weapons Retreat at Kopan Monastery

Kopan Monastery Spiritual Program Coordinator, Francisca Riaño and retreat leader Geshe Legtsok shared details of the Wheel of Sharp Weapons retreat, an expressed wish of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, which recently ended at Kopan: In the spirit of honoring Kyabje Lama ... Read more »
Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Purpose of an FPMT Center

Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Purpose of an FPMT Center

Last month we shared our 2024 Annual Review: What a Difference We All Have Made Together. Every year we include poignant advice from lama Zopa Rinpoche as the opening to our yearly report. This year, as we work together on ... Read more »
April 2025 e-News is Now Available!

April 2025 e-News is Now Available!

The April 2025 e-News is now available and brings many causes for rejoicing including: News regarding the reincarnation of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Advice for swift return prayers at this time, Teachings and advice from Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, ... Read more »
Lama Yeshe’s Wisdom: Meditation is Action

Lama Yeshe’s Wisdom: Meditation is Action

Clean-Clear: Refuge, Bodhicitta and the Nature of the Mind is the second volume in a series of Lama Yeshe’s collected teachings, forthcoming in May 2025 from the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive. This book contains introductory teachings given in England in ... Read more »
Mani Mantra Recitations for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Long Life

Mani Mantra Recitations for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Long Life

Yeshin Norbu, Sweden, is inviting the entire FPMT community to join in a very special initiative dedicated to the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Students are requested to recite the OM MANI PADME HUM mantra as many ... Read more »
Students Around the World Commemorate 2nd Anniversary of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Parinirvana

Students Around the World Commemorate 2nd Anniversary of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Parinirvana

April 13, 2025, marked the two-year anniversary of Lama Zopa Rinpoche passing into parinirvana. Around the world students gathered for collective prayers and practice, and to sincerely remember with immense gratitude the great kindness of our most precious spiritual guide. ... Read more »
Continued Prayers for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Swift Return

Continued Prayers for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Swift Return

Following the news that Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s reincarnation has been born according to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, students have asked, “Do we still offer the swift return prayers?” The answer is … yes! Please read the latest advice ... Read more »
Richard Gere’s Heartfelt Reflection: Remembering Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Richard Gere’s Heartfelt Reflection: Remembering Lama Zopa Rinpoche

We are so happy to share with you a truly moving and heartfelt interview with Richard Gere on the qualities of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Richard Gere, a long-time friend and student of Rinpoche, was in Nepal and when he received ... Read more »
Second Year Commemoration of Lama Zopa Rinpoche Passing into Parinirvana

Second Year Commemoration of Lama Zopa Rinpoche Passing into Parinirvana

April 13, 2025 marks the two-year anniversary of Lama Zopa Rinpoche passing into parinirvana. Around the world students are gathering for collective prayers and practice, and to sincerely remember with immense gratitude the great kindness of our most precious spiritual ... Read more »
2025 CPMT Summit at Kopan Monastery Finishes

2025 CPMT Summit at Kopan Monastery Finishes

The 2025 CPMT Summit: Advancing Our Gurus’ Vision of a World Guided by Compassion and Wisdom has finished at Kopan Monastery in Nepal where 185 participants from 70 FPMT centers, projects and services, representing 25 different countries, gathered to discuss, ... Read more »
Second Commemoration of Lama Zopa Rinpoche Showing the Aspect of Passing Away: April 13

Second Commemoration of Lama Zopa Rinpoche Showing the Aspect of Passing Away: April 13

April 13, 2025 marks the two-year anniversary of Lama Zopa Rinpoche showing the aspect of passing away. As a reminder to students, Advice for the Anniversary of the Guru’s Passing Away is a short text translated by Rinpoche that explains ... Read more »
A Most Joyful Announcement Regarding the Reincarnation of Lama Zopa Rinpoche

A Most Joyful Announcement Regarding the Reincarnation of Lama Zopa Rinpoche

With great rejoicing we share the wonderful news just announced at the 2025 CPMT Summit that His Holiness the Dalai Lama has confirmed that the reincarnation of our most precious spiritual director, Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, has been reborn. According ... Read more »