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Rejoicing in the Creation of Holy Objects for All Beings: Grants Offered in 2026
Holy objects have always been at the heart of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s vast vision for benefiting sentient beings. Again and again, Rinpoche taught that holy objects are among the most powerful methods for bringing peace, wisdom, compassion, and liberation ... Read more »
Benefits of the Mani Retreat
To celebrate the ongoing FPMT Global Mani Retreat , which has brought together students of Lama Zopa Rinpoche from around the world to help fulfill one of Rinpoche’s most cherished wishes, we are sharing this excerpt on the Benefits of ... Read more »
Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Happiness Comes from the Mind, Not from Outside
In this extract, Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche explores why living beings, though they long for happiness, so often create the very causes of suffering instead. The teaching is drawn from a weekend seminar Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Lama Thubten Yeshe ... Read more »
Rejoicing in Our Support for Essential Services and Health Care in 2026
FPMT Social Services Fund (SSF) continues Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s vision of compassionate service by supporting projects that bring healthcare, education, and hope to those most in need. In 2026, we awarded US$136,103 in grants to seven organizations across India and ... Read more »
Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Practices for Earthquakes and Natural Disasters
Over the years, Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered various pieces of advice for prayers and practices to turn to when facing natural disasters. In light of the recent earthquakes in Latin America—in Venezuela on June 24, 2026 and in Colombia ... Read more »
Solar Eclipse on August 12: An Opportunity to Generate Extensive Merit!
Lama Zopa Rinpoche often spoke about solar and lunar eclipses, which are considered auspicious for practice and provide opportunities to accumulate merit manyfold. As stated in the vinaya text Treasure of Quotations and Logic, the karmic results of actions are ... Read more »
Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Happiness Starts When We Renounce This Life
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s book How to Practice Dharma: Teachings on the Eight Worldly Dharmas deals with the eight worldly dharmas, essentially how desire and attachment cause us to create problems and suffering and how to abandon these negative minds in ... Read more »
Remembering Rinpoche: LYWA Invites Students to Share Their Treasured Memories
December 3, 2025, marked what would have been the 80th birthday of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. To honor his profound and enduring legacy, Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive (LYWA) has launched a special project to honor the Lamas’ legacy for future generations: ... Read more »
Lama Yeshe’s Wisdom: On the Buddha of Compassion
In this teaching from 1976, Lama Thubten Yeshe gives a commentary on The Inseparability of the Spiritual Master and Avalokiteshvara: A Source of All Powerful Attainments , a practice composed by His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama when he was ... Read more »
Remembering Barbara Vautier, Whose Life Was Transformed at Kopan
Barbara Vautier, an early student of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche since the third Kopan course, passed away on July 1, 2026 in California. “Kopan course changed the way in which I approach life,” said Barbara. After ... Read more »
Global Mani Retreat: Two Months of Practice in Fulfilling Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Wish
Since launching on May 17, 2026—the first day of Saka Dawa month—the FPMT Global Mani Retreat has brought together students of Lama Zopa Rinpoche from around the world to help fulfill one of Rinpoche’s most cherished wishes: “This is one ... Read more »