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2024 Grants Offered Through the Education and Preservation Fund
The Education and Preservation Fund supports Dharma study and contributes to the development of Buddhist education programs and the preservation of the Dharma through the publication of Dharma practice materials and translations. The fund also supports the publishing of the ... Read more »
Our October Newsletter is Now Available
Our October e-Newsletter is now available and we are sharing news, resources, and causes for rejoicing including: Teachings from Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe, News about His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Information about Lhabab Duchen approaching on November 11, ... Read more »
Continuing the Legacy of Geshe Lhundub Sopa: The Enthronement of His Reincarnation in America
By Namdrol Miranda Adams In late September 2025, a historic event took place at Deer Park Buddhist Center in Oregon, Wisconsin: the enthronement of Tenzin Nawang Rinpoche, a seven-year-old boy recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama as the reincarnation ... Read more »
How to Move a Dharma Center: Tekchen Choeling, Spain, Shares Their Story
How do you move a Buddhist Center? That is the question that the team at Tekchen Choeling Buddhist Center in Spain had to ask themselves last month, when they had to relocate the center’s holy objects to a new location. ... Read more »
Festival of Tibet at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa
From September 12-14, 2025, Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa (ILTK), Italy, hosted the fifth edition of Festival of Tibet in Pomaia with thousands of participants benefiting from the event. The Tibetan community in Italy was brought together for a weekend of ... Read more »
Lama Yeshe’s Wisdom: Refuge is a State of Mind
In this excerpt from the teaching, “Refuge is a State of Mind” given at Chenrezig Institute, Eudlo, Australia, on September 12, 1979, Lama Yeshe discusses many aspects of Refuge to consider. This teaching is now published in the LYWA book: ... Read more »
How to Live and Die: A New Book by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
We are so pleased to share Wisdom Publication’s new release, How to Live and Die: The Transformative Power of Meditating on Impermanence by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. In this overview of one of the most important practices in Tibetan Buddhism—meditating on ... Read more »
Hats, Hugs, and Happiness: Rejoicing in the Life of Brian Rae
Brian Rae passed away suddenly of a heart attack on September 12, 2025 in Taupo, New Zealand. The following words celebrating Brian’s qualities, interests, and years of service in the FPMT mandala were prepared by Simon Harrison, a FPMT-registered teacher, ... Read more »
Making Meaningful Connections: Foundation Service Seminar at IVY, France
FPMT International Office staffer Zarina Osmonalieva attended her fist Foundation Service Seminar at Institut Vajra Yogini in France this September. Here she shares her experience joining this FPMT immersion retreat. Led by Francois Lecointre and Wendy Ridley, the latest Foundation ... Read more »
FPMT Community Support Fund Offers Nine Grants to Inspiring Dharma Projects
In 2024, the FPMT Community Support Fund was launched as a transition from the much-loved International Merit Box Project, which for over twenty-one years provided grants to local FPMT centers, projects, services, study groups, and Dharma initiatives worldwide. This new ... Read more »
His Holiness Acknowledged as “The Universal Supreme Patriarch of the Buddhist World” in Long Life Celebration
On September 20, more than a thousand people from Korea and several South-east Asian countries gathered in the courtyard of the Main Tibetan Temple, Dharamsala, India, to make prayers and offer praise and cultural performances for His Holiness the Dalai ... Read more »