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Official Annual Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche on January 22
The official annual long life puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche, offered on behalf of the entire FPMT organization will take place on January 22 at Kopan Monastery, Nepal. All are welcome to participate in this auspicious event by offering prayers ...
Welcome to Our January e-News
In the January FPMT International Office e-News, we bring you news about: The Official Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Rejoicing in Another Year of Animal Liberation, A New Translation of the FPMT Ethical Policy, …and more! Have the ...
The Meditation-Recitation of Black Manjushri
The Meditation-Recitation of Black Manjushri, composed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and translated by the official Italian translator for His Holiness the Dalai Lama and a senior translator for the FPMT Masters Program and Basic Program Fabrizio Pallotti Champa Pelgye, is ...
Rinchen Jangsem Ling Retreat Centre Hosted a Large Prostration Event
On August 25, 2019, a large prostration event took place at Rinchen Jangsem Ling Retreat Centre, the FPMT center in Triang, Malaysia. FPMT Southeast Asia regional coordinator, Selina Foong, shares the story. This is a short excerpt from Selina’s published ...
Yearly Offering to the Gelug Examination and Main Teachers of the Lama Tsongkhapa Tradition
Every year the best scholars from the main Gelug monasteries come together for the annual Gelug Examination. Every year the Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund offers a grant for daily food, travel expenses, and for teacher stipends for the main teachers ...
Recite the Golden Light Sutra for World Peace
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this advice for a practice to do for world peace in June 2004. My dear Dharma brothers and sisters, It looks like there could be a lot of violence happening in Iraq. It comes out very ...
Prayer for Peace
“When there was unceasing war in Kham (Me Nyak), Tibet, and nobody was able to create harmony, the Great Lord Yogi (Thang Thong Gyalpo) came to Kham, generated bodhichitta, and just by merely saying these true words and sprinkling flowers, ...
Complimentary Living in the Path Module: ‘Bodhichitta Mindfulness’
In the complimentary Living in the Path module “Bodhichitta Mindfulness,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche shows students how to take the essence of our precious human life by transforming our normal daily activities—walking, washing, dressing, etc.—into a cause of enlightenment by doing ...
Tenzin Ösel Hita Welcomed to the San Francisco Bay Area, US
Tenzin Ösel Hita, the recognized reincarnation of FPMT co-founder Lama Yeshe, visited California, US, in August 2019, touring the four FPMT Bay Area centers. Osel visited Vajrapani Institute in Boulder Creek, where he gave a talk and participated in the ...
Rejoicing in Another Year of Animal Liberations
Benefiting animals in any way possible is a high priority for FPMT and one of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the organization. The Animal Liberation Fund sponsored the liberations of approximately 84,356 animals at Kachoe Dechen Ling, California, and ...
H.E. Ling Rinpoche Visits Kopan Monastery
Kopan Monastery welcomed His Eminence the Seventh Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in October 2019. Ani Fran (Ven. Fran Mohoupt) shared the story of H.E. Ling Rinpoche’s visit to the monastery in Nepal. H.E. Ling Rinpoche’s visit to Kopan Monastery was short ...