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Hayagriva Buddhist Centre Benefited from Ven. Tenzin Tsapel’s First Visit

Hayagriva Buddhist Centre Benefited from Ven. Tenzin Tsapel’s First Visit

Hayagriva Buddhist Centre, an FPMT center in Perth, Western Australia, offered a six-week Buddhist Summer School program during the Australian summer, from January 8-February 10, 2019, consisting of teachings, meditations, and workshops led by Australian visiting FPMT registered teachers Ven. ... Read more »
Nyung Nä Temple Sponsored at Gaden Tharpa Choling Monastery, Kalimpong, India

Nyung Nä Temple Sponsored at Gaden Tharpa Choling Monastery, Kalimpong, India

Gaden Tharpa Choling Monastery in Kalimpong, India, was founded by the First Domo Geshe Rinpoche in 1912 while traveling on pilgrimage. Lama Zopa Rinpoche established a connection with the Domo Geshe Rinpoche lineage when he took ordination at Domo Drugkar ... Read more »
Collecting Merits and Purification Is First

Collecting Merits and Purification Is First

During the 2018 retreat in Australia, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave advice on the main activities to actualize the lamrim. Here is a small excerpt from this teaching: Lama Tsongkhapa asked Manjushri, “What is the quick way to actualize the lamrim ... Read more »
Annual Losar Rituals Conducted at Kopan Monastery

Annual Losar Rituals Conducted at Kopan Monastery

The community at Kopan Monastery, the FPMT monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, shares about the annual Losar (Tibetan New Year) rituals that took place at Kopan in 2019. The Tibetan Losar tradition contains elements and values that we all share as ... Read more »
E-News from International Office – Out Now

E-News from International Office – Out Now

We hope you enjoy our March FPMT International Office e-News! This month we bring you: A beautiful portrait photo of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, News about our Annual Review 2018!, New Materials, including Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Recognizing the False I, Updates ... Read more »
New Ebooks! ‘Meditations on White Tara’ and ‘A Meditation on Orange Manjushri’

New Ebooks! ‘Meditations on White Tara’ and ‘A Meditation on Orange Manjushri’

Students can now find two texts—Meditations on White Tara and A Meditation on Orange Manjushri—in ebook and PDF formats. Meditations on White Tara contains practices to strengthen and restore health and life-force energy. By relying on White Tara, students are ... Read more »
FPMT Annual Review 2018: Live with Compassion

FPMT Annual Review 2018: Live with Compassion

FPMT International Office is happy to announce FPMT Annual Review 2018: Live with Compassion. The new annual review is available to read as an eZine and a downloadable PDF. International Office, also called Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s office, helps fulfill the ... Read more »
Please Rejoice: Extensive Medicine Buddha Puja Offered by 2,000 Monks Every Month for all Beings

Please Rejoice: Extensive Medicine Buddha Puja Offered by 2,000 Monks Every Month for all Beings

Every month on the Tibetan 8th day the Puja Fund sponsors all the monks of Sera Mey Monastery to offer the extensive Medicine Buddha puja composed by the Fifth Dalai Lama dedicated FPMT centers, projects, services; all students who are ... Read more »
The Meaning of Defective View

The Meaning of Defective View

During a teaching given at the 2017 100 Million Mani Retreat held at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Italy, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how we incorrectly see things. In the text it says that rabrib, or defective view, is like when ... Read more »
How to Think When Doing a Puja

How to Think When Doing a Puja

Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on what to think anytime you are doing a puja: When doing any puja, you can think, “I am doing this puja for any sentient being who needs this puja.” So motivate for everyone, not ... Read more »
Find Lamrim Resources on FPMT.org

Find Lamrim Resources on FPMT.org

Find lamrim resources—including teachings, commentaries, prayers, audio programs, comprehensive study programs, and year-long meditation schedules—on FPMT.org to assist your study and practice. “The most unbelievably important thing in our life is lamrim,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche stresses in “Advice for Realizing ... Read more »
The FPMT Australia Community’s Second Annual Guru Bumtsog

The FPMT Australia Community’s Second Annual Guru Bumtsog

FPMT Sangha and students gathered together at the Kickstart Community Arts Centre in New Town, Tasmania, in November 2018 to make 100,000 tsog offerings to Guru Rinpoche, also known as Padmasambhava. This was the second year in a row that ... Read more »