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Namche Stupa and Mani Park Completed in Namche Bazaar, Nepal
In 2016, the Holy Objects Fund offered a substantial grant to the Namche Stupa and Mani Park, a project in Namche Bazaar, Nepal, located in the Sagarmatha National Park and Buffer Zone (SNPBZ). The grant was used for five prayer ... Read more »
Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Regard to Guru Devotion
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered this advice on the practice of guru devotion: Take Guru Shakyamuni Buddha, for example: even after he became a buddha, still some people saw him as having mistakes. Also, Asanga saw a wounded dog and not ... Read more »
Recommended Practices for the Fifteenth Day of Saka Dawa, June 17
An auspicious merit multiplying day, the full moon of the month of Saka Dawa, is coming up on June 17. The fifteenth day of Saka Dawa is one of the four great holy days of the Tibetan calendar, commemorating Shakyamuni ... Read more »
Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program Provides In-Depth Study Opportunities
Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program, an FPMT project in Dharamsala, India, welcomed their newest cohort of students in March 2018. Six months later the students and teachers had the opportunity to meet with Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Dharamsala. Yaron Bahir, ... Read more »
Grant Offered to the 2018 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. This year, which is an annual custom, the Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund offered US$20,955 for daily food, travel expenses, and for teacher stipends ... Read more »
Retreat at Institut Vajra Yogini with Lama Zopa Rinpoche Brings FPMT ‘Family’ Together
Lama Zopa Rinpoche is currently in the middle of teaching at the five-week Vajrayogini Retreat at Institut Vajra Vogini in the south of France. FPMT students from around the world—many of them students of Rinpoche for more than thirty years—are ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Additional Advice to Students of Dagri Rinpoche
If you wish to read FPMT International Office’s May 24 update regarding Dagri Rinpoche, it is available here. Lama Zopa Rinpoche felt strongly that it was important for him to offer the following advice to the students of Dagri Rinpoche ... Read more »Further Update Regarding Dagri Rinpoche *
FPMT International Office has received considerable correspondence regarding the alleged misconduct by Dagri Rinpoche and the decision to suspend Dagri Rinpoche from the FPMT Tibetan Teachers List. (See the timeline below for details.) International Office acknowledges the very real suffering ... Read more »
FPMT Board of Directors Welcomes Three New Members
The Board of Directors of FPMT, Inc., has three new members: Ven. Lhundub Chodron, Peggy Bennington, and Debra Ladner. Peggy Bennington was appointed to the board on March 5, 2019; Venerable Lhundub Chodron and Debra Ladner were appointed on May ... Read more »
The Secret Advanced Practices of Vajrayogini and Other Vajrayogini Texts
FPMT Educations Services has recently released three new Vajrayogini practices texts—The Secret Advanced Practices of Vajrayogini, The Quick Path to Great Bliss, and A Compilation of Tsog Offerings to Vajrayogini. The Secret Advanced Practices of Vajrayogini (in hardcopy and digital ... Read more »
Milarepa Center Making Strides
Milarepa Center is located in rural Barnet, Vermont, in the United States. In July 2018, the center hosted the Foundation Service Seminar, the ‘FPMT immersion retreat’. Milarepa Center director Dawn Holt recently shared this update. I am happy to say ... Read more »