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The Legacy of the Sera Je Food Fund– THANK YOU
The latest issue of Mandala magazine features an extensive article, “Sustaining the Pure Unbroken Lineage of Buddha’s Teachings in This World: The Legacy of the Sera Je Food Fund,” which is an in-depth look at the accomplishments and historical context ... Read more »
January e-News Out Now!
We hope you enjoy our January FPMT International Office e-News! This month we bring you news about: Updates to Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Teaching Schedule , Time to Empty Your Merit Box! , 2019 LPP Calendar Available to Order , …and ... Read more »
Ideas and Advice for Losar and the Fifteen Miracle Days of Chotrul Duchen 2019
The Fifteen Days of Miracles—from the first day of the Tibetan new year (Losar, February 5) until the fifteenth (February 19)—commemorate the special time when Guru Shakyamuni Buddha showed miraculous powers in order to subdue six Tirthika, or non-Buddhist teachers, ... Read more »
FPMT Hispana Hosts Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Visit to Madrid, Spain
Lama Zopa Rinpoche visited Madrid, Spain, from October 16 to November 3, 2018. The visit was organized by FPMT Hispana. The FPMT Hispana community shares the story. FPMT Hispana will host Rinpoche in Madrid again from April 26-29, 2019. Rinpoche ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Liberation of 125,149 Lives in the United States in 2018
Resident Sangha at Buddha Amitabha Pure Land in Washington State and Kachoe Dechen Ling in California, in the United States, engage in weekly animal liberation practice; offer charity to over 80 different ant nests; perform extensive daily offering practices of ... Read more »
How to Benefit a Cat
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who had asked Rinpoche how to benefit a very sick twenty-one year old cat. My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one, I heard you wanted very much to ... Read more »
The Most Essential Thing to Achieve Enlightenment
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave the following teaching during the retreat at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Australia in April 2018: Whatever you do to please the guru, just there [by doing that], without even doing many hundreds of ... Read more »
Take a Look! Samantabhadra Card for Protection
Lama Zopa Rinpoche redesigned the Samantabhadra protection card in 2016. The card is available in PDF format through the Foundation Store. The 2010 design is still available in print. “This Samantabhadra protection is from the great lama Thugyen Chokyi Nyima,” ... Read more »
Land of Joy’s Annual Ten-Day Lamrim Retreat
Land of Joy, an FPMT center in Northumberland National Park, UK, hosted their annual ten-day lamrim retreat November 2-11, 2018, led by FPMT registered teacher Ven. Mary Reavey. Retreatant Sheri Lim and fellow retreatants share about the experience. Everyone had ... Read more »
New Year Celebrated with the Poor and Homeless in Mongolia
Since 2003 Lamp of the Path NGO (LOP), part of Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling, has offered essential social services in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. This year, the new year was celebrated with 130 poor and homeless individuals from the area thanks ... Read more »
Water Bowl Offerings as a Group Practice
Lama Zopa Rinpoche wrote a group of sixteen retreatants who had completed 100,000 water bowl offerings together and offered their practice to Rinpoche. They asked if they could do preliminary practices in this way, doing the practices as group and ... Read more »