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100 Million Mani Retreats– Part of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Vision
One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the FPMT organization is to sponsor 100 million mani retreats (100,000 recitations of 100 million OM MANI PADME HUM) around the world. Rinpoche explained, “[I would like] for the organization to establish ... Read more »
Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche Offered at Kopan
Every year, Ven. Roger Kunsang checks whether any practices need to be done to contribute to FPMT Spiritual Director Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s health and long life. This year, Khadro-la (Rangjung Neljorma Khandro Namsel Dronme) advised that a Sixteen Arhat Long ... Read more »
Advice for Merit Multiplying Days
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave advice regarding merit multiplying days such as the Fifteen Days of Miracles, Saka Dawa, Chokhor Duchen, and Lhabab Duchen. The next merit multiplying day is Saka Dawa on June 17, 2019. On the day of Guru ... Read more »
Practices for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Long Life and Good Health
Earlier this week His Holiness the Dalai Lama was admitted to hospital in New Delhi, India, suffering from what seems to be a chest infection. Tenzin Osel Hita, the recognized reincarnation of FPMT co-founder Lama Yeshe, sent a message to ... Read more »
Land of Medicine Buddha and Road Scholar Partner to Offer Retreats
Land of Medicine Buddha (LMB), an FPMT center in Soquel, California, US, partners with the nonprofit Road Scholar program to offer retreats at LMB. Founded as Elderhostel in the summer of 1975, Road Scholar began as a learning program conceived ... Read more »
Fourth Guru Bumtsog at Khachoe Ghakyil Ling, Nepal
For the forth year a very large thangka of Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava) was displayed and an auspicious 100,000 tsog offering event (Guru bumtsog) took place at Khachoe Ghakyil Ling, Nepal, also known as Kopan Nunnery. The thangka, which is 75 ... Read more »
There Is No Liberation without the Guru, Even with All the Qualities Completed
During the 2018 retreat at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Australia, Lama Zopa Rinpoche taught extensively on guru devotion. In the following, Rinpoche shares examples of quotes on guru devotion and concludes the half-hour video clip with a ... Read more »
The Benefits of Serving the Guru
The FPMT Annual Review 2018 featured a letter from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, advising on the benefits of serving the guru. Here’s an excerpt from Rinpoche’s letter: My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling ones, From the bottom of my ... Read more »
Mantras for Protection from the FPMT Foundation Store
The Namgyalma mantra is extremely powerful and is the main mantra to purify and liberate beings from the lower realms, purify negative karma, and help those who are dying or have died either by chanting it in their ear or ... Read more »
Chag Tong Chen Tong Centre Extended Their Hearts to Hobart Mosque
On March 18, 2019, three days after the Christchurch, New Zealand, shootings at Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre, members of Chag Tong Chen Tong Centre, an FPMT center in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, visited their former home, Hobart Mosque ... Read more »
Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche on April 6
Every year, Ven. Roger Kunsang, assistant to Lama Zopa Rinpoche and the CEO of FPMT, Inc., checks whether any practices need to be done to contribute to Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s health and long life. This year, Khadro-la (Rangjung Neljorma Khandro ... Read more »