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Kadampa Center Practices Compassion in Action
Kadampa Center, an FPMT center in Raleigh, North Carolina, US, shares about their community service program, Compassion in Action. Community Service and Interfaith Activities are two of FPMT’s Five Pillars of Service. Elise Strevel, the center’s outreach coordinator, a member ... Read more »Update from International Office and FPMT Inc. Board of Directors
FPMT International Office and the FPMT Inc. Board of Directors continue in our commitment to help FPMT centers, projects, and services uphold a safe and respectful environment, where people’s minds and hearts can be transformed into their highest potential for ... Read more »
Whatever Appearances We See Are the Result of Past Karma
Lama Zopa Rinpoche sent the following advice to three students who had written him complaining about a center director. … Yes, I have also heard complaints from the director as well as from you. The reality is that there is ... Read more »
Rejoicing in Prayers Offered in Sponsored Community Hall at Tibetan Settlement
In 2015 a grant was offered from the Social Services Fund to Rabgayling Tibetan Settlement in Hunsur, India to build a community hall. The settlement is now actively utilizing this space for pujas, prayers, public talks, retreats, community events, workshops, ... Read more »
How to Make Your Life Most Beneficial for Sentient Beings, Even with Your Speech
Lama Zopa Rinpoche dictated this advice during a Light of the Path retreat and had it distributed to the retreat participants. Rinpoche then also wanted it shared with people offering service at FPMT centers, projects, and service as well as ... Read more »
Listen Up! Dharma CDs in the Foundation Store
Students can find over a dozen Dharma CDs in the Foundation Store available by donation! Find these titles and more in the Foundation Store: Recitations for the Time of Death, Lama Zopa Rinpoche recites mantras and texts that are especially ... Read more »
Bengungyal Center Benefited Animals
Bengungyal Center, an FPMT center in Aguascalientes City, Mexico, organized animal blessing and liberation practices on February 11 and May 25, 2019. Laura Lugo Vàzquez, center director shares the story. Following the Mahayana Buddhist teachings, Bengungyal Center carried out an ... Read more »
Six Years of Support to Ngari Institute, Ladakh, India
The Social Services Fund has been supporting the school children and staff of Ngari Institute in Ladakh, India, since 2014. This year, a grant for US$26,682.61 was offered to cover the costs of daily meals for eighty-three students and staff ... Read more »
A Pacifying 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, ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Gives an Introduction to Mind Training
While teaching in Madrid, Spain, in October 2018, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave an introduction to thought transformation and explained its benefits, captured in the thirty-minute video below. Thought transformation, Lama Zopa Rinpoche said, is about “how to utilize your problems, ... Read more »
New Page to Help Benefit Animals on FPMT.org!
Students can now find practices and advice for benefiting animals on FPMT.org, including instructions on animal liberation and animal blessings. Lama Zopa Rinpoche recommends animal liberation as a specific practice done for animals who would otherwise be killed, such as ... Read more »