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New Downloadable Images! ‘Wheel of Life’ and ‘Guru Shakyamuni Buddha with the Seventeen Pandits’
Students can now find two images—Wheel of Life and Guru Shakyamuni Buddha with the Seventeen Pandits—in PDF format. Lama Zopa Rinpoche recommended in early 2019 that it would be good for FPMT centers, projects, and services to have access to ... Read more »
Root Institute Pilgrims Visted Ajanta and Ellora Caves
In December 2018 a group of pilgrims organized by FPMT center Root Institute for Wisdom Culture in Bodhgaya, Gaya District, Bihar, India, traveled together to the Ajanta and Ellora Caves in Aurangabad District, Maharashtra, India, with Geshe Ngawang Rabga, Root ... Read more »
Sagarmatha Secondary School Continues for Fourth Year
Since 2015, the Social Services Fund has been offering support to Sagarmatha Secondary School in Chailsa, Nepal. The school stands on what was once a Tibetan refugee camp. It currently serves 170 students, including 79 young lay students who live ... Read more »
The Best Way to Develop Bodhichitta
During the 2018 retreat in Australia, Lama Zopa Rinpoche was asked, “What is the best way to develop bodhichitta?” You can read Rinpoche’s response in this excerpt from the teaching and in the following video clip. Many people think there ... Read more »
Purifying Obstacles to Dharma Practice
Lama Zopa Rinpoche received a question from a student who was experiencing many obstacles to Dharma practice. In addition to doing the practice of the Thirty-Five Buddhas of Confession and Vajrasattva practice, Rinpoche advised doing mandala offerings: … Yes, there ... Read more »
Take a Look! Flower Offering Card
Lama Zopa Rinpoche created the Flower Offering Card as a welcoming and explanatory sign for anyone visiting the gardens of his house in Aptos, California, United States. Rinpoche said that any student is welcome to use the same sign in ... Read more »
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
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
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
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
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 »