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Holiday Gift Giving Option from FPMT
The Give a Gift that Helps Others program was created four years ago by FPMT International Office as a gift giving option that serves as an alternative to material gifts. Focusing on four FPMT Charitable Projects, the “Give a Gift” ... Read more »
Magnificent Stupa Rebuilt in Thame, Nepal, to Benefit All
Lama Zopa Rinpoche was born in the Mount Everest region of Thame, located close to Lawudo which was the home of his previous incarnation known as the Lawudo Lama. Many Kopan monks are also from Thame. During the earthquake of ... Read more »
Longku Center Hosted Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bern, Switzerland
Longku Center, an FPMT center in Bern, Switzerland, hosted Lama Zopa Rinpoche from November 12-14, 2018. Lama Zopa Rinpoche arrived from Munich, Germany, where Rinpoche was hosted by Aryatara Instituut. Brigitte Brunner and Andrea Meier, long-time students and members of ... Read more »
Updated! Buddhist Meditation 101 and Buddhism in a Nutshell
Two introductory online FPMT education courses—Buddhist Meditation 101 and Buddhism in a Nutshell—have recently been revised and are now available to new students as well as to all current and past online course participants. The courses are taught by FPMT ... Read more »
Monks Engage in the Traditional Rains Retreat at Nalanda Monastery in France
Ven. Losang Tendar is the director of International Mahayana Institute, the FPMT community of monks and nuns. He shares about the annual rains retreat held at Nalanda Monastery, a FPMT center in Lavaur, France, from August 26-October 9, 2018. A ... Read more »
A Birthday Message from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Zopa Rinpoche received many messages wishing him “Happy Birthday” this year. So on Rinopche’s birthday, which is December 3, he recorded a video message as a thank you to all who offered him birthday greetings. In the video, Rinpoche ... Read more »
Kopan Monastery School Students Performed a Play for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Birthday
Geshe Sherab, headmaster at Kopan Monastery School in Kathmandu, Nepal, shares how the students at this FPMT monastery celebrated Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s birthday. We’ve been celebrating Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s birthday quite extensively since 2016. The last two years were perfect ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Arrives at Kopan, Watch Teachings Live
Lama Zopa Rinpoche was greeted by hundreds of nuns, monks, and lay students at Khachoe Ghakyil Nunnery and Kopan Monastery upon his return to Nepal. Rinpoche first went to the nunnery, where hundreds of nuns were waiting to greet him. ... Read more »
Learn How to Chant Lama Chöpa
Students can find audio and video recordings of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Ven. Thubten Dechen chanting Lama Chöpa, an essential FPMT practice, on FPMT.org. During a 2014 retreat in Australia, Rinpoche taught fast-paced, medium-paced, and slow-paced tunes for Lama Chöpa, ... Read more »
Kadampa Center Joins the Mormon Community in Hurricane Florence Relief Efforts
Interfaith activities are one of FPMT’s Five Pillars of Service. Following September’s Hurricane Florence, FPMT center Kadampa Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, US, joined in on relief efforts. The center ran a three-week people and pet food drive, collecting 921 ... Read more »
Providing Support to the Poor in Mongolia Through Lamp of the Path NGO
Lamp of the Path NGO (LOP), part of Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling, has offered social services to some of the poor and homeless living in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia since 2003. Its main program is a soup kitchen which offers food ... Read more »