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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 »
How to Use a Stupa to Bring You to Enlightenment
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this advice to a student who said they had a new stupa in their house. My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one, As this stupa was filled at Amitabha Buddha Centre (ABC), then it ... Read more »
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 »