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FPMT Annual Review 2018: Live with Compassion
FPMT International Office is happy to announce FPMT Annual Review 2018: Live with Compassion. The new annual review is available to read as an eZine and a downloadable PDF. International Office, also called Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s office, helps fulfill the ... Read more »
Please Rejoice: Extensive Medicine Buddha Puja Offered by 2,000 Monks Every Month for all Beings
Every month on the Tibetan 8th day the Puja Fund sponsors all the monks of Sera Mey Monastery to offer the extensive Medicine Buddha puja composed by the Fifth Dalai Lama dedicated FPMT centers, projects, services; all students who are ... Read more »
The Meaning of Defective View
During a teaching given at the 2017 100 Million Mani Retreat held at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Italy, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how we incorrectly see things. In the text it says that rabrib, or defective view, is like when ... Read more »
How to Think When Doing a Puja
Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on what to think anytime you are doing a puja: When doing any puja, you can think, “I am doing this puja for any sentient being who needs this puja.” So motivate for everyone, not ... Read more »
Find Lamrim Resources on FPMT.org
Find lamrim resources—including teachings, commentaries, prayers, audio programs, comprehensive study programs, and year-long meditation schedules—on FPMT.org to assist your study and practice. “The most unbelievably important thing in our life is lamrim,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche stresses in “Advice for Realizing ... Read more »
The FPMT Australia Community’s Second Annual Guru Bumtsog
FPMT Sangha and students gathered together at the Kickstart Community Arts Centre in New Town, Tasmania, in November 2018 to make 100,000 tsog offerings to Guru Rinpoche, also known as Padmasambhava. This was the second year in a row that ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Continued Flourishing of FPMT Activity in Australia
In May of 2018, Lama Zopa Rinpoche spent six-weeks teaching on Bodhicaryavatara (A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life) and offering Rinjung Gyatsa Retreat at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo, Australia. At the conclusion of this ... Read more »
Check Carefully When Meditating on Emptiness
In August 2016, during the Light of the Path retreat, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advised students to check carefully when meditating on emptiness. When many people meditate on emptiness they say that nothing exists. Do you understand? Nothing exists. [When you ... Read more »
Mandala Magazine’s Latest Issue Shares the Story of the Sera Je Food Fund
The cover story from the January-June 2019 issue of Mandala magazine, “Sustaining the Pure Unbroken Lineage of Buddha’s Teachings in This World: The Legacy of the Sera Je Food Fund,” shares the history and success of the Sera Je Food ... Read more »
New! ‘Recognizing the False I’ by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Students can now find Recognizing the False I in PDF and ebook formats in the Foundation Store. Recognizing the False I, written by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, is a commentary on and set of simple meditation techniques for identifying the object ... Read more »
MAITRI Charitable Trust Celebrated World Leprosy Day
FPMT project MAITRI Charitable Trust in Bodhgaya, Gaya District, Bihar, India, celebrated World Leprosy Day on January 27, 2019. The day’s activities included a visit to MAITRI’s leprosy awareness stall by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. MAITRI’s director, Adriana Ferranti, shares the ... Read more »