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Buddhists from Different Traditions Discuss Compassion at Nalanda Monastery
Ven. Losang Gyaltsen, director, Nalanda Monastery in Lavaur, France—40 km (25 miles) from the city of Toulouse—shares about a gathering of Buddhists from different schools and traditions. On September 16, 2018, Nalanda Monastery had the honor of hosting the second ... Read more »
Grant Offered to Liberation Prison Project Programs Worldwide
Thanks to a kind benefactor, the Education and Preservation Fund issued several grants earlier this year in support of Liberation Prison Project, an FPMT project founded in 1996, which offers spiritual advice and teachings, as well as books and materials, ... Read more »
Death Can Happen at Any Moment
Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive recently published The Path to Ultimate Happiness , an ebook of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche during the 42nd Kopan lamrim course. In this book, Rinpoche discusses our potential to bring benefit and happiness, including ... Read more »
Mahamudra: How to Discover Our True Nature
The much-anticipated new book by Lama Yeshe, Mahamudra: How to Discover Our True Nature, was recently published by Wisdom Publications. The book is based on a two-week mahamudra retreat Lama Yeshe led during the Australian winter of 1981. Lama Yeshe’s ... Read more »
‘Atisha’s Light of the Path,’ A Living in the Path Module
In the complimentary Living in the Path module “Atisha’s Light of the Path,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche briefly recounts the life story of Atisha and the circumstances under which Atisha composed Light of the Path to Enlightenment, and then explains the ... Read more »
Cafe at Jamyang Publishes Cookbook, The Elephant’s Secret Kitchen
Cafe at Jamyang, an initiative of Jamyang Buddhist Centre London, is situated in the heart of the Elephant and Castle neighborhood in London, UK. The Cafe joined together with the University of the Arts London, London College of Communication to ... Read more »
Introducing the Protecting the Environment and Living Beings Project
Welcome to our new initiative, the Protecting the Environment and Living Beings Project. This project began due to Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s recent advice that specific pujas and practices should be done regularly to pacify harm from the elements and to ... Read more »
How to React to Harm in Accordance with the Dharma
During the 2017 month-long lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery, Lama Zopa Rinpoche taught on karma, explaining a verse from Bodhicharyavatara (A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life) by Shantideva, the great eighth-century Indian Buddhist master. This is what ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Featured in Wisdom Publication’s Podcast
Wisdom Publications recently featured Lama Zopa Rinpoche in its Wisdom Podcast. Daniel Aitken, director of Wisdom Publications, spoke with Rinpoche for over an hour, during Rinpoche’s visit to Kurukulla Center in Boston, US, in August 2018. In the far-ranging interview, ... Read more »
New! Torma Offering to the Landlord Spirits (Zhidag Torma)
The Torma Offering to the Landlord Spirits (Zigdag Torma) is a common ritual, often done in the context of other more extensive practices such as self-generation sadhanas, burning offerings, land consecrations, and Dharma protector pujas. The torma offering placates the ... Read more »
Visiting Geshe Lama Konchog’s Retreat Cave in Tsum, Nepal
In May 2018 a group of twenty-two pilgrims, including Losang Dragpa Center resident teacher Geshe Jampa Tsundu, Tsum Project coordinator and former Rinchen Jangsem Ling secretary Low Yuet Kiew (“YK”), and FPMT Southeast Asia regional coordinator Selina Foong traveled together ... Read more »