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Congratulations to Geshe Tenzin Legtsok on Completion of His Geshe Degree at Sera Je Monastery!

Congratulations to Geshe Tenzin Legtsok on Completion of His Geshe Degree at Sera Je Monastery!

Ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 2001, Geshe Tenzin Legtsok is an American Buddhist monk who just completed the Geshe Studies Program at Sera Je Monastic University in Karnataka, South India. This means he has studied the five ... Read more »
An Update from the FPMT Inc. Board: July 2023

An Update from the FPMT Inc. Board: July 2023

Video: Meet the FPMT Inc. Board of Directors Following the 49 day period of Rinpoche’s passing, FPMT Inc. board members took the opportunity while together at Kopan to greet the FPMT community in a video, offering FPMT students a chance ... Read more »
Essential Extract: Importance of Studying and Applying Lamrim in Daily Life

Essential Extract: Importance of Studying and Applying Lamrim in Daily Life

During the 2018 November Course at Kopan Monastery, Lama Zopa Rinpoche outlined how to reach enlightenment based on the lamrim and the importance of studying it. Rinpoche emphasized that merely knowing the lamrim is not enough; it needs to be ... Read more »
Thought Transformation Teaching: Wake Up—Don’t Waste the Four Holy Days

Thought Transformation Teaching: Wake Up—Don’t Waste the Four Holy Days

In 2020 on Chokhor Duchen (celebrated this year on July 21, 2023), Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered a video teaching from Kopan Monastery as part of his thought transformation series entitled, “Wake Up– Don’t Waste the Four Holy Days of Guru ... Read more »
“Unimaginable” Benefits: The Sutra of Great Liberation is Now Available in English!

“Unimaginable” Benefits: The Sutra of Great Liberation is Now Available in English!

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is reported to have spoken of the Sutra of Great Liberation as early as 2006, though it was especially in the later years of his teachings that Rinpoche gave prominence to the inconceivable benefits of engaging with ... Read more »
Upcoming Teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Leh, Ladakh

Upcoming Teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Leh, Ladakh

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be offering teachings at Shewatsel Teaching Ground in Leh, Ladakh, India on July 21-23, 2023 at the request of the Ladakh Buddhist Association and the Ladakh Gonpa Association. The events will be broadcast live ... Read more »
Offering to Ten Thousand Sangha and Pujas Sponsored on Chokhor Duchen

Offering to Ten Thousand Sangha and Pujas Sponsored on Chokhor Duchen

Chokhor Duchen (commemorating Shakyamuni Buddha’s first turning of the wheel of Dharma) occurs on July 21, 2023. Based on the wishes and advice of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, on that day, we are making a monetary offering to over ten ... Read more »
Life on the Road with Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Thubten Thapkye and Jangsem– Two Fortunate Snakes!

Life on the Road with Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Thubten Thapkye and Jangsem– Two Fortunate Snakes!

Over the years, while traveling continuously with Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Ven. Roger Kunsang, CEO of FPMT and Rinpoche’s long-time attendant, would share stories of what it was like to be on the road with Rinpoche, and to witness and participate ... Read more »
Celebrate Chokhor Duchen and International Sangha Day on July 21, 2023

Celebrate Chokhor Duchen and International Sangha Day on July 21, 2023

Chokhor Duchen, one of the four annual holy days of Guru Shakyamuni Buddha, takes place this year on July 21. On these holy days, the power of any meritorious action is multiplied by 100 million, as taught in the vinaya ... Read more »
Thought Transformation Teaching: Whatever You Are Doing, It Should Become Meditation on Emptiness

Thought Transformation Teaching: Whatever You Are Doing, It Should Become Meditation on Emptiness

Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered a teaching on October 30, 2020 from Kopan Monastery as the eightieth teaching from his Thought Transformation teaching series entitled, “Whatever You Are Doing, It Should Become Meditation on Emptiness.” The “I” exists, but only in ... Read more »
ABC, Singapore, Completes Twenty-one Tara Project as Advised by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

ABC, Singapore, Completes Twenty-one Tara Project as Advised by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Recently, Amitabha Buddhist Centre (ABC) in Singapore completed an ambitious holy object project advised by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. The project added statues of all the Twenty-one Taras, each standing twenty-four inches high, to the altar in ABC’s beautiful gompa. This ... Read more »
His Holiness Sees You All the Time

His Holiness Sees You All the Time

Today, July 6, the world celebrates His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 88th birthday. You can watch the message His Holiness shared earlier today, on the occasion of his birthday. A few hours after his discharge from a hospital in Singapore ... Read more »