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The Most Essential Thing to Achieve Enlightenment
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave the following teaching during the retreat at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Australia in April 2018: Whatever you do to please the guru, just there [by doing that], without even doing many hundreds of ... Read more »
Take a Look! Samantabhadra Card for Protection
Lama Zopa Rinpoche redesigned the Samantabhadra protection card in 2016. The card is available in PDF format through the Foundation Store. The 2010 design is still available in print. “This Samantabhadra protection is from the great lama Thugyen Chokyi Nyima,” ... Read more »
Land of Joy’s Annual Ten-Day Lamrim Retreat
Land of Joy, an FPMT center in Northumberland National Park, UK, hosted their annual ten-day lamrim retreat November 2-11, 2018, led by FPMT registered teacher Ven. Mary Reavey. Retreatant Sheri Lim and fellow retreatants share about the experience. Everyone had ... Read more »
New Year Celebrated with the Poor and Homeless in Mongolia
Since 2003 Lamp of the Path NGO (LOP), part of Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling, has offered essential social services in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. This year, the new year was celebrated with 130 poor and homeless individuals from the area thanks ... Read more »
Water Bowl Offerings as a Group Practice
Lama Zopa Rinpoche wrote a group of sixteen retreatants who had completed 100,000 water bowl offerings together and offered their practice to Rinpoche. They asked if they could do preliminary practices in this way, doing the practices as group and ... Read more »
New Ebook! The One Hundred and Eight Names of Arya Kshitigarbha and the Dharani Mantra
Students can now find The One Hundred and Eight Names of Arya Kshitigarbha and the Dharani Mantra in PDF and ebook formats in the Foundation Store. The recitation of the 108 names of Kshitigarbha and the associated dharani bestows good ... Read more »
Dorje Chang Institute’s Annual Yamantaka Jangwa Puja
Each year Dorje Chang Institute, an FPMT center in Auckland, New Zealand, organizes a Yamantaka Jangwa Puja. Venerable Gyälten Wangmo, spiritual program coordinator, shares about the most recent puja which took place on August 25, 2018. Our FPMT resident teacher ... Read more »
The First Kopan Meditation Course
November’s Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive E-letter shares the story of the first Kopan Meditation Course at Kopan Monastery in Nepal : Zina was still eager for Lama Yeshe to teach a course, but he refused. She turned to Zopa Rinpoche. ... Read more »
Take a Look! Buddha’s Teachings on Our Lives Card
Lama Zopa Rinpoche composed, translated, and drew the mantra calligraphy on the Buddha’s Teachings on Our Lives card as a reminder about the central role karma plays in our lives and experience. The card reads: “As the Founder, the Omniscient ... Read more »
On Pilgrimage in Mongolia With Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling
Ianzhina Bartanova, director of FPMT center Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, shares about an August 2018 fourteen-day pilgrimage the center organized to holy sites in Mongolia. This is a short excerpt from Ianzhina’s published online story, The ... Read more »The Karmic Bond That Connected Us All in Mongolia
Ianzhina Bartanova, director of FPMT center Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, shares about an August 2018 fourteen-day pilgrimage the center organized to holy sites in Mongolia. Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling placed an advertisement in the January-June ... Read more »