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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 »
‘Vajrasattva Practice Is So Important’
“Of course by purifying negative karma collected since beginningless rebirth and by collecting extensive merits, this allows you to have realizations on the path to enlightenment and for your mind to change,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche wrote to a student who ... Read more »
Rejoicing in a Beneficial Year of Charitable Giving
FPMT Charitable Projects had an incredible year offering support to beneficial initiates which include: offering food to ordained Sangha; providing scholarships to study Buddhist philosophy; offering to the main teachers of the Lama Tsongkhapa tradition and sponsoring annual debates; offering ... Read more »
Tushita Meditation Centre Hosted Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India
Lama Zopa Rinpoche visited Tushita Meditation Centre in Dharamsala, India, from August 29-September 8, 2018. Ven. Tenzin Kunphen, spiritual program coordinator, and Maria Nobuko Corrales, assistant spiritual program coordinator share the story. In August 2018 our Dharma wishes came true ... Read more »