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‘Offering Food and Drink,’ A Living in the Path Module
In the complimentary Living in the Path module “Offering Food and Drink,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives teachings on taking the essence of a perfect human life by making offerings of whatever food and drink we consume. Lama Zopa Rinpoche is ... Read more »
Vajrayana Institute Organizes a Six-Day Vajrasattva Retreat
Vajrayana Institute, a FPMT center just outside of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, organized a Vajrasattva retreat with Ven. Robina Courtin that took place at Peter Canisius House from August 28-September 2, 2018. Anna Carmody, a long-time FPMT student who ... Read more »
Phase One of Vajrapani Institute’s Prayer Wheel of Compassion Complete
Vajrapani Insititute, an FPMT retreat center in Northern California, is now well on its way to building the Prayer Wheel of Compassion which was announced in December 2016. The 10 ft x 7 ft prayer wheel will contain 5 trillion ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Talks about Lama Yeshe
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. Here’s a short excerpt where Rinpoche talks about his precious teacher Lama Yeshe, ... Read more »
We Invite You to Read Our November e-News
Out Now – the FPMT International Office e-News for November! This month we bring you news about: Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche , Our new project to protect the environment , Results of our recent Translation Fund campaign , A ... Read more »
Updated! Calling the Guru from Afar and the Nine Attitudes of Guru Devotion
Students can find updated versions of Calling the Guru from Afar (Extensive and Brief Versions) and Advice to Correctly Follow the Virtuous Friend with Thought and Action: The Nine Attitudes of Guru Devotion on FPMT.org. Updates include new preferred translations ... Read more »
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 »