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Recommended Practices for the Fifteenth Day of Saka Dawa, June 17
An auspicious merit multiplying day, the full moon of the month of Saka Dawa, is coming up on June 17. The fifteenth day of Saka Dawa is one of the four great holy days of the Tibetan calendar, commemorating Shakyamuni ... Read more »
Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program Provides In-Depth Study Opportunities
Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program, an FPMT project in Dharamsala, India, welcomed their newest cohort of students in March 2018. Six months later the students and teachers had the opportunity to meet with Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Dharamsala. Yaron Bahir, ... Read more »
Grant Offered to the 2018 Gelug Examination and Main Teachers of the Lama Tsongkhapa Tradition
Every year the best scholars from the main Gelug monasteries come together for the annual Gelug Examination. This year, which is an annual custom, the Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund offered US$20,955 for daily food, travel expenses, and for teacher stipends ... Read more »
Retreat at Institut Vajra Yogini with Lama Zopa Rinpoche Brings FPMT ‘Family’ Together
Lama Zopa Rinpoche is currently in the middle of teaching at the five-week Vajrayogini Retreat at Institut Vajra Vogini in the south of France. FPMT students from around the world—many of them students of Rinpoche for more than thirty years—are ... Read more »
FPMT Board of Directors Welcomes Three New Members
The Board of Directors of FPMT, Inc., has three new members: Ven. Lhundub Chodron, Peggy Bennington, and Debra Ladner. Peggy Bennington was appointed to the board on March 5, 2019; Venerable Lhundub Chodron and Debra Ladner were appointed on May ... Read more »
The Secret Advanced Practices of Vajrayogini and Other Vajrayogini Texts
FPMT Educations Services has recently released three new Vajrayogini practices texts—The Secret Advanced Practices of Vajrayogini, The Quick Path to Great Bliss, and A Compilation of Tsog Offerings to Vajrayogini. The Secret Advanced Practices of Vajrayogini (in hardcopy and digital ... Read more »
Milarepa Center Making Strides
Milarepa Center is located in rural Barnet, Vermont, in the United States. In July 2018, the center hosted the Foundation Service Seminar, the ‘FPMT immersion retreat’. Milarepa Center director Dawn Holt recently shared this update. I am happy to say ... Read more »
Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund Invests in Nuns’ Education
For the second time, the annual Nuns’ Jang Guncho (annual winter debate session) was held at Khachoe Ghakyil Ling Nunnery (Kopan Nunnery), in Kathmandu, Nepal, from October 3-November 3, 2018. Approximately 710 nuns, 17 teachers, and some lay women from ... Read more »
May FPMT International Office e-News Out Now
We invite you to read the May FPMT International Office e-News! This month we bring you: Highlights of Recent Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, New Materials in German and Sinhalese, Rejoicing about Volunteer Service in Mongolia, …and more! Have the ... Read more »
Progress Continues on Land of Medicine Buddha’s Mahabodhi Stupa Project in California
“Building stupas helps develop so much peace and happiness for numberless sentient beings. As a result, wars, disease, and desire will all be pacified. Instead of feeling hopeless, people will gain courage. This is about peace – for the beings ... Read more »
Losar Celebrations at Chandrakirti Meditation Centre
Chandrakirti Meditation Centre, an FPMT center in Upper Moutere, New Zealand, celebrated Losar in February 2019 with three days of activities: thukpa night at their FPMT resident teacher Geshe Jampa Tharchin’s house at Chandrakirti Meditation Centre on February 3; Guru ... Read more »