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How to Purify a Dog’s Karma
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who had asked Rinpoche how to purify his dog’s negative karma. Regarding purification for yourself and your dog, take strong refuge in the Buddha and think that the Buddha sends ... Read more »
‘Making Offerings,’ A Living in the Path Module
In the complimentary Living in the Path module “Making Offerings,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives inspiring explanations on how to take the essence of our precious human life by making offerings to the guru and the Three Rare Sublime Ones—the Buddha, ... Read more »
Blossoming Friendship Between Himalayan Buddhists and Buddha House
Lyndy Abram, center director of Buddha House, an FPMT center located in a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, shares about the center’s friendship with the Himalayan Buddhist community of South Australia. Last September we received a request from the Association ... Read more »
Your Death Can Happen at Any Time
During a teaching at Chenrezig Institute in June 2018, Lama Zopa Rinpoche discussed how we don’t know when our time of death will arrive. So death can happen any time. You never know. At Kopan when we were together—Lama Yeshe ... Read more »
MAITRI Charitable Trust: Service in the Land of Noble Truths
Phil Hunt, coordinator of FPMT probationary project Enlightenment for the Dear Animals, shares about his visit in early 2018 to FPMT project MAITRI Charitable Trust in Bodhgaya, India. Heading out at dawn through the outskirts of Bodhgaya on one of ... Read more »
A Visit to MAITRI Charitable Trust in Bihar, India
Phil Hunt, coordinator of FPMT probationary project Enlightenment for the Dear Animals, writes about his visit in early 2018 to FPMT project MAITRI Charitable Trust in Bodhgaya, India. These organizations are examples of one of FPMT’s Five Pillars of Service, ... Read more »
The Proper Motivation for Dharma Centers
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered this advice during a teaching at Chenrezig Institute in June 2018. There are so many wars. Hundreds of thousands get killed again and again. So many people get killed by bombs. Then so many people escape, ... Read more »
New Abbreviated Vajrayogini Self-Initiation and Tsog Practices!
Students can now find two new Vajrayogini texts—Quick Path to Khechara: An Abbreviated Daily Self-Initiation of Vajrayogini Naro Khechari and A Pleasing Uncontaminated Feast: An Abbreviated Tsog Offering of the Venerable Vajrayogini, the Powerful Lady Naro Khechari—through the Foundation Store. ... Read more »
Visiting Friends in a Russian Nursing Home
Social or Community Service is one of FPMT’s Five Pillars of Service. Five years ago a group of volunteers from FPMT center Ganden Tendar Ling Center in Moscow, Russia, asked what they could do for Old and Happy, a nonprofit ... Read more »
Support of Dorje Pamo Monastery, a New Community for Nuns in France
Dorje Pamo Monastery is in the process of becoming a new nunnery for approximately twelve FPMT nuns in the South of France. The Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund was pleased to offer US$93,760 toward the building of a gompa, reception area, ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Three Months in the United States
Before traveling to India at the end of August and then Singapore in September, Lama Zopa Rinpoche spent nearly three months in the United States. Rinpoche stayed for two months at Buddha Amitabha Pure Land (BAPL) in a remote part ... Read more »