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Kopan Monastery School Students Performed a Play for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Birthday
Geshe Sherab, headmaster at Kopan Monastery School in Kathmandu, Nepal, shares how the students at this FPMT monastery celebrated Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s birthday. We’ve been celebrating Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s birthday quite extensively since 2016. The last two years were perfect ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Arrives at Kopan, Watch Teachings Live
Lama Zopa Rinpoche was greeted by hundreds of nuns, monks, and lay students at Khachoe Ghakyil Nunnery and Kopan Monastery upon his return to Nepal. Rinpoche first went to the nunnery, where hundreds of nuns were waiting to greet him. ... Read more »
Learn How to Chant Lama Chöpa
Students can find audio and video recordings of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Ven. Thubten Dechen chanting Lama Chöpa, an essential FPMT practice, on FPMT.org. During a 2014 retreat in Australia, Rinpoche taught fast-paced, medium-paced, and slow-paced tunes for Lama Chöpa, ... Read more »
Kadampa Center Joins the Mormon Community in Hurricane Florence Relief Efforts
Interfaith activities are one of FPMT’s Five Pillars of Service. Following September’s Hurricane Florence, FPMT center Kadampa Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, US, joined in on relief efforts. The center ran a three-week people and pet food drive, collecting 921 ... Read more »
Providing Support to the Poor in Mongolia Through Lamp of the Path NGO
Lamp of the Path NGO (LOP), part of Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling, has offered social services to some of the poor and homeless living in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia since 2003. Its main program is a soup kitchen which offers food ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Message to Jamyang Buddhist Centre for Its 40th Anniversary
Lama Zopa Rinpoche sent a special video message to Jamyang Buddhist Centre in London, describing the importance and benefit of having a Dharma center. Rinpoche’s message was in honor of Jamyang’s fortieth anniversary, which was marked with two days of ... Read more »
The True Meaning of the Guru
On last year’s Lama Tsongkhapa Day, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave a teaching on the true meaning of the guru at Kopan Monastery, while seated in front of the large statue of Lama Tsongkhapa in Kopan’s main gompa. Here is an ... Read more »
Lama Tsongkhapa Day (Ganden Ngamchoe) Is on December 2
Ganden Ngamchoe, literally “Ganden Offering of the Twenty-Fifth Day,” or Lama Tsongkhapa Day, is a celebration of the anniversary of Lama Tsongkhapa’s parinirvana. It is celebrated on the 25th day of the 10th month of the Tibetan calendar. This year, ... Read more »
Maitreya Instituut’s Resident Teacher, Geshe Sonam Gyaltsen, Recounts His Life Story
Born in Lhasa, Tibet, on June 4, 1941, Geshe Sonam Gyaltsen—also known as Geshe Dhonden—is one of forty-six resident geshes serving FPMT around the world. Geshe-la has written a 695-page book about his life, in collaboration with Maitreya Instituut student ... Read more »
Annual Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche on December 17, Kopan Monastery
Every year, the Long Life Puja Fund supports a long life puja offered on behalf of FPMT centers, projects, services, and students to our most kind and immeasurably precious spiritual director, Lama Zopa Rinpoche. The next puja will be offered ... Read more »
Aryatara Institut Hosted Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Munich, Germany
Aryatara Institut, a FPMT center in Munich, Germany, hosted Lama Zopa Rinpoche from November 3-12, 2018. Sabine Kehl, a long-term member of the center who manages Aryatara Institut’s Facebook page and translates for the center shares the story. After months ... Read more »