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October 2018 International Office e-News Now Available!
We invite you to read our October 2018 FPMT International Office e-News. This month you’ll find: Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s schedule updates , highlights and advice from our most recently published blogs, The Path to Ultimate Happiness, a new ebook by ... Read more »
Lhabab Duchen Is on October 31
Lhabab Duchen, one of the four great holy days of the Buddhist calendar, takes place this year on Wednesday, October 31. Lhabab Duchen celebrates Guru Shakyamuni Buddha’s return to Earth from the god realm Thirty-Three after teaching Dharma for several ... Read more »
Dagri Rinpoche Teaches at Kalachakra Centre’s Retreat Facility
In order to give Kalachakra Centre students the opportunity to deepen their understanding of Buddhism and go further in their practice, the FPMT Paris-based center acquired a large farm in Perche in northwest France. Student Christa Muller-Rappard shares details about ... Read more »
Maitri Charitable Trust: Dharma in Action since 1989
Since 1989, Maitri has been operating as a beneficial example of Dharma in action. Maitri is a registered charitable trust in India working to support the poor and disadvantaged in the province of Bihar, India. While Maitri was created to ... Read more »
Practicing Kindness
Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive has just published The Path to Ultimate Happiness , a new 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 ... Read more »
Chanting the Names of Mañjushri
Chanting the Names of Mañjushri, which is called Mañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti in Sanskrit, is available as a PDF and in ebook formats on the FPMT.org sutra page. Over 160 verses comprise the text, which is categorized as a tantra, but can be ... Read more »
Sharing the Golden Light Sutra in Sri Lanka
Ven. Tenzin Lekdron, Tara Lanka Study Group coordinator, rents a flat in Kandy, Sri Lanka, and regularly travels to Colombo to help the community. She shares an update from Sri Lanka. Three years ago, I landed back in my home ... Read more »
Coming to a Kopan Course Is the Most Important Education of Your Life
Every year the month-long lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery in Nepal draws more than two hundred students from around the world. And every year the November Course, as it’s called, fills up quickly. Many students starting planning to attend ... Read more »
The Inner Job Description App Is Now Available in Six Languages
The Inner Job Description App, a free app created by FPMT Inc., is now available in the Amazon, Apple, and Google Play stores in Chinese (更新了截图), English, French (Description du travail intérieur), Italian (Descrizione del Lavoro interiore), Russian (Оценка внутренней ... Read more »
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 »