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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 »
We Invite You to Read Our e-News!
We hope you will enjoy the September FPMT International Office e-News. This month we bring you: The Date for the Official Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Highlights of Advice from Lama Zopa RInpoche, Problem Solving in the FPMT ... Read more »
‘The Eight Mahayana Precepts,’ a Living in the Path Module
In the complimentary Living in the Path module “The Eight Mahayana Precepts,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche shows us the importance of taking and keeping these special one-day vows based on the Mahayana motivation of bodhichitta. If you have not previously received ... Read more »
Centro Shiwa Lha Studies Bodhicharyavatara with Geshe Lobsang Jamphel
FPMT center Centro Shiwa Lha in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, hosted Geshe Lobsang Jamphel, abbot of Nalanda Monastery in France, in July 2018. Ruth Saldanha, event production volunteer, shares the details of Geshe Jamphel’s visit. Geshe Jamphel graciously accepted our ... Read more »