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The Head of the FPMT Organization
Lama Zopa Rinpoche spoke about the FPMT organization during a teaching at Chenrezig Institute, Australia, in June 2018. I think that although Lama Yeshe started the FPMT organization, His Holiness the Dalai Lama is the head of the organization. Now ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Offers Thanks for Practices for Tibet and Fulfilling the Wishes of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered thanks to all the FPMT centers, projects, services, and students who did practices requested by Rinpoche to benefit Tibet and for the success of fulfilling all of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s wishes. I felt that ... Read more »
New from Lama Zopa Rinpoche! A Brief Meditation-Recitation on Guru Medicine Buddha
Students can now find A Brief Meditation-Recitation on Guru Medicine Buddha, written and arranged by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, on the Foundation Store as a PDF. Rinpoche encouraged FPMT to make the text “immediately, immediately” available for the benefit of students ... Read more »
Sixth Annual 100 Million Mani Retreat in Mongolia
One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the FPMT organization is to sponsor 100 million OM MANI PADME HUM retreats around the world. Rinpoche has said, “[I would like] for the organization to establish 100,000 recitations of 100 million ... Read more »
Continual Light Offering to Holy Objects in Mongolia
The Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund sponsors the electricity for lotus light offerings to all the holy objects on the altar at Idgaa Choizinling College in Mongolia. The lights are offered 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Among ... Read more »
What to Focus On, for Experienced Students
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered this advice during a teaching at Chenrezig Institute in June 2018. For older students, when you are looking for spiritual happiness, Dharma happiness, inner happiness—not the ordinary happiness that you have had numberless times already, in ... Read more »![Foundation Service Seminar Held in United States [Video]](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/24/foundation-service-seminar-held-in-united-states-video/FSS-Milarepa-Center-July-2018-by-Jackie-320x213.jpg)
Foundation Service Seminar Held in United States [Video]
The Foundation Service Seminar (FSS) is the “FPMT immersion retreat.” It provides essential information and nourishment for all serving, or wishing to serve, in the FPMT organization. The FSS Retreat is key to deeply understanding the FPMT organization and the ... Read more »
Rinpoche Encourages All Students to Keep Copies of Lama Atisha’s Protection Stupa
Lama Zopa Rinpoche recently encouraged all students to keep copies of Lama Atisha’s Protection Stupa in their homes and offices to protect them from heavy mental pollution: “My dear students looking for liberation and enlightenment for sentient beings, “It is ... Read more »
His Eminence Ling Rinpoche on Interfaith Dialogue
“Harmony among the major faiths has become an essential ingredient of coexistence in our world,” says His Holiness the Dalai Lama. “From this perspective, mutual understanding among these traditions is not merely the business of religious believers—it matters for the ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Visits Maitripa College and FPMT International Office
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave an oral transmission of the 8000 verse Prajnaparamitra Sutra over the weekend of August 11-12 at Maitripa College in Portland, Oregon, US. More than 200 students attended the event, including fifteen ordained Sangha members as well ... Read more »
Out Now – the August FPMT International Office e-News
We hope you will enjoy our latest e-News, out now! This month we bring you: New Advice and a New Book from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, New Opportunities to Rejoice with us:, 108 Nyung Nās! Millions of Mani Mantras Recited A ... Read more »