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Lama Zopa Rinpoche Gives ‘Beautiful and Exquisite’ Teachings at Retreat in Australia
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues to give moving and in-depth teachings at the retreat being held at The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo, Australia. It is now the fifth week of the six-week long Bodhicaryavatara and Rinjung Gyatsa Retreat. ... Read more »
Available in Print! The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment)
The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment) with Additional Practices is now available in print from the Foundation Store. Lama Zopa Rinpoche has said very strongly on many occasions that this is a practice that he ... Read more »
Geshe Tashi Tsering Appointed Abbot of Sera Mey Monastery
His Holiness the Dalai Lama has appointed Geshe Tashi Tsering abbot of Sera Mey Monastery in Bylakuppe, South India. A long-time FPMT resident teacher, Geshe Tashi Tsering will be relocating from the UK to India, returning to the monastery where ... Read more »
Stupa to Hold Holy Body of Trulshik Rinpoche
Thubten Chöling is a large monastery built by the late Trulshik Rinpoche in the 1960s in Solu Khumbu near Chailsa, Nepal. One of the greatest living masters of the Nyingma and rime traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, Trulshik Rinpoche, who passed ... Read more »
Be Mindful That Everything Is Imputed by the Mind
Mindfulness of how things exist as merely labeled by the mind can bring peace and happiness, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explained while teaching at the 100 Million Mani Mantra Retreat in Italy. “What you see, what you hear, what you think, ... Read more »
Le Service de traduction de la FPMT Offers Audio Books in French
By Ven. Lobsang Détchèn Les Éditions Mahayana is very happy to announce its first two audio books: « Premiers pas dans la méditation », which comprises twelve guided meditations specially designed to guide beginners step by step in their meditation ... Read more »
Geshe Tenzin Zopa at Oxford University
FPMT touring teacher Geshe Tenzin Zopa recently completed an eight-week So-Wide Visitorship for Traditional Scholars in the Tibetan and Himalayan Studies program, part of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University in the UK. A small group of master’s ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Compassionate Work of FPMT Mongolia’s Lamp of the Path
Lamp of the Path NGO (LOP), part of FPMT Mongolia, offers social services to some of the poor and homeless living in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It has two main programs: a soup kitchen, which offered over 12,290 meals in 2017; and ... Read more »
New Video: Merit in a Circle
Ven. Tenzin Tsulrim, a long-time member and student at FPMT Center Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore, shares a video she made in 2017 about her practice of circumambulation around holy objects: Since receiving ordination from His Holiness the Dalai Lama ... Read more »
FPMT International Office e-News for April – Out Now!
We hope you enjoy the April edition of the FPMT International Office e-News! This month we bring you: Updates to Rinpoche’s schedule, including an initiation particularly beneficial to those serving in the organization; , New materials from Education Services; , ... Read more »
By Cherishing Sentient Beings You Will Achieve Enlightenment
“Achieving enlightenment by depending on Buddha, Victorious One, is exactly the same as achieving enlightenment by depending on sentient beings,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches during a session of the 2017 Light of the Path retreat, captured in this six-minute video ... Read more »