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An Inside Look at The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion
Lama Zopa Rinpoche is currently leading the Bodhicaryavatara and Rinjung Gyatsa Retreat at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo, Australia . The six-week retreat began on March 30 and is scheduled to conclude on May 12, 2018. Lama ... Read more »
Vajrapani Institute’s Ambitious Infrastructure Overhaul
Vajrapani Institute, an FPMT retreat center, is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains near Boulder Creek, CA at the end of a five-mile dirt road on the border of Castle Rock State Park. Being entirely off-grid has been an ongoing ... Read more »
Retreat with Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Australia Begins Third Week
Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins a third week of teachings at The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo, Australia, for the six-week long Bodhicaryavatara and Rinjung Gyatsa Retreat. During the first two weeks of the retreat, Rinpoche’s teachings, more than ... Read more »
Rinpoche Gives Oral Transmission of Golden Light Sutra in Delhi
Rinpoche visited Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre in New Delhi, India, before traveling to the Bodhicaryavatara and Rinjung Gyatsa Retreat in Bendigo, Australia. On March 10-11, Rinpoche gave teachings, including oral transmissions of the Golden Light Sutra and of “The Method ... Read more »
‘Cutting the Concept of Permanence,’ A Living in the Path Module
In the complimentary Living in the Path module “Cutting the Concept of Permanence,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche shows students that by living their lives with the wrong concept that thinks they are going to live forever, they will experience “a whole ... Read more »
Foundation Service Seminar in Mexico
FPMT service seminars provide support and training to those offering service, and those wishing to offer service, within FPMT centers, services, and projects. The seminars help develop a shared understanding of the FPMT mission set out by Lama Thubten Yeshe ... Read more »
New Tracksuits Offered to the Children of Root Institute’s Maitreya School and Tara Children’s Project
The charitable mission of Root Institute, located in Bodhgaya, India, is to provide support to impoverished children, adolescents and adults in neighboring areas through three focused projects. Maitreya School is a primary school providing free education for local children; Tara ... Read more »
How to Think When Paying Taxes
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave advice about paying government tax and health insurance, instructing to see it as an opportunity to practice charity, thus a cause for happiness and full enlightenment, for oneself and others. I spoke to the ex-Kopan monks ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Visits Taplejung, Nepal
In early March, Lama Zopa Rinpoche flew by helicopter to Taplejung Municipality in the Taplejung District in northeastern Nepal to attended a large event for world peace organized by the local community. Ven. Thubten Jikdol, a senior monk at Kopan ... Read more »
Ebooks from FPMT Education Services
FPMT Education Services offers over thirty ebooks in EPUB and MOBI formats through the Foundation Store and through the Kindle Store, with four ebook titles added recently: A Short Practice of Green Tara; A Daily Meditation on Shakyamuni Buddha; The ... Read more »
Centro La Sabiduría de Nagarjuna Has a New Center in Bilbao, Spain
FPMT center Centro La Sabiduría de Nagarjuna (Nagarjuna’s Wisdom Center) in Bilbao, Spain, began as an FPMT study group in December 2012 with four members. They affiliated and became an FPMT center in April 2016, and now have twenty-five members. ... Read more »