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Monthly Extensive Most Secret Hayagriva Puja Sponsored at Sera Je Monastery
Twenty-three years ago, Lama Zopa Rinpoche established the Puja Fund as a way to sponsor ongoing prayers and practices dedicated to the success and longevity of the entire FPMT organization. One puja that Rinpoche advised as particularly important for FPMT, ... Read more »
Watch Lama Zopa Rinpoche Teach Live in the United States
Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches at Maitripa College in Portland, Oregon, US, on Saturday and Sunday, August 11-12. Rinpoche is scheduled to give an oral transmission of the 8000 verse Prajnaparamita Sutra on Saturday and a Medicine Buddha jenang on Sunday. ... Read more »
The Benefits of Reciting Amitabha’s Name Every Day
Lama Zopa Rinpoche had a sign placed in front of the large Amitabha statue at Buddha Amitabha Pure Land in Washington State, US. The sign read: If you recite Amitabha’s name every day, when you die you will go to ... Read more »
Showing Respect to Holy Objects
Holy objects and Dharma materials represent and contain the teachings of the Buddha and thus protect against lower rebirth and reveal the path to enlightenment. Therefore, they should be treated with respect. Below is advice taken from Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s ... Read more »
An Interfaith Retreat in Honor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Birthday
Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa (ILTK) in Pisa, Italy, celebrated His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s eighty-third birthday by hosting a three-day interfaith meditation retreat on universal compassion. Manuela Ferro, communications manager at ILTK, and Jeremy Luedtke share the details. Held over ... Read more »
Seventh Round of 108 Nyung Nä Retreats Completed at Institut Vajra Yogini, France
Institut Vajra Yogini (IVY), in the south-west of France near the city of Toulouse, successfully completed its seventh round of 108 nyung nä retreats at the end of June. One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the FPMT organization ... Read more »
A Few of the Many Results of Actualizing Bodhichitta
The Buddha’s teaching on the four noble truths are essential to our understanding and practice of Buddhism. Lama Zopa Rinpoche provides clear instruction on this fundamental teaching in his new book The Four Noble Truths: A Guide to Everyday Life ... Read more »
Experience Your Pain for All Sentient Beings
A student in severe pain wrote to Lama Zopa Rinpoche seeking advice. Lama Zopa Rinpoche explained how to experience the pain for all sentient beings. It’s very good to think that you are not the only one in pain. My ... Read more »
Ritual Set to Support Your Medicine Buddha Pujas
The Medicine Buddha Ritual Set for Pujas allows students to better fulfill Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s advice regarding how to perform Medicine Buddha pujas, taught as being powerful rituals for success and to benefit the dying, sick, and dead. The set, ... Read more »
Beneficial Kopan Monastery—Sera Je Monastery—California Connection
Andrew Schrage, marketing coordinator, Gonpo Ludup Study Group in Laguna Beach, California, US, shared this story about FPMT touring teacher Geshe Ngawang Sangye’s visits to their study group: Geshe Ngawang Sangye came to Orange County, California, to take an intensive ... Read more »
Nyung Nä Retreats and 100 Million Mani Retreats Continue at Tashi Chime Gatsal Nunnery, Nepal
Since 2009 sponsorship has been offered to the nuns of Tashi Chime Gatsal Nunnery, Nepal. Funds have been offered to complete two 100 million mani retreats (100 million recitations of the mantra OM MANI PADME HUM) every year. In addition ... Read more »