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From FPMT Mongolia, The Mahayana Children’s Programme Shares Merits of Mantra Video

From FPMT Mongolia, The Mahayana Children’s Programme Shares Merits of Mantra Video

The Mahayana Children’s Programme, a program of FPMT Mongolia, is now celebrating its tenth anniversary. To mark the occasion, FPMT Mongolia director Ianzinha Bartanova shared a video of the children, recorded in Ulaanbaatar, the nation’s capital. Ianzinha writes the following ... Read more »
Investing in a Recycling Program at Lugsum Samduling Home for the Aged and Disabled in Bylakuppe, India

Investing in a Recycling Program at Lugsum Samduling Home for the Aged and Disabled in Bylakuppe, India

The Social Services Fund offered a grant to Lugsung Samdupling Tibetan Settlement in Bylakuppe, India for investment into a recycling initiative which will raise money for the elderly home located on the settlement. The grant paid for a recycling truck, ... Read more »
Rinpoche Attends Guru Bumtsog at Khachoe Ghakyil Ling

Rinpoche Attends Guru Bumtsog at Khachoe Ghakyil Ling

In December, Khachoe Ghakyil Ling in Nepal hosted a 100,000 tsog offerings for Guru Rinpoche in front of the gigantic Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava) thangka. Lama Zopa Rinpoche attended the special puja, known as a “Guru bumtsog,” along with the young ... Read more »
Available Now – the January FPMT International Office e-News!

Available Now – the January FPMT International Office e-News!

We invite you to enjoy our January e-News. This month we bring you: How to Report your Recitations for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Health , Rejoicing in Another Year of Charitable Giving , Two New Stories from Mandala magazine , Two ... Read more »
Two Long Life Puja Texts for Your Center to Use

Two Long Life Puja Texts for Your Center to Use

FPMT Education Services now makes available two long life puja texts to support FPMT centers and their students in offering long life pujas to Lama Zopa Rinpoche and other gurus. The first, the Long Life Lama Chopa with Request to ... Read more »
The Power of Guru Rinpoche: The Heart-Opening Guru Bumtsog Experience

The Power of Guru Rinpoche: The Heart-Opening Guru Bumtsog Experience

In June 2017, FPMT in Australia (FPMTA) and Chag Tong Chen Tong Tibetan Buddhist Centre (CTCT) organized 100,000 tsog offerings to Guru Rinpoche, also known as a “Guru bumtsog.” More than 160 students from twenty or so Australian FPMT centers, ... Read more »
The Power of Guru Rinpoche: The Heart-Opening Australian Guru Bumtsog Experience

The Power of Guru Rinpoche: The Heart-Opening Australian Guru Bumtsog Experience

In June 2017 FPMT in Australia (FPMTA) and Chag Tong Chen Tong Tibetan Buddhist Centre (CTCT) organized 100,000 tsog offerings to Guru Rinpoche, also known as a “Guru bumtsog.” Participants from all over Australia took part in the powerful and ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Dedication and Practice of the Nuns of Tashi Chime Gatsal Nunnery, Nepal

Rejoicing in the Dedication and Practice of the Nuns of 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 »
How to Think When Washing or Brushing Your Teeth [Video]

How to Think When Washing or Brushing Your Teeth [Video]

“Even when you wash, you purify not only yourself but sentient beings. Not only are your obscurations purified, but all sentient beings’ obscurations are purified. For example, the first time washing with water, the disturbing thought obscurations are purified. Then, ... Read more »
Cherishing Others Is the Source of All Happiness

Cherishing Others Is the Source of All Happiness

“Cherishing the I is opening the door for all the problems, all the obstacles, all the undesirable things; and cherishing others is the source of all the happiness, opening the door for all the happiness for oneself. As I mentioned ... Read more »
Geshe Tenzin Tenphel to Teach Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa’s Residential Four-Year Basic Program

Geshe Tenzin Tenphel to Teach Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa’s Residential Four-Year Basic Program

The FPMT Basic Program is an in-depth Buddhist education program designed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and developed by FPMT Education Services. In-depth program coordinator Olga Planken introduces resident teacher Geshe Tenzin Tenphel and the full-time residential Basic Program at Istituto ... Read more »
Tenzin Ösel Hita Talks at Centro Shiwa Lha in Brazil [Video]

Tenzin Ösel Hita Talks at Centro Shiwa Lha in Brazil [Video]

Tenzin Ösel Hita, the recognized reincarnation of FPMT founder Lama Yeshe, gave a talk at Centro Shiwa Lha in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in September 2017. (At the beginning of 2017, Ösel toured European FPMT centers giving talks to ... Read more »