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602,950 Sentient Beings Liberated at Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Residences Since 2015
The Sangha living at Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s residences in California and Washington State offer the practice of animal liberation every week (the Winter months in Washington State are not conducive to this practice due to the snow being too much ... Read more »
‘It Comes from the Mind’
When discussing global problems, Lama Zopa Rinpoche emphasizes how we must identify the mind as the source of our problems. From an article in the new issue of Mandala, Rinpoche and other Buddhist teachers explain the only way to address ... Read more »
The 2018 Liberation Tibetan Calendar Is Now Available!
We are pleased to announce the release of the 2018 Liberation Tibetan Calendar which includes the Tibetan lunar dates and information about more than thirty types of practice days and auspicious and inauspicious days for each month. The calendar is ... Read more »
One Small Act of Charity Leads to Happiness and Success
Even one small act of charity leads to happiness and success in future lives, and eventually it leads to enlightenment, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains in a video clip from the 2016 Light of the Path retreat. “You have to know ... Read more »
Rejoicing in a Year of Charitable Giving
2017 was a momentous year for FPMT Charitable Projects. In January 2017 we raised the targeted amount needed to offer Sera Je Monastery an endowment fund large enough to support the daily food offering program at the monastery (known as ... Read more »
Construction Started on Oseling Nunnery
Oseling Retreat Center, in the Andalusia region of Spain, has undertaken a new project. In response to advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, the center has begun work on the planning, construction, and fund-raising aspects for a new nunnery that will ... Read more »
The Best Way to Run a Government Is with Bodhichitta
During the 100 Million Mani Mantra Retreat in Italy, Lama Zopa Rinpoche addressed a question on uniting politics and Dharma. Rinpoche’s answer, captured in the video clip below from the October 28 teaching, first shares the story of two Tibetans ... Read more »
When You Ring the Bell, Think of Emptiness
During the 100 Million Mani Mantra Retreat in Italy, Lama Zopa Rinpoche talked about how to think when ringing the bell when doing Vajrasattva mantra. In this six-minute video clip from the October 20 teaching, Rinpoches notes that the vajra ... Read more »
How to Create and Make Offerings to Holy Objects
The creation of holy objects for world peace is a key priority among Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the FPMT organization. FPMT Education Services makes available many resources related to creating and offering to holy objects. Lama Zopa Rinpoche ... Read more »
A Wish Fulfilled: My Visit to Lawudo
Lawudo Retreat Centre, located in the Solu Khumbu district of Nepal, is where FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s previous incarnation meditated and not far from the village where Rinpoche was born. Mandala editor Laura Miller visited Lawudo in early ... Read more »
The Purpose of Human Life Is to Benefit All Sentient Beings
At the beginning of the 100 Million Mani Mantra Retreat in Italy in October, Lama Zopa Rinpoche talked about the need to be free from all suffering—the suffering of pain, the suffering of change, and pervasive compounding suffering—in order to ... Read more »