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Investing in Sangha Health, Hygiene, and Environmental Conditions
Thanks to a very kind benefactor plus funds offered from Lama Zopa Rinpoche personally, over US$73,000 was offered from the Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund toward a desperately needed new sewage system at Sera Lachi in southern India. Sera Lachi is ... Read more »
Happiness Comes from Your Own Mind
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how peace and happiness come from meditation in this teaching recently published in the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive April 2018 E-Letter. Peace and happiness in life come when we free ourselves from the dissatisfied mind of ... Read more »
Available in Print! A Daily Meditation on Shakyamuni Buddha
A Daily Meditation on Shakyamuni Buddha, specifically compiled by Lama Zopa Rinpoche for beginner Buddhist practitioners, is now available in print from the Foundation Store. Last year, Lama Zopa Rinpoche reviewed and updated the previous edition with the help of ... Read more »
His Eminence Ling Rinpoche Visits Perth, Western Australia
His Eminence Ling Rinpoche traveled to Perth, Western Australia, in March upon the invitation of FPMT center Hayagriva Buddhist Centre, spending one week in the coastal city. Ros Charron, newsletter editor at Hayagriva Buddhist Centre, shares the details of his ... Read more »
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 »