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Support Continues for the Compassionate Work of Maitreya School, Bodhgaya
Maitreya School, a social service project of Root Institute, Bodhgaya, is a free school benefiting impoverished children from neighboring villages. The school offers children living in one of India’s poorest states a precious opportunity. Not only do they engage in ... Read more »
Tara Institute Healing Meditation Group Volunteer Honored with Award
Social or Community Service is one of FPMT’s Five Pillars of Service. The Social or Community Service pillar sits with the other four Pillars of Service—Dharma, Universal Education for Compassion and Wisdom, Interfaith activities, and Revenue-generating activities. Llysse Velez, center ... Read more »
Death and Dying Materials from FPMT
It is difficult to accept the inevitability of our own deaths or the deaths of our loved ones. And although avoiding death is not possible, it is possible to prepare for death and equip ourselves with tools to help those ... Read more »![Celebrating His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Birthday on Réunion Island [Video]](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/08/celebrating-his-holiness-the-dalai-lamas-birthday-on-reunion-island-video/Gyaltsab-Je-Center-Reunion-Island-celebrates-Dalai-Lama-Birthday-2018-320x213.jpg)
Celebrating His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Birthday on Réunion Island [Video]
Marc Salamolard, center director of Gyaltsab Je Center on Réunion Island east of Madagascar shares a summary of the celebration held for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s eighty-third birthday. On Saturday, July 7, 2018, Gyaltsab Je Center, Tara Association, and ... Read more »
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 »