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Learn Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Name Mantra in Sanskrit [Audio]
In 2014, Indian FPMT students heard Malaysian and Singaporean students chant Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s name mantra in Mundgod, India, and wished to learn how to do the same. Long-time student Ven. Kabir Saxena suggested that they use an Indian tune ... Read more »
Develop your Dharma Practice with the New Inner Job Description App
Would you like help in transforming your daily life into Dharma practice? If so, the Inner Job Description App is for you. Initially produced as a card for practitioners to write upon, the Inner Job Description (IJD) is now available ... Read more »
Watch Rinpoche Teach from the 50th Kopan Course
The 2017 Kopan Course, taking place at Kopan Monastery in Nepal now through December 14, is the fiftieth lamrim course offered at the monastery. More than two hundred new and seasoned students of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche attend ... Read more »
Kopan Celebrates Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Birthday
All of Kopan wished Lama Zopa Rinpoche a happy birthday on Sunday, December 3. Monks, nuns, and international students attending the annual November course all celebrated the auspicious occasion in a joyous gathering outside Kopan’s main gompa. Many offerings were ... Read more »
Finding Peace in Everyday Life
“The happiness we desire, the suffering we do not want, the happiness we try to get, the suffering we try to eliminate all come from the mind—not from somebody else’s mind but from our own,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche instructs in ... Read more »
Make Merit on Lama Tsongkhapa Day, December 12
Lama Tsongkhapa Day, or Ganden Ngamchoe, is a celebration of the anniversary of Lama Tsongkhapa’s parinirvana. It is celebrated on the 25th day of the 10th month in the Tibetan calendar. This year, Lama Tsongkhapa Day falls on Tuesday, December ... Read more »
Panchen Losang Chogyen Gelugzentrum Hosts Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Vienna
In September of this year, Lama Zopa Rinpoche visited Panchen Losang Chogyen Gelugzentrum (PLC) in Austria. This was Rinpoche’s first official visit and the first opportunity for Austrian students to attend teachings, receive an initiation, and to take refuge from ... Read more »
Annual Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche on December 14, Kopan Monastery
Every year, the Long Life Puja Fund supports a long life puja offered on behalf of FPMT centers, projects, services and students to our most kind and immeasurably precious spiritual director, Lama Zopa Rinpoche. The next puja will be offered ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the Importance of Guru Puja (Lama Chöpa)
Speaking on the importance of Guru Puja, also known as Lama Chöpa, Lama Zopa Rinpoche recounted the words of the great enlightened being Pabongka Dechen Nyingpo: “If you are able to do the practice of Guru Puja in your daily ... Read more »
‘When You See All These Holy Objects, It Purifies You’
Lama Zopa Rinpoche described the benefit of keeping holy objects in your house during a teaching in Taiwan in 2007. “In your own house, there are many buddha pictures, deities, photos, and statues. Having so many is great. Every day ... Read more »
How to Offer Food and Drink This Holiday Season
The holiday season means, for many, an increase in festive meals celebrated with family and friends, and Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that there are a variety of ways to enjoy your meals while practicing virtue. Living in the Path: “Offering ... Read more »