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Lama Zopa Rinpoche Arrives in Singapore
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has arrived in Singapore for teachings at Amitabha Buddhist Centre. A throng of students from Amitabha Buddhist Centre welcomed Rinpoche at the airport with khatas and flowers. Rinpoche will be in Singapore for three weeks of events. ... Read more »
Sponsorship of Annual Winter Jang Debate, Bodhgaya, India, and Special Memorization Exam for Monks
This January, monks from various Gelug monasteries participated in an extensive twenty-two day debate on Buddhist logic in Bodhgaya, India, known as the Winter Jang Debate. This annual debate dates back to the time of Lama Tsongkhapa and was continued ... Read more »
Live with Compassion Poster
In 2009, a design competition was held to find a poster that perfectly captured Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s “Live with Compassion” quote. Rinpoche personally selected the design from Amitabha Buddhist Centre’s Kennedy Koh as the winner. After a few small modifications, ... Read more »
His Eminence Ling Rinpoche’s First North American West Coast Tour
Margaret Kim, center director of Gyalwa Gyatso (Ocean of Compassion) Buddhist Center in Campbell, California, US, reflects on His Eminence the 7th Kyabje Ling Rinpoche’s recent visit to Northern California. Margaret helped organize Rinpoche’s visit, including the events held at ... Read more »
The Head of the FPMT Organization
Lama Zopa Rinpoche spoke about the FPMT organization during a teaching at Chenrezig Institute, Australia, in June 2018. I think that although Lama Yeshe started the FPMT organization, His Holiness the Dalai Lama is the head of the organization. Now ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Offers Thanks for Practices for Tibet and Fulfilling the Wishes of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered thanks to all the FPMT centers, projects, services, and students who did practices requested by Rinpoche to benefit Tibet and for the success of fulfilling all of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s wishes. I felt that ... Read more »
New from Lama Zopa Rinpoche! A Brief Meditation-Recitation on Guru Medicine Buddha
Students can now find A Brief Meditation-Recitation on Guru Medicine Buddha, written and arranged by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, on the Foundation Store as a PDF. Rinpoche encouraged FPMT to make the text “immediately, immediately” available for the benefit of students ... Read more »
Sixth Annual 100 Million Mani Retreat in Mongolia
One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the FPMT organization is to sponsor 100 million OM MANI PADME HUM retreats around the world. Rinpoche has said, “[I would like] for the organization to establish 100,000 recitations of 100 million ... Read more »
Continual Light Offering to Holy Objects in Mongolia
The Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund sponsors the electricity for lotus light offerings to all the holy objects on the altar at Idgaa Choizinling College in Mongolia. The lights are offered 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Among ... Read more »
What to Focus On, for Experienced Students
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered this advice during a teaching at Chenrezig Institute in June 2018. For older students, when you are looking for spiritual happiness, Dharma happiness, inner happiness—not the ordinary happiness that you have had numberless times already, in ... Read more »![Foundation Service Seminar Held in United States [Video]](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/24/foundation-service-seminar-held-in-united-states-video/FSS-Milarepa-Center-July-2018-by-Jackie-320x213.jpg)
Foundation Service Seminar Held in United States [Video]
The Foundation Service Seminar (FSS) is the “FPMT immersion retreat.” It provides essential information and nourishment for all serving, or wishing to serve, in the FPMT organization. The FSS Retreat is key to deeply understanding the FPMT organization and the ... Read more »