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New Tracksuits Offered to the Children of Root Institute’s Maitreya School and Tara Children’s Project
The charitable mission of Root Institute, located in Bodhgaya, India, is to provide support to impoverished children, adolescents and adults in neighboring areas through three focused projects. Maitreya School is a primary school providing free education for local children; Tara ... Read more »
How to Think When Paying Taxes
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave advice about paying government tax and health insurance, instructing to see it as an opportunity to practice charity, thus a cause for happiness and full enlightenment, for oneself and others. I spoke to the ex-Kopan monks ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Visits Taplejung, Nepal
In early March, Lama Zopa Rinpoche flew by helicopter to Taplejung Municipality in the Taplejung District in northeastern Nepal to attended a large event for world peace organized by the local community. Ven. Thubten Jikdol, a senior monk at Kopan ... Read more »
Ebooks from FPMT Education Services
FPMT Education Services offers over thirty ebooks in EPUB and MOBI formats through the Foundation Store and through the Kindle Store, with four ebook titles added recently: A Short Practice of Green Tara; A Daily Meditation on Shakyamuni Buddha; The ... Read more »
Centro La Sabiduría de Nagarjuna Has a New Center in Bilbao, Spain
FPMT center Centro La Sabiduría de Nagarjuna (Nagarjuna’s Wisdom Center) in Bilbao, Spain, began as an FPMT study group in December 2012 with four members. They affiliated and became an FPMT center in April 2016, and now have twenty-five members. ... Read more »
Continued Support for Lugsum Samduling Home for the Aged and Disabled, Bylakuppe, India
Lugsum Samduling Home for the Aged and Disabled, an elderly home in Bylakuppe, India, cares for approximately forty elderly individuals. Without homes and accommodation like this, many elderly first-wave Tibetan refugees have very little prospect of accommodation or support as ... Read more »
Rejoice That We Didn’t Die
“Somebody who doesn’t know what to do—many [people] have practices in the life, commitments and many practices, but somebody who has no clear idea of what to practice; if they want to do some practice in the daily life but ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Arrives in Australia to Lead Retreat, Watch Teachings Live
Lama Zopa Rinpoche arrived in Australia, where he’ll be teaching through early June. Rinpoche was greeted at the airport in Melbourne by Geshe Lobsang Doga, resident geshe of Tara Institute, and Tara Institute students. Then Rinpoche was driven two hours ... Read more »
Retreat Prayer Book and The Method at Australia 2018 Retreat
On March 30, the Australia 2018 retreat with Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins. The retreat, which takes place at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, will attract hundreds of FPMT students from around the world eager to receive teachings on Shantideva’s ... Read more »
New Video: Root Institute Celebrates Thirty Years of Benefiting Others
On January 14, 2018, FPMT center Root Institute for Wisdom Culture celebrated its thirtieth anniversary, which occurred on May 27, 2017. Over 150 guests attended the event, including Ling Rinpoche, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Khadro-la (Rangjung Neljorma Khandro Namsel Drönme), Dagri ... Read more »
Wisdom Publications Completes the Longest and Most Detailed Lamrim Commentary Available in English
In 1976, Geshe Lhundub Sopa, one of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachers, began offering commentary to Lama Tsongkhapa’s Lamrim Chenmo. The lamrim, or “graduated path,” is a presentation of Shakyamuni Buddha’s teachings that detail the stages on the complete path to ... Read more »