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Mandala January-June 2018 Out Now!

Mandala January-June 2018 Out Now!

In our just published Mandala January-June 2018, we explore what Buddhism offers the world in times of global difficulties to help pacify suffering and bring about peace. As a preview to the print edition, we have made the cover story, ... Read more »
Personalizing the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination

Personalizing the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination

By Ven. Tenzin Gache His Holiness the Dalai Lama often comments that as Buddhists, our distinctive practice is non-violence, and our distinctive view is dependent origination. His Holiness’s comments echo a common strand in the Buddhist tradition: Lama Tsongkhapa claimed ... Read more »
Support Continues in 2017 to Sagarmatha Secondary School

Support Continues in 2017 to Sagarmatha Secondary School

For the past three years, the Social Services Fund has been offering a grant to cover the cost of running Sagarmatha Secondary School in Chailsa, Nepal. The school is located on what was once a Tibetan refugee camp and currently ... Read more »
‘Lama Tsongkhapa’s Teachings Have Everything to Achieve Full Enlightenment’

‘Lama Tsongkhapa’s Teachings Have Everything to Achieve Full Enlightenment’

Lama Zopa Rinpoche described the special qualities of Lama Tsongkhapa’s teachings in a 2010 letter to a student. Lama Tsongkhapa was a great Tibetan Buddhist scholar, saint, and teacher of the fourteenth century who founded the Gelug school. “Lama Tsongkhapa’s ... Read more »
Watch Rinpoche Bless Animals Around the World [Video]

Watch Rinpoche Bless Animals Around the World [Video]

Wherever Lama Zopa Rinpoche travels, he takes time to bless animals. Zarina Osmonalieva, a devoted student of Rinpoche, has put together a short video of Rinpoche doing animal blessings around the world, including in Russia, India, Nepal, the US, and ... Read more »
Learn Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Name Mantra in Sanskrit [Audio]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 »