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Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the Environment

Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the Environment

Lama Zopa Rinpoche has commented several times on environmental issues, including climate change. What has he said? In 2006, Rinpoche, concerned about climate change, saw the film An Inconvenient Truth, and made the following comments: “Every sentient being, regardless of ... Read more »
Rejoicing in Another Year of Meals Offered to the Poor and Homeless in Mongolia

Rejoicing in Another Year of Meals Offered to the Poor and Homeless in Mongolia

Lamp of the Path NGO, a project of FPMT Mongolia, has been offering free meals and a regular free health clinic to the poor and homeless living in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia for many years. In 2016, 21,000 meals were offered to ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Blesses Animals in Russia

Lama Zopa Rinpoche Blesses Animals in Russia

During Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s May-June 2017 visit to Russia, Rinpoche took an entire day—May 31—to bless animals. The animal blessing was organized and hosted by Save Tibet Russia. It was well attended, with hundreds of people and animals in attendance: ... Read more »
Watch Geshe Namdak Graduate: Ritual, Debate, Tea, Love, and Laughter [Video]

Watch Geshe Namdak Graduate: Ritual, Debate, Tea, Love, and Laughter [Video]

Watch the eighteen-minute video below to see the colorful, moving, and joy-filled graduation ceremonies of Geshe Tenzin Namdak, who has completed the full twenty-year course of studies at Sera Je Monastic University in South India and his final geshe examinations ... Read more »
June 2017 FPMT International Office e-News Out Now!

June 2017 FPMT International Office e-News Out Now!

We invite you to read our June 2017 FPMT International Office e-News. This month you’ll find: highlights from our most recently posted blogs , Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s current schedule for 2017 and 2018 , updates from Work a Day for ... Read more »
Freda Bedi’s ‘Big’ Life: An Interview with Vicki Mackenzie

Freda Bedi’s ‘Big’ Life: An Interview with Vicki Mackenzie

Freda Bedi, born in 1911 in England, lived a “big” life. She attended Oxford University, where she met and married Baba Pyare Lal Bedi, who was the sixteenth direct descendant of Guru Nanak, founder of the Sikh religion. They moved ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Moscow, May-June 2017

Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Moscow, May-June 2017

Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave a week of evening teachings in Moscow, May 27 through June 3. Ganden Tendar Ling , the FPMT center in Moscow, organized the teaching event, which was held in a large public hall and livestreamed. Rinpoche ... Read more »
The Puja Fund Sponsors Pujas and Offerings to Holy Objects Every Month

The Puja Fund Sponsors Pujas and Offerings to Holy Objects Every Month

Every month the Puja Fund sponsors pujas and offerings dedicated to the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama; the removal of obstacles to all FPMT Dharma activities; FPMT students; benefactors of every FPMT center, service, and project, as ... Read more »
Rinpoche Remembers Geshe Dugda, Who Helped Restore Buddhism in Kalmykia

Rinpoche Remembers Geshe Dugda, Who Helped Restore Buddhism in Kalmykia

While Lama Zopa Rinpoche was in Kalmykia, Russia, in May 2017, a traditionally Buddhist area of Russia settled centuries ago by migrants from Mongolia, he stayed at the former home of Geshe Tenzin Dugda (Tib.’brug-sgra), a Tibetan geshe who lived ... Read more »
Investing in the Lugsum Samduling Home for the Aged and Disabled in Bylakuppe, India

Investing in the Lugsum Samduling Home for the Aged and Disabled in Bylakuppe, India

Last year, the Social Services Fund offered several grants to elderly homes in India occupied by Tibetan refugees. Without such facilities, many elderly, first-wave Tibetan refugees, who often are without families of their own, have little prospect of accommodation or ... Read more »
Visit the New FPMT Education Services!

Visit the New FPMT Education Services!

On June 6, 2017, FPMT Education Services launched its homepage redesign, which features a fresh, dynamic interface to help connect FPMT students with hundreds of pages of free information and materials to support Dharma practice. Come visit us at FPMT.org ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kalmykia, Russia, May 2017 [Video]

Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kalmykia, Russia, May 2017 [Video]

From May 20 to 24, 2017, Lama Zopa Rinpoche taught in Elista, the capital of the Republic of Kalmykia, an autonomous region within Russia. Rinpoche taught on Atisha’s Lamp of the Path and gave two initiations. He also attended performances ... Read more »