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Ongoing Prayers, Practices, Offerings, Holy Object Creation, and Animal Blessings at Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s USA Residences

Ongoing Prayers, Practices, Offerings, Holy Object Creation, and Animal Blessings at Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s USA Residences

Resident Sangha at Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s residences in Washington State and California, USA, offer weekly animal liberation practice and charity for ants, extensive daily offering practices, make tsa-tsas and stupas daily, and engage in nightly Dharma protector practices and sur ... Read more »
Serving the Guru [Video]

Serving the Guru [Video]

The Buddha guides us, Lama Zopa Rinpoche says, through the guru, and the guru is like a magnifying glass through which we receive the Buddha’s blessings. In the video below, Lama Zopa Rinpoche talks about the importance of the guru. ... Read more »
Mandala Online: Freda Bedi and the Early Days of Tibetan Buddhism in India

Mandala Online: Freda Bedi and the Early Days of Tibetan Buddhism in India

Writer Vicki Mackenzie recently talked with Mandala about her new book The Revolutionary Life of Freda Bedi: British Feminist, Indian Nationalist, Buddhist Nun [available through the Foundation Store]. Mackenzie has been a student of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche ... Read more »
Tenzin Ösel Hita’s 2017 European Tour [Video]

Tenzin Ösel Hita’s 2017 European Tour [Video]

During the first three months of 2017, Tenzin Ösel Hita, the recognized reincarnation of FPMT founder Lama Yeshe, toured European FPMT centers giving talks to hundreds of eager students. The tour began on January 25 at Maitreya Instituut Amsterdam in ... Read more »
FPMT Education Ebooks Available on the Amazon Kindle Store

FPMT Education Ebooks Available on the Amazon Kindle Store

Students can access FPMT Education materials, prayers, and practices in a variety of formats including ebooks. A wide selection of ebooks can be found at the Foundation Store and a growing number are being made available on the Amazon Kindle ... Read more »
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 »