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Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery
A long life puja was offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Thursday, December 14, on behalf of the entire FPMT organization. Kopan monks, nuns, and November course students filled the main gompa at Kopan for the puja, which was also ... Read more »
Advice Regarding Gurus for Students New to Dharma
In FPMT centers, a great deal of emphasis is placed on the practice of guru devotion. Advice Regarding Gurus, a short booklet available through the FPMT Foundation Store, introduces new students to the concept of guru devotion and explains why ... Read more »
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
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
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 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]](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/08/watch-rinpoche-bless-animals-around-the-world-video/lzr-dog-italy-320x400.jpg)
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]](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/07/learn-lama-zopa-rinpoches-name-mantra-audio/DSC2259-320x227.jpg)
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
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
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
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 »