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Mandala Offerings: ‘Everything You Visualize Should Be Big, Huge!’
What is the most important thing to remember when doing mandala offerings? Lama Zopa Rinpoche has explained that, “Many high lamas have made comments on [the mandala offering]. The main purpose is to create merit, so it’s important that your ... Read more »
Support for Social Services at Root Institute Continues
For the past six years, due to the kindness of one main benefactor, the FPMT Social Services project has been able to offer substantial grants toward the amazing projects of Root Institute, India, which directly benefit underprivileged individuals in the ... Read more »
‘The Friend Who Is Angry Can Be the Most Kind Person in Your Life’
In October 2016, a student wrote to Lama Zopa Rinpoche asking how to deal with a situation in which an individual behaved in ways that were angry and unkind. Rinpoche typed out the following reply himself from Buddha Amitabha Pure ... Read more »
FPMT Student Brings Dentistry to Solu Khumbu
In September 2016, long-time student and former FPMT center director George Manos and a team of three volunteers journeyed from Australia to Chailsa, Nepal, to offer dental care to the villagers living there. With the help of four porters, the ... Read more »
Dozen of Volunteers Prepare for Light of the Path 2017
From August 20 to September 17, Lama Zopa Rinpoche will teach in Black Mountain, North Carolina, US, at the fifth annual Light of the Path retreat, hosted by Kadampa Center. This massive Dharma undertaking requires the support of dozens of ... Read more »
The Inner Job Description Card: A Mindfulness Practice Tool
The Inner Job Description Card (Mindfulness Practice Tool) was created to help those offering service to FPMT track their progress throughout the day as they attempt to develop the inner professional and subdue outer expressions of ignorance, anger, attachment, and ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Shopping
Can shopping go along with Dharma? In 2009, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave some advice on how to make shopping a virtuous activity. Rinpoche said, “When you do shopping, watch and prepare your motivation. When you are in the shop, either ... Read more »
Investing in Retreat Houses for Geshes in Chailsa, Nepal
Chailsa is in Solu Khumbu, north-eastern Nepal, the district where Lama Zopa Rinpoche was born. Chailsa is in the southern part of the district. In May, Lama Zopa Rinpoche stayed at Thubten Shedrup Ling Monastery for a month and visited ... Read more »
‘We Have Full Freedom in Our Life’
Lama Zopa Rinpoche talked in 2008 about our good fortune: being able to choose happiness. What is the source of this good fortune? Teachings on how to create the causes of happiness. “What people believe in the world, the more ... Read more »
Merit Box Project Reaches US$1 Million in Grants Awarded
In May, the International Merit Box Project disbursed sixteen new grants for Dharma projects and activities in six countries, totaling US$37,455 for the year. This was the fifteenth cycle of annual of Merit Box grants. Since the Project was created ... Read more »![Debate Demonstrated in English by Sera Je IMI Monks [Video]](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/07/debate-demonstrated-in-english-by-sera-je-imi-monks-video/Gache-debating-w-Geshe-Thupten-Zopa-at-Nalanda-Bihar-2-320x214.jpg)
Debate Demonstrated in English by Sera Je IMI Monks [Video]
In the twenty-minute video below, Sera Je International Mahayana Institute (IMI) monks Vens. Tenzin Gache and Tenzin Legtsok give a demonstration of monastic debate in English, introduced and explained by Ven. Gyalten Lekden. As the monks and nuns in geshe ... Read more »