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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
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 »
Annual Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche on December 14, Kopan Monastery
Every year, the Long Life Puja Fund supports a long life puja offered on behalf of FPMT centers, projects, services and students to our most kind and immeasurably precious spiritual director, Lama Zopa Rinpoche. The next puja will be offered ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the Importance of Guru Puja (Lama Chöpa)
Speaking on the importance of Guru Puja, also known as Lama Chöpa, Lama Zopa Rinpoche recounted the words of the great enlightened being Pabongka Dechen Nyingpo: “If you are able to do the practice of Guru Puja in your daily ... Read more »
‘When You See All These Holy Objects, It Purifies You’
Lama Zopa Rinpoche described the benefit of keeping holy objects in your house during a teaching in Taiwan in 2007. “In your own house, there are many buddha pictures, deities, photos, and statues. Having so many is great. Every day ... Read more »
How to Offer Food and Drink This Holiday Season
The holiday season means, for many, an increase in festive meals celebrated with family and friends, and Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that there are a variety of ways to enjoy your meals while practicing virtue. Living in the Path: “Offering ... Read more »
Top Ten Things to Do When Planning a Large Dharma Event: Festival Advice from Land of Medicine Buddha
Building projects manager Denice Macy at Land of Medicine Buddha (LMB) in California recently shared a useful how-to list for hosting a large-scale Dharma event: In November 2002, Sally Barraud, then director of Land of Medicine Buddha, received advice from ... Read more »
Rebuilding Pema Choeling Monastery Following the 2015 Earthquake
Pema Choeling Monastery has stood above the village of Phakding for more than 500 years. Phakding is a small village in the Khumbu region of Nepal. It is just north of Lukla. The monastery suffered severe damage following the massive ... Read more »
Making Life Meaningful
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave advice to a student who wrote to him about experiencing many obstacles and low self-esteem. Here’s an excerpt from Rinpoche’s advice, given in February 2017: … It’s very important to understand that death can happen any ... Read more »
Here is Your FPMT International Office e-News for November
Welcome to the November FPMT International Office e-News! This month we bring you news about: The New Inner Job Description App , Updates from Two FPMT Charitable Projects , Who Friends of FPMT Help, How to Give a Gift That ... Read more »
The Heart Sutra Resource Page
FPMT Education Services makes a variety of Heart Sutra materials available on the Heart Sutra resource page on FPMT.org. In addition to the sutra in English and Spanish, you will find a recording of Maitripa College president Yangsi Rinpoche and ... Read more »