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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 »
Trey Ligon’s Tale of Discovering the Dharma
Events that lead to the founding of FPMT centers, projects, and services can be as varied and inspirational as the benefit that they provide. The Dharmakaya Center in Reno, Nevada, United States, has an origin story that the founder, Trey ... Read more »
Offering Toward the 2017 Gelug Examination at Drepung Monastery and Stipend for Teachers
Each year the foremost scholars from the main Gelug monasteries come together for the annual Gelug examination and the Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund offers a grant to cover the basic expenses including food for participants. In September of this year ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Visits Horse Sanctuary in Tuscany
Lama Zopa Rinpoche went to a horse sanctuary one day during his stay at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa in Pomaia, a village in the Tuscan region of Italy. The sanctuary, called Aquila Nera, rescues race horse from being put to ... Read more »
100 Million Mani Mantra Retreat Concludes in Italy
The 100 Million Mani Mantra retreat in Italy with Lama Zopa Rinpoche concluded with a long life puja offered to Rinpoche. Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa (ILTK) organized the month-long retreat, where about 200 people participated in the entire retreat with ... Read more »
Don’t Miss the Opportunity to Participate in Lhabab Duchen Activities
Lhabab Duchen, one of the four great holy days of the Buddhist calendar when merit is multiplied by 100 million times, takes place this year on Friday, November 10. Don’t miss the opportunity to rejoice in an incredible array of ... Read more »
Reflections of the FPMT North America Regional Meeting
In August 2017, Drolkar McCallum, regional coordinator for FPMT North America and member services coordinator for the International Mahayana Institute —FPMT’s international community of nuns and monks—visited Black Mountain, North Carolina, United States, for the Light of the Path (LOP) ... Read more »