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Rinpoche Explains the ‘Lung’ or Oral Transmission [Video]

Rinpoche Explains the ‘Lung’ or Oral Transmission [Video]

A lung (pronounced loong) is the oral transmission of a text, mantra, or practice by an authorized holder. Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains more about lungs in a video below. In Tibetan the word for oral transmission is spelled lung (ལུང་). ... Read more »
Twenty-Four Kopan Monks Receive Management and Communication Training

Twenty-Four Kopan Monks Receive Management and Communication Training

In March 2017, twenty-four Kopan Monastery monks who also serve in staff positions at the monastery received coaching and training for six days in management, communication, and leadership from French student Bertrand Beauregard, director of Institut International de Coaching Humaniste ... Read more »
May 2017 FPMT International Office e-News Out Now!

May 2017 FPMT International Office e-News Out Now!

We invite you to read our May 2017 FPMT International Office e-News. This month you’ll find: a new, dynamic photo album chronicling Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s beneficial activities during March–April 2017 in Nepal, a thank-you message to all who have started ... Read more »
Nyung Nä Practice on Saka Dawa, June 9

Nyung Nä Practice on Saka Dawa, June 9

Saka Dawa is one of the four great holy days of the Tibetan calendar, commemorating Shakyamuni Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and passing into parinirvana. During Saka Dawa, karmic results are multiplied by one hundred million, as cited by Lama Zopa Rinpoche ... Read more »
‘Zina Was Unlike Other People’: Rinpoche Hears First-Hand Account

‘Zina Was Unlike Other People’: Rinpoche Hears First-Hand Account

In the late 1960s, Zina Rachevsky requested Dharma teachings from Lama Yeshe—and that was the beginning of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching Westerners and the planting of the seed that became FPMT. The story is told in detail ... Read more »
The Sera Je Food Fund’s New Chapter: Self Sustainability and Ongoing Support to Sangha

The Sera Je Food Fund’s New Chapter: Self Sustainability and Ongoing Support to Sangha

An Incredible Accomplishment: An Endowment Supporting the Monks of Sera Je Monastery Long into the Future For the last ten years FPMT International Office has been building an endowment large enough to support the long-term health of the Sera Je ... Read more »
New Photo Album: Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Nepal, March-April 2017

New Photo Album: Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Nepal, March-April 2017

New photo albums have been added to Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Photo Gallery, where you can see Rinpoche in action as he travels around the world! Visit FPMT’s website to see a new photo album showing Rinpoche’s March-April visit to Nepal. ... Read more »
‘All the Buddhas Cherish Your Mother’

‘All the Buddhas Cherish Your Mother’

Lama Zopa Rinpoche often talks about mother sentient beings—but what does he say about actual mothers? Rinpoche wrote to a student in 2014 about how to think about her mother, saying, “The way to think is that you received all ... Read more »
Mandala Online: The Benefits of Monasteries and Nunneries

Mandala Online: The Benefits of Monasteries and Nunneries

Are monasteries and nunneries necessary? What are their benefits? Mandala explores this issue in a new online feature called “The Benefits of Monasteries and Nunneries,” which presents recent words of wisdom from Lama Zopa Rinpoche along with reflections by American ... Read more »
Buddha House Finishes Renovations on New Property

Buddha House Finishes Renovations on New Property

On May 12, 2017, Buddha House in the suburbs of Adelaide, Australia, celebrated one year since receiving the keys to its new property and beginning extensive renovations. Buddha House student Carole Migalka described the process of finding the 1866 bluestone ... Read more »
A Long Life Prayer for Lama Zopa Rinpoche Spontaneously Composed by Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme

A Long Life Prayer for Lama Zopa Rinpoche Spontaneously Composed by Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme

During a long life puja at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore, for Lama Zopa Rinpoche on March 13, 2016, Ven. Holly Ansett offered a beautiful long life prayer composed by Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme (Khadro-la). We are pleased to make ... Read more »
CORRECTED–Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Mongolia: Update [Video]

CORRECTED–Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Mongolia: Update [Video]

CORRECTED, May 11—This post has been corrected. We apologize for the errors that appeared in this blog as it was originally published on May 10. Lama Zopa Rinpoche—who has been touring Mongolia this month, giving teachings, blessings, and initiations—visited Dolma ... Read more »