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Vajrapani Institute Launches 5 Trillion Mantra Prayer Wheel Project [Video]
In December 2016, Vajrapani Institute, an FPMT retreat center in Northern California, launched the 5 Trillion Mantra Prayer Wheel Project. The prayer wheel will contain 5 trillion (5,000,000,000,000) copies of OM MANI PADME HUM, the mantra of Chenrezig, the Buddhist ... Read more »
A Guide to Sanskrit Transliteration and Pronunciation
FPMT Education Services is pleased to offer a new resource for FPMT students, A Guide to Sanskrit Transliteration and Pronunciation. We will soon begin releasing texts using transliterated Sanskrit and this document will help students with the reading and pronunciation ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Teachings in Bangalore, December 2016
Choe Khor Sum Ling (CKSL) members in Bangalore, India, are rejoicing in their recent good fortune: hosting extensive teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in December 2016. About 32 FPMT Sangha and 80 lay people from around the world attended the ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Offered Long Life Puja on Behalf of Sera Je Monastery
A long life puja was offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche on behalf of Sera Je Monastery on the Maitreya Project land in Bodhgaya on January 2, 2017. The puja was to thank Rinpoche for twenty-six years of support offered through ... Read more »
How to Bless Tea Sold at a Center: Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Zopa Rinpoche was offered tea recently by Kunsang Yeshe Retreat Centre in Australia, which was selling the tea as a fundraiser. He responded with the following advice on how to “really” bless the tea. My most dear, most kind, ... Read more »
Dieter Kratzer on Becoming a Teacher
In an interview with Mandala now published online, FPMT registered in-depth teacher Dieter Kratzer, 75, talks about his life in the Dharma, and particularly the process of becoming a teacher. Dieter met the Dharma in 1973 and was among the ... Read more »
Merit Box Offerings Help Train the First Facilitators for the a.r.t. of Fulfillment Program
Seven months ago, the International Merit Box Project awarded twenty-one grants to a variety of Dharma projects, made possible solely from the collected offerings of Merit Box practitioners around the world. One of these grants funded a retreat to train ... Read more »
Dieter Kratzer on Becoming a Teacher
Dieter Kratzer is an FPMT registered in-depth teacher who has been teaching the Dharma for forty years. He spoke with Mandala associate editor Donna Lynn Brown about his development as a teacher from the early 1970s to the present day. ... Read more »![Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Name Mantra [Audio]](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/26/lama-zopa-rinpoches-name-mantra-audio/DSC02222-320x295.jpg)
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Name Mantra [Audio]
In 2014, Indian FPMT students heard Malaysian and Singaporean students chant Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s name mantra in Mundgod and had the wish to learn how to do the same. Ven. Kabir Saxena, now director of Maitreya Buddha Project Kushinagar, suggested ... Read more »
In Praise of Padmasambhava
While at Kopan Monastery in Nepal in late 2016, Lama Zopa Rinpoche attended a puja at Kopan Nunnery organized by the Kopan monks and nuns, making 100,000 tsog offerings to the great Indian yogi and teacher Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche), who ... Read more »
Midday Meals Offered to Tibetan School Children in Bylakuppe, South India
The Central School for Tibetans, Cauvery Valley Project (CVP), located in Bylakuppe, South India, was established in 1971 to serve the children of refugees living at Dickey Larsoe Tibetan Settlement. Twenty-four staff help educate 217 elementary, middle, and secondary students. ... Read more »