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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 »
Learn the Tunes for Khadro-la’s Long Life Prayer for Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Khadro-la (Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme) is consulted every year for advice on practices to clear obstacles for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s health and long life. In 2016 she advised that all the students in all FPMT centers, projects, and services ... Read more »
Celebrating His Holiness’s 82nd Birthday
On July 6, the 82nd birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama is being celebrated around the world by Tibetans and Western students of the Dharma. As the spiritual guide for six million Tibetans, as Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s guru, as ... Read more »
Ven. Tsering Comments on Fifteen Years of Writing out the Prajnaparamita Sutra
In March we reported that Ven. Tsering has entered his fifteenth year of writing out the Prajnaparamita Sutra in gold ink on archival quality rainbow paper as a means to create the karma needed to build the large Maitreya Buddha ... Read more »