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June 2023 e-News is Now Available!
This month’s e-news brings you important news, updates, and causes for rejoicing including: A moving overview of the long life puja offered to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and accompanying events in Dharamsala, Prayers and practices done at Kopan Monastery ... Read more »
Two Compositions by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Newly Available
We are very pleased to share two compositions by Lama Zopa Rinpoche that have been recently made available. Extensively referencing the words of the past masters to illustrate his point, Lama Zopa Rinpoche stresses in How This Human Life Becomes ... Read more »
49 Days of Prayers at Lawudo for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Swift Return
Two weeks after Lama Zopa Rinpoche entered his final meditation, FPMT students Paula Chichester and Alison Murdoch took the opportunity to return to Lawudo and join with Rinpoche’s family in some of the ceremonies taking place there. A week later ... Read more »
Recalling the Long-Life Puja Offered to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Accompanying Events
Three hundred and fifty members of the FPMT organization, including 150 who joined the event from abroad, participated in a moving long life puja offered to His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, on May 24, 2023. This event ... Read more »
Prayers and Pujas at Kopan Monastery on the 49th Day of Lama Zopa Rinpoche Showing the Aspect of Passing Away
We are pleased to share this moving account from Kopan about the Heruka Lama Chopa puja offered at Kopan Monastery on May 31 during the 49th day of Lama Zopa Rinpoche showing the aspect of passing away. Round-the-clock practices and ... Read more »
A Message from the FPMT Inc. Board: A Word of Profound Gratitude
Today we are sharing this heartfelt message of gratitude to Kopan Monastery and the entire FPMT organization and students of Lama Zopa Rinpoche from the FPMT Board of Directors. The FPMT Board of Directors would hereby like to express its ... Read more »
Large Thangka Displays: Fulfilling the Vast Vision of Lama Zopa Rinpoche
In 2014, Lama Zopa Rinpoche commissioned Peter Iseli to paint a very big (49 ft x 30 ft) Twenty-One Taras thangka. Peter and his wife Jangchub Iseli-Sangmo spent four years creating the thangka, one section at a time, in a ... Read more »
Important Information About the 2023 Light of the Path Retreat at Kopan Monastery
As we have previously shared, this year’s Light of the Path retreat (LOP) at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, will take place as planned from September 3-17, 2023. Kopan shares that, “It will be a joyous celebration of Rinpoche’s life and teachings, ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Life of Arunas Antanaitis, Longtime Director of Lama Yeshe Ling
Arunas Antanaitas, 62, passed away peacefully on Vesak, May 5, 2023 in Dundas, Ontario, Canada, of cancer. Arunas had embarked on his cancer journey 17 months prior with grace, dignity, and a contagiously positive outlook. His last days were filled ... Read more »
Advice from Geshe Thupten Rinchen Rinpoche on the Passing of Lama Zopa Rinpoche
May 31 marked the forty-ninth day since Lama Zopa Rinpoche showed the aspect of passing away. A very moving and powerful puja occurred at Kopan Monastery with all the Kopan monks and nuns, hundreds of non-Tibetan students, and many Sherpa ... Read more »
Two Hundred Thousand Praises to the Twenty-One Taras on Saka Dawa and a Vast Array of Practices
On Saka Dawa*, June 4, there will be two different recitations of the 100,000 Praises to the Twenty-One Taras, recited by over 4,000 sangha, at Sera Je and Sera Mey monasteries and Khachoe Ghakyil Ling Nunnery. This is the thirty-third ... Read more »