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Advice for Eclipse Days and Buddha Multiplying Days
On lunar and solar eclipses, Lama Zopa Rinoche advises that the merit generated is multiplied by 700,000 and 100 million, respectively, and any beneficial practices can be done. In particular, Rinpoche recommends: Recitation of the names of the Thirty-five Confession ... Read more »
‘Listening to the Teachings on Emptiness Collects Much Greater Merit’
“It’s also mentioned in the Meeting of Father and Son Sutra that compared with the merit of practicing the five paramitas – patience, charity, morality, perseverance and concentration – for ten eons, listening to teachings on emptiness collects much greater ... Read more »
Grant Offered to Rolwaling Sangag Choling Monastery to Rebuild Gompa
Thanks to the kindness of a generous benefactor who provided a grant, the Social Services Fund was able to recently offer US$173,599 to Rolwaling Sangag Choling Monastery for the rebuilding of their gompa. Rolwaling Monastery is the main monastery in ... Read more »
Even Raising a Doubt Breaks Samsara in Pieces
“It is said that even rising a doubt about emptiness, even rising a doubt, even that breaks samsara in pieces,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche says in “Teachings on the Heart Sutra,” an excerpt of a March 2000 teaching now available through ... Read more »
Cittamani Hospice Service Celebrates 20 Years of Service
Joanne Newman from Cittamani Hospice Service on Australia’s Sunshine Coast recently sent Mandala news of the FPMT project celebrating its 20th anniversary: Cittamani Hospice Service celebrated 20 years of specialist in-home palliative care to residents of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, ... Read more »
Your Broken Arm Is Another Form of Teaching
Lama Zopa Rinpoche wrote a letter to to one old student who had broken her arm: My very dear precious one, most kind one, most dear one, wish-fulfilling one, How are you? I hope you are well. I am sorry ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s ‘How to Meditate on Emptiness’ MP3 CD Now Available by Donation!
FPMT Education Services recently made the MP3 CD How to Meditate on Emptiness: The Barcelona Teacahings available by donation to the general public. This set of talks from September 2005 is particularly valuable as Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave extraordinary teachings ... Read more »
The Power of Merely Thinking of Helping Someone
On March 25, Ven. Roger Kunsang shared on his Twitter page this brief teaching from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Lama Zopa; Merely thinking of helping someone! … Is far, far, far greater, infinitely greater, than making offering to buddhas! Ven. Roger ... Read more »
European FPMT Centers Help Each Other Host Water Bowl Marathons
“In the last couple of years, four water bowl marathons have been held in Europe, and they are an example of FPMT centers helping each other on many levels,” said Marina Brucet, spiritual program coordinator for Centro de Meditación Tushita ... Read more »
The Sera Je Food Fund Kitchen Offers Bread and Rice for 30,000
Over 30,000 people, including monks from surrounding monasteries, packed into Tashi Lhunpo Monastery for the last of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Jangchup Lamrim teachings in South India in late December 2015. The Sera Je Food Fund Kitchen prepared rice ... Read more »
Advice for Cancer and Chemotherapy
A student asked Lama Zopa Rinpoche for advice after having a mastectomy and experiencing great physical difficultly while on chemotherapy. My very dear, precious, kind, wish-fulfilling student, Please recite the Vajra Cutter Sutra a few times. Also, I will do ... Read more »