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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 »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Teaches in Malaysia
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has arrived in Malaysia and over the weekend taught at Chokyi Gyaltsen Center in Penang on the “Three Principles of the Path.” Through April 19, Rinpoche will teach and give initiations at the three FPMT centers in ... Read more »
Maitreya Buddha Project Kushinagar’s Winter Blanket Distribution
Maitreya Buddha Project Kushinagar distribute blankets to Musahar community, Koluha, Kushinagar, India, January 2016. Photo courtesy of Maitreya Buddha Project Kushinagar. Every January, with the help of generous donors, Maitreya Buddha Project Kushinagar offers heavy woolen blankets to Kushinagar’s poor. ... Read more »
Food Offered to Ngari Institute in Ladakh, India
For the fourth year, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, through the Social Services Fund, has offered food every day of the year to the school children and staff of Ngari Institute in Ladakh, India. This year, 46 school children, 16 teachers and ... Read more »
Prison Is the Best Opportunity
A student in prison wrote Lama Zopa Rinpoche to ask Rinpoche to be his guru. My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one, Thank you very much for your kind letter. I accept. I am not qualified, but I ... Read more »