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Setting a Dharma Example for Children Is Important
“Since Buddhist should give even the animals in their care a special life, there is no question that they should do this for their children,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches in Joyful Parents, Successful Children, a new publication from Amitabha Buddhist ... Read more »
UPDATE: A Message from Ven. Roger Kunsang on the Importance of the Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Singapore
UPDATE: The FPMT Education Services’ booklet How to Offer a 1,000 Tsog Offerings is now available to help complete this advice. Ven. Roger Kunsang is the assistant to Lama Zopa Rinpoche and CEO of FPMT Inc. He shares this message ... Read more »
Offering to 32,000 Participants of the Jangchup Lamrim Teachings with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
During the 2015 Jangchup Lamrim teachings ( 18 Treatises on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment ) with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the newly inaugurated Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered tea to 32,000 participants, money ... Read more »
MAITRI Charitable Trust Supports World Leprosy Day 2016
Every year MAITRI Charitable Trust participates in World Leprosy Day, founded in 1953 by French writer and humanitarian Raoul Follereau. Director Adriana Ferranti serves some of India’s poorest people in the state of Bihar and has worked for 25 years ... Read more »
January FPMT International Office e-News out Now!
We hope you enjoy our January E-News – out now! In it you’ll find: News about Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Official Long Life Puja, It’s Merit Box Collection time!, Updates from FPMT Education Services, Photos from the Long Life Puja Offered ... Read more »
‘Your Partner Is the Most Kind Person in Your Entire Life’
“[Y]ou should make sure that being together with someone becomes a cause of enlightenment by keeping in mind the motivation of bodhichitta,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches in Joyful Parents, Successful Children, a new publication from Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore, ... Read more »
Ven. René Feusi Distills Shantideva’s ‘Bodhicharyavatara’
“In the 1990s, I went to Bodhgaya to do two months’ retreat. I had rented a cabin in Bodhgaya and one of the texts I had with me with was Bodhicharyavatara. It was Stephen Batchelor’s translation. While doing retreat there, ... Read more »
New Free Module from the Living in the Path Program: The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment)
A new free module from Living in the Path program, “The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment)” is now available on the Online Learning Center. In this module of Living in the Path, you will find ... Read more »
Rinpoche’s Flower Offering Card
When Rinpoche was at his home in California in October and part of November last year, he created a new flower offering card. Rinpoche then had the card made into a 3-foot (1-meter) tall sign, so that when you first ... Read more »![Cats and Dogs Receive Blessings in Last North American Relic Tour Event [VIDEO]](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20/cats-and-dogs-receive-blessings-in-last-north-american-relic-tour-event-video/10458007_781026698697989_1230701276930188513_n-320x300.jpg)
Cats and Dogs Receive Blessings in Last North American Relic Tour Event [VIDEO]
“The final North American Maitreya Loving Kidnesss relic tour event was held at Yavapai College in Sedona, Arizona, December 12-13, 2015,” said Karen Smith, who was there. “It was an intimate venue with magnificent views of the famous Sedona Red ... Read more »
‘The Best Response Is Forgiveness’
“As a parent, you should also teach your children that when someone harms, disrespects or even abuses them, the best response is forgiveness. Forgiveness is extremely important – it opens the hearts of both those who forgive and those who ... Read more »