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Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Celebrating Losar
In 2014, while Lama Zopa Rinpoche was celebrating Losar at Root Institute in Bodhgaya, he gave an inspiring teaching during a long life puja being offered to him. Ven. Sarah Thresher shared this report: “… Following the tsog offering, Rinpoche ... Read more »
Losar Greetings from Raven Jones & Mandala Magazine
Liberation Prison Project student Raven Jones recently wrote Mandala to share his annual Losar (New Year) greeting card. Raven hand drew and colored the card and sent it in the mail to Mandala. In celebration of the year Fire Monkey ... Read more »
Advice on Practices to Do for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Health and Long Life
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has recently said that in order to purify our karma students can do the following practices dedicated for the health and long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama: “Prayer to Guru Rinpoche to Clear Away Obstacles ... Read more »
Please Offer Lama Chöpa with Tsog on Losar in Honor of Lama Yeshe
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has recently reminded FPMT centers to offer extensive Lama Chöpa with Tsog on Losar (Tibetan New Year) in honor of the anniversary of FPMT founder Lama Yeshe’s passing away. Rinpoche added that it would be good to ... Read more »
‘We Can Cut Attachment and Be Totally Free’
“The whole life, busy with attachment and anger, is like an elephant caught in a quagmire. It cannot get out, it is completely caught in a quagmire of mud,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche taught in 2013 at Amitabha Buddhist Centre in ... Read more »
Geshe Dorji Damdul Teaches at Choe Khor Sum Ling
Student Ven. Gyalten Rabten shares the latest news from Choe Khor Sum Ling in Bangalore, India: Around 25 people attended an intensive 10-day teaching program November 6-15, 2015, organized by Choe Khor Sum Ling in Bangalore . It was taught ... Read more »
‘Your Roles As a Parent Is Extremely Important’
“A good parenting plan comes from having a healthy, positive motivation for bringing up your children, one that is based on a good heart rather than on attachment. If you have a good heart and a good attitude toward life, ... Read more »
Yeshe Norbu Onlus Ongoing Support to Post-Earthquake Nepal
Yeshe Norbu Onlus is an Italian FPMT non-profit association which supports important projects benefiting Tibetan refugees and children. Since the earthquake in Nepal last April, Yeshe Norbu has offered a tremendous amount of emergency aid to assist those in need ... Read more »
‘Who Helps Us Develop This Priceless Quality Within Us?’
“Who helps us to develop this incredible, priceless quality within us, this patience, this compassion, this priceless quality within us? Who helps us to develop this, to generate this, and to give peace and happiness to all living beings?” Lama ... Read more »
‘The Bodhichitta Arises Like That’
“In order to develop compassion for all living beings, we need to understand all the sufferings of all the different beings in samsara, their different types of sufferings,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche taught in “Not One Single Difficulty to Work for ... Read more »
Kshitigarbha Long Mantra Recitations Needed to Help Mitigate Possible Earthquakes
In November 2015, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advised students to urgently undertake certain practices to help mitigate a possible earthquake in California and elsewhere in the world. The advice was that the following should be completed by February 1: 1,800,000 recitations ... Read more »![Traditional Sherpa Dances Offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche [Video]](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/28/traditional-sherpa-dances-offered-to-lama-zopa-rinpoche-video/IMG_1553-web-320x256.jpg)