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November FPMT International Office E-News out Now!
We invite you into the November FPMT International Office E-News, out now. Enjoy: Highlights of Lama Zopa Rinpoche News, What’s New from FPMT Education Services, How to Give a Gift that Helps Others, Opportunities to Rejoice, and more!
Progress on Sera Mey Debate Courtyard
In September we reported that a grant from the Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund was offered to Sera Mey Monastery, Mysore, India, toward the construction of a new debate courtyard. The old debate courtyard posed problems such as echoing, exposure to ... Read more »
We Should Practice the Good Heart
“Even if other people don’t practice the good heart, still we should practice the good heart because we want happiness and we don’t want suffering,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche taught at Kopan Monastery in Nepal in June 2011. “Even if other ... Read more »
Living in the Path: Studying Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Lam-Rim Teachings
Living in the Path is an FPMT online and center-based program drawn exclusively from the teachings of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. In particular, it makes use of teachings given at events recorded by qualified media technicians using high quality video and ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Advises Urgent Practices for Pacifying an Earthquake in California
“Lama Zopa Rinpoche has been bringing it up many, many times and feels that this is extremely important: it is inevitable an earthquake will happen in California and according to Rinpoche it seems next year is quite possible. Rinpoche has ... Read more »
California FPMT Centers Ask Students Worldwide to Help Accomplish Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Urgent Earthquake Advice
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has given urgent advice on practices to be do to pacify an imminent earthquake in California. The advice needs to be completed by February 2016 and includes: 1,800,000 recitations of the long Kshitigarbha mantra done as part ... Read more »
Meditate on the Precious Human Body and Death to Complete the Realizations
“The appearances of this life [are such that] we always think, ‘Oh I’m going to live for a long time’ always, even on the same day when you are going to have an accident, the same day you are going ... Read more »
FPMT Launches “Give a Gift that Helps Others”
FPMT has just launched a new gift-giving program that offers an alternative to buying material gifts for friends and family. Give a Gift that Helps Others enables one to contribute to a compassionate charitable project as a gift for someone ... Read more »
Meditate Until You See the Guru as All the Buddhas
“One has to continue the meditation, analytical meditation and fixed meditation, on guru devotion until one has the stable realization that one is able to see the guru as all the buddhas and able to see one buddha as all ... Read more »
Food Offered to 20 Elderly Residents of Home in Rabgayling Tibetan Settlement, India
The Social Services Fund recently offered a grant to Rabgayling Tibetan Settlement’s elderly home in south India. One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for FPMT is to offer ongoing social services to the elderly. This grant will be used ... Read more »
The Power Behind Prayer Wheels
The creation of holy objects is a high priority among Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the FPMT organization. “My wish is for FPMT to build many holy objects everywhere, as many as possible,” Rinpoche explained, “Making it so easy ... Read more »