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Smoking Harms Your Virtuous Thoughts [VIDEO]
“Even when people died and someone asked Panchen Losang Chokyi to do phowa, he asked whether the person had smoked or not,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche mentions in a new video on FPMT’s YouTube channel. “If the person had smoked, then ... Read more »
Welcoming His Holiness the Dalai Lama with Open Arms
In preparation for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s visit to the United Kingdom, a group of FPMT students has been working with the office of Tibet and the local Tibetan community to ensure that His Holiness gets the warmest possible ... Read more »
Practicing the Good Heart for Happiness
On September 13, Ven. Roger Kunsang shared on his Twitter page this brief teaching from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Lama Zopa; the king of delusions, thinking our false “I” is real! We need to practice the good heart for happiness. You ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Visit to Shantideva Meditation Center in New York
From visiting and doing prayers at the memorial for the victims of the September 11 attacks, to teaching at Tibet House, to receiving rare oral transmissions, to spending time with the former monks and nuns of Kopan, to engaging in ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Teaches on the ‘Essence of Nectar’ in Mexico
On the morning of September 11, Lama Zopa Rinpoche began the day leading the participants of the “Essence of Nectar” retreat in Mexico in Lama Chöpa with tsog. Ven. Steve Carlier served as umze, or chant leader, for the puja, ... Read more »
8,300 Meals Offered Every Day to Monks of Sera Je Monastery
Since 1991, the Sera Je Food Fund has offered meals to the monks studying at Sera Je Monastery in southern India. Today, the fund sponsors 8,300 meals every single day for all 2,500 Sera Je Monastery monks (3,300 monks are ... Read more »
His Eminence Choden Rinpoche Passes Away
We are very saddened to share the news that His Eminence Choden Rinpoche passed away on September 11 at 1:30 a.m. India time at Sera Je Monastery in South India. Choden Rinpoche was a highly respected Buddhist master and a ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Offers Lama Chöpa Tsog
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered Lama Chöpa tsog early Friday morning in Mexico, where he is leading retreat, after hearing the news that His Eminence Choden Rinpoche showed the aspect of passing away. Lama Zopa Rinpoche mentioned that others could do ... Read more »
Harming Another Back Is the Wrong Solution
“[This year,] this life prepares for the happiness of our future lives, becoming useful rather than becoming a disturbance, harming our thousands and thousands of future lives,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche says in Creating the Causes of Happiness, the second volume ... Read more »
Celebrate Mindfulness Day on September 12
As a way to encourage and expand the practice of mindfulness, Wisdom Publications is promoting Mindfulness Day. Celebrated annually on September 12, Mindfulness Day “aims to raise awareness in the general population about the value and benefit mindfulness brings,” Wisdom ... Read more »
A Daily Meditation and Other Practices to Make Each Day Most Meaningful
December 2015: Please note that this practice has now been revised and renamed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche as The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment). September 2015 Update Now Available: In this essential practice, Daily Meditation, ... Read more »