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Blessing Medicine Practice Now Available from FPMT Education Services
Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that every activity can be transformed into an opportunity to benefit ourselves and others. FPMT Education Services is pleased to release, as a free PDF, Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s translation of Pänchen Losang Chögyen’s Blessing Medicine practice. ... Read more »
“You Know So Much, But You Make One Mistake”
On July 25, Ven. Roger Kunsang shared on his Twitter page this from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, who was teaching in Copenhagen, Denmark, at an event organized by Tong-nyi Nying-je Ling: Lama Zopa; you know so much but you make one ... Read more »
LRZTP7 Introduces Tibetan Langauge Teacher Franziska Oertle
In October 2015 the seventh Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Programme (LRZTP7) will begin. LRZTP is FPMT’s only Tibetan-language interpretation program, located in Dharamsala, India. Students spend two years in Dharamsala acquiring the language skills necessary for interpretation and can spend ... Read more »
Experiencing Disease as a Meaningful Retreat
“Without the self-cherishing thought, if we experience AIDS, cancer or any heavy disease, we can use this disease to become a great, quick, very powerful purification,” encourages Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Cutting the Root of Samsara, the third volume in ... Read more »
‘The Remedy Is to Think of Reincarnation’
A student asked Lama Zopa Rinpoche a question: I’m doing my best for my parents and family at this juncture, but we’re going through a very difficult time now. My dad’s business failed and has since chalked up a huge ... Read more »
Twelve Months of Extensive Most Secret Hayagriva Pujas Sponsored
Twenty years ago, Lama Zopa Rinpoche established the Puja Fund as a way to sponsor ongoing prayers and practices dedicated to the success and longevity of the entire FPMT organization. One puja that Rinpoche advised was particularly important for FPMT ... Read more »
The Nature of the Mind Is Pure
“… [T]he obscurations are temporary. No matter how much heavy negative karma we have created, it’s temporary. No matter how much we have live an evil life, that is also temporary. No matter how much depression we are experiencing, how ... Read more »
Kopan Nun Earns First Position in Third Round of Geshe-ma Exams
Tibetan Nuns Project recently announced on its website the results of the third round of geshe exams for women (sometimes referred to as “geshe-ma exams”) that took place May 1-12, 2015 at Jangchub Choeling Nunnery in southern India. Two of ... Read more »
Grant Offered to Build New Community Hall in Tibetan Settlement
A grant for a new community hall in south India was offered to Rabagayling Tibetan Settlement at Garupuru. Lama Zopa Rinpoche, through the Social Services Fund, raised and was able to offer US$116,848 for this important new building due to ... Read more »
‘We Don’t Know Anything About This “I”‘
On July 24, Ven. Roger Kunsang shared on his Twitter page this from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, who was teaching in Copenhagen, Denmark, at an event organized by Tong-nyi Nying-je Ling: Lama Zopa, Copenhagen; we go to school, we work, we ... Read more »
Watch Lama Zopa Rinpoche Live in Denmark
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has arrived in Copenhagen, Denmark, to give teachings and a Great Medicine Buddha initiation July 24-25, organized by Tong-nyi Nying-je Ling. Motivational talks and teachings before the initiation will be webcast live beginning at 7 p.m. local ... Read more »