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FPMT Inc. Board of Directors January 2025 Update
The FPMT Inc. Board of Directors would like to extend our very best wishes for you and yours in the new year! May 2025 bring you happiness, health, prosperity, inspiration and, perhaps most important of all, peace. We are just ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Creation of Holy Objects for All Beings: Grants Offered in 2024
Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche expressed in his Vast Visions his wish for the FPMT organization to build many holy objects everywhere, as many as possible. This makes it so easy for sentient beings to purify their heavy negative karma and ... Read more »
Lama’s Song: A New Song Written and Performed for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Swift Return
Nearly thirty years ago, Marcos Fermoselle, native to Spain, met Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery. Marcos was a mountain climber and traveled to the Himalayas every year. During these travels he connected with Lama Lhundrup, who he would visit ... Read more »
Disbursement Offered to Families Devastated by the Thame Flood
We are very happy to report that on January 3, 2025, at the Milanchok Thameychok Kidug Hall in Kathmandu, we disbursed US$37,127 to 55 families from Thame, who were profoundly affected by the catastrophic flood caused by the bursting of ... Read more »
2004 Mahamudra Retreat Teachings Available on the Full-Length Teachings Podcast
We are happy to announce a new addition to the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Full-Length Teachings Podcast featuring teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche given at the Mahamudra Retreat at Buddha House in Australia in 2004. From April 10 to May 10, ... Read more »
Update on the Merit Box Project & New FPMT Community Support Fund
The Merit Box Project closed for good at the end of 2024. We invite rejoicing in the many students and friends around the world who contributed to the project, helping bring hundreds of Dharma activities to fruition—including stupas, statues and ... Read more »
January 2025 e-News is Available!
Our January e-news is now available and brings you news, resources, and special announcements including:: Teachings and advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe, Practices to do for fires and earthquakes, An update on the Stupa of Complete Victory, ... Read more »
Placing the Treasure Vases in the Stupa of Complete Victory
The construction of the Stupa of Complete Victory being built for the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, is progressing beautifully. We are so happy to share this recent update and the significant milestone that has ... Read more »
Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Earthquakes
The FPMT organization is devastated to hear the news that a powerful 6.8 earthquake struck on January 7, 2025 in the Dingri region of Tibet, with tremors felt across the Himalayas in neighboring Nepal, Bhutan and parts of northern India. ... Read more »
Lama Yeshe’s Wisdom: Part 1 of Three Principal Aspects of the Path
The Essence of Tibetan Buddhism is a book from the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive consisting of two teachings from Lama Yeshe. The first, The Three Principal Aspects of the Path, was given in France in 1982. The second teaching, Introduction ... Read more »
50,000 Lights Offered at Rinchen Jangsem Ling for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Swift Return
The grounds of Rinchen Jangsem Ling retreat center (RJL) in Triang, Malaysia, were illuminated by fifty thousand candle lights during its recent light offering ceremony on the evening of December 8, 2024. From late afternoon until dusk, hundreds of visitors ... Read more »