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Rejoicing in the Life of Lise Lotte Brooks: An Excellent Center Director with a Kind and Tender Mind

Rejoicing in the Life of Lise Lotte Brooks: An Excellent Center Director with a Kind and Tender Mind

Lise Lotte Brooks passed away of ALS on May 29, 2024 at age 77 in Denmark. Lise Lotte founded Center for Wisdom and Compassion (CVM) in 1996 with Maria Damsholt. Here we share her obituary, which is also the story ... Read more »
Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program Students Complete Their First Year

Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program Students Complete Their First Year

Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program (LRZTP) is an FPMT project in Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India. LRZTP has produced many gifted Dharma interpreters-translators for FPMT Dharma centers since its conception over twenty-three years ago. In addition to the two-year intensive training ... Read more »
Moving Video of Venerable Roger Kunsang Visiting Jampaling Elders Home, Dharamsala, India

Moving Video of Venerable Roger Kunsang Visiting Jampaling Elders Home, Dharamsala, India

Recently, when Venerable Roger Kunsang was in Dharamsala meeting His Holiness the Dalai Lama, he also took the opportunity to visit Jampaling Elders Home. This home is located on the circumambulation path that surrounds the residence of His Holiness the ... Read more »
Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: How to Think When Death Comes

Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: How to Think When Death Comes

Lama Zopa Rinpoche received thousands of requests every year from people seeking guidance on a variety of issues familiar to us all. The below is advice Rinpoche offered to a student requesting pujas in support of taking treatment for fourth ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Emptiness Teachings Shared during the 2024 Heart Sutra Retreat

Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Emptiness Teachings Shared during the 2024 Heart Sutra Retreat

Following the commemoration activities at Kopan Monastery honoring the one-year anniversary of Lama Zopa Rinpoche showing the aspect of passing away, a Heart Sutra Retreat was held from April 15-20, 2024 with commentary by His Eminence the 104th Ganden Tripa, ... Read more »
Saka Dawa: The Possiblity to Create Merit is Unbelievable!

Saka Dawa: The Possiblity to Create Merit is Unbelievable!

Today, May 23, 2024, is the day we observe the merit-making day of Saka Dawa which commemorates Shakyamuni Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana when karmic results are multiplied by 300 million times as it commemorates Shakyamuni Buddha’s three major life ... Read more »
New Advice from His Holiness the Dalai Lama Concerning Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Swift Return

New Advice from His Holiness the Dalai Lama Concerning Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Swift Return

We are happy to announce that we have received new precious advice from His Holiness the Dalai Lama regarding practices for creating the causes for the Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s swift return. Venerable Roger Kunsang met with His Holiness during his ... Read more »
Join Our Saka Dawa Day of Merit: 10,000 Sangha Praying for All Beings

Join Our Saka Dawa Day of Merit: 10,000 Sangha Praying for All Beings

Saka Dawa falls on May 23, 2024, and is a very special day to create merit and offer prayers and practices*. On behalf of the entire FPMT organization we have arranged a full day of merit making practices undertaken by ... Read more »
May 2024 E-News is Available Now!

May 2024 E-News is Available Now!

This month’s e-news brings you important news, updates, and causes for rejoicing regarding: An update on the Stupa of Complete Victory at Kopan Monastery, Teachings from Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Meritorious activities on Saka Dawa for the entire ... Read more »
Paving the Way for CPMT 2025 Meeting: First Regional Consultation at Kopan Monastery

Paving the Way for CPMT 2025 Meeting: First Regional Consultation at Kopan Monastery

The first of the four regional consultations planned in 2024 to pave the way for the CPMT 2025 meeting took place at Kopan Monastery on April 14-15. Thirty onsite and a dozen online participants joined, representing almost all the centers, ... Read more »
2024 Heart Sutra Retreat at Kopan Monastery

2024 Heart Sutra Retreat at Kopan Monastery

Following the commemoration activities at Kopan Monastery honoring the one-year anniversary of Lama Zopa Rinpoche showing the aspect of passing away, a Heart Sutra Retreat was held from April 15-20, 2024 with commentary by His Eminence the 104th Ganden Tripa, ... Read more »
Recommended Practices for Saka Dawa, May 23, 2024

Recommended Practices for Saka Dawa, May 23, 2024

We are fast approaching the auspicious merit-multiplying day of Saka Dawa—the fifteenth day of the fourth month in the Tibetan lunar calendar (falling on May 23, 2024 )—which commemorates Shakyamuni Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana. Saka Dawa is one of the four great ... Read more »