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Grant from Education and Preservation Fund Offered to Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom
FPMT’s founder, Lama Yeshe, established what he called “Universal Education” which was an education of human hearts focusing on the universal language of compassion and wisdom, rather than emphasizing a strictly Buddhist approach. Lama Yeshe’s view was that the aims ... Read more »
How to Think During Relationship Problems
A student was going through relationship problems and Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered some advice on how to think while experiencing them: All the problems are very good because they purify negative karma accumulated in the past. All those difficulties and ... Read more »
Choe Khor Sum Ling Consecrates Statues
On April 25-27 FPMT center Choe Khor Sum Ling (CKSL) in Bangalore, India carried out the wishes of Lama Zopa Rinpoche by organizing the consecration of its gompa statues. Student Danyèle Grignon shared the news with Mandala: The auspicious set ... Read more »
Grant Offered to Assist Rolwaling Sangag Choling Monastery School, Nepal
After receiving an appeal (below) from the Rolwaling Sangag Choling Monastery School, the Social Services Fund raised $US39,200 to assist with a desperately needed hostel for young Nepali school children. After raising this money to help, Nepal suffered the 7.9 ... Read more »
You Have So Much to Rejoice About in This Life
A student completed Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s advice of accumulating 200,000 Vajrasattva mantras and wrote Rinpoche to let him know. Rinpoche responded with thanks and teachings on the power of bodhichitta: My very dear, most precious, most kind, wish-fullfilling one, Thank ... Read more »
Helping Rebuild Lawudo Retreat Centre After the Earthquake
For students of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lawudo, which is situated high in the Himalayan mountains of eastern Nepal, holds particular significance. Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the reincarnation of the Lawudo Lama, Lama Kunzang Yeshe, who lived and practiced in Lawudo ... Read more »
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 »