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Lama Zopa Rinpoche Visits Lawudo
On April 4, Ven. Roger Kunsang shared via Twitter that FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche was boarding a helicopter bound for Lawudo Gompa and Retreat Centre, located in the mountainous Solu Khumbu region of Nepal. Lawudo is where Rinpoche’s ... Read more »
Update on Maitreya Buddha Kushinagar Project
The Maitreya Buddha Kushinagar Project, a project to build a very large statue of Maitreya Buddha in Kushinagar, India, continues to make steady progress. In December 2013, the State Government of Uttar Pradesh commemorated the project with a
New eBook Series of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Teachings from Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive (LYWA) is in the midst of publishing a four-volume set of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings at the 24th Kopan meditation course, 1991. LYWA editors Gordon McDougall and Sandra Smith have adeptly conveyed the feeling of receiving ... Read more »
The Base, the Label and the Mind
During the 25th Kopan course in 1992 Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave a concise explanation of dependent arising, the way in which things exist: Lama Tsongkhapa says, “By seeing the meaning of the dependent arising, emptiness, it stops the root of ... Read more »![Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Root Institute [Video]](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/07/lama-zopa-rinpoche-at-root-institute-video/IMG_5788-web-320x267.jpg)
Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Root Institute [Video]
While staying at Root Institute in Bodhgaya, India, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explained a verse from Lama Chöpa that he had written out to be put in front of the large Nagarjuna statue at the center. The verse Rinpoche wrote out ... Read more »
Robes Offered to Buddha Statue in Mahabodhi Temple Every Month
Every month the Puja Fund sponsors a new set of robes to be offered to the precious Buddha statue inside the Mahabodhi Stupa in Bodhgaya, India. In 2014 Lama Zopa Rinpoche visited the market in Bodhgaya and personally chose the ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Arrives at Kopan Monastery
After spending several months in India, FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche returned to Kopan Monastery in Nepal on April 1. A few days later, Rinpoche traveled to Lawudo Gompa and Retreat Centre in the mountainous Solu Khumbu region of ... Read more »
Kadampa Center Helps Build an Interfaith Home
Student Elise Strevel from Kadampa Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States recently sent Mandala news about the center’s interfaith work with the non-profit organization Habitat for Humanity: Geshe Gelek Choda and Geshe Palden Sangpo, resident teachers for ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Message to Maitreya School Students
In March 2015, Lama Zopa Rinpoche dictated this letter to the students of Maitreya School, Root Institute’s free school benefiting local impoverished children in Bodhgaya, India. Rinpoche wrote the letter after the school master explained that the main problem the ... Read more »
The Virtuous Friend as More Special than the Tathgatas
In early 2014, Lama Zopa Rinpoche translated this special quote from the Stainless Sky Sutra into English: “Ananda, the Tathagatas do not appear to the sentient beings, but the virtuous friend completely appears and reveals the Dharma and plants the ... Read more »
Moscow Prepares to Meet Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Maxim Severin from Ganden Tendar Ling in Moscow shares with Mandala how the center is preparing for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s July 2015 visit: We would like to share the greatest news: Lama Zopa Rinpoche agreed to come to Moscow during ... Read more »