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The Most Powerful Practice for Patience Is Emptiness
While Lama Zopa Rinpoche was staying at Root Institute in Bodhgaya, India, he offered blessings to many people and animals during the first 15 days of Tibetan New Year. Ven. Sarah Thresher recently shared news of some of Rinpoche’s beneficial ... Read more »
Beautiful Extensive Offerings at Kachoe Dechen Ling in California USA
Every day at Kachoe Dechen Ling in California, USA, four ordained Sangha members currently dedicate their time to making extensive offerings and doing practices requested by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to benefit the entire FPMT organization, benefactors, students, and all beings. ... Read more »
The Deceiving Mind
Lama Zopa Rinpoche arrived at Root Institute in Bodhgaya, India, on February 2, where he offered blessings to many people and animals. On March 2, Ven. Roger Kunsang shared this on his Twitter page: Lama Zopa Rinpoche, teaching very energetically: ... Read more »
Insight Meditation Home Practice with Ven. Antonio Satta
Director François Lecointre shares news of an exciting new development in Institut Vajra Yogini’s programming – insight meditation retreat from the comfort of your home: One hundred people from around the world took part in the first Insight Meditation Home ... Read more »
Remembering Impermanence and Death for Harmonious Relationships
“Even concerning having harmonious relationships, it’s also beneficial to remember impermanence and death,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche said in Creating the Causes of Happiness, the second volume in Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive’s four-part ebook series taken from the lightly edited transcripts ... Read more »
Investing in the Future and Preservation of the Gelug Tradition
At a meeting held in South India in December 2014, His Holiness the Dalai Lama stressed the extreme importance of establishing the Geluk International Foundation and offices for the long term preservation of the Gelug tradition. Lama Zopa Rinpoche immediately ... Read more »
What a Bodhisattva Is
“Just because a person recites the Mahayana prayers, just because he recites mantras or does a sadhana, visualizing deities, enlightened beings, those secret aspect buddhas, just because he does sadhanas that contain the tantric path, that alone doesn’t mean the ... Read more »
New York City Center Rejoicing in Animal Liberation
“On January 23, Shantideva Meditation Center celebrated the first event in our new animal liberation program,” reported director Jennifer Kim from New York City. “We rescued approximately 2,000 red worms from the danger of terrible suffering and death as fishing ... Read more »
Tips for Memorization
Memorization becomes increasingly important to Buddhist practice and study as one learns, and commits to memory, many prayers, practices, mantras, sutras, lineage details and much more. Recently, Mandala magazine published an online article about memorization by Ven. Tenzin Gache (Brian ... Read more »
Others Are Only Objects of Compassion
In late November and early December 2014, Lama Zopa Rinpoche taught as part of the annual month-long Kopan course at Kopan Monastery in Nepal. Rinpoche’s teachings covered a variety of subjects. What follows is an excerpt from a lightly edited ... Read more »
Rinpoche’s Heartfelt Wish to Help Others
Lama Zopa Rinpoche arrived at Root Institute in Bodhgaya, India, on February 2. Ven. Sarah Thresher recently shared news of some of Rinpoche’s beneficial activities during the first 15 days of Tibetan New Year : Following another all-night prayer session, ... Read more »