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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 »
New Basic Program Online Course: Engaging in the Bodhisattva Deeds Part 1
FPMT Education Services is pleased to announce a new course available through Basic Program Online. Engaging in the Bodhisattva Deeds, Part 1 comprises the first of a two-part series of teachings based on the Bodhicharyavatara. Shantideva’s inspirational verses on Mahayana ... Read more »
The Inside Story: Microfilm, Holy Objects, and the Passion of Tai Vautier
By Donna Lynn Brown Who hasn’t spun a prayer wheel? Whether a massive work of art that we propel with our whole bodies, a desktop ornament we twist with our fingertips, a decorated paint can on a spoke or a ... Read more »
Auspicious Nectar Rain
“March 27 was Rinpoche’s final night in Bodhgaya and so we went to the stupa to offer robes to the Buddha at the Mahabodhi Stupa,” said Ven. Sarah Thresher, who has been sharing news about Lama Zopa Rinpoche beneficial activities ... Read more »
What Is Samsara?
“Many former pandits and yogis from India, Nepal and Tibet, so many, achieved full enlightenment within some years by practicing and integrating their life with this practice, the Guru Puja (Lama Chöpa),” Lama Zopa Rinpoche said during the 25th Kopan ... Read more »
Tenzin Ösel Hita Visits Losang Dragpa Centre in Malaysia During Losar
In February 2015, Losang Dragpa Centre, Malaysia, was pleased to welcome Tenzin Ösel Hita for Guru Puja on Losar, Tibetan New Year. Following the puja, Ösel gave an inspiring talk to the group. You can see a snippet of this ... Read more »
Let Go of the Fire
During March 2015, Lama Zopa Rinpoche taught at Sujata, India, the site where Buddha practiced austerities for six years before later attaining enlightenment at the site of the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya. Ven. Roger Kunsang shared some brief quotes from the teaching: “First, you don’t harm others, that’s the basis. Then as much as you can, benefit others. ... Read more »