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New Update on the Stupa to Minimize Harm from the Elements
Recently, Lama Zopa Rinpoche met with Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme (Khadro-la) in India. As a result, a number of details regarding the Stupa to Minimize Harm from the Elements have changed. According to what is most beneficial now, the ... Read more »
Shedrup Zungdel Study Group Welcomes Ven. Rita Riniker
Student Marguy Krier from Shedrup Zungdel Study Group in Beligum sent Mandala a short news update: On a rather cool December 2014 weekend, Ven. Rita Riniker worked with more than 22 students from Shedrup Zungdel Study Group in Burg-Reuland, Belgium ... Read more »
Dakini Dances for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Long Life
Khadro-la (Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme) advised that FPMT centers include the dakinis’ request to the lama in the long life pujas arranged for Rinpoche In the January-March 2015 print edition, Mandala magazine published a piece about the two long ... Read more »
Making Parties Meaningful
“When we give a party, we usually do it with attachment clinging to this life, to our own happiness and good reputation. That attitude is one of worldly concern, or worldly desire. When we give a party with that attitude, ... Read more »
Australian Monks Use Rinpoche’s Advice to Help Alleviate Severe Drought
In early January, Thubten Gyatso (Adrian Feldmann), a monk and the director of Thubten Shedrup Ling Monastery (TSL) near Bendigo, Australia, wrote Lama Zopa Rinpoche a brief note explaining the success the monastery had with reciting the Sutra of Golden ... Read more »
Romania Celebrates Lama Tsongkhapa Day
Thubten Saldron, study group coordinator of Grupul de Studiu Buddhist White Tara in south central Romania sent news about the group’s activities and how it spent Lama Tsongkhapa Day in 2014: In September, we started to study Discovering Buddhism online, ... Read more »
Rinpoche’s Art, part 2
While Lama Zopa Rinpoche was in the Bendigo-area for the CPMT 2014 meeting and the retreat that followed, he added mantras to statues of an elephant and a
Prostrations to the 35 Confession Buddhas Now Available
FPMT Education Services is pleased to release Prostrations to the Thirty-Five Confession Buddhas as a standalone practice. This practice was previously only available as part of the Preliminary Practice of Prostrations booklet and in other practice compilations. Prostrations to the ... Read more »
Rinpoche’s Art
After Lama Zopa Rinpoche manifested a stroke in 2011, he stayed in a hospital in Bendigo, Australia. While there Rinpoche bought a painting that was part of a fundraiser for the hospital. Rinpoche returned to Bendigo in September 2014 for the CPMT 2014 meeting and the retreat ... Read more »
Ambulance, Mosquito Nets and Blankets Offered to Villagers in Kushinagar
In early 2014 Lama Zopa Rinpoche, via the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund, offered a donation to Maitreya Project Kushinagar to be used toward the incredible humanitarian work they are now undertaking. Some of the money was used for a ... Read more »
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Beginning today, all posts to the many news blogs on FPMT.org are now being distributed together in one email! If you have signed up in the past to receive one of our blogs like “Lama Zopa Rinpoche News,” “FPMT News ... Read more »