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Giant 21 Taras Thangka by Peter Iseli Making Progress
The Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund sponsored the creation of a workshop where large thangkas can be created at Institut Vajra Yogini in France. One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for FPMT is to create many large thangkas around ... Read more »
Two FPMT Centers Participate in First Swiss Buddhist Fesitval
Francesca Paoletti from Longku Center in Switzerland sent Mandala news of the country’s first annual Swiss Buddhist Festival in early September 2014. The Swiss Buddhist Union, which encompasses most Buddhist groups in Switzerland, has launched its first Swiss Buddhist Festival ... Read more »
Rinpoche Begins Teaching at Choe Khor Sum Ling Centre
After spending part of December at Gaden Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, in South India to attend the Jangchup Lamrim teachings with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lama Zopa Rinpoche traveled to Sera Je Monastery, where he stayed at Osel Labrang. ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Amitabha Buddhist Centre
Amitabha Buddhist Centre (ABC) in Singapore spent the last year celebrating its 25th anniversary. At the end of November 2014, Lama Zopa Rinpoche visited ABC and attended a special anniversary dinner attended by more than 600 people. The dinner included ... Read more »
The Benefits of Reciting Mani Mantra
Lama Zopa Rinpoche wrote a letter to a student’s mother in September 2013, describing the benefits of reciting OM MANI PADME HUM: “I just arrived from Mongolia [in September 2013], where they did a 108 million mani retreat. There were ... Read more »
Please Rejoice in Daily Offering of Three Meals to Monks of Sera Je Monastery
The Sera Je Food Fund offers 8,300 meals every single day to the monks studying at Sera Je Monastery. 3,300 monks are offered breakfast and 2,500 monks are offered lunch and dinner. Amazingly, approximately 65,900 pounds of rice are needed ... Read more »
Video Inspiration for the New Year!
FPMT.org now makes dozens of videos of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and other Buddhist teachers available for free to students anywhere in the world as part of its recently redesigned FPMT Video Resources page. Students of Lama Zopa Rinpoche can access ... Read more »
Maitreya Project Blanket Distribution Project
On January 5, 2015, Maitreya Project Kushinagar published an update on the blanket distribution initiative taking place in Kushinagar which was made possible by an appeal to donors the month prior. You can read this update which includes information about ... Read more »
Long Life Puja Offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the Conclusion of the 47th Kopan Course
From November 29 – December 7, 2014, Lama Zopa Rinpoche taught at the lam-rim retreat at Kopan Monastery, known as the November Course. The November Courses have been taking place at Kopan for more than 40 years. Many of FPMT’s ... Read more »
Panchen Losang Chogyen Puts Animal Liberation on TV
“A small action can often reach an unexpected number of people and beings, like as happened in Panchen Losang Chogyen Gelug-Zentrum in Vienna recently,” said director Stefan Seidler in late October. “For some years now, most Buddhist temples in Austria ... Read more »
The Correct Path to Achieve Happiness
“Buddhism reveals the correct path to achieve happiness – all the happiness of future lives, especially ultimate happiness, liberation from samsara, and enlightenment – and all the realizations, and perfect cessation of all the mistakes and defilements of the mind,” ... Read more »