receive our newsletters
join Friends of FPMT
FPMT News
Our main aggregated news feed contains articles from all of our news categories.
Narrow your results
Remembering Death
During a teaching at the recent November Course at Kopan Monastery, Lama Zopa Rinpoche said, “This life is so, so, so precious. Your death is definite; it can come at any moment.” Rinpoche has taught many times on the importance of remembering death. Here’s an excerpt from a teaching given at Nalanda Monastery in France in 1995 and published ... Read more »
2014 Inspiring Year for Maitreya Loving Kindness Tour
“2014 has been an inspiring year for Maitreya Loving Kindness Tour,” said staff member Michael Fouts. “In Russia, the relics visited Gunzechoinei Datzan which is the oldest temple in St. Petersburg and has hosted teachings from both Lama Zopa Rinpoche ... Read more »
Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche Offered in Singapore
Amitabha Buddhist Centre’s 25th anniversary celebrations culminated with a very extensive long life puja with the five dakini dance offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche on November 23, 2014. Follwing the puja, Rinpoche commented that he felt the students were sincerely ... Read more »
ABC Radio National Features Chenrezig Institute in Broadcast on the History of Buddhism in Australia
“An ABC National presenter visited us for the 40th anniversary of Chenrezig Institute [celebrated in September 2014] to include us in her show about the history of Buddhism in Australia. It has just been played [on Saturday, December 13] and ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche and the Kopan November Course
In late November 2014, Lama Zopa Rinpoche arrived at Kopan Monastery in Nepal and like most other years, he gave teachings to students attending the month-long lam-rim course, known as the November Course. [Kopan offers several different course and retreats ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Karma
Lama Zopa Rinpoche made the point while teaching a the Kopan Monastery November course, “We can spend hours in meditation, but we don’t take care of karma! That is not correct meditation.” Rinpoche offered these observations on karma in 2000, which you can find on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive: “In some ways, you can say even just looking ... Read more »
New Issue of Mandala Published!
The new issue of Mandala is on its way to mailboxes around the world! And we’ve also published several new exclusive stories online that you can read now, including: The “Monk with a Camera”: An Interview with Khen Rinpoche Nicholas ... Read more »
Pujas Offered to Prevent the Spread of and Eliminate Ebola
Recently, Lama Zopa Rinpoche checked what pujas could be done to help control and prevent this serious outbreak of Ebola, and requested Kopan Monastery and Khachoe Ghakyil Nunnery to offer three recitations of the Prajñaparamita; three extensive Medicine Buddha pujas; ... Read more »Technology and Mindfulness
By Ven. Chönyi Taylor There was a time when I nearly killed myself, but for the attentiveness of the driver of the car coming towards me. I was so absorbed in a problem I was trying to solve that I ... Read more »
Rinpoche at Boudhanath, Part 2
“After 8 p.m., most people have finished circumambulating the stupa at Boudha,” Ven. Roger Kunsang shared. ”This is when Rinpoche often starts.” After circumambulating the Boudha Stupa seven times earlier this week, Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered three Dharmachakras to the stupa in three different directions late at night, with many prayers to benefit sentient beings. In 2013, Rinpoche wrote a letter to a student who had done 1,000 circumambulations of ... Read more »
Rinpoche at Boudhanath, Part 1
Lama Zopa Rinpoche regularly circumambulates Boudha Stupa while he is in residence at Kopan Monastery. Rinpoche arrived at Kopan in late November to participate in the annual November course. Ven. Roger Kunsang shared about this photo, “Rinpoche did seven korwa into the evening and then offered three Dharmachakras to the stupa in three different directions.” Ven. Sarah Thresher told a story ... Read more »