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Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 9: Look at Your Problems as Hallucinations

Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 9: Look at Your Problems as Hallucinations

Any action stained by the eight worldly dharmas becomes nonvirtue, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains in his teaching given on December 16 at Kopan Monastery during the fifty-third lamrim meditation course. Even spending one’s whole life in retreat in a cave ... Read more »
Refuge is a State of Mind

Refuge is a State of Mind

The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive has released a new free book by Lama Yeshe, Knowledge-Wisdom: The Peaceful Path the Liberation. This collection is drawn from teachings given by Lama Yeshe in the 1970s and 1980s, when he and Lama Zopa ... Read more »
Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 8: Experiencing Others’ Suffering Comes from Understanding Their Kindness

Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 8: Experiencing Others’ Suffering Comes from Understanding Their Kindness

Harming those who harm us is very ignorant, Rinpoche warns us in his December 15 teaching from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery, Nepal. Fighting back when someone harms us is the behavior of an animal. We create ... Read more »
Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 7: Relate Your Own Experiences to How Everything Comes from Your Mind

Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 7: Relate Your Own Experiences to How Everything Comes from Your Mind

Responding to a student’s question on December 14 at the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery, Rinpoche explains the difference between anger and wrath—as seen with the wrathful deities—in great detail. As one example, Rinpoche explains that anger is ... Read more »
Happy New Year and Welcome to our January 2023 e-News

Happy New Year and Welcome to our January 2023 e-News

FPMT International Office offers our most sincere wishes for a healthy and happy New Year to all of our friends and supporters around the world. We are very pleased to share with you our January 2023 e-News which is packed ... Read more »
The Lawudo Chronicles: Judy Weitzner’s Account of the 1969 Trek to Lawudo

The Lawudo Chronicles: Judy Weitzner’s Account of the 1969 Trek to Lawudo

Below is Judy Weitzner’s extraordinary and historic account of a very early visit to Solu Khumbu, Nepal with Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche in 1969. This was the first time that Rinpoche had returned to Lawudo since he left ... Read more »
Introducing The Dalai Lama Centre for Tibetan & Indian Ancient Wisdom: A Monumental Achievement Toward Peace

Introducing The Dalai Lama Centre for Tibetan & Indian Ancient Wisdom: A Monumental Achievement Toward Peace

On a wintry morning of January 3, 2023, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, despite suffering from a bad cold, presided over the foundation stone laying ceremony for his new center in Bodhgaya, India, The Dalai Lama Centre for Tibetan and ... Read more »
New Podcast Episode: #20 Every Moment Is an Opportunity to Practice Dharma

New Podcast Episode: #20 Every Moment Is an Opportunity to Practice Dharma

There is a new episode of the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast. You can listen to the new episode on our website or find it in your favorite podcast app by searching for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts.” New ... Read more »
Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 6: Giving Rise to Virtuous Thoughts Is the Best Preparation for Death

Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 6: Giving Rise to Virtuous Thoughts Is the Best Preparation for Death

We should have bodhicitta motivation in our daily life, our work, and in everything we do, Lama Zopa Rinpoche reminds us in this teaching given on December 13, 2022 from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery. This is ... Read more »
Bodhgaya Teachings with His Holiness the Dalai Lama—a Feeling of ‘Home’ for Many

Bodhgaya Teachings with His Holiness the Dalai Lama—a Feeling of ‘Home’ for Many

By Frances Howland-Moscatt More than 65,000 devotees attended the winter teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Bodhgaya, Bihar, India, December 29 – January 1. It was his first visit to Bodhgaya in three years, the last time being ... Read more »
Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 5:  The Purpose of Being Born a Human Being Is to Practice the Good Heart

Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 5: The Purpose of Being Born a Human Being Is to Practice the Good Heart

Things can suddenly change in life with no warning, Rinpoche explains in a teaching given at the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery on December 12, 2022. We never expect that someone close to our heart could die without ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Advice for Severe Weather Conditions

Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Advice for Severe Weather Conditions

Lama Zopa Rinpoche recommends the following for mitigating severe weather conditions, which is something many of us around the world will face at one time or another: 1. Protector prayers, especially “Tea Offering to the Eight Classes” (Degye Serkyem) (page ... Read more »