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‘The Best Present You Can Bring Is a Peaceful Mind’
Many of the Western students who came to Kopan Monastery to hear FPMT founders Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche teach in the 1970s came from Christian backgrounds. Recognizing this, each year Lama Yeshe gave teachings that touched on these ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Jangchup Lamrim
After the first day of the Jangchup Lamrim teachings on December 23 at Gaden Monastery in South India, Ven. Roger Kunsang, assistant to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, tweeted the photo above and an explanation: Straight after the teachings of His Holiness, ... Read more »
Weekly Namgyalma Mantra Blessings for All Beings in the Ocean
Sangha at Kachoe Dechen Ling offer a weekly blessing of all sentient beings in the ocean by submerging large Namgyälma mantra boards into the water. The Namgyälma mantra is embossed and by entering the ocean, it blesses all beings who ... Read more »
Jangchub Lamrim Teachings Begin
His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived at Ganden Jangtse Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India, on December 22 for the Jangchup Lamrim. FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche is also in Mundgod and attending the teachings with His Holiness, which begin ... Read more »
15 Years of Success – Losang Dragpa Centre’s Annual One Thousand Offerings Event
Candy Tan, spiritual program coordinator at Losang Dragpa Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, recently told Mandala about the center’s 15th annual 1K Event, a two-day prayer festival for the public. Located just 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) from the heart of ... Read more »
‘It Will Make You Laugh’
If someone’s giving you a hard time and your ego starts to hurt, instead of reacting, just take a look at what’s going on. Think of how sound is simply coming out of the other person’s mouth, entering your ear, ... Read more »
No One Can Cheat You
Lama Zopa Rinpoche taught in December as part of the Kopan Monastery November course. On December 7, Ven. Roger Kunsang shared on his Twitter page: Lama Zopa: When you experience the real I that ignorance has been focusing on, disappears, ... Read more »
Robes Offered to 75 Nuns of Tashi Chime Gatsal Nunnery
Due to the kindness of a very generous benefactor, a full set of robes are being made by tailors in Kathmandu and then will be offered to the 75 nuns of Tashi Chime Gatsal Nunnery and three monks (the abbot, ... Read more »Help at the Time of Death
“I tell people that the FPMT organization is here to help. I think it is so fortunate that we, the FPMT, are able to provide help at the time of death, because death is really a most difficult, most hard ... Read more »
Taiwan Organizes First Lam-rim Retreat with Geshe Tsethar
Ven. Thubten Dechen, who interpreted for Geshe Tsethar during FPMT Taiwan’s and Heruka Center’s first jointly organize lam-rim retreat, reports on the special event: FPMT Taiwan and Heruka Center in Kaohsiung jointly organized its first guided meditation lam-rim retreat during ... Read more »
‘This Is Buddha Nature’
Lama Zopa Rinpoche taught in December as part of the Kopan Monastery November course. On December 7, Ven. Roger Kunsang shared on his Twitter page: Lama Zopa: The mind is empty of a real mind. This is because the mind ... Read more »