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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 »
A Lam-rim Prayer Every Day
“… Do at least one lam-rim prayer every day, such as the ‘Foundation of All Good Qualities,’ ‘Calling the Guru from Afar’ (long version), the ‘Three Principles of the Path,’ etc.,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche advised an ex-monk who had stopped ... Read more »
The Power of the Names of the Thirty-five Confession Buddhas
“Lama Atisha explained why reciting the names of the Thirty-five Buddhas has so much power,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche said, speaking on purification practices during the Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga retreat at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa in 2003. “In the past, ... Read more »
Purification for the New Year
As Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises, “If you want others to love you, you must first love others. If you benefit others, naturally they will benefit you. The cause and effect of karma is as simple as this. The Vajrasattva purification ... Read more »
Jangchup Lamrim Teachings Conclude
The Jangchup Lamrim teachings with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Gaden Monastery have concluded. More than 25,000 people, including 2000 foreigners from 43 countries, attended the week-long teaching event in South India. Lama Zopa Rinpoche was among the many ... Read more »