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Annual Long Life Puja Offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Each year, a long life puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche is offered on behalf of the entire FPMT organization. This puja takes place at the close of the yearly Kopan lam-rim course, or at the end of a CPMT meeting. ... Read more »
‘I Blessed All the Light Offerings’
“On the way to Mongolia in August 2014, Rinpoche stayed in a Seattle Washington hotel overnight in the United States,” said Ven. Holly Ansett, executive assistant to FPMT International Office’s CEO and FPMT Charitable Projects coordinator. “The first thing Rinpoche ... Read more »
Mongolian Sutra Reading Picnic for His Holiness’ Birthday
Ven. Tenzin Tsapel, director of Golden Light Sutra Center in Darkhan, Mongolia, reports on the group’s celebration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s July 6, 2014 birthday: A group Golden Light Sutra Center students went on a sutra reading picnic ... Read more »
Can Negative Actions Have Positive Results?
Lama Zopa Rinpoche came to the 4 p.m. session of the Australia retreat on Thursday, October 9, for a question and answer session led by Ven. Sarah Thresher. She asked Rinpoche about the karma of the bodhisattva captain who killed ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Advises Israeli FPMT Study Group on Practices to Bring Peace to Area
Israel’s Shantideva Study Group was recently advised by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on pujas, practices and offerings to complete in order to help bring peace to the Palestine and Israel conflict and the whole world. Rinpoche advised the study group to ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Bringing Up Children and Practice on the Lunar Eclipse
Lama Zopa Rinpoche taught on bring up children during the October 8 teaching session of the ongoing retreat in Australia. You can watch the video of the teaching on FPMT’s Livestream page. https://new.livestream.com/accounts/2729219/events/3329712/videos/64296600/player?width=560&height=315&autoPlay=false&mute=false That evening in Australia was a lunar ... Read more »
Mandala Remembers Jim Blumenthal
Mandala is mourning the loss of our dear friend Dr. James Blumenthal, who passed away very early in the morning of October 8, 2014, at age 47, due to complications from cancer. Jim was a regular contributor to Mandala for ... Read more »
Maitreya Project Trust Provides Medical Services in Kushinagar, India
In March 2014, Maitreya Project Trust (MPT), the organization responsible for constructing a very large Maitreya statue in Kushinagar, India, began offering basic medical services to villagers affected by the project. The MPT Healthcare Project, one of MPT’s social programs, ... Read more »
New Garsha Drink Offering Practice Available
FPMT Education Services is happy to announce the release of a newly available drink offering practice, The Words of Requesting and Offering to One’s Own Kind Root Guru (Garsha Drink Offering) available as a free PDF download from the FPMT ... Read more »
Lama Atisha and the Lam-rim
When Lama Atisha went to Tibet, he was told about all the problems there, Lama Zopa Rinpoche recounted during the public teaching at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion on September 20, 2014. “Then Lama Atisha wrote a text integrating ... Read more »
Offering Made to Bylakuppe Accommodation for His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Lama Zopa Rinpoche, through the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund, recently offered US$50,000 toward a new place for His Holiness the Dalai Lama to stay when in Bylakuppe, India. This new accommodation is being built by the Tibetan Settlement Office ... Read more »