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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 »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche ‘Keeps Us On Our Toes’
Friday, October 3, was a tsog day and at the Australia retreat, Lama Zopa Rinpoche attended the 9 a.m. session and offered tsog with all the retreat participants in the gompa of the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion. Three senior ... Read more »
Choe Khor Sum Ling Enjoys Discovering Buddhism
“As part of the ongoing Discovering Buddhism course at Choe Khor Sum Ling, we recently organized a four-day non-residential retreat,” said center member Shanti Gopinath in an email to Mandala in July. “Under the adept guidance of Ven. Tenzin Legtsok ... Read more »![Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion [Video]](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/05/lama-zopa-rinpoche-at-the-great-stupa-of-universal-compassion-video/IMG_1577-web-320x320.jpg)
Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion [Video]
During the ongoing retreat in Australia, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has been teaching in the unfinished gompa at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion. The Great Stupa, modeled on the stupa at Gyantse, Tibet, is one of three FPMT centers in ... Read more »
Three Months of Food Offerings to 2500 Monks
Every day, 8,300 meals are offered to all the monks studying at Sera Je Monastery. 3,300 monks join for breakfast and 2,500 monks are offered lunch and dinner. Every three months, approximately 750,000 meals are offered through the Sera Je ... Read more »
A Long, Slow Procession Leads Lama Zopa Rinpoche to the Gompa
On Wednesday, October 1, about 40 center directors and spiritual program coordinators (SPCs) from FPMT centers, projects and services around the world led FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche from Thubten Shedrup Ling Monastery to the gompa in the Great ... Read more »
What Is Inside
“Lama Zopa: The great peace and happiness comes from inside. The real enemy is inside … Attachment to worldly pleasures of this life.” – From Ven. Roger Kunsang’s Twitter page, posted on October 1, 2014, during Bodhicaryavatara and Rinjung Gyatsa ... Read more »