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Confessions of a Mahamudra Junkie
“Buddhist in the Trenches” columnist Sarah Shifferd offers insight into her personal experience with Mahamudra, a practice of the “mind focused on mind” in the July-September 2014 issue of Mandala. Mahamudra is like standing in front of an aquarium. Normally, ... Read more »![Blessing All the Sentient Beings in the Ocean, Part 2 [Video]](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/IMG_8834-001-320x228.jpg)
Blessing All the Sentient Beings in the Ocean, Part 2 [Video]
In May 2014, Lama Zopa Rinpoche went to the beach in California to bless all the sentient beings in the ocean. Ven. Thubten Kunsang recorded a video of the beach visit. Last year, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Dagri Rinpoche and about ... Read more »
8300 Meals Offered Every Single Day
Since 1991, the Sera Je Food Fund has offered meals to the monks studying at Sera Je Monastery in southern India. Today, the fund sponsors 8,300 meals every single day for all 2,500 Sera Je Monastery monks (3,300 monks are ... Read more »
WEBCAST UPDATE: Lama Zopa Rinpoche Arrives in London
UPDATE: Webcast will happen for July 10 teaching! Lama Zopa Rinpoche arrived in London to teach this week. Jamyang Buddhist Centre organized the teachings with Rinpoche, which begin on July 10 at 7:30 p.m. BST (UTC+1) when Rinpoche teaches on ... Read more »
FPMT Education Services Updates Webpages
To help FPMT students around the world access the resources they need, FPMT Education Services have been working to restructure the pages, links and downloads on the FPMT Education Services sections of fpmt.org. You can find links to prayers and ... Read more »
Newly Organized Webpages for FPMT Education Services
In accordance with the wishes, guidance, and advice of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, FPMT Education Services creates high quality study programs suitable for all levels which are available in FPMT centers, as homestudy materials, or via our Online Learning Center; publishes ... Read more »
Making Offerings to the Pretas
“How can you make your life beneficial for your most kind, precious mother sentient beings, especially the pretas, and receive all happiness of the three times, including liberation from samsara and the great liberation – peerless, full enlightenment?” asks Lama ... Read more »
2014 International Merit Box Grant Award Winners!
The 2014 International Merit Box grant award winners have been chosen! Fifteen projects which further the mission of FPMT have gotten much-needed funding support thanks to the generosity of Merit Box practitioners. $54,743 in grants have be distributed for the ... Read more »
History in the Making: Supporting the Nepal Buddhist Federation
In 2006, for the first time in the history of the Nalanda Tradition, Nyingma, Kagyü, Sakya and Gelug traditions have formed an umbrella organization called Nepal Buddhist Federation (NBF). Since then, NBF has been engaging in many activities, including organizing ... Read more »
1,000 Maitreya Statues Around the World
One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the FPMT organization is to build 1,000 statues of Maitreya, the future Buddha, around the world including the two substantial Maitreya Projects in Bodhgaya and Kushinagar, India. About these statues, Lama Zopa ... Read more »
Renewed Faith, Inspiration, Devotion and Understanding: Khadro-la Visits New Zealand
Mahamudra Centre, an FPMT retreat center in Colville, New Zealand, hosted an eight-day lam-rim retreat with Khadro-la (Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme). The well attended retreat, which ran April 27-May 4, was described as “extraordinary” and “beyond words.” Ven. Nangsel, ... Read more »