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Tara Redwood School Holds Annual Auction, CCC Online Course Launched
Pam Cayton, founder of Tara Redwood School, a pre-school and elementary program near Santa Cruz, California, that “strives to develop the whole child: mental, physical and spiritual,” and Creating Compassionate Cultures (CCC), an organization dedicated to providing tools and training ... Read more »
Marble Stupa Sponsored for IMI House, Sera Je Monastery
The Stupa Fund recently offered US$2,000 for a marble stupa at IMI House, the khangtsen for FPMT Western Sangha at Sera Je Monastery. The Benefits of Building Stupas The main purpose of building stupas is to make the lives of ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Gives Oral Transmission of Sutra of Golden Light at Mahabodhi Stupa
By Ven. Sarah Thresher While Lama Zopa Rinpoche has been staying at Root Institute in Bodhgaya, India, he has been engaged in many practices during Losar and the two weeks that follow. Ven. Sarah Thresher has been participating in these ... Read more »
Tai Situ Rinpoche and Lama Zopa Rinpoche Pray for the Success of the Maitreya Projects
His Eminence the Twelfth Tai Situ Rinpoche visited the Maitreya Project land in Bodhgaya with Lama Zopa Rinpoche to make prayers for the success of the project. The Tai Situ is one of the oldest lineages in the Kagyü school ... Read more »
Visit Chandrakirti Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Centre in New Zealand
Chandrakirti Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Centre is situated in the rolling hills of Nelson, New Zealand, on the northern end of the country’s South Island. In the online edition of Mandala April-June 2014, we share a video by Peter Kemp of ... Read more »
Book Review: ‘Buddhist Biology’
Buddhist Biology: Ancient Eastern Wisdom Meets Modern Western Science By David P. Barash; Reviewed by Jacob Sky Lindsley Some curious students of contemporary Buddhism will be familiar with the ongoing dialogue between Buddhism and science. Events like the “Mind and ... Read more »
The Pain of Attachment
“If you are performing the daily actions of your life with two attitudes, you are getting close to enlightenment. The two attitudes are: 1) having a sincere heart, doing social service with compassion (working for others); and, 2) meditating on ... Read more »
Establishing a Daily Practice
In October 2013 FPMT Education Services released Daily Meditation by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, which is a collection of the prayers, practices and meditations needed to start one’s day with a perfect Dharma intention and bodhichitta motivation. Rinpoche has also been ... Read more »
Tibetan Medicine for Women’s Health at Tse Chen Ling
On March 7, The Tibetan Wellness & Healing Center in Daly City, California and FPMT center Tse Chen Ling in San Francisco, organized and hosted the second annual workshop with Menpa (Doctor) Yangdron Kalzang on Tibetan medicine for women. In ... Read more »
Lunch Offered to Children of the Central School for Tibetans in Bylakuppe, South India
Lama Zopa Rinpoche, through the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund, is sponsoring all the midday (lunch) meals for the children of the Central School for Tibetans in Bylakuppe in South India. The cost for this is US$8,086.61 for the year. ... Read more »
Rinpoche with Sangha on Vulture’s Peak
During Monlam, Lama Zopa Rinpoche traveled from Bodhgaya to Rajgir and walked up to Vulture’s Peak. Rinpoche gave an oral transmission of the Vajra Cutter Sutra to Sangha and lay students who had traveled from Bodhgaya with Rinpoche. Lama Zopa ... Read more »