receive our newsletters
join Friends of FPMT
FPMT News
Our main aggregated news feed contains articles from all of our news categories.
Narrow your results
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Visits MAITRI Charitable Trust
Lama Zopa Rinpoche visited MAITRI Charitable Trust, an FPMT project in Bodhgaya, India that offers a wide array of health and education programs to the very poor in the area as well as care to animals. Children from the villages surrounding Bodhgaya lined ... Read more »
Khadro-la Offers Teaching at Tushita Meditation Centre
Tushita Meditation Centre is a bustling FPMT center in Dharamsala – the seat-in-exile of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Tushita staff recently wrote Mandala, sharing news about a visit from Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme (Khadro-la), an extraordinary Tibetan ... Read more »
Living with Compassion
“… On the basis of [reflecting on the lam-rim], we should generate the good heart, bodhichitta, the thought of benefiting others. This is our best refuge, especially for those of us whose lives are very busy, who don’t have much ... Read more »
Weekly Ocean Blessings with Namgyälma Mantra Boards
In addition to the weekly animal liberations offered by the Sangha at Kachoe Dechen Ling – Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s California residence, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has requested the Sangha to also make weekly trips to the Pacific Ocean in order to ... Read more »
Photo Gallery: Pamtingpa Center Builds a High Desert Stupa
On a smaller scale than the Maitreya Projects and the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, dozens of FPMT centers, projects and services have built or are in the process of creating their own stupas, often representing a true community effort. ... Read more »
Extraordinary Aspirations
“… May my pure activities be endless, My good qualities boundless, And through abiding in immeasurable activity, May I actualize infinite emanations. “Limitless is the end of space, Likewise, limitless are living beings, Thus, limitless are karma and afflictions. May ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Khunu Lama Rinpoche’s Attendant
While in Bodhgaya, Lama Zopa Rinpoche met with the attendant of the previous Khunu Lama Rinpoche. Known as the Ladkhi Gen-la, he has been teaching in Mumbai for the past 20 years. Khunu Rinpoche, who passed away in 1977, was as a great teacher and scholar, called by His Holiness the Dalai Lama “the Shantideva of our time.” He authored Vast ... Read more »
Eight Verses of Thought Transformation
The Eight Verses of Thought Transformation is one of the most important texts from a genre of Tibetan spiritual writings known as lojong (mind training). This root text was written by the eleventh-century meditator Langri Tangpa Dorje Senghe. His Holiness ... Read more »
Living the Gift
Buddhist in the Trenches columnist Sarah Shifferd talks about how the gift economy and generosity intersect in the April-June 2014 issue of Mandala: I’ve never believed in money. Even though my parents explained the basics of modern economics to me ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche 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 »
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 »