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Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa Restores ‘Kundun’ Chenrezig
Francesca Sala, a student at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa in Italy, shares in the April-June 2014 issue of Mandala the center’s new project to restore the large Chenrezig statue used in the 1997 Martin Scorsese film Kundun, about the life ... Read more »
Rinpoche Teaches on Vajra Cutter Sutra on Vulture’s Peak
During Monlam, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave a teaching on and an oral transmission of the Vajra Cutter Sutra on Vulture’s Peak. According to Rinpoche’s assistant Ven. Roger Kunsang, Ven. Antonio Satta had requested this lung many years ago. Many Sangha ... Read more »
Long Life Puja Offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Losar
Ven. Sarah Thresher provided us with the following report on a beautiful long life puja offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Root Institute, Bodhgaya, India. Losar started very early morning with Yamantaka and Palden Lhamo prayers before dawn. Dagri Rinpoche ... Read more »Practicing Patience
Lama Zopa Rinpoche typed up this advice on his iPad, and asked that it be made widely available: “Practicing patience doesn’t mean that if someone asks you to immediately kill a gigantic lady, the size of Mount Meru or the ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Meets the Pilgrims of ‘Experience Buddhism at the Root’
Ven. Lozang Khadro, spiritual program coordinator at Root Institute in Bodhgaya, India, shares news from the center’s annual “Experience Buddhism at the Root” event, a combination pilgrimage and lam-rim course, which ended March 14: Our annual course “Experience Buddhism at ... Read more »
The Specific Root of Suffering
Lama Zopa Rinpoche, during the annual lam-rim course at Kopan in 2000, gave the oral transmission of the Heart Sutra and the Vajra Cutter Sutra. Here is an unedited transcript from the first day of teaching he offered at the ... Read more »
The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion Makes Great Progress- REJOICE!
Rising 26 meters (85 feet) above the bushlands of central Victoria, Australia, the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion has grown well past the half-way point. Project Director, Ian Green told Mandala magazine during a phone call in January, “We have ... Read more »
Land of Joy Finds Property for Retreat Center, Lama Zopa Rinpoche Encourages Purchase
Andy Wistreich, FPMT registered teacher and coordinator of Land of Joy, a developing FPMT retreat center in the UK, sent this exciting update on the group’s ongoing property hunt: “Following extensive research, property visits all over the UK and a ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Losar: A Report from Bodhgaya
Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Dagri Rinpoche during long life puja on Losar, Root Institute, Bodhgaya, India, March 2014. Photo by Ven. Sarah Thresher. By Ven. Sarah Thresher Lama Zopa Rinpoche has been staying at Root Institute in Bodhgaya, India. Rinpoche ... Read more »
Praise and Prayer to Noble Avalokiteshvara
FPMT Education Services is please to announce the release of a new prayer and praise to Avalokiteshvara. Praise and Prayer to Noble Avalokiteshvara: Bringing Forth the Rains of Happiness and Well-Being by Losang Kalsang Gyatso, the Seventh Dalai Lama, was ... Read more »
Thakpa Kachoe Retreat Land Completes First Meditation Chalet
Sylvaine Litaud, co-director of Thakpa Kachoe Retreat Land, shares exciting news about the FPMT retreat facility and aromatic and medicinal plant farm located in the mountainous southeastern corner of France: The first meditation chalet at Thakpa Kachoe Retreat Land, called ... Read more »