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Meditation on Emptiness
While in India during the Days of Miracles, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave an oral transmission of the Vajra Cutter Sutra on Vulture’s Peak. After the transmission, he led the group of students who had come with him to Vulture’s Peak ... Read more »
Lhungtok Choekhorling Monastic Project Prepares for His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Ven. Massimo Stordi, coordinator for Lhungtok Choekhorling Monastic Project, a nunnery and monastery in the hills of Pomaia, Italy, shared this exciting news about His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s upcoming visit: Lhungtok Choekhorling Buddhist Nunnery and Monastery eagerly awaits and ... Read more »
Monthly Offering of Robes to Amazing Jowo Buddha Statue
Every month, on the full moon, the Puja Fund sponsors the offering of gold and robes to the most holy Jowo Buddha Statue in Tibet. US$3,000 was recently sent toward this monthly offering. Even if you don’t personally make this ... Read more »
Namthose Arrives at Rinchen Jangsem Ling
Selina Foong, director of Rinchen Jangsem Ling (RJL) in Triang, Malaysia, shared news about the latest holy object to arrive at the center: Wonderful things are happening at RJL after our Sanghata Sutra retreat on the Day of Miracles weekend! ... Read more »
Sangha Heroes
More than 30 ordained Sangha attended the recent Light of the Path retreat with Lama Zopa Rinpoche. FPMT’s Sangha community, which comprise the International Mahayana Institute (IMI), has played a crucial role in the development of FPMT. To recognize this ... Read more »
The New Issue of Mandala is Here!
Mandala July-September 2014 is published. And with the new issue, we offer more than a dozen new online articles that supplement and expand on our stories in print, which include Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s amazing, non-stop virtuous activities in Bodhgaya during ... Read more »
How to Use Cooking in the Path
“The initial reason why people come to a Dharma center is not for the food but for the teachings and meditations; they are a little bored with the lives they have and are looking for something new. However, the conditions ... Read more »Is It a Mouse?
By Ven. Chönyi Taylor It is a dreamy autumn day. A light rain is soaking into the thirsty soil of my garden to the delight of plants and weeds and birds and possums and our local, sweet little antechinus which ... Read more »
New Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
FPMT Education Services is pleased to release two new essential advices from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Advice on Circumambulation is a short practice that can be done to make one’s practice of circumambulating holy objects as powerful as ... Read more »
A Successful Retreat
The Light of the Path, a two-week retreat in North Carolina, US, led by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, was by all accounts a huge success. The root text for Light of the Path is Lama Atisha’s Lamp for the Path to ... Read more »
Ling Rinpoche Offers Advice to Centre Kalachakra
Long-time student Ven. Elisabeth Drukier, director of Centre Kalachakra in Paris, France, joyfully shared this news about an April visit from His Eminence the Seventh Ling Rinpoche. Rinpoche is the principal organizer of the Jangchup Lamrim with His Holiness the ... Read more »