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US$3,000 Offered to MAITRI Charitable Trust, Bodhgaya, India
The Animal Liberation Fund was pleased to offer US$3,000 to MAITRI Charitable Trust, which, through its Animal Care Program, has taken on the responsibility for providing essential care to hundreds of animals in need in Bodhgaya, India, since 1994. This ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Attends Oral Transmission with Khyongla Rato Rinpoche
Lama Zopa Rinpoche attended the oral transmission of the collected works of his root guru His Holiness Trijang Rinpoche at Osel Labrang, part of Sera Je Monastic University in South India. Khyongla Rato Rinpoche gave the lungs of His Holiness Trijang Rinpoche’s sum bum at the request of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Dagri Rinpoche and Ozer Rinpoche from Sera Me sat beside Lama Zopa Rinpoche during the transmission. ... Read more »
The Four Harmonious Friends
“At the beginning of the Foundation Service Seminar, we were reminded of the stories of ‘The Four Harmonious Friends’ and how each one of us is responsible for leading the other into virtue; how each one of us is at ... Read more »Hell or Enlightenment Depend on Your Mind
Lama Zopa Rinpoche recorded the following conversation with a student directly on his iPad in November 2013. The student was sharing the news that gold was being offered to the spire of the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya, and Rinpoche was ... Read more »
The Importance of Thinking of Sentient Beings
“Try to think, whatever you do, 24 hours a day, of sentient beings: when you chant mantras, eat, go to sleep, go to work, and when you are talking; if you can, keep your mind in that thought. “Then, with ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Offers Education Support for Serkong Tsenshab Rinpoche
The Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund was very happy to sponsor the travel and first year of college tuition for Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche. Lama Zopa Rinpoche very much wanted to make this offering of support to Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche and ... Read more »
Tibetan Buddhist Students in South Africa Offer Animal Liberation Practice to Lama Zopa Rinpoche
A lone FPMT student in South Africa emailed Mandala about doing animal liberation practice for Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Nina McNaught reported that in September 2013 a small group of Tibetan Buddhists from different traditions in Cape Town gathered with a ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the Sera Je Food Fund
The Sera Je Food Fund, which was started by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in 1991, currently offers more than 3 million meals each year to the monks of Sera Je Monastery, allowing the monks there to focus on their studies. “I ... Read more »
US$6,398 Offered Toward 2013 Gelugpa Examination and Monthly Offering to Main Teachers
In December 2013, The Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund was very pleased to offer US$6,398 toward the 2013 Gelugpa Examination which was held at Gaden Lachi Monastery, Mundgod, India, September 2013. Over 500 of the top scholars from the main monasteries ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Serkong Tsenshab Rinpoche
Lama Zopa Rinopche met with Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche while at Sera Je Monastery for the Jangchup Lamrim teachings. Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche is the reincarnation of Tsenshab Serkong Rinpoche, a highly accomplished lama born in Tibet in 1914. in 1948, having ... Read more »