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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 »
Pamtingpa Center Builds a High Desert Stupa
Su Ianniello, spiritual program coordinator at Pamtingpa Center, a small FPMT center in north central Washington in the United States, shares in the April-June 2014 issue of Mandala the story of how the students there came together to fulfill Lama ... Read more »
Benefits of the Vajra Cutter Sutra
“The Vajra Cutter Sutra is unbelievable. It is one of the most profitable practices because the root of all sufferings, yours and others, is the ignorance holding ‘I’ as truly existent, even though it is empty of that; and the ... Read more »
Rinpoche’s Rooftop Altar
By Ven. Sarah Thresher Lama Zopa Rinpoche has been staying at Root Institute in Bodhgaya, India, where he has been engaged in nonstop virtuous activities. Ven. Sarah Thresher was with Rinpoche in Bodhgaya and shares this report. Rinpoche designed and ... Read more »
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 »