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Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Sera Je
A long life puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche was held on December 22, 2013, at Drati Khangtsen, Sera Je Monastic University in South India. ”So many people attended, 70 FPMT Centers were represented, 17 FPMT Geshes were present and so many overseas students, more than a thousand monks and lay people,” shared Ven. Roger Kunsang, Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s assistant. ”The puja went very well, coming at the end of this period of lungs of the Most Secret Hayagriva transmission.” More information, photos and updates about FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche can be found on Rinpoche’s homepage. If ... Read more »Basic Program News from FPMT Education Services
Basic Program Guidelines 2013: The new, entirely revised edition, is now available online! The new edition of the updated and revised Basic Program Guidelines for Implementation is now available online. The Basic Program Guidelines 2013 web page (members area login ... Read more »
The 100 Million Mani Retreat in Mongolia Photo Gallery
The 100 Million Mani Retreat in Mongolia, hosted by FPMT Mongolia, brought together several hundred Mongolians and 70 non-Mongolian students for one month of intense practice and chanting OM MANI PADME HUM. The accomplishment of the 100 Million Mani Retreat ... Read more »
Annual Long Life Puja Offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Kopan Monastery, Nepal
The annual long life puja was offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche on behalf of the entire FPMT organization at Kopan Monastery, December 9, 2013. 800+ monks and nuns; 280+ Western students; and many local Nepalis, Tibetans and Sherpas were in ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Speech from Maitreya Project Kushinagar Land Handover Ceremony
On December 13, 2013, the state government of Uttar Pradesh, India, handed over approximately 275 acres of land to the Maitreya Project, the FPMT Project to build an enormous bronze statue of Matireya Buddha. At the ceremony marking the historic ... Read more »Benefits of Offering to Stupas
Rinpoche recently finished a brand new teaching and translation on the benefits of offering to stupas – Padmasambhava’s Instruction on Offerings to Stupas. It is quite an amazing, monumental work, which took Rinpoche more than two months to complete, and ... Read more »
A Day in the Life in Mongolia
Conditions are very difficult for the poor living in Mongolia, especially given the long, cold winters. The Lamp of the Path NGO, part of FPMT Mongolia, offers social services to some of the poor and homeless living in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. ... Read more »
White Tara Thangka for His Holiness the Dalai Lama
FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche will offer His Holiness the Dalai Lama a hand-beaded White Tara thangka when Rinpoche sees His Holiness in December in South India. His Holiness will be continuing the teaching and transmission of the Jangchup ... Read more »
An Update on Tenzin Ösel Hita
Tenzin Ösel Hita is doing very well and continuing his college studies in California. While Lama Zopa Rinpoche was in the United States this year, Ösel visited Rinpoche at his residence many times. In September, Ösel participated in a long ... Read more »
Maitreya Land in Kushinagar
By Ven. Gyalten Samten The Maitreya Project is an FPMT project to build a very large statue of Maitreya, the future buddha, in Kushinagar and Bodhgaya. Just last week, the project took an enormous step forward, receiving land upon which ... Read more »
Buddhas Numberless as Atoms
“On every atom are buddhas numberless as atoms, Each amidst a host of bodhisattvas, And I am confident the sphere of all phenomena Is entirely filled with buddhas in this way.” – From “King of Prayers – The Extraordinary Aspiration ... Read more »