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Book Review: ‘Buddhist Biology’
Buddhist Biology: Ancient Eastern Wisdom Meets Modern Western Science By David P. Barash; Reviewed by Jacob Sky Lindsley Some curious students of contemporary Buddhism will be familiar with the ongoing dialogue between Buddhism and science. Events like the “Mind and ... Read more »
The Pain of Attachment
“If you are performing the daily actions of your life with two attitudes, you are getting close to enlightenment. The two attitudes are: 1) having a sincere heart, doing social service with compassion (working for others); and, 2) meditating on ... Read more »
Establishing a Daily Practice
In October 2013 FPMT Education Services released Daily Meditation by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, which is a collection of the prayers, practices and meditations needed to start one’s day with a perfect Dharma intention and bodhichitta motivation. Rinpoche has also been ... Read more »
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 »