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Monthly Extensive Most Secret Hayagriva Puja Offered
Every month on the Tibetan 29th day, an important day to offer protector pujas, The Puja Fund sponsors about 40 of the most senior monks of Sera Je Monastery, who specialize in the practice of Most Secret Hayagriva, to offer ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Visits Sera IMI Monks
While at Sera Monastery for the Jangchup Lamrim teachings, Lama Zopa Rinpoche visited Shedrup Sungdrel Ling — the Sera IMI House — and the monks living there. According to Rinpoche’s assistant Ven. Roger Kunsang, the monks are all doing very ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the Benefits of the Mani Retreat
The accomplishment of the 100 Million Mani Retreat in Mongolia in August 2013 is momentous for FPMT. The purpose of the retreat, in part, was to help reestablish Buddhism in Mongolia. But Rinpoche had articulated his vision for FPMT students ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Khadro-la
Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Khadro-la (Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme) met for dinner recently while at Sera Monastery in South India. Rinpoche and Khadro-la are attending the Jangchup Lamrim teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Sera Monastery. The ... Read more »
Annual Long Life Puja for His Holiness the Dalai Lama
FPMT has the incredible opportunity to be one of the main sponsors of the long life puja that will be offered to His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the conclusion of this year’s Jangchub Lam-Rim teaching event at Sera Je ... Read more »
His Eminence Ling Rinpoche with Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Zopa Rinpoche visited with His Eminence Ling Rinpoche before the Jangchup Lamrim teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Sera Monastery. Ling Rinpoche is the main organizer of this lam-rim teachings series. The current round of teachings began ... Read more »
FPMT in Mongolia 1999-2012
Lama Zopa Rinpoche visited Mongolia for the first time in 1999 at the invitation of Bakula Rinpoche, who had already been working for 10 years to reestablish Buddhism in the country, and a small group of Mongolians that included a ... Read more »
Maitreya Buddha Is Loving Kindness
“There is great loving kindness in the heart of the Buddha for us, from time without beginning, as the continuity of our life is beginningless. So, until full enlightenment is achieved, the Buddha has loving kindness for us,” Lama Zopa ... Read more »
Maitreya Project Commemorated by Indian Postal Service
While attending the foundation stone laying ceremony for the Maitreya Project, Lama Zopa Rinpoche signed a special edition of a Maitreya envelope, issued by the Indian postal service to commemorate the December 13 event on the new land in Kushinagar. ... Read more »
Jangchup Lamrim Teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama Begin at Sera Monastery
His Holiness the Dalai Lama taught the first session of the current round of Jangchup Lamrim teachings at Sera Monastery in South India on December 25. The teachings can be viewed on streaming video, available in six languages, and will ... Read more »
2013 Continuation of the Eighteen Great Lam-Rim Commentaries by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
In November 2012, on the very auspicious occasion of the 610th Anniversary of Lama Tsongkhapa’s composition of his masterpiece Lam-rim Chen-mo (The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment) and the 600th Anniversary of Lama Tsongkhapa’s teaching ... Read more »