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Rinpoche on Maitreya Project Land in Bodhgaya
While Rinpoche has been staying in Bodhgaya, he visited Maitreya Project land and offered prayers with members of the Maitreya team. Rinpoche has written a letter explaining that there are now two Maitreya Projects. For more, see this announcement. Learn ... Read more »Wisdom and Maturity
By Ven. Chönyi Taylor We all know what wisdom is, yet we find it hard to define. It is not knowledge, although knowledge is one of its qualities. It is not ethics, although that also is a quality of wisdom. ... Read more »
The New Issue of Mandala Published!
We have just published our new issue of Mandala, featuring coverage of FPMT’s holy objects, including updates on the Maitreya Projects and the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion and celebrating the 40th anniversary of the International Mahayana Institute! In this ... Read more »
Monlam, Day of Miracles, March 16, 2014
Days one through fifteen of the first month of the Tibetan calendar, during which Monlam takes place, mark a period when Lord Buddha performed many miracles, beginning with Losar (the Tibetan New Year) on the first day and culminating on ... Read more »
Rinpoche Offers Oral Transmission of the Golden Light Sutra
This week Lama Zopa Rinpoche has been at the Mahabodhi Stupa in Bodhgaya, India, where he is offering the oral transmission of the Golden Light Sutra. Photographer Andy Melnic, who was at the stupa on Tuesday, sent the image above ... Read more »
‘All This Is Illusory’
The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive makes available transcripts of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings at the annual month-long Kopan courses going back to the first years of the course. The following is an excerpt from the 15th Kopan course, given in ... Read more »
Message from Tenzin Ösel Hita
Occasionally Ösel shares his thoughts and experiences on his Facebook page. In this update, he gives discusses the role every action has on our experience of life. Life has so many ways of appearing to us. There is such complexity ... Read more »
Rejoice!
“First I want to say numberless thanks to all the FPMT family for your continual dedication and study, and for all your effort put into developing the centers by improving the conditions to receive teachers so that sentient beings can ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Letter to the Nuns of Tashi Chime Gatsal Nunnery
Every year since 2009, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has sponsored the nuns of Tashi Chime Gatsal Nunnery to complete one and now two 100 Million Mani Retreat (100 million recitations of the mantra OM MANI PADME HUM). This is offered through ... Read more »
Losar Tashi Delek!
Losar, the celebration of the Tibetan Buddhist new year, falls on Sunday, March 2 this year. And the first two weeks of the new year are called Mönlam and are a very powerful time to practice and increase one’s commitment ... Read more »
Rinpoche Visits Holy Sites
The walk up to Vulture’s Peak, where the Buddha taught, is a long gradual climb. Ven. Roger Kunsang, Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s assistant reported, ”Rinpoche did well,” while walking up to the top of the peak in early February. Rinpoche gave teachings into the evening at the sacred location. Rinpoche, while staying at Root ... Read more »