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Guhyasamaja Center Student Ordains
From Fairfax, Virginia, US, Guhyasamaja Center spiritual program coordinator Gabriel Mata shares the exciting news of one student’s transition into monkhood: On October 11, 2013, Guhyasamaja Center celebrated the ordination ceremony of one of its members and membership coordinator, Matt ... Read more »
US$10,000 Offered to Vajrapani Institute for Life-Sized Statue of Lama Yeshe
Lama Zopa Rinpoche was very happy to make an offering of US$10,000 toward a new life-sized statue of Lama Yeshe which Vajrapani Institute, Boulder Creek, CA, USA is having built. This will be the second life-sized statue of Lama Yeshe ... Read more »
Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom Launches New Website
The Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom (FDCW) is an FPMT-affiliated project “dedicated to promoting peace in the world through Universal Education for Compassion and Wisdom [UECW], a system of inner development that enables people of all ages, cultures and ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Sponsors Kitchen for Bylakuppe School for Tibetans
Sera Monastery is located in the Tibetan settlement Bylakuppe near Mysore, Karnataka in South India. Lama Zopa Rinpoche sponsored the new kitchen at the Bylakuppe School for Tibetans, which was inaugurated on December 19, 2013. Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of ... Read more »
Gold Leafing and Equipment Offered to 70 ft Statue of Padmasambhava
The Padmasambhava Project for Peace is dedicated to fulfilling Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s goal of building many large statues of Padmasambhava around the world in order to create the cause for peace for all beings In October of 2013 the project ... Read more »
Maitreya Loving Kindness Tour: A New Name for a Timeless Experience
The Maitreya Heart Shrine Relic Tour has a new name: the Maitreya Loving Kindness Tour. The tour brings the sacred relics of Buddhist masters to Buddhists and non-Buddhists around the world. Hundreds of thousands of people on six continents have ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Sera
His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived at Sera Monastery in South India on December 24 to offer the second series of Jangchup Lamrim teachings, which were attended by 30,000. Photographer Melissa Mouldin caught sight of Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Sera ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Khensur Rinpoche Losang Tsering
While at Sera Monastery in December 2013, Lama Zopa Rinpoche had dinner with Khensur Rinpoche Losang Tsering. Khensur Rinpoche offered a long life statue to Rinpoche and thanked him for all his kindness to the monks of Sera Je. When Khensur Rinpoche was serving as abbot of Sera Je in 1990, he made a request to Lama Zopa Rinpoche to sponsor the food for Sera Je monks. It was a very practical request made to help all of the monks there at the time Lama Ösel entered the monastery. Khensur Rinpoche is now 91 years old and considered one of the great teachers at Sera Je. He counts many of the Kopan monks as ... Read more »
The Perfect Human Rebirth By Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s The Perfect Human Rebirth: Freedom and Richness on the Path to Enlightenment, edit by Gordon McDougall, is the third book in the FPMT Lineage Series published by the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive. The FPMT Lineage series is ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Makes Mandala Offering to His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered His Holiness the Dalai Lama a body, speech and mind mandala on January 2, 2014, during the Jangchup Lamrim teaching at Sera Monastery in South India. The teachings, which were attended by 30,000, concluded on January ... Read more »
Update on the Stupa to Minimize Harm From the Elements
In order to minimize harm caused by possible earthquakes in California, USA; a stupa is being built near the Golden Gate Bridge, under the advice of Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme (Khadro-la). This project is called the Stupa to Minimize ... Read more »