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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 »
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 »