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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 »
A Day in the Life in Mongolia
Conditions are very difficult for the poor living in Mongolia, especially given the long, cold winters. The Lamp of the Path NGO, part of FPMT Mongolia, offers social services to some of the poor and homeless living in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. ... Read more »
White Tara Thangka for His Holiness the Dalai Lama
FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche will offer His Holiness the Dalai Lama a hand-beaded White Tara thangka when Rinpoche sees His Holiness in December in South India. His Holiness will be continuing the teaching and transmission of the Jangchup ... Read more »
An Update on Tenzin Ösel Hita
Tenzin Ösel Hita is doing very well and continuing his college studies in California. While Lama Zopa Rinpoche was in the United States this year, Ösel visited Rinpoche at his residence many times. In September, Ösel participated in a long ... Read more »
Maitreya Land in Kushinagar
By Ven. Gyalten Samten The Maitreya Project is an FPMT project to build a very large statue of Maitreya, the future buddha, in Kushinagar and Bodhgaya. Just last week, the project took an enormous step forward, receiving land upon which ... Read more »
Buddhas Numberless as Atoms
“On every atom are buddhas numberless as atoms, Each amidst a host of bodhisattvas, And I am confident the sphere of all phenomena Is entirely filled with buddhas in this way.” – From “King of Prayers – The Extraordinary Aspiration ... Read more »
Practicing Good Heartedness
“Lama Zopa: The essence of all religions is practicing good heartedness, kindness to everyone. This is the real cause of happiness … satisfaction.” – From Ven. Roger Kunsang’s Twitter page, posted on December 6, 2013 Ven. Roger Kunsang, Lama Zopa ... Read more »
Laying the Foundation Stone on Maitreya Project Land
By Ven. Thubten Labdron The Maitreya Project took an enormous step forward in its work to build a very large bronze statue of Maitreya Buddha, the future buddha, in Kushinagar, India, the holy site of Buddha Shakyamuni’s parinirvana. The Uttar ... Read more »
News from Luz de Nagarjuna Grupo de Estudios
Luz de Nagarjuna Grupo de Estudios in Pamplona, Spain, is just over one year old. The group holds regular group meditation sessions, has hosted Ven. Fabio Poza, spiritual program coordinator at O.Sel.Ling Centro de Retiros, and has been studying FPMT ... Read more »