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Total of Practices Being Offered to Rinpoche

Total of Practices Being Offered to Rinpoche

THANKS TO ALL who participated in the practices requested to be done for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s health and long life back in April this year. On Dec 9th, an amazing total of practices will be offered to Rinpoche as part ... Read more »
Problems Come From Our Mind

Problems Come From Our Mind

“Lama Zopa: Thinking the problem comes from outside is the source of all the delusions. The problems are created by the mind, our mind.” – From Ven. Roger Kunsang’s Twitter page, posted on December 2, 2013 Ven. Roger Kunsang, Lama ... Read more »

Jeffrey Hopkins Reconstructs His Mind

Jeffrey Hopkins, Buddhist scholar, Tibetan translator, author and professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia in the United States, suffered in 1991 from the debilitating and sometimes fatal Lyme disease. He talked to Ven. Robina Courtin in Kathmandu, ... Read more »
Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery

Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery

FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche returned to Kopan Monastery on November 22. Since arriving, Rinpoche has offered teachings to students attending the month-long November course on lam-rim, circumambulated at Swayambhunath and received many visitors among other activities. FPMT Education ... Read more »
Choe Khor Sum Ling Students Attend Discovering Buddhism Retreat

Choe Khor Sum Ling Students Attend Discovering Buddhism Retreat

By Deepthy Shekhar Student Deepthy Shekhar shares news from Choe Khor Sum Ling, the FPMT study group in Bangalore, India. In September, a few Choe Khor Sum Ling students attended a retreat for Discovering Buddhism’s modules 1 and 2 at ... Read more »
Meaningful Life

Meaningful Life

“Lama Zopa: Your life has great meaning when you use this life to practice compassion.” – From Ven. Roger Kunsang’s Twitter page, posted on November 28, 2013 Ven. Roger Kunsang, Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s assistant and CEO of FPMT Inc., shares ... Read more »
World Peace

World Peace

“Lama Zopa: World peace depends on how much one can practice compassion.” – From Ven. Roger Kunsang’s Twitter page, posted on November 28, 2013 Ven. Roger Kunsang, Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s assistant and CEO of FPMT Inc., shares Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s ... Read more »
Instruction on Offerings to Stupas

Instruction on Offerings to Stupas

Lama Zopa Rinpoche translated Padmasambhava’s Instruction on Offerings to Stupas, which details the benefits of prostrating to, making offering, circumambulating , and offering service to stupas. Translations Available: Italian Version, One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for FPMT is ... Read more »
Hundreds of Worms Liberated Every Week at Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Aptos House

Hundreds of Worms Liberated Every Week at Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Aptos House

Lama Zopa Rinpoche has requested the Sangha at his residences to offer the practice of animal liberation every week dedicated to anyone who is sick or having life obstacles. Extensive prayers are made for the long life of His Holiness ... Read more »
2014 Liberation Calendar

2014 Liberation Calendar

As 2013 enters its final months, the time is arriving to begin planning for 2014. Since 1999, the Liberation Prison Project has produced the Liberation Calendar, a Tibetan lunar calendar which includes dates and information about more than thirty kinds ... Read more »
End of the Year at the Garden of Enlightenment

End of the Year at the Garden of Enlightenment

By Garrey Foulkes In late October, Garrey Foulkes, arts manager of Chenrezig Institute, shared with Mandala an update about the three projects he manages – the Garden of Enlightenment, the Chenrezig Institute Art Studio and the Enlightenment Project for Purification ... Read more »
Home in the Himalayas

Home in the Himalayas

FPMT Spiritual Director Lama Zopa Rinpoche recently returned to Kopan Monastery in Nepal, the country of his birth. Rinpoche comes from the Solu Khumbu region of Nepal. He was born not far from where his previous incarnation, Lama Kunsang Yeshe, ... Read more »