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Hell or Enlightenment Depend on Your Mind
Lama Zopa Rinpoche recorded the following conversation with a student directly on his iPad in November 2013. The student was sharing the news that gold was being offered to the spire of the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya, and Rinpoche was ... Read more »
The Importance of Thinking of Sentient Beings
“Try to think, whatever you do, 24 hours a day, of sentient beings: when you chant mantras, eat, go to sleep, go to work, and when you are talking; if you can, keep your mind in that thought. “Then, with ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Offers Education Support for Serkong Tsenshab Rinpoche
The Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund was very happy to sponsor the travel and first year of college tuition for Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche. Lama Zopa Rinpoche very much wanted to make this offering of support to Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche and ... Read more »
Tibetan Buddhist Students in South Africa Offer Animal Liberation Practice to Lama Zopa Rinpoche
A lone FPMT student in South Africa emailed Mandala about doing animal liberation practice for Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Nina McNaught reported that in September 2013 a small group of Tibetan Buddhists from different traditions in Cape Town gathered with a ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the Sera Je Food Fund
The Sera Je Food Fund, which was started by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in 1991, currently offers more than 3 million meals each year to the monks of Sera Je Monastery, allowing the monks there to focus on their studies. “I ... Read more »
US$6,398 Offered Toward 2013 Gelugpa Examination and Monthly Offering to Main Teachers
In December 2013, The Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund was very pleased to offer US$6,398 toward the 2013 Gelugpa Examination which was held at Gaden Lachi Monastery, Mundgod, India, September 2013. Over 500 of the top scholars from the main monasteries ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Serkong Tsenshab Rinpoche
Lama Zopa Rinopche met with Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche while at Sera Je Monastery for the Jangchup Lamrim teachings. Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche is the reincarnation of Tsenshab Serkong Rinpoche, a highly accomplished lama born in Tibet in 1914. in 1948, having ... Read more »
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Blesses Enormous Thangka Sponsored by the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund
The Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund, under the instruction of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, sponsored an enormous Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava) thangka stitched in appliqué. During the recent Jangchub Lamrim teachings at Sera Monastery, His Holiness the Dalai Lama blessed the thangka ... Read more »Update – Jan 21 2014
Dear Friends, Rinpoche is in Sera Je Monastery, South India right now. This morning coming back from the long life puja (offered to the ex-Abbots and Abbot of Sera Je, as well as to the most senior lamas who were ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Visitors at Sera Je
The Jangchup Lamrim teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Sera Monastery in South India were attended by 30,000 people. Among them were many FPMT geshes, registered teachers, center directors, spiritual program coordinators, students and benefactors. Here are a ... Read more »
Robes Offered to Resident FPMT Geshes & Western Ordained Teachers
In 2013 Lama Zopa Rinpoche, through the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund, was extremely happy to offer robes to all of the resident geshes and western ordained teachers offering service at FPMT centers around the world. Tremendous thanks to Kopan ... Read more »