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Cat Rescue as a Means to Creating Merit
Long-time student Amy Barton-Cayton shares how she used Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s advice to turn cat rescue into Buddhist practice as part of Mandala’s October-December 2013 online content: In 2007, I had a huge karmic upheaval, mostly manifesting in my body. ... Read more »
Open Your Heart to the Cost of Abundant Happiness
Sera Je Food Fund’s Dramatic Impact on the Monks of Sera Je Monastery By Geshe Thubten Jinpa A 78-year-old monk walks back and forth two times every day for the meal being served in the main prayer hall of Sera ... Read more »
Land of Joy: An Interview with Andy Wistreich
Land of Joy is a retreat community project in the United Kingdom, currently in its preliminary stages. For Mandala October-December 2013, Thomas Warrior, a Land of Joy team member, interviewed project coordinator Andy Wistreich, a long-time student and FPMT registered ... Read more »
The Sera Connection: An Interview with José Cabezón
José Cabezón is a respected professor of religious studies and the Fourteenth Dalai Lama Endowed Chair in Tibetan Buddhism and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He studied at Sera Monastic University in South India and completed ... Read more »
Lam-Rim Resources for Achieving Realizations of the Path
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has recently given new advice suggesting that students follow a lam-rim outline and meditate on each subject for two weeks or one month until all subjects have been studied. Rinpoche advised, “The amount of time for meditation ... Read more »
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Visits New Zealand and Australia
In June 2013, His Holiness the Dalai Lama visited New Zealand before making his way to Australia for his ninth visit to the country. As part of the Mandala October-December 2013 online content, we offer three stories on the visit. ... Read more »
Incredible Large Thangka Sponsored
One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for FPMT is for some FPMT centers to display huge thangkas and host festival days. In 2011 Lama Zopa Rinpoche through the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund commissioned a 55 ft x 40 ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s ‘Advice on Caring for Mother’
In Mandala October-December 2013, Lama Zopa Rinpoche responds to a long-time student who wrote to Rinpoche in thanks for his “blessings, guidance and protection” over many years. The anonymous student currently takes care of her mother who suffers physically after ... Read more »
Achieving Realizations of the Path
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has recently been commenting on the need for FPMT students to actualize the lam-rim teachings and achieve realizations. You can read Rinpoche’s recent advice in the just-published Mandala October-December 2013: Special group of retreatants First of all, ... Read more »
The Incredible Benefits of Prayer Wheels
Prayer wheels are filled with mantras traditionally printed on strips of paper and tightly rolled around the core. These days mantras are reproduced onto microfilm; the more mantras, the more powerful. Prayer wheels can be small enough to be held ... Read more »
Teaching from Experience: The Benefits of Completing an FPMT Education Program
The second cycle of the FPMT Masters Program at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa (ILTK), Pomaia, Italy, is coming to a close. Based on Lama Yeshe’s unique vision for comprehensive education and inspired by the traditional geshe studies at the Tibetan ... Read more »