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Tenzin Ösel Hita’s New Car

Tenzin Ösel Hita’s New Car

Tenzin Ösel Hita recently visited Lama Zopa Ripoche to show Rinpoche his new car. This autumn, Tenzin Ösel moved to California to continue his studies and needed a car to get to class. Rinpoche and many others helped sponsor the ... Read more »
Life at Kachoe Dechen Ling with Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Life at Kachoe Dechen Ling with Lama Zopa Rinpoche

When FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche is in California, he lives at Kachoe Dechen Ling in Aptos on California’s central coast near Santa Cruz. Life at Kachoe Dechen Ling is very busy for Rinpoche and the resident Sangha who ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Vision for 100,000 Stupas Around the World

Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Vision for 100,000 Stupas Around the World

In 2007, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave advice about several of his Vast Visions for the FPMT organization spanning lifetimes into the future. One of his wishes is for the organization to build 100,000 stupas around the world. About this initiative ... Read more »
Helping Children in Bodhgaya

Helping Children in Bodhgaya

Root Institute, the FPMT center in Bodhgaya, India, helps offer care and education to children through Shakyamuni Buddha Community Health Care Centre, Maitreya School for Universal Education and the Tara Children’s Project (TCP), which takes care of HIV-affected children and ... Read more »
New Photos of Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche

New Photos of Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Photographer Chris Majors captured in vivid and glorious detail the long life puja offered to FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Land of Medicine Buddha in California. You can see all of his photos from the festive and beautiful ... Read more »
Ile de la Réunion Celebrates His Holiness’ Birthday

Ile de la Réunion Celebrates His Holiness’ Birthday

Gyaltsab Je Study Group in Ile de la Réunion, situated east of Madagascar, shares some news with Mandala from their island home: On July 6, 2013, a good number of students responded to our invitation to share a moment in ... Read more »
Dagri Rinpoche, Yangsi Rinpoche, Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Geshe Ngawang Dakpa at Lunch

Dagri Rinpoche, Yangsi Rinpoche, Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Geshe Ngawang Dakpa at Lunch

Lama Zopa Rinpoche was joined by Dagri Rinpoche, Yangsi Rinpoche and Geshe Ngawang Dakpa for the lunch offered after the long life puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Land of Medicine Buddha in California, US, on Sunday, September 29, 2013. ... Read more »
Pure Land of Medicine Buddha Helps Sick and Dying in Denmark

Pure Land of Medicine Buddha Helps Sick and Dying in Denmark

“Warm greetings from here in Pure Land of Medicine Buddha,” project coordinator Maria Domsholt wrote to Mandala. Pure Land of Medicine Buddha is the hospice project of Tong-nyi Nying-je Ling, the FPMT center in Denmark. In September, the project began ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Visits His Eminence Choden Rinpoche

Lama Zopa Rinpoche Visits His Eminence Choden Rinpoche

During late September, both Lama Zopa Rinpoche and His Eminence Choden Rinpoche were in the Bay Area of California. Lama Zopa Rinpoche visited with His Eminence on September 30 in San Jose. Mandala brings you news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche ... Read more »
Student at Choe Khor Sum Ling Inspired by Dalai Lama and FPMT Teachers

Student at Choe Khor Sum Ling Inspired by Dalai Lama and FPMT Teachers

Choe Khor Sum Ling (CKSL) is an active and enthusiastic FPMT study group in Bangalore, India. In June 2013, several CKSL members attended teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India. It was a special teaching for Indian ... Read more »

Tenzin Osel Hita’s Praise to Lama Zopa Rinpoche

On September 29, 2013, Tenzin Ösel Hita read the following words of praise to Lama Zopa Rinpche during a long life puja offered to Rinpoche at Land of Medicine Buddha, Soquel, California, USA. Video of Tenzin Ösel Hita Offering Praise ... Read more »
Cooking with Bodhichitta- Mandala Magazine Highlights the Sera Je Food Fund

Cooking with Bodhichitta- Mandala Magazine Highlights the Sera Je Food Fund

Mandala magazine recently published the October-December 2013 issue which featured the Sera Je Food Fund in their Cooking with Bodhichitta section. The piece, written by Ven. Ngawang Sangye is a fantastic overview of the daily kitchen schedule for the Sera ... Read more »