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Merit Box Grants Awarded
In June, $52,950 in grant awards from the 2012 International Merit Box Project offerings were disbursed to 14 FPMT centers, projects and funds for their use. From the kindness of Merit Box Practitioners chipping in their Merit Box donations from ... Read more »
A Very Profound Connection
“Our fundamental needs are defined by our biological nature, by our social nature and by our spiritual nature,” Canadian scientist and environmentalist David Suzuki told Mandala in a recent interview. Suzuki was a panelist with His Holiness the Dalai Lama ... Read more »
1000 Offerings to Namgyalma
The Supreme Gift of Immortal Life; The Way to Perform the Thousand Offerings in relation to the Ritual of the Self and Front Generation of the Noble Ushnishavijaya was translated from the Tibetan by Ven. Tenzin Gyurme the Tibetan using ... Read more »
Practicing Real Dharma
“What a profound impact your book How to Practice Dharma: Teachings on the Eight Worldly Dharmas had on my mind,” a student writes FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Rinpoche replies: Skies of thanks for discovering Dharma and trying to ... Read more »‘What makes you so peaceful?’
New from Mandala July-September 2013, Sarah Shifferd offers another installment of “Buddhist in the Trenches.” She writes: Spring, 2008. Portland, Oregon. The sidewalk outside Fred Meyer. A young man shouts through a crowd of people getting off a bus. “Hey! ... Read more »
Listen to His Holiness the Dalai Lama Discuss the Mind
As part of Mandala‘s July-September 2013 online edition, you can listen to His Holiness the Dalai Lama discussing the nature of the mind in five 15-minute audio segments. In concise fashion, His Holiness covers why we should study the mind, ... Read more »
Kadampa Center Completes Their New Stupa
Kadampa Center has completed their stupa building project. The large and active center in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S., committed to building a Kadampa Stupa in 2002. They spent nine years accumulating funds and began building in 2011. Construction took 29 ... Read more »
Meet Chokyi Gyaltsen Center’s Geshe Deyang
In a new video, made at the request of Mandala and the students of Chokyi Gyaltsen Center, Geshe Deyang – resident geshe for Chokyi Gyaltsen Center, the FPMT center in Penang, Malaysia – talks about his background and education. You ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Offers Teachings and Advice at Tushita Meditation Centre
Ven. Sarah Thresher shared this report from Tushita Meditation Centre in Dharamsala, India: On June 14, FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche invited Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme [Khadro-la] to attend the picnic at the end of a dual course ... Read more »
Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: ‘We Cannot Live without Harming Others’
Over the years, Mandala has explored the issue of vegetarianism and the question of whether or not to eat meat. But with a growing awareness of issues of animal cruelty and environmental concerns connected to the production of dairy products ... Read more »Tendil Nyersel prayer flags available to order
The prayer flags (one of of the Long Life practices requested for Lama Zopa Rinpoche – for full details see the post dated April 24) are now ready. The prayer flags are available in strings of 25 flags,(about 8 meter ... Read more »