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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 »
The Exemplary Life and Death of Geshe Yeshe Tobden
Many long-time students of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India, and also in Italy may remember Geshe Yeshe Tobden, who was a remarkable meditator and yogi and who died in July 1999. Geshe-la’s former attendant, Ven. Lobsang ... Read more »Food Mindfulness
By Ven. Chönyi Taylor Food. It occupies a lot of my mind. In fact it always has, but more so since I was diagnosed with diabetes (Type 2, no big deal). So I wonder again, as I have many times ... Read more »
Jamyang Hosts Happy European Regional Meeting
Jamyang Buddhist Centre London “hosted a successful and very happy Europe Region Annual meeting in July,” wrote Jamyang’s Adnan Hadzi. “Sixty delegates from 15 countries in Europe met to discuss the benefits of five-year rolling plans, how they could improve ... Read more »
Stupendous: New Video of Great Stupa of Universal Compassion
The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion continues to rise from the bush of Victoria, Australia. The massive project has been captured in an impressive new video that shows the current development of the 50-meter [164-foot] stupa in Maiden Gully, near ... Read more »
Ven. Robina Teaches on ‘Courageous Compassion’ at Shen Phen Ling Study Group
Shen Phen Ling Study Group, based in Albury/Wodonga, Victoria, Australia, hosted Ven. Robina Courtin in late June. Ven. Robina gave a weekend teaching on “Courageous Compassion” in the small rural town of Yackandandah, located in northeastern Victoria, not far from ... Read more »
200 Million Mani Retreat Sponsored by the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund
Since 2009 the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund has sponsored a small nunnery, Tashi Chime Gatsal Nunnery, located in a remote area of Nepal, to undertake annual 100 million mani retreats. In 2012 the fund started to sponsor two 100 ... Read more »
New Video About the Sera Je Food Fund
Please enjoy this inspiring new video, filmed by Ven. Thubten Kalden and edited by Ven. Lhundrup Daychen, that shows the annual Hayagriva Retreat of Sera Je Monastery. The entire retreat was dedicated to all the kind benefactors of the Sera ... Read more »
News from O.Sel.Ling, Spain
From Ven. Fabio Poza, O.Sel.Ling Centro de Retiros spirtual program coordinator On July 22, we organized a procession of the Kangyur to celebrate the temporary installation of the texts in the center’s big gompa. On August 2, we finished our ... Read more »
108,939,500 Manis Recited in Mongolia!
The 100 Million Mani Retreat in Mongolia concludes on Friday, August 30, with a long life puja offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, who led the retreat. FPMT Mongolia organized the retreat, which began August 1 at Idgaa Choizinling Dratsang (College), ... Read more »