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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 »
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 »