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A Word from Kalarupa, the goat
Kalarupa, the goat, is a resident of the Animal Liberation Sanctuary at Kopan Monastery. For the latest online edition of Mandala, Kalarupa shares news of the activities at the sanctuary, where exciting developments are happening. “I hear the people sometimes ... Read more »The Gift of Dharma: Mandala Magazine for Prisoners
FPMT Around the World In coordination with the Liberation Prison Project (LPP), Mandala magazine is mailed to about 500 prisoners every issue. For the January-March 2013 issue, 533 LPP students in Australia, Canada, England, Germany, New Zealand, Scotland, Thailand and ... Read more »
Becoming Geshe-mas
Khachoe Ghakyil Nunnery (Kopan Nunnery) in Kathmandu, Nepal, offers nuns a high quality education in both traditional and modern topics. But perhaps most noteworthy, the nunnery has a geshe program. The Geshe degree is an approximate equivalent to a Ph.D. ... Read more »
Compassion as the Pillar to World Peace
FPMT Around the World The following is an excerpt from His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s A Human Approach to World Peace, a booklet published in 1984 by Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive: “According to Buddhist psychology, most of our troubles are ... Read more »Message from Tenzin Ösel Hita December 12, 2012
Occasionally Ösel shares his thoughts and experiences on his Facebook page. In this update, he gives us a potent reminder about how special each day is. Today is such an amazng day because it is 12-12-12! But apart from that, ... Read more »
Photo Tour of FPMT in Nepal
The new issue of Mandala puts the spotlight on FPMT’s activities in Nepal, a country integral to the development of FPMT and one which continues to be a source of inspiration and instruction for FPMT students worldwide. For our online ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Visits H.E. Ling Rinpoche
FPMT Around the World FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche visited H.E. Ling Rinpoche, who is recovering well from an automobile collision. Ling Rinpoche is the main organizer of the Jangchup Lamrim teachings with His Holiness the Dalai Lama that ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche on ‘Seeing Problems as Positive’
New online at MandalaMagazine.org, Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses “Seeing Problems as Positive,” an excerpt from Rinpoche’s new book How to Practice Dharma: Teachings on the Eight Worldly Dharmas: There are many different ways of using the objects of the eight ... Read more »
New Stories Online from Mandala January-March 2013
The latest issue of Mandala, January-March 2013, is now arriving in mailbox worldwide and our new online content is live! We have added over two dozen new pages of articles, interviews, photos, audio and video that tell the story of ... Read more »‘Season of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness’
By Ven. Chönyi Taylor It’s official. I am now old, an old fogey. I have passed the 70th-birthday benchmark. And I feel myself changing. It is a bit like being an adolescent all over again, except that the unstoppable bodily ... Read more »H.E. Ling Rinpoche Recovering Very Well
FPMT News Around the World The Jangchup Lamrim Teaching Organizing Committee issued an update on H.E. Ling Rinpoche: “H.E. Ling Rinpoche is recovering very well following a car accident on 28 November 2012. H.E. Ling Rinpoche experienced injuries only to ... Read more »