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Rejoicing in Other’s Inspiration
While leading a month-long retreat in Australia in March 2011 and just prior to manifesting a stroke, Lama Zopa Rinpoche received a card from a student attending the retreat. Rinpoche requested that the card be shared by Mandala so that ... Read more »
It Is the Mind That Has to Change
While staying at Kopan Monastery in Nepal earlier this year, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave an oral transmission of Lama Tsongkhapa’s Lekshe Nyingpo (Essence of True Eloquence). Here’s an edited extract from Rinpoche’s teaching before a transmission given in April 2013: ... Read more »
His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New Zealand and Australia
During His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s tour of New Zealand, June 9-12, the resident geshes of the FPMT centers in New Zealand had their picture taken during a moment with His Holiness. Geshe Wangdu from Dorje Chang Institute and Geshe ... Read more »
Sera Je Food Fund: Preparing Food for 30,000 in Honor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
The Sera Je Food Fund Kitchen is preparing to offer food to 30,000 visitors to the monastery in honor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s visit to Sera Je from July 5-12, and in celebration of his 78th birthday on ... Read more »
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 »