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Skies of Benefit: The New Issue of Mandala
Mandala’s April-June 2013 print issue has just been published. In it, we take a look at the “Skies of Benefit” one can create through the correct practice of pilgrimage. Our exclusive online content for this issue includes advice from Lama ... Read more »How to Become Enlightened When You Can’t Do Retreat
By Ven. Chönyi Taylor Without understanding how your inner nature evolves, how can you possibly discover eternal happiness? Where is eternal happiness? It’s not in the sky or in the jungle; you won’t find it in the air or under ... Read more »New Video: Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Karma
While traveling from Taipei to Kaoshung as part of a tour of FPMT centers in Taiwan, Lama Zopa Rinpoche had a very late dinner at a food court. Ven. Roger writes in his blog “Life on the Road with Lama ... Read more »
‘The Benefits of Wearing Robes,’ a conversation with Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Taken from a conversation with Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the benefits of wearing one’s monastic robes in public: “If you were sangha but you didn’t wear robes, then people would not know [that you were ordained], but with robes on ... Read more »Dreaming in the Food Court
From Ven. Roger Kunsang: Taiwan–March 2, 2013 We stopped for dinner, at a food court on the drive to Kaoshung. (We were driving from Taipei in the north to Kaoshung in the south of Taiwan. We got off to a ... Read more »
‘Virtual’ Sutra Recitation Around the World
FPMT News Around the World “Although a bit belatedly, it’s the time of year to happily reflect on what our international sutra reading group accomplished ‘virtually’ in 2012,” Doc O’Connor Nemoto, director of Do Ngak Sung Juk Centre in Tokyo, ... Read more »
First Basic Program Graduation Ceremony at Nalanda!
On February 15 Nalanda Monastery, France, officially completed its first five year residential Basic Program (BP) with a graduation ceremony. Geshe Jamphel, BP teacher and abbot, handed out BP completion certificates to the graduates (two of them were not there), ... Read more »
Mandala Magazine in Taiwan
FPMT News Around the World FPMT Taiwan published what may be the first-ever version of Mandala magazine in Mandarin and presented a copy to FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche during his recent visit. According to Ven. Roger Kunsang, Rinpoche’s ... Read more »
Offering towards Tashi Lhunpo Health Care Center
The Tashi Lhunpo Health Care CenterFebruary 2013: The Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund and the Tibetan Health Services Fund donated US$5,677 (300,000 irs) towards the Tashi Lhunpo Health Care Center. The Tashi Lhunpo Health Care Center is extremely important in ... Read more »
A New Roof for Kopan Hostel in Sera Je Monastery
The roof of Kopan Hostel being repaired. February 2012: The Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund donated US$22,709 toward a much needed new roof for Kopan Hostel under Tsawa Khangtsen at Sera Je Monastery, India. Kopan Hostel is where all the ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Videos from Jinsui Farlin, Taiwan
FPMT News Around the World You can watch Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s recent teachings from Jinsui Farlain in Taiwan on the fpmt.org livestream page. Several videos are available of Rinpoche teaching, including a Shakyamuni Buddha 1,000 Offerings puja and a Chenrezig ... Read more »