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Happy New Year and Welcome to our January 2023 e-News
FPMT International Office offers our most sincere wishes for a healthy and happy New Year to all of our friends and supporters around the world. We are very pleased to share with you our January 2023 e-News which is packed ... Read more »
The Lawudo Chronicles: Judy Weitzner’s Account of the 1969 Trek to Lawudo
Below is Judy Weitzner’s extraordinary and historic account of a very early visit to Solu Khumbu, Nepal with Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche in 1969. This was the first time that Rinpoche had returned to Lawudo since he left ... Read more »
Introducing The Dalai Lama Centre for Tibetan & Indian Ancient Wisdom: A Monumental Achievement Toward Peace
On a wintry morning of January 3, 2023, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, despite suffering from a bad cold, presided over the foundation stone laying ceremony for his new center in Bodhgaya, India, The Dalai Lama Centre for Tibetan and ... Read more »
New Podcast Episode: #20 Every Moment Is an Opportunity to Practice Dharma
There is a new episode of the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast. You can listen to the new episode on our website or find it in your favorite podcast app by searching for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts.” New ... Read more »
Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 6: Giving Rise to Virtuous Thoughts Is the Best Preparation for Death
We should have bodhicitta motivation in our daily life, our work, and in everything we do, Lama Zopa Rinpoche reminds us in this teaching given on December 13, 2022 from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery. This is ... Read more »
Bodhgaya Teachings with His Holiness the Dalai Lama—a Feeling of ‘Home’ for Many
By Frances Howland-Moscatt More than 65,000 devotees attended the winter teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Bodhgaya, Bihar, India, December 29 – January 1. It was his first visit to Bodhgaya in three years, the last time being ... Read more »
Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 5: The Purpose of Being Born a Human Being Is to Practice the Good Heart
Things can suddenly change in life with no warning, Rinpoche explains in a teaching given at the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery on December 12, 2022. We never expect that someone close to our heart could die without ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Advice for Severe Weather Conditions
Lama Zopa Rinpoche recommends the following for mitigating severe weather conditions, which is something many of us around the world will face at one time or another: 1. Protector prayers, especially “Tea Offering to the Eight Classes” (Degye Serkyem) (page ... Read more »
How Everything Comes from Your Mind
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered this very short teaching, recorded on September 19, 2022 at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore. All the pleasant things we experience, including beautiful plants, come from our good karma, Rinpoche explains. In this short video, Rinpoche discusses ... Read more »
Road to Kopan: ‘I Realized that My Life Couldn’t Be the Same Again’
For many long-time students of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Kopan Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, is where they first met the teachings of Buddha and where they saw their lives changed profoundly. In 2013, Mandala Magazine shared the story ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Recent Activities in India and Nepal
Since our last update, Lama Zopa Rinpoche spent beneficial time in India and Nepal in October and November, including a moving visit with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Rinpoche also visited Tashi Chime Gatsal Nunnery in Bigu, Nepal where he ... Read more »