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Scott Snibbe on Dharma, Technology and Art
Software developer, digital artist and Dharma student Scott Snibbe just wrapped up leading a month-long online retreat at Vajrapani Institute focused on the eight worldly dharmas. Before the retreat, he spoke with Mandala in an extensive interview ranging from ideas ... Read more »
Offering Food to 2,600 Monks
Have you ever wondered how to offer food to the 2,600 monks studying at Sera Je Monastery? By donating any amount to the Sera Je Food Fund, you contribute to the daily offering of three healthy vegetarian meals prepared for ... Read more »
Eco Ethics: Interdependence and Compassion
“Now that environmental issues, and climate change in particular, have become headlines in the mainstream media, the question that arises for us all is how to address issues of universal responsibility,” wrote author and photographer Elaine Brooks in Mandala October-November ... Read more »
FPMT Annual Review 2012: Nothing More Important than Helping Others
“I really am so happy about the benefits that we bring to others,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche wrote in the opening to FPMT Annual Review 2012: Nothing More Important than Helping Others. Rinpoche continues by thanking the thousands of people who ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Untimely Death
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Online Advice Book is a collection of a wide range of advices given by Rinpoche to specific students in responses to letters and requests. The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive compiles and edits these pieces, adding new ones ... Read more »
Sarah Shifferd’s ‘Songs and Mental States’
Songs. We love songs. And songs are everywhere. They’re played in stores, restaurants, coffeehouses, as soundtracks to movies and TV shows. They’re sung by street musicians and sent to us by friends. We listen as we drive and clean and ... Read more »
His Holiness and Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Climate Change
FPMT News Around the World In May 2013, His Holiness the Dalai Lama will participate in an Environmental Summit hosted by Maitripa College in Portland, Oregon, U.S. His Holiness will be joined in panel discussions by religious leaders and politicians ... Read more »
Message from Ösel: 2012 FPMT Annual Review
Dear Family, Ösel with Geshe Gendun Choephel and Mai Le Turquais, India Feb 2013.Time passes and already it has been another year gone – 29 years since Lama Yeshe passed away – and we keep evolving in a very healthy ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Fear of Flying
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Online Advice Book is a collection of a wide range of advices given by Rinpoche to specific students in responses to letters and requests. The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive compiles and edits these pieces, adding new ones ... Read more »
Commonly Used Prayers and Practices
Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme (Khadro-la) with Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Washington State, 2012.FPMT Education Services has made freely available a variety of commonly used prayers and practices which you can download or reference online.
Watch Interviews from Being Your True Nature
FPMT News Around the World Being Your True Nature, a film by Tenzin Ösel Hita and Matteo Passigato, introduces the work of the Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom (FDCW) and the programs that comprise Universal Education for Compassion and ... Read more »