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Daily Breakfast
A look at a typical daily offering of breakfast provided by the Sera Je Food Fund to the monks studying at Sera Je Monastery. You can also view a typical day’s menu including breakfast and lunch. Please take a moment ... Read more »
Seven Days of Lunch
A look at a typical week’s worth of lunches provided by the Sera Je Food Fund to all the monks studying at Sera Je Monastery. You can also view a typical day’s menu including breakfast and lunch. Please take a ... Read more »
Preparations for His Holiness the Dalai Lama at International Office and Maitripa College
FPMT News Around the World Preparation for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s visit to Maitripa College and FPMT International Office are in full swing. With His Holiness arriving in Oregon in two weeks, staff and volunteers are bustling around the ... Read more »Announcing a Sixteen Arhats Puja eBook
We are happy to announce the publication of a new eBook, The Wish-fulfilling Gem Enhancing the Buddha’s Doctrine, a Method for Making Offerings and Prayers to Guru Shakyamuni Buddha and the Sixteen Arhats by Yeshe Gyaltsen which includes a purification ... Read more »April 24 2013
Espanol Italiano Francais Dear Friends, Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s health still continues to improve very gradually, there is still no interest from Rinpoche’s side to do any exercise but that seems to be the way Rinpoche has chosen. At the beginning ... Read more »
Chokyi Gyaltsen Center Hosts Jade Buddha for Universal Peace in Penang
FPMT News Around the World The Jade Buddha for Universal Peace recently wrapped up its April showing at Penang Times Square, a shopping complex in Penang, Malaysia. The visit was organized by FPMT group Chokyi Gyaltsen Center and co-organized with ... Read more »US$15,720 Offered to Food Fund for 35 Students at Ngari Institute in Ladakh
Ngari Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Ladakh, India. April 2013: The Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund was very happy to be able to offer US$15,720 for food offered in 2013 to 35 students studying at Ngari Institute of Buddhist Dialectics ... Read more »The Golden Light Sutra and World Peace
In May 2007, Lama Zopa Rinpoche requested that students recite the Golden Light Sutra as much as possible for world peace. Rinpoche said: Anybody who wants peace in the world should read the Golden Light Sutra (Ser.ö dam.päi do wang.gyi ... Read more »
Seeing the True Beauty of Inner Potential
During a five-day meditation course in 1975 held at Dromana, near Melbourne, Australia, FPMT founder Lama Thubten Yeshe discussed our warped understanding of our bodies. During the talk, Lama Yeshe encourages students to closely examine the ego’s superficial projections. He ... Read more »Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund offers US$11,500 Toward 2013 Special Debate Held in Nepal
2010 Meeting of Geluk Committee in Nepal.April 2013: The Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund is very happy to be able to offer US$11,500 towards 2013 Special debate held in Nepal in August 2013. This year the special debate will be held ... Read more »French Version of Masters Program Texts in Progress!
FPMT’s French-language translation office, Service de traduction de la FPMT, is happy to share their enthusiasm for a new promising project: creating French versions of the Masters Program (MP) study texts. Inspired by the unique vision of Lama Yeshe, the ... Read more »