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Rejoicing in the Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund Activities in 2022

Rejoicing in the Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund Activities in 2022

The Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund was established by FPMT in 1997, at the request of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Named after the great 14th-century founder of the Gelug tradition, the Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund’s purpose is to invest in ... Read more »
Practice Patience by Remembering Karma

Practice Patience by Remembering Karma

In this video extract from a 2018 teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche describes a useful method for developing our practice of patience. It consists of reflecting on how everything that we experience is the result of our past actions. So, when ... Read more »
Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 4: Others’ Happiness Depends on How You Act with Your Body, Speech, and Mind

Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 4: Others’ Happiness Depends on How You Act with Your Body, Speech, and Mind

The first way to quickly actualize the realizations of the path to enlightenment is to purify our obscurations, and the best way to purify is to fulfill the guru’s wishes and advice; Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains in his teaching from ... Read more »
Starting the New Year with Purification

Starting the New Year with Purification

With the new year approaching, many of us are reflecting on the past year— rejoicing in the blessings we received, and also assessing mistakes we have made in relation to ourselves and others. Fortunately, we have methods at our disposal ... Read more »
Upcoming Teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Bodhgaya, India

Upcoming Teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Bodhgaya, India

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be offering teachings at the Kalachakra Teaching Ground in Bodhgaya, India, starting December 29 through 31, with a long life puja offered on January 1, 2023. The events will be broadcast live on the ... Read more »
Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 3: Great Compassion Comes from Realizing Samsara is the Nature of Suffering

Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 3: Great Compassion Comes from Realizing Samsara is the Nature of Suffering

Rinpoche began this teaching, given on December 9, 2022 from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, reminding us that everything comes from the mind—depression, feeling suicidal, and everything we experience. When problems arise it becomes clear whether ... Read more »
New Podcast Episode: #18 Everything the Guru Does Brings Us to Enlightenment

New Podcast Episode: #18 Everything the Guru Does Brings Us to Enlightenment

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 »
Enjoy with Compassion this Holiday Season

Enjoy with Compassion this Holiday Season

This holiday season, all of us at FPMT International Office would like to offer our warmest wishes for you to actualize true joy, peace, love, and compassion in your heart. “The sun of real happiness shines in your life when ... Read more »
Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 2: How the Letter Z Comes Into Existence

Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 2: How the Letter Z Comes Into Existence

Everything comes from the mind, Rinpoche reminds us in this second teaching from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery, given on December 8, 2022. Samsara, nirvana, suffering, enlightenment, all appearances we have, anything we hold as good or ... Read more »
A Major Achievement: Rejoicing in the New Geshema Graduates of 2022!

A Major Achievement: Rejoicing in the New Geshema Graduates of 2022!

Khachoe Ghakyil Nunnery has announced that four of their senior nuns, Ven. Lobsang Dolma, Ven. Thupten Choedon, Ven. Thupten Sangmo, and Ven. Lobsang Dolkar, graduated as geshemas on November 18, 2022. They were joined by six other nuns from nunneries ... Read more »
Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery, December 21

Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery, December 21

As a reminder, an official long life puja will be offered on behalf of FPMT centers, projects, services, study groups, and students for Lama Zopa Rinpoche, on December 21, at Kopan Monastery, Nepal. This second long life puja in 2022 ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Life of the 102nd Ganden Tripa Rizong Rinpoche: Representing the Pinnacle of the Sutra and Tantra Traditions

Rejoicing in the Life of the 102nd Ganden Tripa Rizong Rinpoche: Representing the Pinnacle of the Sutra and Tantra Traditions

The 102nd Ganden Tripa Rizong Rinpoche, one of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s gurus, passed away on December 8, 2022 at Drepung Monastery, Karnataka, India, at age 94. Ganden Trisur Rizong Sras Rinpoche was born in Ladakh, India in 1928, to an ... Read more »