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New ‘Mantras’ Page at fpmt.org

New ‘Mantras’ Page at fpmt.org

FPMT News Around the World Mantras, meaning “mind protection” are Sanskrit syllables that bring benefit to all who see, touch, hear or speak them. As a resource for FPMT students, FPMT Education Services has created a new “Mantras” webpage where ... Read more »
Ling Rinpoche in Car Accident, ‘Out of Danger’

Ling Rinpoche in Car Accident, ‘Out of Danger’

FPMT News Around the World Kyabje Ling Rinpoche, the main organizer of the Jangchup Lamrim teachings with His Holiness the Dalai Lama currently taking place in Mundgod Tibetan Settlement in India, was injured in a deadly automobile collision the day ... Read more »
“You Are His Daughter and You Want to Help,” said Lama Yeshe

“You Are His Daughter and You Want to Help,” said Lama Yeshe

Big Love, the long-anticipated authorized biography of Lama Yeshe written by Adele Hulse, provides an intimate portrait of FPMT’s founder. This excerpt is a snapshot from the author’s own life and relationship with Lama Yeshe and is another example of ... Read more »
100 Million Mani Retreats at Tashi Chime Gatsal Nunnery

100 Million Mani Retreats at Tashi Chime Gatsal Nunnery

The nuns of Tashi Chime Gatsal Nunnery.From December 2012- June 2013 the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund is offering US$14,000 for two 100 million mani retreats at Tashi Chime Gatsal Nunnery in Nepal. The fund has sponsored 100 million Om ... Read more »
Special One-day Hayagriva “Tsog Kong” Puja  Offered at Sera Je

Special One-day Hayagriva “Tsog Kong” Puja Offered at Sera Je

November 2012 Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Abbot of Sera Je Monastery during puja.Lama Zopa Rinpoche and the FPMT Puja Fund sponsored a special one-day Hayagriva “Tsog Kong” puja on November 25, 2012 which was performed by all the high lamas, ... Read more »
Osel’s New Film: Being Your True Nature

Osel’s New Film: Being Your True Nature

A new film by Osel Hita and Matteo Passigato, Being Your True Nature, will be available for viewing on December 8, 2012. Filmed in France in August 2011, Being Your True Nature introduces a new form of education, Universal Education, ... Read more »
Large Namgyälma Mantra Board to Bless the Beings in the Ocean Close to Completion

Large Namgyälma Mantra Board to Bless the Beings in the Ocean Close to Completion

FPMT News Around the World By Pam Cayton Some years ago, Lama Zopa Rinpoche requested me to help get a Namgyälma mantra board made that could be used to bless the oceans and waters of the world. With the great ... Read more »
From Osel to the FPMT Family

From Osel to the FPMT Family

Osel with Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang at Kachoe Dechen Ling, CA, September 2012. November 2012 Dear Family, First of all I would like to say hello to everybody working so hard every day for the benefit ... Read more »
North American Region of FPMT Meets

North American Region of FPMT Meets

FPMT News Around the World In early November, a group of 35 directors, spiritual program coordinators and teachers from FPMT centers in North America traveled to Thubten Norbu Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to discuss the ... Read more »
LRZTP6 Recites Golden Light Sutra for Lama Zopa Rinpoche

LRZTP6 Recites Golden Light Sutra for Lama Zopa Rinpoche

FPMT News Around the World “On behalf of all the students of the sixth Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Programme (LRZTP6), I would like to offer to Lama Zopa Rinpoche our reading of the Golden Light Sutra in Tibetan that we ... Read more »

2007 Thanksgiving Report from Lama Zopa Rinpoche

In 2007, Lama Zopa Rinpoche shared what he and some FPMT students did to benefit the millions of turkeys that are killed in the U.S. for Thanksgiving Day. Rinpoche has long been a proponent of vegetarianism and thanks anyone who ... Read more »
Dharmarakshita Study Group’s Outing to Alexander Falls

Dharmarakshita Study Group’s Outing to Alexander Falls

FPMT News Around the World As part of their program, Dharmarakshita Study Group, in Vacoas, Mauritius, makes a group outing three times a year. In October 2012, study group members went to Alexandra Falls in the south of Mauritius Island. ... Read more »