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Magnificent New Forty-two Foot Stupa at Rabgayling Tibetan Settlement

Magnificent New Forty-two Foot Stupa at Rabgayling Tibetan Settlement

The Rabgayling Tibetan Settlement in Hunsur, South India is home to the Rabgayling Old Aged Home, a care facility serving approximately twenty residents. FPMT Charitable Projects, through the Social Services Fund, has been supporting this home since 2015, providing grants ... Read more »
New Podcast Episode: #16 Meditate on Emptiness While Walking

New Podcast Episode: #16 Meditate on Emptiness While Walking

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 »
Practice Resources to Support Health

Practice Resources to Support Health

As many communities worldwide are entering flu season, we wanted to share some practice materials specific to supporting and protecting our health. Here are some available for download through the Foundation Store: The Dharani of the Goddess Parnashavari: Parnashavari, or ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Advice for Benefiting Turkeys on the U.S. Thanksgiving Holiday

Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Advice for Benefiting Turkeys on the U.S. Thanksgiving Holiday

Every year in the United States, tens of millions of turkeys are killed for the holiday of Thanksgiving, which is this Thursday, November 24, 2022. Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered advice in a 2018 teaching to help benefit the turkeys killed, ... Read more »
Rejoicing in Support Offered to Ordained Sangha in 2022

Rejoicing in Support Offered to Ordained Sangha in 2022

Providing support to sangha living in vows is one of the highest priorities for the FPMT organization and the Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund offers food, accommodation, health care and education to sangha living in nunneries and monasteries around the world. ... Read more »
The Importance of Remembering Impermanence and Death

The Importance of Remembering Impermanence and Death

Lama Zopa Rinpoche continually stresses the importance of remembering impermanence and death, preparing for our own deaths, and helping others at the time of death. In this teaching, given at Thekchen Choling in Singapore on September 1, Rinpoche reminds us ... Read more »
November e-News is Now Available!

November e-News is Now Available!

Our November 2022 e-news is now available. This issue features news, updates, resources, opportunities, and causes for rejoicing, including: Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s recent meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama , Recently published teachings from Lama Zopa Rinpoche , News ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Life of Geshe Thubten Soepa: Protecting the Helpless

Rejoicing in the Life of Geshe Thubten Soepa: Protecting the Helpless

Geshe Thubten Soepa. 67, passed away at a hospital in Mysore, India, on November 2, 2022 from a heart attack. Geshe Soepa was well regarded as a scholar with extensive knowledge about both sutra and tantra, and not only well ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Merit-Multiplying Activities of All on Lhabab Duchen

Rejoicing in the Merit-Multiplying Activities of All on Lhabab Duchen

We rejoice in all of the virtuous and merit-multiplying activities happening in FPMT centers, projects, and services around the world during this special time of Lhabab Duchen, November 15, when the entire FPMT mandala is creating extensive merit for others. ... Read more »
New Podcast Episode: #15 All Our Happiness Comes from Those Who Harm Us

New Podcast Episode: #15 All Our Happiness Comes from Those Who Harm Us

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 »
Hub for Universal Education for Compassion and Wisdom

Hub for Universal Education for Compassion and Wisdom

We’re delighted to announce that the FPMT organization now has a hub for its Universal Education activities! The development of compassion and wisdom are at the heart of the FPMT organization. We aim to provide integrated education through which people’s ... Read more »
A Precious Opportunity: Extensive Prayers and Offering to Thousands of Sangha on Lhabab Duchen

A Precious Opportunity: Extensive Prayers and Offering to Thousands of Sangha on Lhabab Duchen

On the merit-multiplying day of Lhabab Duchen (which falls on November 15 this year), ten thousand ordained Sangha will be engaging in powerful practices for the benefit of all beings, such as reciting the Prajnaparamita, Medicine Buddha puja, One Thousand ... Read more »