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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
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
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
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 »
Marble Stupa for IMI House
Lama Zopa Rinpoche with the monks at IMI House at Sera Je Monastery, November, 2012. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.November 2012: The Stupa Fund recently donated US$1,200 for a marble stupa which will be built at the IMI House in ... Read more »
Stupas in Everyday Life, Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
FPMT News Around the World Lama Zopa Rinpoche recently expressed a wish to share photos of some of the stupas at Kachoe Dechen Ling, Rinpoche’s house in California, to illustrate how stupas can be part of our daily life. The ... Read more »
Satisfaction and Challenging Your Limits
Photo courtesy of Amitabha Buddhist Center.November 2012: Osel Hita gave a talk called “Satisfaction and Challenging Your Limits” at ABC in Singapore. “Satisfaction and Challening Your Limits” Video Part 1 “Satisfaction and Challening Your Limits” Video Part 2 Photo gallery ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Visits Sera Je Kitchen
October, 2012: Lama Zopa Rinpoche made a rare visit to the Sera Je Kitchen. Lama Zopa Rinpoche visiting the Sera Je Food Fund kitchen. Rinpoche enjoyed the evening’s dinner that was was prepared for the 2,600 monks of Sera Je ... Read more »
Excerpt from Joyce Morgan’s and Conrad Walters’ “Key to the Cave”
Journeys on the Silk Road: A Desert Explorer, Buddha’s Secret Library, and the Unearthing of the World’s Oldest Printed Book, by journalists Joyce Morgan and Conrad Walters, tells the story of the explorer Aurel Stein’s 1906-8 expedition to Caves of ... Read more »
Books, Articles, Talks Featuring Ösel
BBC News, “Ösel Hita: The Reluctant Lama.”, Reincarnation: The Boy Lama, by Vicki Mackenzie, Reborn in the West, by Vicki Mackenzie, Man’s Work, From Telegraph Magazine, London, England, 1987 TV3 issued a documentary entitled Osel: the petit Lama , 2010 ... Read more »