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Ling Rinpoche Visits and Other News from Choe Khor Sum Ling Study Group
FPMT News Around the World Choe Khor Sum Ling (CKSL), the FPMT study group in Bangalore, India, recently wrote Mandala about some of the highlights of their summer program. “We had a beautiful and especially blessed Saka Dawa,” CKSL writes. ... Read more »
Nalanda Monastery Completes Pujas for Rinpoche’s Health
FPMT News Around the World The community at Nalanda Monastery in France recently completed 1,020 sessions of the 16 Arhat puja in order to benefit the health of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. The monastery reports that they began doing the pujas ... Read more »
Talking Tibetan on Mandala Talk
If listening to Mandala is more your speed, check out the latest installment of our podcast “Mandala Talk.” In this podcast: Have you ever thought about learning classical Tibetan? Are you curious about monastic textbooks? What do you think Buddhism ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Celebrates Ksitigarbha Day at Land of Medicine Buddha
FPMT Around the World Lama Zopa Rinpoche joined the fourth Ksitigarbha Day celebration at Land of Medicine Buddha (LMB) in California on Saturday, September 15. Rinpoche gave explanations on Ksitigarbha and a lung of the mantra in the garden area ... Read more »
“Rinpoche’s Decision,” How Lama Yeshe and Students Helped Bring Rinpoche to the West
Big Love, the long-anticipated authorized biography of Lama Yeshe written by Adele Hulse, provides an intimate portrait of FPMT’s founder. In 1979, an extensive teaching tour in Europe has been organized by Lama Yeshe’s burgeoning organization for Lama Yeshe and ... Read more »
Fire Safety Training at Kopan Monastery and Nunnery
In May 2012, Tony Vickery-Howe spent one month offering training to the monks and nuns of Kopan Monastery and Khachoe Ghakyil Nunnery in Kathmandu, Nepal, in fire prevention and suppression, and in offering first aid to the injured. This was ... Read more »Animal Liberation & Blessing Videos
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s commitment to benefiting animals is legendary. No creature is too small or insignificant — Rinpoche shows incredible compassion to all living beings. Please enjoy these videos of Rinpoche liberating and blessing animals, as well as explaining ways ... Read more »Sept 12 2012
From Nalanda Monastery: Yesterday we have finished 1020 times the sixteen arhat pujas (about 920 were done by the monks). We started immediately after the Chenrezig retreat with Khadro-la, and it took us almost two weeks of mostly five daily ... Read more »Animal Liberation Fund Featured in Mandala Magazine
FPMT’s Mandala magazine highlighted the Animal Liberation Fund as a featured project in the January-April 2012 print magazine. The article gives an overview of the project, recent news, resources for liberating animals, and a short article from Enlightenment for the ... Read more »New Videos from Geshe Thubten Soepa
FPMT News Around the World Geshe Thubten Soepa, who has been a visiting teacher at FPMT’s Land of Compassion and Wisdom in Austin, Texas, U.S., for several years, recently created videos available on YouTube. One video features Geshe Soepa giving ... Read more »Funds Raised for Laser Surgery Machine!
September 2012: We are happy to report that the US$120,000 needed for a new laser surgery machine for the Amdo Eye Hospital has been raised! Many thanks to all who contributed to this incredibly beneficial project.