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Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: A Thousand Benefits
“Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: A Thousand Benefits.” From Mandala February-March 2008. “The benefit of the center is to learn Dharma practice which means purifying defilements and collecting merits/good luck/good karma; attaining the path to liberation and full enlightenment, and ... Read more »Rinpoche’s Response to Recitations Accomplished
December 13th 2011 Dear Friends, Rinpoche is in retreat for a short time before the Kalachakra initiation. I just mentioned to Rinpoche that some students have between them recited the Golden Light Sutra more than 100 times. Rinpoche was very ... Read more »About Prayer
The late Tom Flynn wrote a yet-to-be published book on prayer from an ecumenical perspective. It has a very universal view – about the good heart, mind-training, virtue, and prayer as a form of meditation. Here is an excerpt, published ... Read more »Khenrinpoche Geshe Chonyi Enthroned at Kopan
On December 8, 2011 Khenrinpoche Geshe Chonyi was officially appointed abbot of Kopan Monastery and Kopan Nunnery by the private office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Please stay tuned for the next print issue of Mandala, April-June 2012, for ... Read more »New Mandala content is live!
We’re pleased to announce that the newest print magazine is in the mail. While you wait, please enjoy our newest online content featuring twenty topical new articles.Gomo Tulku's New Video: Don't You Know
Gomo Tulku has released a new video “Don’t You Know” with Jidenna. Gomo says, “It is a tribute to everything going on in Tibet and a sobering reminder of how easy it is to get lost in our self-delusions.”Mandala’s New Online Content is Published
Mandala’s January-March 2012 online content is now live. In addition to supplemental articles to this issue’s main stories: The Passing of Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup Rigsel and Preserving the Foundations: Merry Colony and FPMT Education, there are several topical articles, ... Read more »December 7 2011
Dear Friends, For Rinpoche’s health and long life, we have been advised it is very important for students to accumulate 88 recitations of the Golden Light Sutra. There is no deadline but it would be helpful and very good to ... Read more »Spider, Spider
By Ven. Chönyi Taylor Spider, spider burning bright In the center of my sight, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?1 I was known in my family for my freak-outs with spiders. Australian Huntsmen spiders are large ... Read more »Altruism Versus Co-dependency
“Altruism is the attitude that regards the happiness and well-being of another as even more important than one’s own well-being. It’s an attitude of a very brave person, someone who is willing to give up their own happiness for the ... Read more »