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Inner Peace and Happiness during Three-Year Retreat
In 2008, Ven. Thubten Gyatso (Adrian Feldmann) completed a three-year retreat at De-Tong Ling Retreat Centre on Kangaroo Island off the South Australian coast. In an interview with Owen Cole, Ven. Gyatso describes the retreat as the most powerful experience ... Read more »Teachings on Emptiness: What’s Real?
Tubten Pende gives an overview of the various interpretations of the Buddha’s teachings on emptiness in “What’s Real?” from Mandala, July 1995. “These philosophical views are different,” he says. “It’s not that they’re all one and they’re all the same; ... Read more »Prayer Offered for Rinpoche’s Recovery
September 22 2011 Rejoice! From his own side, Yang Teng Tulku has composed a prayer – Panacea of Pure Nectar – to offer to Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Yang Teng Tulku is a very knowledgeable young lama working in His Holiness ... Read more »Lama Yeshe Tribute Issue Now Available Online
Mandala has made available all articles from its April-June 2009 print issue, “25 Years Since Lama’s Passing: Mandala celebrates his life and work through intimate reflections on the early days of FPMT.” You may now access all of the articles ... Read more »
September 20 2011
Photos of Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal (click on the photos to enlarge them) Photographs by Piero Siriani Rinpoche using his right arm to hold the conch during the puja during Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup’s cremation Rinpoche teaching – ... Read more »Big Love Excerpt
The long anticipated biography of Lama Yeshe, Big Love, is to published by the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive this year. Meanwhile, we are pleased to publish ongoing excerpts from the work in progress. This excerpt is taken from the chapter ... Read more »Socially Responsible Investing
Money is a dirty word to some Buddhists. But money from its own side can’t be bad, it is how we use it and the motivation we have for obtaining it that determines the benefit. In What is Socially Responsible ... Read more »
The Last Days on Earth
Kopan Monastery, Nepal — September 12, 2011 From Ven. Roger: On September 5, Rinpoche leaned very close to Lama Lhundrup to better hear his voice, it was very soft, a very soft whisper. “Even the very smallest pleasure is in ... Read more »Videos of Lama Lhundrup
Lama Lhundrup recorded a series of videos for his students beginning in January 2011, when he traveled to Singapore to seek modern medical treatment, through May 2011, when he requested that all FPMT students pray for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s health ... Read more »Mandala’s New Online Content is Published
Mandala‘s new October-December 2011 online content is now live. In addition to supplemental articles to this issue’s main stories: Remembering the Kindness of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Courageous People of Tibet, and a Tribute to Khensur Rinpoche ... Read more »Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup’s Nurse Reflects
Jo Hathaway, a palliative care nurse from New Zealand and a student of Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup, has been staying at Kopan since January 2011 to help take care for his medical needs. She wrote the following reflection on her ... Read more »