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FPMT Study and Practice Materials Available in Non-English Languages
FPMT is now present in 36 countries and in order to meet the study and practice needs of non-English speaking FPMT students, many practice resources, texts, study programs, and teachings from Lama Zopa Rinpoche are now translated by volunteers. We ... Read more »
Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teachings 13 & 14: Rinpoche Offers the Oral Transmission of Essential Nectar
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered the complete oral transmission (lung) of The Essential Nectar of Holy Doctrine, also known as the Essence of Nectar, one of the eighteen great lamrim texts by Yeshe Tsondro. It was given over two teachings from ... Read more »
A Most Happy Birthday to Tenzin Osel Hita!
On behalf of the entire FPMT organization, FPMT International Office wishes Tenzin Osel Hita a very happy birthday and a long, healthy life. May his beneficial activities, including his Global Tree Initiative, flourish and may his wishes manifest without delay! ... Read more »
Advice for Losar and the Fifteen Days of Miracles 2023
The Fifteen Days of Miracles—from the first day of the Tibetan new year (Losar, February 21, 2023) until the fifteenth (March 7, 2023)—commemorate the special time when Guru Shakyamuni Buddha showed miraculous powers in order to subdue six tirthikas, or ... Read more »
Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 12: Even Offering a Little Help to Others Is So Important
In this world, there are so many ways to help others, Rinpoche explains in this teaching given on December 20, 2022 from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery, Nepal. With a bodhicitta motivation, we receive more than skies ... Read more »
Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 11: The Special Qualities of Lama Tsongkhapa’s Teachings
On the occasion of Lama Tsongkhapa Day, December 18, 2022, Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered a teaching to the participants of the fifty-third Kopan lamrim meditation course about the very special qualities of Lama Tsongkhapa’s teachings. After an extensive explanation on ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Life of David Williams, A Hidden Gem of a Practitioner
David Williams passed away at the age of 65 years in his room at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo, Australia on January 25, 2023. Ian Green, the director of the Great Stupa, reflects some on David’s life ... Read more »
New Podcast Episode: #21 Experience Harm in a Positive Way
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 »
Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 10: Use Your Body and Bear Hardships to Practice Dharma
We bear unbelievable hardships for this body that we cherish more than anything. We keep it clean, spend lots of money on clothes and food for it, spend time exercising, doing hard work for money, and so much worry and ... Read more »
Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 9: Look at Your Problems as Hallucinations
Any action stained by the eight worldly dharmas becomes nonvirtue, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains in his teaching given on December 16 at Kopan Monastery during the fifty-third lamrim meditation course. Even spending one’s whole life in retreat in a cave ... Read more »
Refuge is a State of Mind
The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive has released a new free book by Lama Yeshe, Knowledge-Wisdom: The Peaceful Path the Liberation. This collection is drawn from teachings given by Lama Yeshe in the 1970s and 1980s, when he and Lama Zopa ... Read more »