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Upcoming Teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Bodhgaya, India
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be offering teachings at the Kalachakra Teaching Ground in Bodhgaya, India, starting December 29 through 31, with a long life puja offered on January 1, 2023. The events will be broadcast live on the ... Read more »
Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 3: Great Compassion Comes from Realizing Samsara is the Nature of Suffering
Rinpoche began this teaching, given on December 9, 2022 from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, reminding us that everything comes from the mind—depression, feeling suicidal, and everything we experience. When problems arise it becomes clear whether ... Read more »
New Podcast Episode: #18 Everything the Guru Does Brings Us to Enlightenment
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 »
Enjoy with Compassion this Holiday Season
This holiday season, all of us at FPMT International Office would like to offer our warmest wishes for you to actualize true joy, peace, love, and compassion in your heart. “The sun of real happiness shines in your life when ... Read more »
Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 2: How the Letter Z Comes Into Existence
Everything comes from the mind, Rinpoche reminds us in this second teaching from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery, given on December 8, 2022. Samsara, nirvana, suffering, enlightenment, all appearances we have, anything we hold as good or ... Read more »
A Major Achievement: Rejoicing in the New Geshema Graduates of 2022!
Khachoe Ghakyil Nunnery has announced that four of their senior nuns, Ven. Lobsang Dolma, Ven. Thupten Choedon, Ven. Thupten Sangmo, and Ven. Lobsang Dolkar, graduated as geshemas on November 18, 2022. They were joined by six other nuns from nunneries ... Read more »
Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery, December 21
As a reminder, an official long life puja will be offered on behalf of FPMT centers, projects, services, study groups, and students for Lama Zopa Rinpoche, on December 21, at Kopan Monastery, Nepal. This second long life puja in 2022 ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Life of the 102nd Ganden Tripa Rizong Rinpoche: Representing the Pinnacle of the Sutra and Tantra Traditions
The 102nd Ganden Tripa Rizong Rinpoche, one of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s gurus, passed away on December 8, 2022 at Drepung Monastery, Karnataka, India, at age 94. Ganden Trisur Rizong Sras Rinpoche was born in Ladakh, India in 1928, to an ... Read more »
Seasons Greeting and Welcome to Our December e-News
FPMT International Office wishes you a most joyous holiday season and new year. We are very pleased to share with you our December 2022 e-news which is packed with news and teachings from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, causes for rejoicing, resources ... Read more »
Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 1: By Studying Buddha Dharma, You Come to Know Yourself
In this first teaching Rinpoche offered to the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, on December 7, 2022, Rinpoche thanked everyone for coming to Nepal to learn lamrim (the gradual path to enlightenment) and get to know the ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Activities Supported by the FPMT Education & Preservation Fund in 2022
In 2022, US$121,634 in grants from the FPMT Education and Preservation Fund were provided to activities promoting the dialogue between Buddhist teachings and modern education and sciences, as well as translations of Dharma texts from Tibetan into Hindi and Bengali. ... Read more »