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Rejoicing in the Addition of Maya Daya Dialysis Clinic to Karuna Hospital
Maya Daya Clinic, established in 1992 at the foot of Kopan Hill, is one way Kopan Monastery has been actively serving their local community. At that time of inception, there was very little medical care in the area, with doctors ... Read more »
Losang Dragpa Centre Celebrates Tenth Anniversary of ‘Overnight Praises to the Twenty-one Taras’
Pik-Pin Goh, director of Losang Dragpa Centre (LDC), the FPMT center based in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, read the recently published advice from Rinpoche on the uncountable benefits of Tara practice and was inspired to share how LDC has been doing ... Read more »
The Western Sangha Are the Real Heroes
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered this video teaching on March 7, 2022, from Kopan Monastery in Nepal to ordained Sangha at the beginning of a three-month course on the Vinaya being held at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa in Italy. This teaching ... Read more »
The Definition of Having Generated Bodhicitta
The following video is an Essential Extract from Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Essential Extracts are short videos extracted from a longer teachings that focuses on a specific topic. We have more than two hundred Essential Extract videos available on our website. ... Read more »
Driving with Lama
Big Love: The Life and Teachings of Lama Yeshe is the official, authorized biography of Lama Yeshe. The two volume book tells the fascinating story of Lama Yeshe, how he met Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and how they created the Foundation ... Read more »
Without Remembering Impermanence-death, You Won’t Practice Lojong
Our time to practice Dharma is fleeting. Lama Zopa Rinpoche encourages students to meditate on impermanence and death so that instead of just listening to Dharma, we put the teachings of the Buddha into practice. Here is a short summary ... Read more »
Transform Loss into a Virtuous Action
The Six Perfections: The Practice of the Bodhisattvas (2020) by Lama Zopa Rinpoche has been recently released in a paperback edition. In the book, Rinpoche walks us through the six perfections, which are a key Mahayana Buddhist teaching. Here’s an ... Read more »
FPMT Annual Review 2021: Sharing and Preserving the Dharma in a Changing World
We are so pleased to share FPMT International Office’s Annual Review 2021: Sharing and Preserving the Dharma in a Changing World. The year 2021 continued to bring many uncertainties, fears, threats, and changes to the world in which we live. ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Life of Dr. Giorgio Armato: A Man of Few Words and Many Actions
Dr. Giorgio Armato, 74, died at home in Genoa, Italy, on January 21, of cancer. Dr. Giorgio Armato graduated from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in Genoa, Italy, and specialized in oncology. He met Lama Zopa Rinpoche in 1975 ... Read more »
Just Giving Food and Shelter to Our Pets Is Not Enough
The following video is an Essential Extract from Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Essential Extracts are short videos extracted from a longer teachings that focus on a specific topic. We have more than two hundred Essential Extract videos available on our website. ... Read more »
Merit Box Project Enters Its Twentieth Year of Grantmaking
The Merit Box Project celebrates its twentieth year of awarding grants this year. Currently, applications are being accepted for projects and initiatives that align with the FPMT mission. Most often these grant recipients are local FPMT centers, projects, services, and ... Read more »