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Continued Opportunity to Join Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Teachings via Livestream
Lama Zopa Rinpoche will begin offering a Five-Deity Heruka Initiation on August 19 and will continue through August 23 at Amitabha Buddhist Centre (ABC) in Singapore. The initiation is strictly for on-site participation by approved registrants only, and attendance at ... Read more »
Rejoicing in Support Offered to Hundreds of Students in India and Nepal
Since 2012 the Social Services Fund has been supporting schools in India and Nepal that have students of Tibetan, Nepali, Sherpa, and Indian heritage. Approximately 1,000 school-aged children in seven different schools benefit from this support. FPMT’s Social Services Fund ... Read more »
His Holiness Has Taken the Responsibility to Do the Holy Actions of All the Infinite Buddhas
A few hours after his discharge from a hospital in Singapore for a medical procedure, Lama Zopa Rinpoche joined the Amitabha Buddhist Centre (ABC) community in Singapore for their special celebration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 87th birthday on ... Read more »
Join the Livestream of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Teachings in Singapore
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has been offering very precious teachings on thought transformation and lamrim from Amitabha Buddhist Centre (ABC), Singapore. Teachings started on August 1 and will continue for the whole month. The teachings on thought transformation have been given ... Read more »
Helping Tenzin Phuntsok Rinpoche Prepare for His Rik Chung Debate: Ven Tenzin Gache Shares the Story
Tenzin Phuntsok Rinpoche is the recognized reincarnation of Geshe Lama Konchog, a highly respected lama who passed away in 2001. Phuntsok Rinpoche was born in the Tsum region of Nepal in 2002 and enthroned in 2006 at Kopan Monastery, where ... Read more »
New Podcast Episode: #8 From Birth to Death We Believe in the Hallucination Projected by Ignorance
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 »
Live Your Life to Generate Bodhicitta
Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins this short video, which was recorded in December 2017, by emphasizing that the most important thing in our life should be to generate and increase our bodhicitta. This is how we can best help ourselves and ... Read more »
Freedom Through Correct Knowing: A New Collaboration from Sera Jey Translation and Sera IMI House
We are pleased to share news about a book that is a unique collaboration between the monks of Sera Jey Monastery Translation Department and Sera IMI House. Just released by Wisdom Publications, Freedom though Correct Knowing; Khedrup Jé’s Interpretation of ... Read more »
Acting in the Middle Path
Lama Thubten Yeshe (1935–1984), who founded the FPMT organization with Lama Zopa Rinpoche, was able to translate Tibetan Buddhist teachings into clear ideas that resonated with the Western students he met and taught in the 1970s and ’80s. These teachings ... Read more »
Watch Lama Zopa Rinpoche Teach Live in Singapore in August!
We are delighted to share information about Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s upcoming teachings and initiations at Amitabha Buddhist Centre (ABC), Singapore this month. The first part of this program will be streamed live, and we invite you to join students around ... Read more »
Rejoice in Amazing Prayers on Chokhor Duchen and Extensive Offerings to the Sangha
This year on August 1 we celebrate Chokhor Duchen, one of the four annual holy days of Guru Shakyamuni Buddha which commemorates Buddha’s first turning of the wheel of Dharma and on which merit generated is multiplied one hundred million ... Read more »