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A Powerful Immersion Retreat: Tara Institute Hosts First Australian Foundation Service Seminar
The Foundation Service Seminar (FSS) is the “FPMT immersion retreat.” It provides essential information and nourishment for all serving, or wishing to serve, in the FPMT organization. The FSS retreat is key to deeply understanding the FPMT organization and the ... Read more »
Support to Nine Elderly Homes Serving Tibetan Elders in 2022
For the seventh consecutive year, the FPMT Social Services Fund has continued to offer essential support to 320 elderly Tibetans living in homes throughout India and in Nepal. This service has become an essential mission of this fund with nine ... Read more »
Rejoicing and Creating Merit on Saka Dawa Duchen
We wish everyone an auspicious Saka Dawa Duchen! Depending on one’s time zone, a collective effort of merit-making is underway or has already occurred in FPMT centers, projects, and services around the world and in the homes of teachers, students, ... Read more »
New Podcast Episode: #4 Any Activity Can Be a Mindfulness Meditation on Emptiness
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 »
Please Join us this Saka Dawa in Offering Powerful Pujas and Practices for All Living Beings
This year on Saka Dawa, June 14, when merit is multiplied 300 million times, the Puja Fund, on behalf of the entire organization, will be arranging the following pujas and practices for the benefit of all beings: 100,000 Praises to ... Read more »
Long Life Prayer and Continued Prayers for Lama Zopa Rinpoche
In 2016, Khandro Kunga Bhuma spontaneously composed a long life prayer for Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Khandro-la is consulted every year for advice on practices to clear obstacles for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s good health and long life. That year she advised ... Read more »
There Are No Limits to the Benefits of Bodhicitta
Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins this video, which was recorded in April 2018 at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo, Australia, by reminding us of the benefits of making even a tiny offering to a holy object. But, Rinpoche ... Read more »
Recommended Practices for Saka Dawa Duchen on June 14, 2022
We are fast approaching the auspicious merit-multiplying day of Saka Dawa Duchen—the fifteenth day of the fourth month in the Tibetan lunar calendar—which commemorates Shakyamuni Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana. Saka Dawa Duchen is one of the four great holy ... Read more »New Podcast Episode: #3 Every Single Thing Comes from Your Mind
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 »
FDCW Shares Exciting and Insightful Courses and Conversations
Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom (FDCW), an international FPMT project, had a lively year in 2021, as shared in their recently released Annual Review 2021. And the project continues to build and expand on their beneficial and uplifting work ... Read more »
Investigate Why You Are Practicing Dharma
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 »