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Auspiciousness, Change, and Merit-Making at Root Institute’s Maitreya School in Bodhgaya
Maitreya School, a project of the Root Institute in Bodhgaya, India, is dedicated to providing quality education while fostering the overall growth and well-being of its 250+ students. The school integrates academic excellence with cultural awareness and personal development through ... Read more »
Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Anger Destroys Your Happiness
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered many teachings from Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore from July-September 2022. On August 10 of that year, he gave a recorded teaching about how anger destroys happiness. In this video, Rinpoche reminds that we can train ... Read more »
What Does it Take to Fully Reach the Path? A Praise to Sacred Hermitages
“Retreat” literally means to retreat from one’s ordinary day-to-day concerns and view, and to give oneself the opportunity to focus on reality. Away from ordinary distractions, we can train our mind in the path to enlightenment. FPMT retreat centers span ... Read more »
From the Archive: Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the Road in the USA in 1997
Over the years, students have shared stories from Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s travels around the world benefiting others; to offer a glimpse into what it is like to be on the road with Rinpoche, and to witness and participate in Rinpoche’s ... Read more »
Lama Yeshe’s Wisdom: Part 2 of Three Principal Aspects of the Path
The Essence of Tibetan Buddhism is a book from the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive consisting of two teachings from Lama Yeshe. The first, The Three Principal Aspects of the Path, was given in France in 1982. The second teaching, Introduction ... Read more »
Eleven Nuns from Kopan Nunnery Earn Geshema Degrees
On February 3, 2025, eleven nuns from Khachoe Ghakyil Ling Nunnery (Kopan Nunnery) in Nepal successfully completed over 20 years of rigorous Buddhist studies and achieved the geshema degree. They all participated in a special celebration ceremony. The geshema degree ... Read more »
Pure Visions Bearing the Seal of Secrecy of the Great Fifth Dalai Lama
His Holiness the Dalai Lama offered the complete cycle of the Pure Visions Bearing the Seal of Secrecy of the Great Fifth Dalai Lama (Sangwa Gyachen) in 2005 at Thekchen Choeling Temple in Dharamsala. Among those who received the complete ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the 2024 Lamrim Course at Kopan Monastery
170 participants from 44 countries participated in Kopan Monastery’s yearly month-long lamrim course, known affectionately as the November Course, which was held November 8 through December 8, 2024. Those in attendance ranged in age from a few 18-year-old first-timers to ... Read more »
The Bee Kind Project at Nalanda Monastery
In May 2023, Nalanda Monastery, France, installed their first honey bee colonies at a secluded spot in the extensive grounds of Maitreya Pure Land, a property adjacent to Nalanda, encompassing 5.5 hectares (13.59 acres) of beautiful parkland which the monastery ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Creation of Holy Objects for All Beings: Grants Offered in 2024
Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche expressed in his Vast Visions his wish for the FPMT organization to build many holy objects everywhere, as many as possible. This makes it so easy for sentient beings to purify their heavy negative karma and ... Read more »
Lama’s Song: A New Song Written and Performed for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Swift Return
Nearly thirty years ago, Marcos Fermoselle, native to Spain, met Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery. Marcos was a mountain climber and traveled to the Himalayas every year. During these travels he connected with Lama Lhundrup, who he would visit ... Read more »