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Without Remembering Impermanence-death, You Won’t Practice Lojong

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

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

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

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

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

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 »
The Sangha Are Real Heroes Because They Are Defeating Delusion

The Sangha Are Real Heroes Because They Are Defeating Delusion

The following video is an Essential Extract from Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Essential Extracts are short videos extracted from longer teachings that focuses on a specific topic. We have more than two hundred Essential Extract videos available on our website. We ... Read more »
An Update on Maitreya Buddha Project Kushinagar

An Update on Maitreya Buddha Project Kushinagar

The creation of Holy Objects for World Peace is an important aspect of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s vast vision for the FPMT organization. As part of this, Rinpoche envisions the creation of many statues of Maitreya Buddha, the future Buddha, around ... Read more »
Please Enjoy Our March 2022 e-News!

Please Enjoy Our March 2022 e-News!

Welcome to the March 2022 edition of our e-news! This issue features news, updates, resources, opportunities, and causes for rejoicing including: An update on the long life puja offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche on March 11, Teachings and excerpts from ... Read more »
Supporting the Food Fund of Gyudmed Tantric Monastery

Supporting the Food Fund of Gyudmed Tantric Monastery

Since 1433, Gyudmed Monastery has been providing the highest education to many of the top Buddhist scholars and teachers. Through the Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund, and the kindness of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, we are pleased to now be supporting this ... Read more »
Immeasurable Love and Immeasurable Equanimity

Immeasurable Love and Immeasurable Equanimity

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 »
Study Buddhism In-depth with the FPMT Masters Program in Two Locations

Study Buddhism In-depth with the FPMT Masters Program in Two Locations

Two new cycles of the FPMT Masters Program , our most advanced FPMT Education Program, will begin in 2023 and 2024 with residential and online options. The in-depth program is being offered at both Nalanda Monastery in France and Istituto ... Read more »