receive our newsletters
join Friends of FPMT
FPMT News
Our main aggregated news feed contains articles from all of our news categories.
Narrow your results
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 »
Khyongla Rato Rinpoche Passes Away
We are saddened to share the news that Khyongla Rato Rinpoche peacefully passed away in Dharamsala, India, on May 24, 2022. Khyongla Rato Rinpoche was a reincarnate lama and scholar of the Gelugpa order of Tibetan Buddhism, who was born ... Read more »
Abandoning Nonvirtue Is a Source of Happiness for You
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this teaching to students attending the three-month Vajrasattva retreat at Kopan Monastery in Nepal on April 27, 2022. Here’s a summary of Rinpoche’s teaching. You can find the video of the teaching and a link to ... Read more »