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The Power of Mantra
In the new book The Power of Mantra: Vital Practices for Transformation , Lama Zopa Rinpoche guides students through understanding the power and benefit of mantras. Rinpoche explains many popular mantras, giving specific instructions for practicing them, including Shakyamuni Buddha, ... Read more »
Practice Advice and Rejoicing for Losar and the Fifteen Days of Miracles
The Fifteen Days of Miracles—beginning on the first day of the Tibetan New Year, Losar, on March 3, 2022—commemorate the special time when Guru Shakyamuni Buddha showed miraculous powers in order to subdue six tirthikas, or non-Buddhist teachers, who lacked ... Read more »
February 2022 e-News Now Available
We are pleased to share our February e-News with you! This issue features news, updates, resources, opportunities, and causes for rejoicing including: A long life puja being offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche on March 11, Teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, ... Read more »
How to Help Sentient Beings Say Goodbye to the Suffering of Samsara
We can do many things with our perfect human rebirth. Lama Zopa Rinpoche consistently reminds us to not waste this human rebirth but use it to develop compassion and help others. Here is an excerpt of Rinpoche’s teachings on this ... Read more »
You Get Skies of Merits by Meditating on Immeasurable Loving Kindness
We can engage in many beneficial activities with our perfect human rebirth. Those activities include generating the four immeasurable thoughts, overcoming self-cherishing, living life with a good heart, and cherishing others. Here are short summaries of Rinpoche’s teachings on these ... Read more »
A Most Happy Birthday to Tenzin Ösel Hita!
On behalf of the entire FPMT organization, FPMT International Office wishes Tenzin Ösel Hita a very happy birthday and a long, healthy life. May his beneficial activities, including his Global Tree Initiative, flourish and may his wishes manifest without delay! ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Cheerful Perseverance and Loving Concern of Rowena Mayer
Rowena Mayer, 81, died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, on January 26, 2022, of cancer By Don Handrick Rowena Mayer met the Dharma for the first time in the early 1980s when she attended a teaching with His ... Read more »
Spiritual Art Gives You Wisdom Vibrations
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 »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Advice to Institut Vajra Yogini: How to Enjoy Sufferings or Obstacles
Institut Vajra Yogini (IVY), France, began hosting their eleventh 108 Nyung-Na Retreat in November 2021. Despite precautions taken before the start of the retreat, and adhering to local protocols once the retreat began, in January one retreatant tested positive for ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Debate Courtyard at Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, Bylakuppe, India
Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, located in Bylakuppe, Southern India, and seat to the Panchen Lama, has grown significantly over the last few decades and is now home to 415 monks and one of the major centers of Tibetan Buddhist study and ... Read more »
Manifest the Love of All the Buddhas
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive,” His Holiness the Dalai Lama says in his book The Art of Happiness. As students of Dharma know, love and compassion are essential to Buddhist practice. When we ... Read more »