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New Practice Booklet from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Advice for the Anniversary of the Guru’s Passing Away
Last year, Lama Zopa Rinpoche translated and commented on a short Tibetan text during his ongoing thought transformation teachings. The text explains the importance of making offerings on the anniversary of the passing away of one’s guru. Rinpoche’s translation and ... Read more »
Telo Tulku Rinpoche Visits Tsa-tsa Workshop of the Ganden Tendar Ling Center
The Tsa-tsa Workshop, an educational project of Ganden Tendar Ling Center, the FPMT center in Moscow, Russia, has been teaching the tsa-tsa making practice since November 2019. Center director Andrey Lomonosov shared the following update on the workshop. At the ... Read more »
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 »