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Announcing the New FPMT Essential Prayer Book!

Announcing the New FPMT Essential Prayer Book!

We are pleased to announce a new publication: FPMT Essential Prayer Book. In it, you will find prayers and practices common in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition that are recommended for FPMT by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. It also features Rinpoche’s quintessential ... Read more »
Ladakhi Lama Passes Away

Ladakhi Lama Passes Away

We are saddened to share the news that Ven. Thupten Tsewang (also known as Ladakhi Lama and Baling Lama), born in Ladakh, India, passed away at the age of 92, at Kalpataru Buddha Vihar, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India, on April 25, ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Letter of Thanks to the Monasteries and Nunneries that Prayed for Kopan

Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Letter of Thanks to the Monasteries and Nunneries that Prayed for Kopan

Lama Zopa Rinpoche composed a letter to the monasteries and nunneries who sent messages and letters to Rinpoche saying they were praying for Kopan Monastery and Khachoe Ghakyil Ling Nunnery in Nepal after they heard of the COVID-19 outbreak at ... Read more »
Continued Support to Prisoners Wishing to Study Dharma

Continued Support to Prisoners Wishing to Study Dharma

Liberation Prison Project (LPP) is an FPMT international project founded in 1996 dedicated to supporting students around the world in prison who wish to study Dharma. Since its inception, LPP has helped thousands of prisoners worldwide study Buddha’s teachings and ... Read more »
O.Sel.Ling Nunnery: A Haven for New and Old Nuns

O.Sel.Ling Nunnery: A Haven for New and Old Nuns

“There are many who desire enlightenment in a man’s body, but none who work for the benefit of sentient beings in the body of a woman. Therefore, until samsara is empty, I shall work for the benefit of sentient beings ... Read more »
Do Your Best in This Life—Now!

Do Your Best in This Life—Now!

Since early May 2021, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has been offering video teachings in Tibetan from Kopan Monastery in Nepal. We anticipate Rinpoche will return to recording new video teachings in English in the near future. In this short video extract ... Read more »
Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling Benefits the Community During COVID

Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling Benefits the Community During COVID

In 2005, the FPMT center in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling, organized a nonprofit organization, Lamp of the Path, to take over the center’s social welfare activities. Community Service is one of FPMT’s Five Pillars of Service. Center ... Read more »
Remembering a Retreat of a Lifetime

Remembering a Retreat of a Lifetime

More than ten years ago, nearly 200 students participated in a retreat of a lifetime with Lama Zopa Rinpoche, at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo, Australia. This was the first of the Australia retreat series—co-hosted by the ... Read more »
Tibetan Elders Creating Merit in Elderly Homes in India

Tibetan Elders Creating Merit in Elderly Homes in India

Advice for the Elderly Lama Zopa Rinpoche recently offered extensive advice on different ways to help and benefit the elderly, particularly Tibetans in Nepal and India, who are Buddhist. Rinpoche has made the point that as Buddhists we shouldn’t only ... Read more »
Six New Audio Recordings From Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Teachings on Thought Transformation Series

Six New Audio Recordings From Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Teachings on Thought Transformation Series

Students can now find the audio recordings of several important prayers and mantras shared by Lama Zopa Rinpoche during his ongoing Teachings on Thought Transformation during the Time of COVID-19 video series, which Rinpoche has been recording from Kopan Monastery ... Read more »
La Asociacion Potala Hospice Volunteers Provide Support During COVID

La Asociacion Potala Hospice Volunteers Provide Support During COVID

La Asociacion Potala Hospice (Potala Hospice Association) is one of FPMT’s hospice services offering service to the community during the COVID pandemic. Community Service is one of FPMT’s Five Pillars of Service. Alexandra Mejia, coordinator, shares the story. La Asociacion ... Read more »
Taking Suffering and Giving Happiness

Taking Suffering and Giving Happiness

Lama Thubten Yeshe, who founded the FPMT organization with Lama Zopa Rinpoche, had a way of clearly relating Dharma practice to the everyday experiences of the Western students he taught. Here Lama Yeshe offers advice on how to understand attachment ... Read more »