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February 2023 e-News is Now Available!
We are very pleased to share with you our February 2023 e-News! This issue features some important news and causes for rejoicing including: Recently published teachings from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Upcoming long life puja for His Holiness the Dalai Lama ... Read more »
Offering 1,000 Buddhas for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Long Life
We have incredibly joyous news to share! On May 24, 2023 Lama Zopa Rinpoche has been given the opportunity to offer a long life puja, on behalf of the entire FPMT organization, to His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Namgyal ... Read more »
Warmest Greetings for the Year of the Water Rabbit
Losar Tashi Delek! Happy Tibetan New Year to all our dear friends! With love from Lama Zopa Rinpoche and everyone at FPMT International Office. Read more about Losar, the Fifteen Days of Miracles, and what practices to do during this ... Read more »
Recitation of the Prajnaparamita During the Fifteen Days of Miracles
Beginning on Losar (February 21) and during the Fifteen Days of Miracles (through March 7), when the merit is multiplied 100 million times each day, The FPMT Puja Fund has arranged for an array of pujas and activities, as well ... Read more »
Forty Years of Dharma in Madrid, Spain
Nagarjuna Centre, Madrid, celebrated its fortieth anniversary on February 4, with a joyful and festive party with center staff and students spanning the years. About the future, they shared in their newsletter, “We would like very much that in the ... Read more »
FPMT Study and Practice Materials Available in Non-English Languages
FPMT is now present in 36 countries and in order to meet the study and practice needs of non-English speaking FPMT students, many practice resources, texts, study programs, and teachings from Lama Zopa Rinpoche are now translated by volunteers. We ... Read more »
Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teachings 13 & 14: Rinpoche Offers the Oral Transmission of Essential Nectar
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered the complete oral transmission (lung) of The Essential Nectar of Holy Doctrine, also known as the Essence of Nectar, one of the eighteen great lamrim texts by Yeshe Tsondro. It was given over two teachings from ... Read more »
A Most Happy Birthday to Tenzin Osel Hita!
On behalf of the entire FPMT organization, FPMT International Office wishes Tenzin Osel 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 »
Advice for Losar and the Fifteen Days of Miracles 2023
The Fifteen Days of Miracles—from the first day of the Tibetan new year (Losar, February 21, 2023) until the fifteenth (March 7, 2023)—commemorate the special time when Guru Shakyamuni Buddha showed miraculous powers in order to subdue six tirthikas, or ... Read more »
Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 12: Even Offering a Little Help to Others Is So Important
In this world, there are so many ways to help others, Rinpoche explains in this teaching given on December 20, 2022 from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery, Nepal. With a bodhicitta motivation, we receive more than skies ... Read more »
Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 11: The Special Qualities of Lama Tsongkhapa’s Teachings
On the occasion of Lama Tsongkhapa Day, December 18, 2022, Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered a teaching to the participants of the fifty-third Kopan lamrim meditation course about the very special qualities of Lama Tsongkhapa’s teachings. After an extensive explanation on ... Read more »