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Jamyang Buddhist Centre Does Recitation Practice on Buddhist Holy Days
FPMT centers, projects, and services around the world engage in virtuous practices on the great Buddhist holy days, even during the pandemic lockdowns of the past year. Jamyang Buddhist Centre in London, UK, shared an update on the practices that ... Read more »
Ways to Celebrate His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 86th Birthday
On July 6 the world celebrates His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 86th birthday. We’ve collected several resources for students to use in their celebration of His Holiness and in their ongoing Buddhist study. Great Festival Celebrating His Holiness Lama Zopa ... Read more »
The Purpose of Our Human Life Is to Benefit All Sentient Beings
In the following short excerpt, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that as Buddhists we train to be free from the pervasive compounding suffering and that the main goal of our human life is to bring all sentient beings of the six ... Read more »
You Cannot Say All Desire Is Negative
Lama Thubten Yeshe, who founded the FPMT organization with Lama Zopa Rinpoche, excelled at helping Western students connect with the essence of the Buddha’s teachings. He encouraged students to use their judgement and showed them how to be serious, yet ... Read more »
‘Nothing More Exciting than That!’
In the following short video clip, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that the greatest excitement in our life is to benefit all sentient beings. Listening to teachings, doing prayers and meditations, taking precepts, and living our life—all that—we dedicate to their ... Read more »
Rejoicing in TEN YEARS of 108 Nyung-Na Retreats at Institut Vajra Yogini
By Nicolas Brun One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the FPMT organization is to sponsor 1,000 Nyung-Na Retreats. In response to Rinpoche’s vision, Institut Vajra Yogini (IVY) has been hosting the TENTH 108 Nyung-Na Retreat and has now ... Read more »
Mahamudra Centre Welcomes the Community to a Sand Mandala Festival
Mahamudra Centre for Universal Unity, the FPMT center in Colville, New Zealand, welcomed school children and other community members to their center for a big ten-day celebration. Jennifer Coyne, spiritual program coordinator, shares the story. We celebrated our forty-year anniversary ... Read more »
Sharing Our June e-News With You
We hope you enjoy our June FPMT International Office e-News! This month we bring you: Highlights of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Thought Transformation Teachings, New Live with Compassion Posters, Pilot of a New FPMT Education Program, New FPMT Practice Materials, And ... Read more »
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
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 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 »