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Funding a Community Hall for 4,500 at Dhondenling Tibetan Settlement, Kollegal, India
Dhondenling Tibetan Settlement, Kollegal, is in one of the most remote and underdeveloped Tibetan settlements in Southern India. There are 46 Tibetan settlements in India, Nepal, and Bhutan, home to most of the 100,451 Tibetan refugees. These Tibetan settlements originate ... Read more »
Panchen Losang Chogyen Gelugzentrum Aids Refugees on the Greek Island Lesbos
Panchen Losang Chogyen Gelugzentrum, the FPMT center in Vienna, Austria, has raised awareness and support for the thousands of people living in Kara Tepe camp by collecting financial contributions for Gablitz hilft (Gablitz helps.) Kara Tepe is a camp for ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Message on the Death of Åge Delbanco
Lama Zopa Rinpoche requests for students who read obituaries belonging to members of our precious spiritual community, to please pray in the following manner: “May this person never ever be reborn in the lower realms and at the time of ... Read more »
The Time to Practice Is Now: Mandala’s New Magazine Brings You Rinpoche’s Thought Transformation Teachings
We’re happy to announce the new digital issue of Mandala! In it, we explore Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Thought Transformation during the Time of COVID-19 teaching series. This PDF issue provides a detailed summary of the key points Rinpoche has been ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Auspicious Recent Activities at Kopan Monastery: Photo Galleries
Since mid-December, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has been taking a break from offering us his Thought Transformation during the Time of COVID-19 teaching series. Rinpoche is still in Nepal, at Kopan Monastery, and engaging in a variety of beneficial activities in ... Read more »
The Building of Samtenling School, Boudhanath, Nepal
Samtenling School is part of Samtenling Monastery and provides the young monks of the monastery a modern, progressive, secular education in Boudhanath, Nepal. Out of 140 monks, 120 are age 6-26. The school provides education from kindergarten through eighth grade. ... Read more »
Every Holy Object Comes from Every Sentient Being
In the following excerpt from Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s video teachings on thought transformation, Rinpoche explains that every single holy object is the basis for you to create all the merits that bring every success and pleasure that you experience now, ... Read more »
Buddha House Welcomes the Local Community to the Center With a Fete
Buddha House, the FPMT center in Magill, South Australia, Australia, held their first free-entry fete and open day on Saturday, January 30, 2021, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the center. Hundreds of visitors browsed the outdoor stalls, visited ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Introduction and Dedication for the Teaching with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
His Holiness the Dalai Lama offered a teaching on February 8, 2021, at the request of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and the FPMT organization on Changkya Rölpai Dorjé’s Recognizing My Mother: An Experiential Song of the View (tagur ama ngodzin). At ... Read more »
Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds Performs Outreach to the Community
In 2020, Jamyang Buddhist Center Leeds, the FPMT center in Leeds, UK, offered support to the UK National Health Service, the UK’s publicly funded healthcare system; the homeless population in Leeds; and individuals needing chaplaincy care as part of the ... Read more »
Everything Depends on Your Attitude
In an introductory talk at the first Light of the Path retreat in 2009, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains why everything—good and bad—depends on our mental attitude and why having a good heart wishing to benefit all living beings is so ... Read more »