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Centro Muni Gyana Organizes a Dharma Course in Italian Sign Language
Centro Muni Gyana, the FPMT center in Palermo, Italy, is hoping to inspire more Dharma centers to offer programs in sign language. Center director Marco Farina shares the story: Our center was founded in 1990, thanks to the determination of ... Read more »
Supporting the Education of Over One Thousand Children in Nepal and India
Since 2012 the Social Services Fund has been supporting disadvantaged schools in Nepal and India that have students of Tibetan, Nepali, Sherpa, and Indian heritage. Approximately 1,000 children in orphanages, hostels, and Tibetan refugee communities benefit from this aid. We ... Read more »
The Higher Training of Morality Is the Foundation for Helping Sentient Beings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings on thought transformation from Kopan Monastery in Nepal. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching: Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins this teaching discussing two important and powerful holy objects. First, Rinpoche discussed ... Read more »
Cherishing Others Versus Cherishing Oneself
In the following video excerpt Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the advantages of cherishing others over cherishing oneself. Here’s a summary: Rinpoche begins by sharing a story he heard from Gelek Rinpoche during a teaching many years ago in Delhi. The ... Read more »
Geshema Ngawang Chokyi Offers Teaching to Students of Yeshin Norbu Center
Yeshin Norbu Center, the FPMT center in Stockholm, Sweden, recently hosted an online teaching with Geshema Ngawang Chokyi, who graduated with the first group of geshemas in 2016 and has a special connection to FPMT. In addition, many years ago, ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Extensive Offerings Around the World
Since 1999, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has arranged to have continual extensive offerings of water bowls and lights offered twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year to create merit for the FPMT organization. Since this began over two decades ago, ... Read more »
Beauty Comes from Your Mind
In the following short excerpt from Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s video teachings on thought transformation, Rinpoche explains that attachment to others’ bodies comes from the beginningless habituation of thinking they are nice. This is not only true of human beings, but ... Read more »
Lama Yeshe on the Experience of Death
Lama Thubten Yeshe, who founded the FPMT organization with Lama Zopa Rinpoche, is remembered for his ability to communicate the essence of Buddhist teachings in a way that connected with Western students. In September 1983, Lama Yeshe gave a public ... Read more »
Maitripa College Celebrates Four Graduates and Their Community During COVID
Maitripa College is a Buddhist institution of higher education affiliated with the FPMT in Portland, Oregon, US. Yangsi Rinpoche, Maitripa College president and faculty member, began teaching a four-year advanced Buddhist studies program at Maitripa Institute in January 2006. Maitripa ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Making Tsa-tsas According to Lama Atisha
Lama Zopa Rinpoche dictated this advice on making tsa-tsas and requested that it be made available to all who do the practice of tsa-tsas. If you do nine tsa-tsas according to the tradition of Lama Atisha, prepare everything according to ... Read more »
Food Offering to Paonta Cholsum Tibetan Settlement on His Holiness’s Birthday
The COVID-19 pandemic has created hardship around the world. Paonta Cholsum Tibetan Settlement, located in Paonta Sahib Himachal Pradesh, India, has lost a significant source of income due to lockdown restrictions. The settlement recently reached out to Lama Zopa Rinpoche ... Read more »