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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 »
Centro La Sabiduría de Nagarjuna Is Creating the Causes for Lama Tsongkhapa Retreat Place
FPMT center Centro La Sabiduría de Nagarjuna (Nagarjuna’s Wisdom Center) in Bilbao, Spain, began as an FPMT study group in December 2012 with four members. They affiliated and became an FPMT center in April 2016. Koke Muro, center director, shares ... Read more »
Integrating What You’ve Heard
In the early 1970s, Lama Thubten Yeshe (1935–1984), who founded FPMT with Lama Zopa Rinpoche, gave Sunday afternoon lectures to foreigners at Kopan Monastery in Nepal. These mostly young people would come from where they were staying in the immediate ... Read more »
Your Mind Can Turn a Loss into an Offering
The Six Perfections: The Practice of the Bodhisattvas is a recent book from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, in which Rinpoche walks us through this key Mahayana Buddhist teaching. Here’s an excerpt from Rinpoche’s teaching on the perfection of charity: Keeping our ... Read more »
Ganden Tendar Ling Center Is Sharing the Tsa-Tsa Making Practice in Russia
Ganden Tendar Ling Center, the FPMT center in Moscow, Russia, has been teaching the tsa-tsa making practice since November 2019 and has introduced the tsa-tsa making practice to the two FPMT study centers in Russia, Aryadeva Study Group and Lama ... Read more »
Welcome to our February e-News!
The February FPMT International Office e-News is out now! This month we bring you news about: New Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, The Recent Teaching by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Rejoicing about Vast Offerings to the Sangha, The Foundation ... Read more »
The ‘Real I’ That Gets Angry Does Not Exist
In the following half-hour Essential Extract video, from a teaching Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave in December 2019 at Kopan Monastery, Rinpoche explains the difference between the appearance of our body as a base to be labeled “I,” the label itself, ... Read more »
Now Available: New Edition of the FPMT Retreat Prayer Book
The FPMT Retreat Prayer Book has become a valued resource for students attending longer teaching events and retreats with Lama Zopa Rinpoche as well as for those doing personal retreats, pilgrimage, and daily practice. The prayer book, which was first ... Read more »
Long-time Students Share Stories of Lama Yeshe
For FPMT students, Losar, the Days of Miracles, and Chotrul Duchen have an important significance as it commemorates the anniversary of the parinirvana of Lama Thubten Yeshe, who co-founded FPMT with Lama Zopa Rinpoche. As part of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s ... Read more »
Warmest Losar Greetings for the Year of the Gold Ox
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 »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the Qualities of Lama Yeshe
The Tibetan New Year, Losar , falls on February 12 this year. For FPMT students, this day has additional significance as it commemorates the anniversary of the parinirvana of Lama Thubten Yeshe, who co-founded FPMT with Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Lama ... Read more »