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The Human Problem Is Not Understanding the Reality of What We Are: Karma
As Losar approaches on Friday, February 12, 2021, we want to remember Lama Thubten Yeshe, who founded FPMT with Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Lama Yeshe’s heart stopped beating just before dawn on Losar, March 3, 1984. Rinpoche recommends especially sharing remembrances ... Read more »
New 42-Foot Stupa Sponsored at Rabagayling Tibetan Settlement, Hunsur India
Since 2015, FPMT Charitable Projects has been supporting Rabgayling Old Aged Home in Hunsur, India, which is part of the Rabagayling Tibetan Settlement and serves 20 elderly residents. Over several years, funds have been offered for daily food for the ... Read more »
FPMT Community Rejoices for Teaching with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
His Holiness the Dalai Lama offered a teaching on Monday, February 8, 2021, at the request of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and the FPMT organization on Recognizing My Mother: An Experiential Song of the View (tagur ama ngodzin). The text, by ... Read more »
Reminder for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Teaching on ‘Recognizing My Mother’
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will offer a teaching at the request of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and FPMT on Changkya Rölpai Dorjé’s Recognizing My Mother: An Experiential Song of the View (tagur ama ngodzin) followed by a question and answer ... Read more »
Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program Continues to Train Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program (LRZTP), an FPMT project in Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India, has been adapting to the COVID pandemic after having to postpone the commencement of their next two-year Tibetan language and interpreters training course, LRZTP 9. Julia ... Read more »Update from FPMT Inc.
Here is a further update on the steps we’re taking to help enable the FPMT organization to offer the safest environment possible, with robust protection from harm and abuse, and with clear and appropriate processes in place to report and ... Read more »
Advice and Ideas for Losar and the Fifteen Miracle Days of Chotrul Duchen 2021
The Fifteen Days of Miracles—from the first day of the Tibetan new year (Losar, February 12) until the fifteenth—commemorate the special time when Guru Shakyamuni Buddha showed miraculous powers in order to subdue six tirthikas, or non-Buddhist teachers, who lacked ... Read more »
Reminder and Text for Online Teaching with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will offer a teaching at the request of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and FPMT on Changkya Rölpai Dorjé’s Recognizing My Mother: An Experiential Song of the View (tagur ama ngodzin) followed by a question and answer ... Read more »
2020 Offering to the Gelug Examination and Main Teachers of the Lama Tsongkhapa Tradition
Every year the best scholars from the main Gelug monasteries come together for the annual Gelug Examination. Since 1997 the Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund has offered annual grants for daily food, travel expenses, and teacher stipends for all the main ... Read more »
Our Whole Life We Are in between the Fangs of Yama
In the following Essential Extract video, from a teaching Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave in December 2019 at Kopan Monastery, Rinpoche explains the wheel of life drawing and reminds us that death can happen at any time. In the drawing you ... Read more »
How to Accept Suffering: Everything Becomes Easier with Acquaintance
Patience: A Guide to Shantideva’s Sixth Chapter is a recent book of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings on the perfection of patience, a topic Rinpoche has taught on extensively. In this book, Rinpoche gives commentary on the verses on patience in ... Read more »