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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 »
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 »