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A Vast Offering Made to 20,000 Monks and Nuns in Nepal and India on Lhabab Duchen
The current COVID-19 pandemic has impacted so many people around the world including ordained Sangha living in monastic communities (monasteries and nunneries) who have been faced with many new challenging realities due to the pandemic. One way that monks and ... Read more »
Chenrezig Institute Added A Solar Power System and Lowered Operational Costs
Chenrezig Institute, an FPMT center in Eudlo, Queensland, Australia, has installed a 22 kilowatt (kW) solar power system on the center’s gompa roof to power some of the center’s electricity needs. Marc Talloen, project manager, Interim Executive Committee, shares the ... Read more »
To Bring World Peace, First Free Your Mind from Emotional Disturbance
Lama Thubten Yeshe (1935–1984) discussed how to deal with fear and anxiety in the context of the nuclear arms race and nuclear power at a talk given in 1983 in California, US. While today’s situation is different, Lama Yeshe’s insights ... Read more »
Purify Now Because You Can Die Anytime!
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that the solution to our problems is to do purification practice every day. These practices include reciting the names of the Thirty-Five Buddhas while prostrating to them, reciting powerful mantras such as Buddha Shakyamuni’s name mantra, ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Ongoing Beneficial Activities of the Puja Fund
The FPMT Puja Fund was established so that pujas and prayers, offered by as many as 15,650 ordained Sangha, would continuously be sponsored for the benefit of the entire FPMT organization. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, large groups of monks are ... Read more »
Losang Dragpa Centre Celebrated Their 25th Anniversary on Lama Tsongkhapa Day
On December 10, 2020, Losang Dragpa Center (LDC), the FPMT center in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, celebrated their twenty-fifth anniversary. The center shares the story. On the auspicious Lama Tsongkhapa Day, LDC broadcast the e-celebration of its twenty-fifth anniversary via ... Read more »
Rejoicing in Recent Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche
On December 25, 2020 a White Tara Long Life Puja was offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche on behalf of all FPMT centers, projects, services, and students. For seven days leading up to this puja Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme (Khadro-la), ... Read more »
Save the Date: His Holiness the Dalai Lama Offering Teaching at the Request of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and FPMT
We are unbelievably honored and happy to announce that His Holiness the Dalai Lama has accepted the request of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and FPMT to give a teaching! His Holiness the Dalai Lama will offer a teaching on Changkya Rölpai ... Read more »
For Anyone Who Desires Peace, Recite the Sutra of Golden Light
For many years, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has called on students around the world to recite the Sutra of Golden Light for world peace. “For anyone who desires peace for themselves and for others this is a powerful way to bring ... Read more »
By Knowing About Karma, the Mind Has Unbelievable Peace
Lama Zopa Rinpoche hand wrote a card with extensive advice for a young student in January 2011. The following advice was extracted from Rinpoche’s card. Here I want to say something. It’s very, very important to learn to benefit and ... Read more »
True Dharma Practitioners Welcome Trouble
The following teaching from Lama Thubten Yeshe, who founded FPMT with Lama Zopa Rinpoche, encourages us to use our Dharma practice in difficult times. Sometimes when people first hear Dharma teachings on happiness and suffering they think that happiness depends ... Read more »