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Your Perfect Human Rebirth Is Incredible Because You Can Use It to Teach Dharma
In the following excerpt from Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s video teachings on thought transformation, Rinpoche explains—in his animated “Lawudo comedian” style—the incredible merits that are collected by someone who teaches even one verse of Dharma to one sentient being. As a ... Read more »
The Flourishing of Lawudo Retreat Centre, Nepal
The Lawudo Retreat Centre, situated high in the Himalayan mountains of eastern Nepal, holds particular significance for FPMT. Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the reincarnation of the Lawudo Lama, Lama Kunzang Yeshe, who lived and practiced in Lawudo until his passing ... Read more »
Don’t Just Squeeze Your Mind Thinking ‘I’m Going to Die’
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 offering us a motivation for listening to the oral transmission ... Read more »
Aryatara Institut Hosts a Twenty-Four Hour Online Sutrathon
Aryatara Institut, the FPMT center in Munich, Germany, held a twenty-four hour Online Sutrathon to thank the individuals who donated to the center in February 2021 during the Fifteen Days of Miracles. Sabine Kehl, a long-term member of the center ... Read more »
Some Ways in Which Rinpoche Is Benefiting People
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings on thought transformation from Kopan Monastery in Nepal. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching: Rinpoche begins this teaching continuing his oral transmission, or lung, of the Sutra of Great Liberation. ... Read more »
Everything You Do with Bodhichitta Benefits the Six Realm 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: Rinpoche begins this teaching suggesting that if we can’t bear our present suffering, we should put ... Read more »
The Advantages of Monastic Life
Lama Thubten Yeshe (1935–1984) gave a talk to the fledgling Western Sangha at Tushita Retreat Centre in Dharamsala, India, in April 1982, during the first Enlightened Experience Celebration. Lama Yeshe addressed the purpose of Nalanda Monastery, the FPMT monastery in ... Read more »
The Numberless Buddhas Are Giving You the Oral Transmission
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues offering the oral transmission of the Sutra of Great Liberation in the latest video teachings on thought transformation from Kopan Monastery in Nepal. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching: Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Ongoing Universal Education Inspired Activities of FDCW
In 1983 Lama Yeshe began formulating the idea of Universal Education: “The world needs a new system of education because the old one is too dated for the intelligent people of today and produces a great deal of conflict and ... Read more »
Make Prayers by Means of the Six Remembrances
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings on thought transformation from Kopan Monastery in Nepal. In this teaching, Rinpoche continues his commentary on the text The Hundred Clear Realizations of the Glorious One from Narthang, which describes how to make ... Read more »
Milarepa Center Engages in a Forest Regeneration Project
Milarepa Center, the FPMT center located on 275 forested acres in Barnet, Vermont, US, is working on a project to improve forest health, encourage tree growth, maintain wildlife habitats, and re-establish walking trails with help from foresters Mathias Nevins and ... Read more »