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Centro Tara Cittamani Serves the Local Community
Centro Tara Cittamani, the FPMT center in Padova, Italy, completed several community service projects in 2020. Community service is one of FPMT’s Five Pillars of Service. Marco Parolin, center director, and Teresa Fabris, spiritual program coordinator, share the story. Our ... Read more »
Basic Buddhism Is Discovering Your Self!
In the following short excerpt from Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s video teachings on thought transformation, Rinpoche explains that we live our whole life with the hallucination that the I exists from its own side, that it is a real I. Basic ... Read more »
Make Offerings on the Anniversary of Your Guru’s Passing Away
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 extending his wishes that he hopes everyone had a nice long break ... Read more »
March FPMT e-News Out Now!
We hope you enjoy the March FPMT International Office e-News. This month we bring you: New Lama Zopa Rinpoche Advice and Photo Albums, The Latest Issue of Mandala magazine!, Prayer to Pacify Epidemic Disease – now on Audio, Staff Changes ... Read more »
Funding a Community Hall for 4,500 at Dhondenling Tibetan Settlement, Kollegal, India
Dhondenling Tibetan Settlement, Kollegal, is in one of the most remote and underdeveloped Tibetan settlements in Southern India. There are 46 Tibetan settlements in India, Nepal, and Bhutan, home to most of the 100,451 Tibetan refugees. These Tibetan settlements originate ... Read more »
Panchen Losang Chogyen Gelugzentrum Aids Refugees on the Greek Island Lesbos
Panchen Losang Chogyen Gelugzentrum, the FPMT center in Vienna, Austria, has raised awareness and support for the thousands of people living in Kara Tepe camp by collecting financial contributions for Gablitz hilft (Gablitz helps.) Kara Tepe is a camp for ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Message on the Death of Åge Delbanco
Lama Zopa Rinpoche requests for students who read obituaries belonging to members of our precious spiritual community, to please pray in the following manner: “May this person never ever be reborn in the lower realms and at the time of ... Read more »
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 »