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The Human Problem Is Not Understanding the Reality of What We Are: Willpower
Lama Yeshe had a remarkable ability to connect with Western students, who flocked to his teachings wherever he traveled. What follows is an excerpt from a teaching Lama Yeshe gave in July 1976 to Australian students on how we exist ... Read more »
Long Life Puja Offering to Lama Zopa Rinpoche: April 19!
Please rejoice that we have the opportunity to offer the second official long life puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche. This puja will be offered on behalf of FPMT centers, projects, services, study groups, and students at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, on ... Read more »
Centro Shiwa Lha Offers COVID Protection to Community Organizations
In March 2021, Centro Shiwa Lha, the FPMT center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, began facilitating the distribution of high quality face masks and instructions to the nonprofit organizations Instituto Floriano Peçanha dos Santos, Vozes da Comunidades, and Apadrinhe um ... Read more »
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 »