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‘I Is Empty, Emptiness Is I’ Shows the Meaning of ‘Dependent Arising’
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 by asking, “What is the purpose of your life? And why do you do ... Read more »
Root Institute for Wisdom Culture Helping Communities in Need
Root Institute for Wisdom Culture, the FPMT center in Bodhgaya, Bihar State, India, has been distributing daily staples and food in the local community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Community service is one of FPMT’s Five Pillars of Service. The online ... Read more »
Root Institute for Wisdom Culture Helping Local Communities in Need
Root Institute for Wisdom Culture, the FPMT center in Bodhgaya, Bihar State, India, has been distributing daily staples and food to local poor people and migrant laborers returning to their villages due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Community service is one ... Read more »
Extensive Most Secret Hayagriva Pujas Sponsored at Sera Je Monastery Every Month
For twenty-five years the Puja Fund has been sponsoring ongoing prayers and practices dedicated to the success and longevity of the entire FPMT organization. One puja that Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises as particularly important for FPMT, due to the organization’s ... Read more »
Having Even a Little Faith in Emptiness Is So Fortunate
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 reminding us that we will continue to suffer if we never make ... Read more »
The Root of All the Suffering in the World Is Ignorance
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 discussing how millions of people in the West suffer from depression and ... Read more »
Welcome to our October e-News
In this month’s FPMT International Office e-News, out now, we bring you news about: Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Teachings and Advice, How We’re Supporting Schools in India and Nepal, Khen Rinpoche Geshe Chonyi’s Story, Who’s Who in the FPMT Organization, ….and ... Read more »
Bodhichitta Is the Real Essential
The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive’s September E-letter featured the following teaching from Lama Thubten Yeshe (1935–1984), who founded FPMT with Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Bodhichitta itself makes us so completely peaceful, so happy. The self-cherishing thought is like putting a sword ... Read more »
Anyone Who Listens to ‘Sutra of Great Liberation’ Gets the Most Unbelievable Merits
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 explaining that the Sutra of Great Liberation is exactly what we need ... Read more »
Lamp of the Path NGO: Seventeen Years of Offering Essential Social Service in Mongolia
Lamp of the Path NGO (LOP), part of Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling, has offered social services to some of the poor and homeless living in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia for the past seventeen years. The soup kitchen, which is its main ... Read more »
‘Sutra of Great Liberation’ Is Exactly What Is Needed at This Dangerous Time
After a two week pause of giving video teachings, during which time Rinpoche gave teachings to the nuns at Khachoe Ghakyil Ling Nunnery and the monks at Kopan Monastery, Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues with his Teachings on Thought Transformation during ... Read more »