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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 »
Make Offerings Thinking You Are Offering Them to Your Guru’s Pores
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 discussing the passing of a nun’s father, who died from ... Read more »
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 »