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Lama Zopa Rinpoche Interview on Universal Education, 2005

Lama Zopa Rinpoche Interview on Universal Education, 2005

In June 2005 Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave a three hour long interview to Christina Lundberg on the benefits of Universal Education. In 1983 Lama Thubten Yeshe began formulating the idea of Universal Education. “The world needs a new system of ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Continued Impact of the Merit Box Project

Rejoicing in the Continued Impact of the Merit Box Project

The International Merit Box Project began in 2001 as a generosity practice for the international FPMT community. For many years, students and centers kept Merit Boxes close by so they could gradually make offerings throughout the year, before sending them ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Advice for Practice during Solar and Lunar Eclipses

Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Advice for Practice during Solar and Lunar Eclipses

Lama Zopa Rinpoche often spoke about solar and lunar eclipses, which are considered auspicious for practice and provide opportunities for accumulating merit by multiple folds. As stated in the vinaya text Treasure of Quotations and Logic, the karmic results of ... Read more »
Liberation Tibetan Calendar 2024 Now Available!

Liberation Tibetan Calendar 2024 Now Available!

For twenty-five years, the Liberation Prison Project has been producing a Tibetan calendar to support their work helping people in prison with their Buddhist practice. This calendar is relied on by FPMT students around the world for information on auspicious ... Read more »
Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Morning Prayers and Motivation

Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Morning Prayers and Motivation

Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered extensive precious advice on how to start each day with the best motivation to be of most benefit to others and ourselves. In this collection of prayers and advice, Morning Prayers and Motivation, Rinpoche places particular ... Read more »
Lhabab Duchen is on November 4, 2023!

Lhabab Duchen is on November 4, 2023!

Lhabab Duchen, one of the four great holy days of the Buddhist calendar, takes place this year on November 4. Lhabab Duchen celebrates Guru Shakyamuni Buddha’s return to Earth from the God Realm of the Thirty-Three after teaching Dharma for ... Read more »
October 2023 e-News Is Now Available

October 2023 e-News Is Now Available

Our October e-News is now available! This is a very special issue with many important and inspiring announcements including: New advice from His Holiness the Dalai Lama regarding the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, A moving obituary of Lama ... Read more »
Advice from His Holiness the Dalai Lama for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Swift Return

Advice from His Holiness the Dalai Lama for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Swift Return

His Holiness the Dalai Lama has offered us all the precious advice to recite Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri continuously for a few months, for the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s reincarnation. We request all students of Lama ... Read more »
FPMT Translation Services: A Report on Projects

FPMT Translation Services: A Report on Projects

We are so happy to share this recent report from the FPMT Translation Services team: FPMT Translation Services was created in order to facilitate the translation of Tibetan texts used within the FPMT organization into English. Through the collaboration with ... Read more »
FPMT Inc. Board of Directors September/October Report: Working on our Future

FPMT Inc. Board of Directors September/October Report: Working on our Future

Our intention with the board updates is to offer you a more comprehensive view of what the board has been thinking and where we are planning to go – so that we, the FPMT family, can travel together. In this ... Read more »
Stupa of Complete Victory for Lama Zopa Rinpoche  at Kopan Monastery

Stupa of Complete Victory for Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery

We are sharing big news about the undertaking of a new project: The Stupa of Complete Victory for Lama Zopa Rinpoche. This magnificent stupa will be 42 ft high (12.8 meters) and is being built at Kopan Monastery and is ... Read more »
Lama Yeshe’s Wisdom: Universal Love, The Purpose of Meditation

Lama Yeshe’s Wisdom: Universal Love, The Purpose of Meditation

Universal Love is a collection of Lama Yeshe’s teachings on the yoga method of Maitreya, which he taught at Maitreya Institute, Holland, in 1981. Also included are some introductory lectures on Buddhism from Lama’s 1975 teachings in the USA. This ... Read more »