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Rejoicing in Recent Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche
On December 25, 2020 a White Tara Long Life Puja was offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche on behalf of all FPMT centers, projects, services, and students. For seven days leading up to this puja Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme (Khadro-la), ... Read more »
Save the Date: His Holiness the Dalai Lama Offering Teaching at the Request of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and FPMT
We are unbelievably honored and happy to announce that His Holiness the Dalai Lama has accepted the request of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and FPMT to give a teaching! His Holiness the Dalai Lama will offer a teaching on Changkya Rölpai ... Read more »
For Anyone Who Desires Peace, Recite the Sutra of Golden Light
For many years, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has called on students around the world to recite the Sutra of Golden Light for world peace. “For anyone who desires peace for themselves and for others this is a powerful way to bring ... Read more »
By Knowing About Karma, the Mind Has Unbelievable Peace
Lama Zopa Rinpoche hand wrote a card with extensive advice for a young student in January 2011. The following advice was extracted from Rinpoche’s card. Here I want to say something. It’s very, very important to learn to benefit and ... Read more »
True Dharma Practitioners Welcome Trouble
The following teaching from Lama Thubten Yeshe, who founded FPMT with Lama Zopa Rinpoche, encourages us to use our Dharma practice in difficult times. Sometimes when people first hear Dharma teachings on happiness and suffering they think that happiness depends ... Read more »
Langri Tangpa Centre Created Australia’s 2,500th Street Library
Langri Tanga Centre (LTC), the FPMT center in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, used a US$300 International Merit Box Project grant they received in 2019 to create a “Street Library” on the center’s outside property. The International Merit Box Project was created ... Read more »
‘To Purify and Do Vajrasattva Practice Is the Ultimate Answer’
“Of course by purifying negative karma collected since beginningless rebirth and by collecting extensive merits, this allows you to have realizations on the path to enlightenment and for your mind to change,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche wrote to a student who ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Plushy Dharma Friends!
During Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Teachings on Thought Transformation during the Time of COVID-19, Rinpoche has brought many “friends” to the teachings. More than twenty-five stuffed animals with profound words of wisdom written on their bodies have joined Rinpoche on the ... Read more »
The First Vital Point Is Recognizing the Object to Be Refuted
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 going over the first vital point of the four vital ... Read more »
Celebrating with the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion during the COVID-19 Pandemic
In 1981, Lama Thubten Yeshe laid out the original plans for the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, an FPMT project near Bendigo in Victoria, Australia. On Tuesday, December 17, 2019, the community celebrated as the final pieces of the Great ... Read more »
See Everything as a Golden Flower
With the celebration of the seasonal holidays interrupted because of the global pandemic, we have an opportunity to reflect on our usual attitudes and habits at this time of year, and perhaps change them. Lama Yeshe spoke about how to ... Read more »