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Investing in the Expansion of Maratika Monastery, Nepal
Maratika Monastery, Eastern Nepal, is located above Maratika Cave which is the sacred cave associated with Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) and longevity. This holy site is where Guru Rinpoche, with the wisdom-mother Mandarava, achieved immortal life through the practice of Amitayus. ... Read more »
January FPMT e-News is Out Now
We hope you enjoy our January FPMT International Office e-News! This month we bring you news about: His Holiness Teaching for the FPMT Organization, Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s New Book, Lama Yeshe’s Wisdom, LPP’s 2021 Calendar, ….and more. Have the e-News ... Read more »
Overcoming the Wish to Retaliate: Anger Is Inappropriate
Patience: A Guide to Shantideva’s Sixth Chapter is a new book of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings on the perfection of patience, a topic Rinpoche has taught on extensively. (Perhaps this is not surprising since Rinpoche’s name “Zopa” means “patience.”) In ... Read more »
Resources for Your Thought Transformation Practice
Lama Zopa Rinpoche, in his video teachings on thought transformation, has spoken repeatedly about how we must learn to transform the problems and hardships we encounter in our life into the path to enlightenment. Moreover, we need these problems to ... Read more »
A Vast Offering Made to 20,000 Monks and Nuns in Nepal and India on Lhabab Duchen
The current COVID-19 pandemic has impacted so many people around the world including ordained Sangha living in monastic communities (monasteries and nunneries) who have been faced with many new challenging realities due to the pandemic. One way that monks and ... Read more »
Chenrezig Institute Added A Solar Power System and Lowered Operational Costs
Chenrezig Institute, an FPMT center in Eudlo, Queensland, Australia, has installed a 22 kilowatt (kW) solar power system on the center’s gompa roof to power some of the center’s electricity needs. Marc Talloen, project manager, Interim Executive Committee, shares the ... Read more »
To Bring World Peace, First Free Your Mind from Emotional Disturbance
Lama Thubten Yeshe (1935–1984) discussed how to deal with fear and anxiety in the context of the nuclear arms race and nuclear power at a talk given in 1983 in California, US. While today’s situation is different, Lama Yeshe’s insights ... Read more »
Purify Now Because You Can Die Anytime!
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that the solution to our problems is to do purification practice every day. These practices include reciting the names of the Thirty-Five Buddhas while prostrating to them, reciting powerful mantras such as Buddha Shakyamuni’s name mantra, ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Ongoing Beneficial Activities of the Puja Fund
The FPMT Puja Fund was established so that pujas and prayers, offered by as many as 15,650 ordained Sangha, would continuously be sponsored for the benefit of the entire FPMT organization. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, large groups of monks are ... Read more »
Losang Dragpa Centre Celebrated Their 25th Anniversary on Lama Tsongkhapa Day
On December 10, 2020, Losang Dragpa Center (LDC), the FPMT center in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, celebrated their twenty-fifth anniversary. The center shares the story. On the auspicious Lama Tsongkhapa Day, LDC broadcast the e-celebration of its twenty-fifth anniversary via ... Read more »
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 »