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Our Whole Life We Are in between the Fangs of Yama
In the following Essential Extract video, from a teaching Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave in December 2019 at Kopan Monastery, Rinpoche explains the wheel of life drawing and reminds us that death can happen at any time. In the drawing you ... Read more »
How to Accept Suffering: Everything Becomes Easier with Acquaintance
Patience: A Guide to Shantideva’s Sixth Chapter is a recent book of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings on the perfection of patience, a topic Rinpoche has taught on extensively. In this book, Rinpoche gives commentary on the verses on patience in ... Read more »
Resources for Your Purification Practice
“The solution is purification every day. Practice as much as possible purification,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche said during a teaching on purification. To support this advice from Rinpoche, FPMT Education Services has created a page where students can find links to ... Read more »
Kasih Hospice Foundation Held an Interfaith Dialogue “Discovering Faith Perspectives on End-of-Life Care”
Kasih Hospice Foundation, an FPMT project in Selangor, Malaysia, provides medical, psychosocial, emotional, and spiritual support to people with life threatening diseases such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, and end-stage organ failure, and their families free of cost. Catherine Ooi, general manager, ... Read more »
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 »