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The Sangha Are Great Champions
Lama Zopa Rinpoche often highlights the importance of ordained Sangha along with the importance of Sangha in the West. Here’s an excerpt from Rinpoche teaching on this topic at Maitreya Instituut in The Netherlands in 2015: From the side of ... Read more »
MAITRI Charitable Trust Continues Another Year of Essential Service Despite COVID-19
Since 1989, MAITRI Charitable Trust has been operating as a beneficial example of Dharma in action. MAITRI is a registered charitable trust in India working to support the poor and disadvantaged in the province of Bihar, India. This year, MAITRI ... Read more »
Sentient Beings and Buddhas Are Equal in Deserving Our Respect
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 »
Support Raised for Samtenling School, Kathmandu, Nepal
Samtenling School is part of Samtenling Monastery, providing the young monks of the monastery a modern, progressive, secular education in Kathmandu, Nepal. Out of 140 monks, 120 are age 6-26. The school provides education from kindergarten through eighth grade. Most ... Read more »
Practice Now Because You Can Die Anytime!
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 explaining that Buddhism teaches us that how things appear to ... Read more »
Only with an Enemy Can We Practice Patience
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 »
His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Live Webcast Teachings
Dharma students and the general public have the ongoing opportunity to watch and study with His Holiness the Dalai Lama via live webcast during the coronavirus pandemic. The next live webcast of His Holiness will be a three-day teaching on ... Read more »
Supporting Schools and Children in India and Nepal
Since 2012 the Social Services Fund has been offering substantial support to different schools in Nepal and India that are offering education to students of Tibetan, Nepali, and Indian heritage. Investing in education through schools is one way to help ... Read more »
The Buddhas and Bodhisattvas Cherish You
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this advice to a student in November 2016. When you have very negative thoughts, thinking that “Nobody loves me, no one cares for me,” and so on, you have so much unhappiness that is made by ... Read more »
Land of Medicine Buddha’s 100,000 Stupa Project Progresses
On the advice of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Land of Medicine Buddha (LMB) has been building a 39-foot-tall Mahabodhi Stupa in California for the past six years. This stupa will be the main attraction of the 100,000 Stupa Project in a ... Read more »
FPMT Translation Services Update on Key Translation Projects
As the Dharma takes root in the West, clear and accurate translations of Buddhist texts, prayers, and teachings are crucial. FPMT Translation Services oversees the translating, editing, publishing, and updating of translations of sadhanas, prayers, rituals, sutras, and other key ... Read more »