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Warm Season’s Greetings, and News
We send you warm season’s greetings from Lama Zopa Rinpoche and his FPMT International Office! We also share this month’s FPMT e-News. Highlights include: Official Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche, How to Say Goodbye to Depression, New and ... Read more »
Meridian Trust Preserves the Past for Future Generations
For more than three decades, the Meridian Trust has been documenting on film and video Buddhist teachings and traditions around the world. The UK-based organization has collected an archive of more than 2,500 hours of footage, including rare footage of ... Read more »Preserving the Past for Future Generations: The Meridian Trust Documents the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition as It Grows in the West
For more than three decades, the Meridian Trust has been documenting Buddhist teachings and traditions around the world. The UK-based organization has collected an archive of more than 2,500 hours of film and video, including rare footage of the generation ... Read more »
Official Long Life Puja Offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche on December 25
There will be two official annual long life pujas offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche on behalf of FPMT centers, projects, services, and students this year. The first puja will be offered at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, beginning on December 25. It ... Read more »
Lama Tsongkhapa Day at Kopan Monastery
Lama Tsongkhapa Day, or Ganden Ngamchoe, is a celebration of the anniversary of Lama Tsongkhapa’s parinirvana. It is celebrated on the 25th day of the 10th month of the Tibetan calendar. This year, Lama Tsongkhapa Day fell on December 10. ... Read more »
Everything That Appears to You Is Created by Your Ignorance
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings on thought transformation from Kopan Monastery in Nepal. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching: Rinpoche begins this teaching reminding us that the “self-cherishing thought” is what creates all of our ... Read more »
What to Do with Anger
The following advice from Lama Thubten Yeshe, who founded FPMT with Lama Zopa Rinpoche, comes in response to a student question: “When we feel anger what should we do? Repress it, show it if it’s not harmful to others, or ... Read more »
With Mindfulness of Emptiness, Your Whole Life Becomes a Birthday Party
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 by explaining that reciting Togme Sangpo’s Thirty-Seven Practices of a ... Read more »
Support Offered to Magnificent New Temple at Ngari Institute, Ladakh
Ngari Institute is located in the Himalayan Kingdom of Ladakh in a small village called Saboo. The main vision of Ngari Institute is providing a modern education for underprivileged children from different regions of the Himalayas. The Institute, which is ... Read more »
New Videos and Photos from Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Birthday Celebration
Students and friends around the world celebrated Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s seventy-fifth birthday on December 3, 2020, while Rinpoche was at Kopan Monastery in Nepal, where a day of traditional and auspicious activities were offered. Khadro-la spent the day on the ... Read more »
Even by Hearing the Title of ‘Sutra of Great Liberation,’ You Say Goodbye to Depression
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 discussing the Dashain festival in Nepal, when tens of thousands ... Read more »