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Taking the Eight Mahayana Precepts in Particular for Those Who Died from the Coronavirus
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching: In this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche offers the eight Mahayana precepts. Rinpoche has given special ... Read more »
Congratulations to Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program’s Newest Graduates
Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program (LRZTP), an FPMT project in Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India, celebrated the graduation of their most recent cohort of students, LRZTP8, in March 2020. Filip Majkowski, former director, shares the story. LRZTP8 began on March 13, ... Read more »
COVID-19 Impacts Elderly Homes Supported by FPMT Social Service Fund: Jampaling Elder’s Home, India
Since 2016, the FPMT Social Service Fund has been supporting Jampaling Elder’s Home, situated in Dharamsala, India. This home was built to accommodate elders who are sixty and older and particularly vulnerable with no family to look after them as ... Read more »
Help to Become More Mindful
We invite you to use the Inner Job Description to help develop mindfulness about your thoughts, speech, and actions. The Inner Job Description Mindfulness Practice Tool (IJD) is freely available as an app, or as a card to print. The ... Read more »
You Need to Know Your Own Suffering, and Happiness and Suffering Depend on Your Interpretation
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching: This video begins with part two of Khen Rinpoche Geshe Thubten Chonyi’s life story as ... Read more »
COVID-19 Impacts Schools Supported by FPMT Social Service Fund: Sagarmatha Secondary School, Nepal
Since 2015, the Social Services Fund has been offering support to Sagarmatha Secondary School in Chailsa, Nepal. The school stands on what was once a Tibetan refugee camp. Under normal conditions, 170 students receive education there including 79 young lay ... Read more »
The Way to Practice Lojong Is to Stop Disliking Suffering and Generate Happiness
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching: This video begins with Khen Rinpoche Geshe Thubten Chonyi, the current abbot of Kopan Monastery ... Read more »
Recommended Practices for the Fifteenth Day of Saka Dawa, June 5
An auspicious merit multiplying day, the full moon of the month of Saka Dawa, is coming up on June 5. The fifteenth day of Saka Dawa is one of the four great holy days of the Tibetan calendar, commemorating Shakyamuni ... Read more »
The Benefits of Bearing Hardships to Follow the Guru and Another Message from God
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching: This video begins Ven. Thubten Sangmo from Kopan Nunnery sharing her personal story, covering her ... Read more »
His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Live Online Teachings
You can watch His Holiness the Dalai Lama via webcast during the coronavirus pandemic. Live and recorded streaming video are available through DalaiLama.com. The next live webcast of His Holiness will be a two-day Avalokiteshvara empowerment on May 29-30, 2020, ... Read more »
God’s Message and the View of the Self-Cherishing Thought
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching: This teaching begins with Ani Janne (Ven. Tenzin Namdrol) reading a message from Lama Zopa ... Read more »