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Wake Up—Don’t Waste the Four Holy Days of Guru Shakyamuni Buddha

Wake Up—Don’t Waste the Four Holy Days of Guru Shakyamuni Buddha

Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings on thought transformation from Kopan Monastery in Nepal. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching: This teaching was offered on Chokhor Duchen (July 24), which is one of the holy days ... Read more »
Fire Pujas for Purification and Healing

Fire Pujas for Purification and Healing

More than forty fire pujas are being done in Nepal to purify and heal the coronavirus pandemic situation and its negative impact in Nepal and around the world. Based on advice from Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme (Khadro-la), several high ... Read more »
How Sangha Can Protect Themselves

How Sangha Can Protect Themselves

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 reminding us that the real purpose of life is to ... Read more »
Attachment Causes You to Lose Your Precious Human Life

Attachment Causes You to Lose Your Precious Human Life

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 beings this teaching explaining that the foundation of lojong (thought transformation) is not ... Read more »
Meditate on Emptiness Every Day

Meditate on Emptiness Every Day

The Six Perfections: The Practice of the Bodhisattvas is a recent book from Lama Zopa Rinpoche. In it, Rinpoche walks us through this key Mahayana Buddhist teaching. Here’s an excerpt from Rinpoche’s teaching on the perfection of wisdom: We have ... Read more »
By Habituating Yourself with Negative Karma, You Do It Again and Again

By Habituating Yourself with Negative Karma, You Do It Again and Again

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 continuing to discuss vows. Rinpoche explains that lay people ... Read more »
Writing of the Prajnaparamita Sutra for as Long as FPMT Exists

Writing of the Prajnaparamita Sutra for as Long as FPMT Exists

The Prajnaparamita Sutra contains the highest teachings of the Buddha and is among the most precious texts available in the world today. Due to the power of this text, writing it out is a way to generate tremendous merit, remove ... Read more »
Join the Twenty-Four Hour Heart Sutrathon

Join the Twenty-Four Hour Heart Sutrathon

Join us in celebrating Chokhor Duchen and FPMT’s eighteenth annual International Sangha Day on July 24, 2020. Chokhor Duchen, “Turning of the Wheel of Dharma,” commemorates the anniversary of Shakyamuni Buddha’s first teaching. The power of any meritorious actions performed ... Read more »
Welcome to Our July e-News

Welcome to Our July e-News

In our July FPMT International Office e-News we bring you news about: The special long life puja offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, New books by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Heart Sutrathon on FPMT’s International Sangha Day, The Happy Toolbox for Kids, ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Photos from Nepal

Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Photos from Nepal

During the coronavirus pandemic, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has been staying at Kopan Monastery in Nepal. Now you can see more than seventy photos of day to day life at Kopan under lockdown in a new photo album spanning March through ... Read more »
Prayer and Praise for Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Prayer and Praise for Lama Zopa Rinpoche

A long life puja was offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery in Nepal in January 2020. A long-time student composed the following prayer and praise for the puja. Of it, Lama Zopa Rinpoche said, “The long life prayer ... Read more »
Attachment to Pleasure Cheats You

Attachment to Pleasure Cheats You

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 explaining that each Sangha person has been a hero for as long as ... Read more »