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May FPMT e-News Out Now!
We hope you enjoy our May FPMT International Office e-News. This month you’ll find news about: Now is the Time to Practice Dharma, How the Merit Box Helped Centers in Need, New e-Books, How you can help the Spanish Translation ... Read more »![COVID-19 Impacts Social Services Offered within FPMT: Lamp of the Path NGO, Mongolia](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/12/covid-19-impacts-social-services-offered-within-fpmt-maitri-charitable-trust/93840215_222820572262127_5061513379449929728_n-960x755.jpg)
COVID-19 Impacts Social Services Offered within FPMT: Lamp of the Path NGO, Mongolia
As COVID-19 continues to impact individuals and communities, beneficiaries of charitable services aren’t as able to access the aid they are accustomed to relying on. Here we share an update on how Lamp of the Path NGO, Mongolia, is managing ... Read more »![Happiness and Suffering Depend on How You Think](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/13/happiness-and-suffering-depend-on-how-you-think/Lama-Zopa-Rinpoche-Kopan-Lobsang-Sherab-20200502-DSC02265.jpg)
Happiness and Suffering Depend on How You Think
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 scenes from Kopan Nunnery and a testimonial from Geshema Namdol Phuntsok, ... Read more »![COVID-19 Impacts Social Services Offered within FPMT: MAITRI Charitable Trust](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/12/covid-19-impacts-social-services-offered-within-fpmt-maitri-charitable-trust/7th-May-Clinic-DSCN8883-960x720.jpg)
COVID-19 Impacts Social Services Offered within FPMT: MAITRI Charitable Trust
As COVID-19 continues to impact individuals and communities, beneficiaries of charitable services aren’t as able to access the aid they are accustomed to relying on. Here we share an update on how MAITRI Charitable Trust in Bodhgaya, India, is managing ... Read more »![Transforming the Mind into Guru Devotion and Renouncing the Eight Worldly Dharmas](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/11/transforming-the-mind-into-guru-devotion-and-renouncing-the-eight-worldly-dharmas/Lama-Zopa-Rinpoche-Kopan-Lobsang-Sherab-20200502-DSC02278-1-350x251.jpg)
Transforming the Mind into Guru Devotion and Renouncing the Eight Worldly Dharmas
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 a moving piece on Kopan Monastery’s health clinic. Ven. Thubten Gyatso, ... Read more »![More Catching Up on Community News](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/05/de-tong-ling-retreat-centres-tradition-of-volunteerism/de-tong-ling-stupa-prayer-wheel-house-2019-960x640.jpg)
More Catching Up on Community News
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, FPMT International Office paused the publication of several stories we had received from FPMT Centers, Projects, and Services in order to focus on sharing the video teachings of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and other stories relevant ... Read more »![Debate, Study, and Meditation Are for the Purpose of Subduing the Mind](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/07/debate-study-and-meditation-are-for-the-purpose-of-subduing-the-mind/Lama-Zopa-Rinpoche-korwa-Kopan-Lobsang-Sherab-20200502-DSC02243.jpg)
Debate, Study, and Meditation Are for the Purpose of Subduing the Mind
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: Rinpoche begins his teaching saying that Westerners might have the view that studying Dharma is ... Read more »![Catching Up on Community News](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/kathleen-everett-geshe-tenzin-zopa-jemma-galova-march-2019-sandy-faber-960x598.jpg)
Catching Up on Community News
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, FPMT International Office paused the publication of several stories we had received from FPMT Centers, Projects, and Services in order to focus on sharing the video teachings of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and other stories relevant ... Read more »![Geshe Tenzin Zopa Welcomed to Broome, Western Australia](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/kathleen-everett-geshe-tenzin-zopa-jemma-galova-march-2019-sandy-faber-960x598.jpg)
Geshe Tenzin Zopa Welcomed to Broome, Western Australia
Geshe Tenzin Zopa, an FPMT touring teacher, visited the Gyalwa Ensapa Broome Buddhist Study Group, an FPMT study group located in a coastal town in northern Western Australia. The week spent together left lasting impressions on everyone involved. Sandy Faber, ... Read more »![To Serve the Guru and Sentient Beings You Need to Know the Lamrim](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/04/to-serve-the-guru-and-sentient-beings-you-need-to-know-the-lamrim/Lama-Zopa-Rinpoche-Kopan-20200418-DSC02041.jpg)
To Serve the Guru and Sentient Beings You Need to Know the Lamrim
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: Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins this teaching explaining that we must utilize the happiness and pleasures ... Read more »![Kopan Helping Hands Revived for COVID-19 Crisis Relief](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/02/kopan-helping-hands-revived-for-covid-19-crisis-relief/95152564_673281340072988_5592133323032887296_o-960x540.jpg)
Kopan Helping Hands Revived for COVID-19 Crisis Relief
Immediately following the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal in 2015, the monks and nuns of Kopan Monastery and Nunnery (which were badly damaged by the quake) sprang into action by establishing Kopan Helping Hands to help those in ... Read more »![De-Tong Ling Retreat Centre’s Tradition of Volunteerism](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/05/de-tong-ling-retreat-centres-tradition-of-volunteerism/de-tong-ling-stupa-prayer-wheel-house-2019-350x233.jpg)