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Welcome to the April FPMT e-News
We hope you enjoy our April FPMT International Office e-News, out now! This month we bring you news about: Why Lama Zopa Rinpoche is teaching regularly (on video) at this time, Our Annual Review 2019: Coming Together to Practice Dharma, ... Read more »![Don’t Make Your Life Garbage and the Buddha’s Teachings Are Unbetraying](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/16/dont-make-your-life-garbage-and-the-buddhas-teachings-are-unbetraying/Rinpoche-Kopan-Monastery-April-2020-Lobsang-Sherab.jpg)
Don’t Make Your Life Garbage and the Buddha’s Teachings Are Unbetraying
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. This new video begins with a short powerful message from Geshe Ngawang Sangye, sharing Shantideva’s wisdom, from A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of ... Read more »![Sentient Beings Come before God and Mantras to Benefit Others](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/15/sentient-beings-come-before-god-and-mantras-to-benefit-others/Lama-Zopa-Rinpoche-Kopan-Monastery-April-2020-Lobsang-Sherab.gif)
Sentient Beings Come before God and Mantras to Benefit Others
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins this video teaching quoting His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s advice that because individuals have different minds and different karma, there ... Read more »![FPMT Centers and Projects in India Offer Support During the Pandemic](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/14/fpmt-centers-and-projects-in-india-offer-support-during-the-pandemic/root-institute-for-wisdom-culture-bodhgaya-india.jpg)
FPMT Centers and Projects in India Offer Support During the Pandemic
There are FPMT centers, projects, and services across seven states of India. Deepthy Shekhar, FPMT India national coordinator, shares an update and reasons to rejoice. Hello everybody! On behalf of the FPMT community in India, it is our wish to ... Read more »![The Conclusion Is ‘Subdue One’s Own Mind’](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/13/the-conclusion-is-subdue-ones-own-mind/Lama-Zopa-Rinpoche-flowers-Kopan-April-2020-roger-kunsang.gif)
The Conclusion Is ‘Subdue One’s Own Mind’
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins his teaching explaining how a nonvirtuous mind leads to negative actions that create the negative karma for ... Read more »![The Four Causes of Unknowing and the Four Dharmakaya Relic Heart Mantras](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/11/the-four-causes-of-unknowing-and-the-four-dharmakaya-relic-heart-mantras/Lama-Zopa-Rinpoche-coffee-tree-Kopan-April-2020-Lobsang-Sherab.gif)
The Four Causes of Unknowing and the Four Dharmakaya Relic Heart Mantras
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the four causes of unknowing, which need to be removed in order to become fully enlightened and ... Read more »![Bodhichitta Is the Most Eminent and the Five Powerful Mantras](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/10/bodhichitta-is-the-most-eminent-and-the-five-powerful-mantras/PHOTO-2020-04-09-10-03-39.jpg)
Bodhichitta Is the Most Eminent and the Five Powerful Mantras
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. This video opens with Khen Rinpoche Geshe Thubten Chonyi, the abbot of Kopan Monastery, giving an update on the activities at the Kopan during ... Read more »![Your Generating Bodhichitta Helps Every Sentient Being and the ‘Lung’ of a Short Medicine Buddha Practice](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/07/all-of-ones-suffering-comes-from-wishing-happiness-for-oneself/Lama-Zopa-Rinpoche-and-friend-Kopan-April-2020.gif)
Your Generating Bodhichitta Helps Every Sentient Being and the ‘Lung’ of a Short Medicine Buddha Practice
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. This video begins with Ven. Tsering discussing his work writing out the Prajnaparamita Sutra for world peace. In this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains ... Read more »![Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom Is Offering Online Programs](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/08/foundation-for-compassion-and-wisdom-is-offering-online-programs/sixteen-guidelines-for-children-and-teens-fdcw-march-2020-350x248.jpg)
Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom Is Offering Online Programs
As social distancing and self-isolation measures are happening around the world, Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom (FDCW), an international FPMT project, is offering a range of online resources to help meet the new challenges that we all now face. ... Read more »![All of One’s Suffering Comes from Wishing Happiness for Oneself](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/07/all-of-ones-suffering-comes-from-wishing-happiness-for-oneself/Lama-Zopa-Rinpoche-and-friend-Kopan-April-2020-350x350.gif)
All of One’s Suffering Comes from Wishing Happiness for Oneself
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche encourages us to use the suffering we observe that is resulting from the coronovirus and to apply it ... Read more »![FPMT Annual Review 2019: Coming Together to Practice Dharma](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/fpmt/annual-review/FPMT-annual-review-2019-cover-960x742.jpg)
FPMT Annual Review 2019: Coming Together to Practice Dharma
FPMT International Office is rejoicing, and we invite you to take time to rejoice with us, in the activities of the FPMT Spiritual Director, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and his office, during 2019. We share an account of this work in ... Read more »![Introducing the Merely Labeled I and Self Cherishing – Advice to Help the Dying](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/06/introducing-the-merely-labeled-i-and-self-cherishing-advice-to-help-the-dying/Lama-Zopa-Rinpoche-Kopan-Monastery-March-2020-Lobsang-Sherab.gif)