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Teenagers Enjoyed a Visit to Centro Shiwa Lha in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In December 2019, fifteen teenagers from Morro da Providência, the first favela community in Brazil, spent an afternoon at Centro Shiwa Lha, the FPMT center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, learning more about Buddhism. The event was a community service ... Read more »
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Joined Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre to Celebrate Forty Years
Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre, the FPMT center in New Delhi, India, celebrated their 40th anniversary with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at their 22nd Dharma Celebration. The two-hour event was held at an all-boys Christian Brothers school with more than ... Read more »
Atisha Centre Held a Heruka Five-Deity Retreat Led by Ven. Tenzin Tsapel
Atisha Centre, an FPMT center in Myers Flat, Victoria, Australia, and nearby FPMT monastery Thubten Shedrup Ling held a Heruka Five-Deity retreat from September 21 to October 27, 2019. The retreat, which was restricted to students who had previously received ... Read more »
Kadampa Center Celebrated Geshe Gelek Chodha
In 2019 Kadampa Center, the FPMT center in Raleigh, North Carolina, US, had a celebration for one of their two resident geshes, Geshe Gelek Chodha. Center manager Jill Marie shares the story. On Saturday, August 3, 2019, we celebrated our ... Read more »
Ganden Buddhist Meditation Centre Welcomed Lama Zopa Rinpoche to Latvia
Lama Zopa Rinpoche visited Riga for two weeks in the middle of the Latvian summer from June 24 to July 1, 2019. The visit was organized by Ganden Buddhist Meditation Centre, an FPMT center in Riga. Rinpoche’s Latvian students share ... Read more »
The Ten Innermost Jewels of the Kadampas and Give Up Desire
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins this teaching discussing the meaning of lojong (thought transformation). Transforming suffering into happiness doesn’t mean you use it to stop ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Recites the Holy Name of Buddha Rinchen Tsugtor Chen to Support the Dying
In a teaching titled “Sentient Beings Come before God and Mantras to Benefit Others,” part of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s COVID-19 Crisis Teachings, Rinpoche discussed the benefits of reciting the holy name of Buddha Rinchen Tsugtor Chen. Lama Zopa Rinpoche has ... Read more »
The Very Beginning Dharma Is Giving Up the Attachment Clinging to This Life
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins this teaching discussing how to make life most beneficial, useful, and easy—particularly to other sentient beings. Even if we are ... Read more »
If We Had Been Careful of Karma, There Would Be No Reason for the Virus to Happen
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. This video begins with a brief biography of Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup, the former abbot of Kopan Monastery in Nepal, who arrived at Kopan ... Read more »
The Time to Practice Dharma Is Now: Find Videos and Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche for the Coronavirus Pandemic in a New Page
Now is the time to practice Dharma! This is what Lama Zopa Rinpoche is stressing during the COVID-19 crisis. In regular video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal, Rinpoche offers a consistent message that we can use these difficult times ... Read more »
Update from Europe During the Pandemic
Paloma Fernandez, FPMT Europe Regional Coordinator, shares updates from Europe. At this challenging time all over the world, with most of the centers, projects, and services, in Europe closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the centers saw that this is ... Read more »