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Lama Zopa Rinpoche Describes the Multiplying Effects of Saka Dawa
Recently, Lama Zopa Rinpoche described the multiplying effects of the fifteenth day of Saka Dawa, a Buddhist holy day, which this year is on June 5. Saka Dawa commemorates three of the Buddha’s major life events—the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and ... Read more »
How to Avoid Wasting Your Life and the Sufferings of Pretas
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching: Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins this teaching explaining how his current video teaching series from Kopan Monastery started, due to ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Offering the Eight Mahayana Precepts on Video
Students wishing to take the eight Mahayana precepts on the merit multiplying day of the fifteenth day of Saka Dawa, which is June 5 this year, may watch a specially created video of Lama Zopa Rinpoche offering the precepts. During ... Read more »
Prayers for the World Multiplying 100 Million Times on Saka Dawa
Saka Dawa falls on June 5 this year and is one of the four great holy days of the Tibetan calendar commemorating Shakyamuni Buddha’s enlightenment and parinirvana. June 5 is also an eclipse day this year. The Puja Fund is ... Read more »
Video of Lama Zopa Rinpoche on How to Bless Beings in the Water
Even in difficult times, we can engage in activities to bless and care for animals. Lama Zopa Rinpoche offers us inspiration to do this as he has blessed animals and beings living in the water around the world, including in ... Read more »
Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom Celebrates Online Learning
Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom (FDCW), an international FPMT project, is offering online programs in response to the challenges of the coronavirus crisis. Victoria Coleman, executive director, shares the story. Following a swift move into the online environment to ... Read more »
Jealousy Comes from I-Grasping Ignorance, and We Are All in the Process of Dying
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 continuation of Khen Rinpoche Geshe Thubten Chonyi’s life story and ... Read more »
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 »