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A Brief Meditation-Recitation on Guru Medicine Buddha
Students can now find A Brief Meditation-Recitation on Guru Medicine Buddha, written and arranged by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, in the Foundation Store in PDF and ebook formats. In 2018, Rinpoche encouraged FPMT to make the text “immediately, immediately” available for ... Read more »
Amitabha Buddhist Centre’s Annual Trip to Dharamsala for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Teachings
Amitabha Buddhist Centre (ABC), the FPMT center in Singapore, organized a tour to India from August 31-September 8, 2019. The highlight of the tour was His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s public teachings given at Tsuglagkhang (the main Tibetan temple) in ... Read more »
FPMT Australia Shares Updates on Australian Bushfires
The ongoing bushfires in Australia are devastating many areas throughout the country, affecting humans as well as billions of insects and animals. FPMT Australia (FPMTA) has created a new webpage, “Bushfires Across Australia,” with news on the bushfires and on ... Read more »
Official Annual Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche on January 22
The official annual long life puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche, offered on behalf of the entire FPMT organization will take place on January 22 at Kopan Monastery, Nepal. All are welcome to participate in this auspicious event by offering prayers ... Read more »
Welcome to Our January e-News
In the January FPMT International Office e-News, we bring you news about: The Official Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Rejoicing in Another Year of Animal Liberation, A New Translation of the FPMT Ethical Policy, …and more! Have the ... Read more »
The Meditation-Recitation of Black Manjushri
The Meditation-Recitation of Black Manjushri, composed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and translated by the official Italian translator for His Holiness the Dalai Lama and a senior translator for the FPMT Masters Program and Basic Program Fabrizio Pallotti Champa Pelgye, is ... Read more »
Rinchen Jangsem Ling Retreat Centre Hosted a Large Prostration Event
On August 25, 2019, a large prostration event took place at Rinchen Jangsem Ling Retreat Centre, the FPMT center in Triang, Malaysia. FPMT Southeast Asia regional coordinator, Selina Foong, shares the story. This is a short excerpt from Selina’s published ... Read more »Prostrating Up a Hill at Rinchen Jangsem Ling Retreat Centre in Malaysia
On August 25, 2019, a large prostration event took place at Rinchen Jangsem Ling Retreat Centre, the FPMT center in Triang, Malaysia. FPMT Southeast Asia regional coordinator, Selina Foong, shares the story. I’ve made countless trips to beautiful Rinchen Jangsem ... Read more »
Yearly Offering to the Gelug Examination and Main Teachers of the Lama Tsongkhapa Tradition
Every year the best scholars from the main Gelug monasteries come together for the annual Gelug Examination. Every year the Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund offers a grant for daily food, travel expenses, and for teacher stipends for the main teachers ... Read more »
Recite the Golden Light Sutra for World Peace
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this advice for a practice to do for world peace in June 2004. My dear Dharma brothers and sisters, It looks like there could be a lot of violence happening in Iraq. It comes out very ... Read more »
Prayer for Peace
“When there was unceasing war in Kham (Me Nyak), Tibet, and nobody was able to create harmony, the Great Lord Yogi (Thang Thong Gyalpo) came to Kham, generated bodhichitta, and just by merely saying these true words and sprinkling flowers, ... Read more »