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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
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
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
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
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
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
The 2019-2020 Australian bushfires came within one-hundred feet of De-Tong Ling Retreat Centre, an FPMT center on Kangaroo Island, Australia. Rebecca Geisler, center director, Will Abram, assistant director and building coordinator, and Anthony Reid, member of the board, share about ... Read more »
MAITRI Charitable Trust Celebrated World Leprosy Day and India’s Republic Day
MAITRI Charitable Trust, a FPMT project in Bodhgaya, Gaya District, Bihar, India, celebrated World Leprosy Day and India’s Republic Day on January 26, 2020. Adriana Ferranti, MAITRI director, shares the story. World Leprosy Day was founded in 1954 thanks to ... Read more »
Removing Obstacles with Kindness and Generosity at Land of Calm Abiding
Land of Calm Abiding is an FPMT retreat center located on 485 acres of pristine forest in central California, US. Director Ven. Namgyal shares a story from January 2020. We’ve had a very exciting beginning of the year here at ... Read more »
Aryatara Institut Continued Their Christmas Holiday Tradition
Aryatara Institut, the FPMT center in Munich, Germany, observed the Christmas holiday season with two events—a “Chenrezig Christmas Meditation on Love and Compassion” held on December 16, 2019, and a “Christmas Retreat: Debate Between Wisdom and Ignorance” from December 26-30, ... Read more »
Happiness Comes from Abandoning Desire
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. Geshe Yeshe Kunga begins this video explaining that Kopan Monastery is engaged in charitable work in response to the COVID-19 crisis and invites us ... Read more »