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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 »
If You Don’t Remember Impermanence-Death, Your Life Becomes a Trip
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. This video beings with Ven. Thubten Kunkhen of Kopan Monastery giving a short biography of the great yogi Geshe Lama Konchog. Lama Zopa Rinpoche ... Read more »
Coronavirus Leaves Us No Choice But to Develop Compassion and 80,000 Eons of Benefit for Making Charity
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins his teaching discussing how many people have died around the world from the coronavirus. This is because life is in ... Read more »
Update from FPMT South East Asia During the Pandemic
Selina Foong, FPMT South East Asia regional coordinator, shares an update from the FPMT centers, projects, and services in Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Singapore, and Taiwan. There are movement control and lockdown procedures in place to varying degrees throughout our ... Read more »