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Bodhichitta Is the Most Eminent and the Five Powerful Mantras
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. This video opens with Khen Rinpoche Geshe Thubten Chonyi, the abbot of Kopan Monastery, giving an update on the activities at the Kopan during ... Read more »
Your Generating Bodhichitta Helps Every Sentient Being and the ‘Lung’ of a Short Medicine Buddha Practice
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. This video begins with Ven. Tsering discussing his work writing out the Prajnaparamita Sutra for world peace. In this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains ... Read more »
Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom Is Offering Online Programs
As social distancing and self-isolation measures are happening around the world, Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom (FDCW), an international FPMT project, is offering a range of online resources to help meet the new challenges that we all now face. ... Read more »
All of One’s Suffering Comes from Wishing Happiness for Oneself
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche encourages us to use the suffering we observe that is resulting from the coronovirus and to apply it ... Read more »
FPMT Annual Review 2019: Coming Together to Practice Dharma
FPMT International Office is rejoicing, and we invite you to take time to rejoice with us, in the activities of the FPMT Spiritual Director, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and his office, during 2019. We share an account of this work in ... Read more »
Introducing the Merely Labeled I and Self Cherishing – Advice to Help the Dying
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins this video discussing a verse from Lama Chopa by Panchen Lozang Chokyi Gyaltsen (LC 89): NYAM THAG DRO WA DI ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Tonglen Practice
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. In this video Rinpoche emphasizes transforming hardships and obstacles into the conditions that can be used to develop your Dharma practice. “Then all these ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Tonglen and Emptiness
In a new video from Kopan Monastery in Nepal, Lama Zopa Rinpoche reminds us that the coronavirus, and the suffering that is being experienced from this, can be used to motivate us to practice Dharma, to purify as much as ... Read more »
FPMT Centers Unite During Coronavirus Pandemic
In these uncertain times of quarantines and social distancing, students around the world are missing the connections they formed at their local FPMT centers. Efforts by FPMT regional and national coordinators to fill this gap in community among students are ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: An Introduction to Lojong and Tonglen
In a new video from Kopan Monastery in Nepal, Lama Zopa Rinpoche offers an introduction to lojong and tonglen practices. Rinpoche teaches on how to approach these practices in this hour-and-fifteen-minute-long video. Rinpoche emphasizes the importance of the guru and ... Read more »
An Opportunity to Practice the Path of Patience
A student wrote to Lama Zopa Rinpoche about his anger and its impact on other people. The following is an extract of Rinpoche’s reply to the student. This is really an opportunity to practice the path of patience. The purpose ... Read more »