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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 »
All the Problems in the World, Including the Coronavirus, Are Telling Us to Practice Dharma
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. This video begins with Losang Namgyal Rinpoche sharing some thoughts about this difficult time due to the coronavirus. He suggests we not only need ... Read more »
FPMT Latin America and North America Share an Update During the Pandemic
FPMT Latin America regional coordinator Mauricio Roa and FPMT North America regional coordinator Drolkar McCallum share how the centers in their regions are adjusting while their locations are closed and people are advised or required to stay at home. Brazil ... Read more »
If You Want to Guide and Help Others, Exchange Yourself with Others
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. This video begins with another practical example from a young Kopan monk about how we can transform everyday activities into bodhichitta mindfulness. While cutting ... Read more »
Use Pleasure and Suffering to Achieve Enlightenment and Experience the Virus for Numberless Sentient Beings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. This video begins with a young Kopan monk washing his hands and letting us know that he is washing the stains of delusion from ... Read more »
Welcome to the April FPMT e-News
We hope you enjoy our April FPMT International Office e-News, out now! This month we bring you news about: Why Lama Zopa Rinpoche is teaching regularly (on video) at this time, Our Annual Review 2019: Coming Together to Practice Dharma, ... Read more »
Don’t Make Your Life Garbage and the Buddha’s Teachings Are Unbetraying
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. This new video begins with a short powerful message from Geshe Ngawang Sangye, sharing Shantideva’s wisdom, from A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of ... Read more »
Sentient Beings Come before God and Mantras to Benefit Others
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the coronavirus pandemic. Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins this video teaching quoting His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s advice that because individuals have different minds and different karma, there ... Read more »