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We Cannot Trust the Appearance of Things
The Six Perfections: The Practice of the Bodhisattvas is a new book from Lama Zopa Rinpoche. In it, Rinpoche walks us through the six perfections, a key Mahayana Buddhist training. Here’s an excerpt from Rinpoche’s teaching on the perfection of ... Read more »
Foundation Service Seminars Were Held in Spain and France
The Foundation Service Seminar (FSS) is the “FPMT immersion retreat.” It provides essential information and nourishment for all serving, or wishing to serve, in the FPMT organization. The FSS Retreat is key to deeply understanding the FPMT organization and the ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Teaching Tour of Australia Postponed
Due to the risk from the spread of the novel coronavirus, the Bodhicaryavatara and Rinjung Gyatsa Retreat at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, Bendigo, Australia, has been postponed. Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s other teaching events in Australia in March and ... Read more »Update from FPMT Inc. Board of Directors
As last reported in December 2019, FPMT Inc. has contracted with FaithTrust Institute (FTI) to undertake a fact-finding assessment with a review and report on findings in response to allegations of sexual misconduct on the part of Dagri Rinpoche at ... Read more »
Continual Butter Lamps Sponsored at Thubten Chöling and Guru Rinpoche Statue in Chailsa, Nepal
The FPMT Puja Fund sponsors continual butter lamp light offerings at Thubten Chöling and in front of a very precious Guru Rinpoche statue in Chailsa, Nepal. The butter lamp offered at Thubten Chöling Monastery is in front of a shrine ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Recites the Long and Short Namgyalma Mantras
“If animals hear this Namgyalma mantra, it is last time they will be animals; they will never get reborn in lower realms at all, ” Lama Zopa Rinpoche taught in Ganden Tendar Ling in Moscow, Russia, in 2017. “They will ... Read more »
Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom Released a New Guidebook
In January 2020, Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom (FDCW), an international FPMT project, published its Building Inner Strength Discussion Guide, a new free resource designed to help more people around the world learn about and benefit from their 16 ... Read more »
Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling Completed a Seventh 100 Million Mani Retreat
One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the FPMT organization is to sponsor 100 million OM MANI PADME HUM retreats around the world. Rinpoche has said, “[I would like] for the organization to establish 100,000 recitations of 100 million ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Does Puja at Kopan for Removing Coronavirus
On Monday, March 2, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, joined by the monks and nuns of Kopan Monastery, did a Most Secret Hayagriva tsog kong puja to remove the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as well as to remove all obstacles for the year ... Read more »
The Perfections Are the Practices of Bodhisattvas
The Six Perfections: The Practice of the Bodhisattvas is a new book from Lama Zopa Rinpoche. In it, Rinpoche offers instruction on the six perfections, a key Mahayana Buddhist teaching. Here’s an excerpt from the book’s “Introduction”: The Sanskrit for ... Read more »
Vajrayogini Sadhanas from FPMT
Students can now find the short, middle-length, and long sadhanas of Vajrayogini composed by Phabongkha Dechen Nyingpo available by donation through the Foundation Store in ebook and PDF formats. Two versions of the short sadhana are available: A Short Daily ... Read more »