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Rejoicing in All the Pujas and Prayers Offered During Saka Dawa
Charitable Activities | June 13, 2025 -
During the twenty-four hours of Saka Dawa (June 11, 2025), which commemorates Shakyamuni Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana, and when karmic results are multiplied by 300 million times as it commemorates Shakyamuni Buddha’s three major life events, The FPMT Puja … Read more » 
Twenty-One Taras Thangka Displayed in Melbourne Town Hall for Vesak
FPMT Community: Stories & News | June 12, 2025 -
In 2014, Lama Zopa Rinpoche requested Peter Iseli to paint a very big ( 15 meters x 9 meters, 49 ft x 30 ft) Twenty-One Taras thangka. Peter and his wife Jangchub Iseli-Sangmo spent four years creating the thangka, one … Read more » 
Saka Dawa: An Opportunity To Do Everything Best
Study & Practice News | June 11, 2025 -
Today, June 11, 2025, is the day we observe the merit-making day of Saka Dawa Duchen which commemorates Shakyamuni Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana when karmic results are multiplied by 300 million times as it commemorates Shakyamuni Buddha’s three major … Read more »
Latest Lama Zopa Rinpoche News
- Rinpoche’s Animal Friends: A Heartwarming New Free Book from the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive (June 6, 2025) - A new playful and heartwarming free book is available from the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive: Rinpoche’s Animal Friends. This book showcases more than one hundred images of the soft toys, also known as plushies, which appeared regularly in Lama Zopa … Read more »
- Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Purpose of an FPMT Center (May 2, 2025) - Last month we shared our 2024 Annual Review: What a Difference We All Have Made Together. Every year we include poignant advice from lama Zopa Rinpoche as the opening to our yearly report. This year, as we work together on … Read more »
- Students Around the World Commemorate 2nd Anniversary of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Parinirvana (April 24, 2025) - April 13, 2025, marked the two-year anniversary of Lama Zopa Rinpoche passing into parinirvana. Around the world students gathered for collective prayers and practice, and to sincerely remember with immense gratitude the great kindness of our most precious spiritual guide. … Read more »
- Continued Prayers for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Swift Return (April 22, 2025) - Following the news that Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s reincarnation has been born according to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, students have asked, “Do we still offer the swift return prayers?” The answer is … yes! Please read the latest advice … Read more »
- Richard Gere’s Heartfelt Reflection: Remembering Lama Zopa Rinpoche (April 17, 2025) - We are so happy to share with you a truly moving and heartfelt interview with Richard Gere on the qualities of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Richard Gere, a long-time friend and student of Rinpoche, was in Nepal and when he received … Read more »
Latest Lama Zopa Rinpoche Video Teachings
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Teachings from Potowa Center 2010 (September 12, 2024) - Teachings from Potowa Center 2010 Venue: Potowa Center, Indonesia Date: 25 January to 7 February 2010 Lama Zopa Rinpoche covered many topics during these 12 session teachings: • Emptiness and Phenomena: Rinpoche emphasized that all phenomena, including the self, are … Read more »
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Teachings from Langri Tangpa Center 2006 (July 17, 2024) - Teachings from Langri Tangpa Center 2006 Venue: Langri Tangpa Center, Australia Date: April 16 – 18, 2006 Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave four sessions of profound teaching on the “Eight Verses of Mind Training,” a classic Tibetan Buddhist text that offer … Read more »
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Teachings from the Mahamudra Retreat 2004 (June 20, 2024) - Mahamudra retreat, Australia 2004 Venue: Buddha House, Adelaide, Australia Date: 18 April to 11 May 2003 From April 10 to May 10 2004 Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave extensive teachings during the Mahamudra Retreat in Buddha House, Australia. The retreat was … Read more »
- April 2024 Heart Sutra Retreat at Kopan Monastery (May 13, 2024) - April 2024 Heart Sutra Retreat at Kopan Monastery Venue: Kopan Monastery, Nepal Date: 15 April to 20 April 2024 Following the commemoration activities at Kopan Monastery honoring the one-year anniversary of Lama Zopa Rinpoche showing the aspect of passing away, … Read more »
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche teachings from the 4-Kadam-Deities-retreat 2003 (February 29, 2024) - Four Kadam Deities retreat 2003 Venue: Institute Vajra Yogini, France Date: 18 April to 11 May 2003 From 18 April to 11 May 2003 Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave extensive teachings during the 4-Kadam-Deities-retreat in Institute Vajra Yogini, France. The retreat … Read more »