FPMT Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for FPMT

Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions: Tracking the Practices and Retreats

Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the FPMT organization include supporting practice and realizations, including sponsoring 100 Million OM MANI PADME HUM mantra retreats, sponsoring individuals to complete 1,000 Nyung Na retreats, and encouraging the recitation of the Golden Light Sutra as much as possible in as many places as possible around the world to create the causes for peace.

This page reports the current count of completed 100 Million OM MANI PADME HUM retreats, 1,000 Nyung Na retreats, and Golden Light Sutra recitations around the world to track the fulfillment of Rinpoche’s Vast Visions and for rejoicing!

100 Million Mani Retreats  |  1,000 Nyung Na Retreats  |  Golden Light Sutra Recitations

Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching during the 100 Million Mani Retreat, ILTK, Italy, October 5, 2017. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

100 Million OM MANI PADME HUM Retreats

[I would like] for the organization to establish 100,000 recitations of 100 million OM MANI PADME HUM mantras. This can be retreats of 100 million recitations, so 100,000 different retreats in different parts of the world and where it is happening, then for it to happen regularly, each year.

—Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Below tracks the progress of Rinpoche’s Vast Vision to sponsor 100,000 retreats of 100 million OM MANI PADME HUM mantras, in different parts of the world, each year.

Completed Mani Retreats

There are two ways to count this, one way is once it is established for it to happen regularly each year. Or it can happen in different places, one time and you count like that, maybe they are unable to do regularly but able to do one time or a few times…So to establish this in different parts of the world such as Mongolia, Tibet, Nepal, Australia, China, etc.

—Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Total worldwide count of 100 Million OM MANI PADME HUM retreats: 42

Last updated July 2025

Places that have offered 100 Million OM MANI PADME HUM retreats

These retreats accumulated at least 100 million mani recitations among the participants.

  • 24 retreats offered by the nuns of Tashi Chime Gatsal Kagyu Nunnery in Nepal, as well as supporting a geshe to teach lamrim to the nuns.
  • 1 retreat offered by Institut Vajra Yogini, France.
  • 1 retreat offered by Instituto Lama Tzong Khapa
  • 12 retreats offered by Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling, FPMT center in Mongolia and this is now an annual event.
  • 2 retreats at Potawa Nunnery, Tibet.
  • 1 retreat, Tsum, Nepal at Rachen Nunnery.
  • 1 retreat, Rabagayling Tibetan Settlement in Hunsur in the community hall that was sponsored by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

Other Mani Retreats

Smaller mani retreats that accumulated millions of recitations among the participants.

  • 500-600 people held a one week mani retreat in Tsum in honor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 80th birthday and recited 30,587,000 mani mantras.

Help Us Offer Grants

The Practice and Retreat Fund offers grants toward the successful completion of 100 Million Mani Retreats. If you would like to contribute to Rinpoche’s Vast Vision, you may contribute any amount to this fund below.

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Participants of the 108 Nyung na retreats being held at Institut Vajra Yogini, France, June 2022.

1,000 Nyung Na Retreats

Nyung Na does not just purify many eons of negative karma, especially developing compassion, which means bodhicitta, it makes us so much closer to enlightenment, so close to being able to enlighten all sentient beings, which is our ultimate goal in life. It also brings you closer to the Guru-Compassion Buddha.

—Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Below find Nyung Na retreats sponsored by the FPMT organization in fulfilling Rinpoche's Vast Vision to sponsor individuals to complete 1,000 Nyung Na retreats in their lifetime.

Completed Nyung Na Retreats

Nyung näs take such a short time, but bring strong purification. So many eons can be purified in this life; it makes it so easy to have attainments.

—Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Ven. Charles and Ven. Namdrol, who both have completed over 1,000 Nyung Na retreats, Istituto Lama Tsong Khapa, Italy, October 2017.

Rejoice! Individuals who have completed more than 1,000 Nyung Nas

A few individuals thus far in the FPMT mandala have completed more than 1,000 Nyung Na retreats in fulfillment of Rinpoche’s wishes. They are Ven. Ani Chodron, Ven. Charles Trebaol, Ven. Tenzin Namdrol, and Valentino Giacomin. Please take a moment to rejoice in their incredible efforts and devotion.

Sponsored 108 Nyung Na Retreats

Institut Vajra Yogini (IVY) in France offers annual 108 Nyung Na retreats. 

As of 2025, 14 series of 108 Nyung Na retreats have been completed at IVY.

The Practice and Retreat Fund offers 10,000 Euro each year towards the annual 108 Nyung Na retreats at IVY, in accordance with Rinpoche’s Vast Visions.

Help Us Sponsor Nyung Na Retreats

Make an offering to the Practice and Retreat Fund below:

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche offering an oral transmission of the Sutra of Golden Light, Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, Bendigo, Australia, October 2014. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

Reciting the Golden Light Sutra

“The most beneficial thing to have peace and to stop the wars is recitation of the Golden Light Sutra. This is the most beneficial thing to bring peace, everyone should try to do this, no matter how busy they are, even to recite one or two pages, even a few lines.

—Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Below find the total count of recitations reported around the world since 2008! You can also visit the Golden Light Sutra Homepage for detailed information and resources, receiving the oral transmission of the sutra from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and reporting your recitations.

Total Sutra Recitations Around the World

I would like to make this request with my two palms together, to please recite the Sutra of Golden Light for world peace as much as you can.

—Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Latest Count (updated Dec 31, 2024)

Complete sutra recitations: 58,887
Recited in more than 90 countries

Recent Recitations by Country

Between 2008-2017 there were 45,095 complete recitations of the Golden Light Sutra reported. We began tracking the counts by country in 2018. 

Recitation Totals in Previous Years

Note: reporting did not tally specific counts by country until March 2018. Below are the total numbers of complete recitations worldwide per year. 

Countries Where Recitations Have Been Completed

“[The Sutra of Golden Light is] extremely powerful for world peace, for your own protection and for the protection of the country and the world. Also it has great healing power for people in the country.

—Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Below is a list of every country where Golden Light Sutra recitations were completed:

Albania, Antarctica, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belorus, Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Republic of Buryatia, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Cyprus, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, England, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana, Norway, Oman, Panama, P. R. China, Palestine, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, South Georgia Island, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, United States, Vietnam, Wales

Please take a moment to rejoice!