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Work a Day for Rinpoche
From 2007, until it’s closure in December 2024, the Work a Day for Rinpoche Fund raised support for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s vision for the FPMT organization and the work of Rinpoche’s International Office.
The whole point of FPMT is to bring sentient beings to full enlightenment, to peerless happiness. … This is what the FPMT [organization] has been trying to do, and this is the function of FPMT International Office, to help in that.
—Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Thousands of supporters from an amazing 84 different countries joined “Work a Day for Rinpoche” by donating to the fund, generating over US$1,158,000 in contributions for Rinpoche’s vision and projects. We extend our deepest thanks and rejoice in the incredible support received from so many students across the world inspired by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and all the benefit this generosity has and will bring about for sentient beings.
We have introduced the Fulfilling Our Lamas Wishes Fund in the same spirit and purpose of the Work a Day for Rinpoche Fund. We invite you to learn more about the fund and how to offer your support!
We are able to offer sentient beings unbelievable benefit, limitless skies of benefit. Therefore, we must rejoice all the time. We should remember this every day.
—Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Inspiring Golden Light Sutra Recitations
One of Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the FPMT organization, which will span generations, is to encourage the recitation of the Sutra of Golden Light as much as possible, in as many parts of the world as possible. Offering sutra recitations was one way many students around the world participated in the annual Work a Day for Rinpoche campaigns, in addition to offering financial support.
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. So by reciting the whole text is unbelievably beneficial, one collects extensive merits, liberates numberless sentient beings from the oceans of suffering and brings them to enlightenment.
—Lama Zopa Rinpoche
You can learn more about the sutra, download a copy, and also receive the oral transmission of the sutra directly from Rinpoche from a recorded video on the Sutra of Golden Light homepage. If you complete any recitations, be sure to report them for our worldwide count!
Lama Zopa Rinpoche blesses horse at an animal sanctuary, June 2019. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.