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Hayagriva Buddhist Centre Benefited from Ven. Tenzin Tsapel’s First Visit
Hayagriva Buddhist Centre, an FPMT center in Perth, Western Australia, offered a six-week Buddhist Summer School program during the Australian summer, from January 8-February 10, 2019, consisting of teachings, meditations, and workshops led by Australian visiting FPMT registered teachers Ven. ...
Annual Losar Rituals Conducted at Kopan Monastery
The community at Kopan Monastery, the FPMT monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, shares about the annual Losar (Tibetan New Year) rituals that took place at Kopan in 2019. The Tibetan Losar tradition contains elements and values that we all share as ...
The FPMT Australia Community’s Second Annual Guru Bumtsog
FPMT Sangha and students gathered together at the Kickstart Community Arts Centre in New Town, Tasmania, in November 2018 to make 100,000 tsog offerings to Guru Rinpoche, also known as Padmasambhava. This was the second year in a row that ...This Issue
In the new issue of Mandala, we share the story of the success of the Sera Je Food Fund and the extraordinary generosity of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and the supporters of the fund. This project created an endowment that ensures that the monks of Sera Je Monastery in India have three nutritious meals every day of the year, making it a monumental achievement for Rinpoche and the FPMT organization, and a source of tremendous rejoicing. Also in this issue, we share the history of how the Tibetan monastic refugee community managed to preserve the authentic Dharma after the profound upheaval and displacement of going into exile in India. The kindness they demonstrated by persevering through unimaginable hardships to rebuild the monasteries and to teach Westerners is beyond measure. Plus, we have new teachings from Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Read this issue …
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