FPMT Community News Submission Guidelines

Mandala’s “Community News” shares the stories and news from the international community of FPMT centers, projects, and service as well as provides updates on His Holiness the Dalai Lama, FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and other FPMT lamas and teachers. Submitting stories is a great way to connect with students and centers from around the world for the purposes of educating, inspiring, and rejoicing. 

If you are a representative of an FPMT center, project, service, or study group, or an FPMT registered teacher and would like to submit stories and updates, please read the following guidelines:

• News submissions should be sent by a staff member or volunteer authorized to engage in publicity activities on the center, project, or service’s behalf.
   
• Story submission should be 250-500 words long and should be focused on recent events, accomplishments, and activities at your center, project, or service. We are looking for stories that are inspirational or educational, such as news of the completion of a building project or holy object, recent successful teaching events and special celebrations, acts of exceptional devotion and/or service to the spreading of Dharma, geshe updates, and so forth. Examples can be seen on the FPMT Community News blog. Feel free to include links to photo galleries, video, and web pages with supporting information. 
   
• 1-3 high-quality, in-focus, well-lit photos with complete caption information should be submitted with the story. Please submit your photos by emailing them directly to us as email attachments. High-resolution photographs are preferred.

Submissions can be emailed directly to us. For email submissions, please contact us, asking for the submission email address.

Mandala will make every effort to publish Community News stories that have been submitted to us. If you have questions, please contact us.

For other submissions to Mandala, please refer to our About page.