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![Kopan the Beautiful Mandala– An Intimate Portrait of this Time from Ven. Sarah Thresher](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/20230421-DSC02738-960x586.jpg)
Kopan the Beautiful Mandala– An Intimate Portrait of this Time from Ven. Sarah Thresher
“It’s simply impossible to express how beautiful it is in Rinpoche’s room right now,” Ven. Sarah Thresher shared on her Facebook page from Kopan Monastery on May 4, 2023, two weeks after Lama Zopa Rinpoche showed the aspect of passing ... Read more »![Rejoicing in the Achievements of Sangye Sherpa, Longtime Director of Lawudo Retreat Center](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20080621-IMG_0325-960x639.jpg)
Rejoicing in the Achievements of Sangye Sherpa, Longtime Director of Lawudo Retreat Center
This letter below by Frances Howland was originally published in the Love Lawudo Newsletter #14, November 2022. It celebrates the service of Sangye Sherpa, the brother of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and the development of the Lawudo Gompa and Retreat Center ... Read more »![His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Transformative Teachings, September 2022](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/HHDL-4-1-960x639.jpg)