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International Office News
October 2014

You can have this translated into your preferred language by using our
convenient translation facility located on the right-hand side of the page.
French and Spanish speakers will find the FPMT International Office e-News translated
each month in the “Bienvenue” and “Bienvenidos” tabs on the FPMT homepage!

Lama Zopa Rinpoche during the long life puja offered on behalf of the FPMT organization after CPMT 2014, The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, Bendigo, Australia, September 2014.
Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s News:

New Advice

Rinpoche’s Schedule

International Office News:

News from Education Services

Introducing Our New Foundational Program Coordinator!

FPMT Puja Fund Offers Many Services to the Organization

Enhance Your Practice of Generosity: Join the Merit Box Practitioners!

Friends of FPMT – Benefit Yourself and Others

For Center, Project and Service Directors, SPCs, Board Members, Registered Teachers and Coordinators:

Minutes of CPMT 2014 Ready for Use!

Foundation Store Offer: Essential Buddhist Prayers

Mise à jour du chapitre FPMT: Mission, intention et état d’esprit

FPMT World:

Congratulations to LRZTP 6 Graduates!

Opportunities to Offer Service in FPMT

Impermanence at Work


Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s News:

New Advice:

Lama Zopa Rinpoche enjoying the view from the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, Bendigo, Australia, September 2014.
Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

Tweeted by Ven. Roger Kunsang on October 8, 2014, from the retreat which Lama Zopa Rinpoche is leading in Australia:

“Lama Zopa: the real success in life comes from always thinking of others, always benefiting others, living your life for others. NOT money.”

Live webcasts and recording of all the daily sessions with Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the retreat in Australia can be watched on the FPMT livestream webpage. Audio MP3 recordings of the retreat sessions with Rinpoche are available for download with translation into French, Italian and Spanish.

Find a wide range of advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Rinpoche’s Advice page. Go to the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive for lots more advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching during the retreat in the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, Bendigo, Australia, September 2014.
Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

Rinpoche’s Schedule

Please contact the hosts directly with any questions regarding the event. Subscribe to our RSS feed on Rinpoche’s Schedule to receive updates automatically as soon as they are available.

2014
September 25 – October 23 Bodhicaryavatara and Rinjung Gyatsa retreat, The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, Bendigo, Australia

November 23 Long life puja offered by Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore

November/December Teachings during the one month lam-rim course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal

2015
Dates coming soon!

2016
September 11 – 26 Light of the Path retreat, Kadampa Center, USA

Videoed teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche are
online 24/7 on
FPMT’s livestream webpage.


International Office News:

News from Education Services

New Drink Offering Practice Available
The Words of Requesting and Offering to One’s Own Kind Root Guru (Garsha Drink Offering), composed by Kachen Yeshe Gyältsen and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, is now available as a downloadable PDF from the Foundation Store. This practice can be used when offering any drink such as chai, tea, coffee, juice, chang, etc.

Introducing Our New Foundational Program Coordinator!

Venerable Joan Nicell has joined the Education Services team at FPMT International Office in the role of Foundational Program coordinator. In this new role, Ven. Joan will be overseeing the management and development of FPMT’s foundational programs such as Meditation 101, Discovering Buddhism, and Living in the Path. Please get in touch with Ven. Joan if you have any inquiries or comments about the FPMT Foundational Education Programs.

The Puja Fund arranges and sponsors pujas to be done when Lama Zopa Rinpoche is flying internationally, November 2013.
Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

FPMT Puja Fund
Offers Many Services
to the Organization

In addition to an amazing array of ongoing pujas, practices and offerings dedicated for the entire organization, the FPMT Puja Fund provides many other services to the FPMT organization and our teachers, helping create peace for all.

As an example, when Lama Zopa Rinpoche heard that one of his gurus, Choden Rinpoche, was manifesting some health obstacles, Rinpoche immediately sponsored a number of pujas through the Puja Fund. Pujas are also often arranged when Lama Zopa Rinpoche travels to remove any possible obstacles. Additionally, the Puja Fund recently made a donation to help Shantideva Study Group in Israel carry out Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s advice to help bring peace to Palestine and Israel and the whole world.

Please rejoice in some of the incredible activities that the Puja Fund is able to offer on behalf of the entire FPMT organization. To keep up on all the activities of this beneficial project, please follow the Puja Fund news blog.

Enhance Your Practice of Generosity:
Join the Merit Box Practitioners!

Take advantage of our easy method for helping you practice generosity by turning your spare coins into grants for Dharma projects around the world! Order your FREE Merit Box piggy bank today and become a supporter of the 2015 International Merit Box Project grants.

Friends of FPMT – Benefit Yourself and Others

Support. Connect. Practice. Become a Friends of FPMT supporter today and join the international FPMT community in a new way! Learn more.


For Center, Project and Service Directors, SPCs, Board Members, Registered Teachers and Coordinators:

(This advice is specifically for those offering service in the roles listed above.)

Minutes of CPMT 2014 Ready for Use!

We’re rejoicing in the fruitful efforts of all who organized and participated in CPMT 2014, which successfully concluded with the official annual long life puja offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche on September 19.

The minutes of the meeting, are now ready for your use!

Read the wrap up of the meeting and enjoy Mandala’s coverage of the event.

CPMT 2014 participants with Lama Zopa Rinpoche in the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, Bendigo, Australia, September 2014.
Photo by Steve Alberts.

Foundation Store Offer: Essential Buddhist Prayers

Get the Essential Buddhist Prayers Vol. I in print today and receive a 40% discount plus a PDF copy of the same title – suitable for your electronic device for FREE! Volume 1 of the three-part Esssential Buddhist Prayers series contains all the basic prayers and practices for daily practice with powerful mantras included at the request of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. The text features Tibetan phonetics combined with English translation in a line-by-line format, allowing the practitioner to chant in Tibetan and meditate on the meaning simultaneously.

This promotion is valid only for FPMT centers, projects and services with a wholesale account.

Mise à jour du chapitre FPMT :
Mission, intention et état d’esprit

La traduction française du chapitre FPMT : Mission, intention et état d’esprit du Manuel de la FPMT est disponible.


FPMT World:

Congratulations to LRZTP 6 Graduates!

We warmly congratulate the students graduating this week from the two-year classroom portion of FPMT’s interpreter training program, Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program (LRZTP). We look forward to their bringing the Dharma to beings during the next phase of the program as trainee interpreters in FPMT centers!

Opportunities to Offer Service in FPMT

Please check out the regularly updated exciting opportunities to offer service as a volunteer or as paid staff in FPMT centers, projects and services around the world!

Chenrezig Institute, Australia is offering a wonderful opportunity to offer service as director; Tara Institute, Australia is looking for a new spiritual program coordinator (SPC); the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, Australia, would like to host two Sangha members to help with visitors.

Le Service de traduction francophone de la FPMT est à la recherche de traducteurs de langue maternelle française pour traduire à l’écrit de l’anglais vers le français, ayant une bonne connaissance du Dharma (particulièrement du lamrim) et, idéalement, étant familiarisé avec la manière d’enseigner de Lama Zopa Rinpoché. D’avantage d’informations.

Impermanence at Work

Centro Studi Cenresig, Italy
We welcome new director – Gloria Savigni
With grateful thanks to outgoing director – Marco Castaldi

Chenrezig Institute, Australia
We welcome new resident geshe – Geshe Phuntsok Tsultrem

Chokyi Gyaltsen Center, Penang
We welcome new SPC – Eam Lee Lim
With grateful thanks to outgoing SPC – Edwin Wong

De-Tong Ling Retreat Centre, Australia
We welcome new (first!) SPC – Patrick Moran

Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling, Mongolia
We welcome new director – Ven. Tsenla
With grateful thanks to outgoing director (and ongoing resident teacher) – Ven. Gyalmo

Kunsang Yeshe Retreat Centre, Australia
We welcome new SPC – Rebecca Somerville

Land of Joy, UK
Greenhaugh Hall
Greenhaugh, Hexham
Northumberland NE48 1PP
Tel: +44 1434 240412

New Zealand National Office
We welcome new national coordinator – Brian Rae
With grateful thanks to outgoing coordinator – Ven. Carolyn Lawler

Thubten Kunkyab Study Group, Mexico
Concepción Beistegui 820, Col. Del Valle, Del. Benito Juárez
CP. 03100, México DF


With love,
FPMT International Office

 

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