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International Office News
October 2017
Newly Available from FPMT Education Services
Digital Resources Free with Hardcopy Titles
The Many Ways Friends Help: Part 2
Two New Online Pieces from Mandala!
Donations to the Long Life Puja for Rinpoche
Affiliate Area Highlight: Our Lineage of Dharma Education
Rejoice—Two New FPMT Study Groups!
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche News:
Annual Long Life Puja
The official annual long life puja, offered on behalf of FPMT centers, projects, services, and students to our most kind and immeasurably precious spiritual director, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, will be on December 14 at Kopan Monastery, Nepal. If you would like to donate to the long life puja and have your name included on the list of donors, please make your donation no later than December 10.
Schedule
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s schedule for 2017 and 2018.
Enjoy livestreams of many of the teachings above and recordings of Rinpoche’s most recent teachings via Rinpoche Available Now!
Advice
Highlights from our blogs:
The Solution to the Problems of the World Is Inside Our Mind
“We gather here to do the best thing in life, to do the best thing in the world, the best things in life. And what we’re doing is the answer to all the problems in the world.” With these words Lama Zopa Rinpoche began teaching at the 100 Million Mani Mantra Retreat at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Italy. Read in full …
In the Centers, Everything That Is Done Is for Sentient Beings
“You can see that working for the FPMT organization, working for the Dharma center wherever you are, is not just physical work—making a road or building a house or something … Do you understand how bringing the wisdom light of Dharma to the minds of sentient beings—which are like a dark room where they have suffered continuously without end since beginningless rebirths—is so important? How bringing the light of Dharma to the darkness of their hearts and minds is so important?” Read in full …
Low Self-Esteem Is a Wrong Label
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave advice to a student who wrote to him about experiencing many obstacles and low self-esteem:
“Regarding your question about low self-esteem, many people have low self-esteem, but it is by not thinking about karma and thinking only about worldly things, so low self-esteem is really a wrong label.” Read in full …
Find a wide range of advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Rinpoche’s Advice page. Subscribe to our FPMT news blog to get updates as soon as they are announced.
International Office News:
Newly Available from FPMT Education Services
- A printable card of Amoghapasha is now available with a description of the unbelievable benefits of just seeing his image, including becoming free of the eight great hells and eight great fears.
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche recently requested that we make available two beneficial mantra cards featuring Rinpoche’s calligraphy: Phagpa Chulung Rolpai Do Mantra and the Six Syllables of Clairvoyance Mantra.
- Middle-Length Kshitigarbha Mantra is now available.
Digital Resources Free with Hardcopy Titles
When you order hardcopy titles, the Foundation Store is happy to offer a digital copy (PDF and/or ebook) with our thanks. Check out the vast collection of practices that are now available!
The Many Ways Friends Help: Part 2
Friends of FPMT supporters help us assist over 160 FPMT centers, projects, and services around the world in supporting their local communities and preserving the Mahayana tradition. How? Contributions from Friends of FPMT fund education programs and materials, service training seminars, management resources, and many other forms of support. These all flow out to local FPMT communities, benefiting thousands of students (and animals!) around the globe. Learn more and become a Friends of FPMT supporter here …
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FPMT Endowment
Did you know that FPMT, Inc. has an Endowment Fund? Offering an endowment gift is one way to leave a lasting legacy for many generations into the future and helps FPMT ensure that the sun of the Mahayana tradition will shine in our world for hundreds of years. Learn more …
Two New Online Pieces from Mandala!
The well-known American Buddhist teacher, scholar, and author Ven. Thubten Chodron spoke with Mandala about her newest book with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Released in August 2017 by Wisdom Publications, Approaching the Buddhist Path is the first in a new series—The Library of Wisdom and Compassion—that will constitute the main English-language lamrim teachings of His Holiness. Ven. Chodron talks about His Holiness’s wish to present his teaching on the path to enlightenment in a way suited to modern-educated people. Read October’s new online feature: “Presenting the Path to Modern Students: An Interview with Ven. Thubten Chodron.”
In September, Mandala published the story of the Yamantaka practice group that formed at Tara Institute in Australia. Cynthia Karena reports on how the group came together and did a retreat, illustrating the power and potential of group practice. Read “Community and Commitment: A Yamantaka Study Group at Tara Institute in Australia.”
For Center, Project and Service Directors, SPCs, Board Members, Registered Teachers and Coordinators:
(This advice is specifically for those offering service in these roles.)
Donations to the Long Life Puja for Rinpoche
Please make your center, project, or service’s annual donation for the long life puja of our precious spiritual director, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, via the secure site in the FPMT Affiliates Area no later than December 10.
Affiliates Area Highlight: Our Lineage of Dharma Education
In need of inspiration? Review advice from our founders Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche regarding the unique FPMT lineage in the section Dharma Education: Our Lineage. (Make sure to log in before clicking on the link.)
FPMT World:
Rejoice—Two New FPMT Study Groups!
We welcome:
Monastère Dorje Pamo (probationary nunnery), France
Centre of Compassion Study Group (probationary center), UK
Lama Zopa Rinpoche about to learn how to make apple strudel, Vienna, Austria, Sept. 2017. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab. (Watch the video!)
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New Opportunities to Offer Service in FPMT
Would you like to spend your days in a very meaningful way? Have a look at the regularly updated meritorious opportunities to offer service as a volunteer or as paid staff in FPMT centers, projects, and services around the world. Newly added: Jamyang Buddhist Centre, UK, is looking for a spiritual program coordinator; Centre Kalachakra, France, is looking for a cook for its retreat place; and in the USA, Land of Medicine Buddha has various work-study opportunities.
Impermanence at Work
Buddha House, Australia
We welcome back resident teacher – Ven. Dondrup
With grateful thanks to outgoing resident geshe – Geshe Konchog Kyab
Centro Bengungyal, Mexico
We welcome new director – Ven. Jangchub
With grateful thanks to outgoing director – Martha Portillo
Ganden Centre, Latvia
Tel +371 2643 9430
http://ganden.lv/
ganden@ganden.lv
International Mahayana Institute
We welcome new director – Ven. Tendar
With grateful thanks to outgoing director – Ven. Chantal Carrerot
Jamyang Buddhist Centre, UK
We welcome new director – Marcos Troia
With grateful thanks to outgoing director – Roy Sutherwood
Tubten Kunga Center, USA
We welcome new director – Nicole Zito
With grateful thanks to outgoing director – Rebecca Smith
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