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Please Rejoice! Eight Beautiful Stupas Find a Home at Centro Muni Gyana, Italy
We invite you to rejoice that eight new stupas have entered the FPMT mandala at Centro Muni Gyana, Palermo, Italy. The Holy Objects Fund was pleased to offer a grant to sponsor the creation of these stupas which will benefit ... Read more »
Rooms and Prayer Wheels Completed at Lugsum Elderly Home, Bylakkupe, India
Over two years, the Social Services Fund offered grants to support the building of ten new rooms for accommodation (we provided sponsorship for five of these rooms) and the construction of large and smaller prayer wheels on the property of ... Read more »
The Benefits of Offering Food to Sangha: A Heartfelt Thank You from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Recently Lama Zopa Rinpoche shared a heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported the Sera Je Food Fund for twenty-seven years of operation. The food fund provided free meals to all of the monks of Sera Je Monastery for nearly ... Read more »
The Legacy of the Sera Je Food Fund– THANK YOU
The latest issue of Mandala magazine features an extensive article, “Sustaining the Pure Unbroken Lineage of Buddha’s Teachings in This World: The Legacy of the Sera Je Food Fund,” which is an in-depth look at the accomplishments and historical context ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the Liberation of 125,149 Lives in the United States in 2018
Resident Sangha at Buddha Amitabha Pure Land in Washington State and Kachoe Dechen Ling in California, in the United States, engage in weekly animal liberation practice; offer charity to over 80 different ant nests; perform extensive daily offering practices of ... Read more »
New Year Celebrated with the Poor and Homeless in Mongolia
Since 2003 Lamp of the Path NGO (LOP), part of Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling, has offered essential social services in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. This year, the new year was celebrated with 130 poor and homeless individuals from the area thanks ... Read more »
Rejoicing in a Beneficial Year of Charitable Giving
FPMT Charitable Projects had an incredible year offering support to beneficial initiates which include: offering food to ordained Sangha; providing scholarships to study Buddhist philosophy; offering to the main teachers of the Lama Tsongkhapa tradition and sponsoring annual debates; offering ... Read more »
Magnificent Stupa Rebuilt in Thame, Nepal, to Benefit All
Lama Zopa Rinpoche was born in the Mount Everest region of Thame, located close to Lawudo which was the home of his previous incarnation known as the Lawudo Lama. Many Kopan monks are also from Thame. During the earthquake of ... Read more »
Providing Support to the Poor in Mongolia Through Lamp of the Path NGO
Lamp of the Path NGO (LOP), part of Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling, has offered social services to some of the poor and homeless living in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia since 2003. Its main program is a soup kitchen which offers food ... Read more »
Annual Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche on December 17, Kopan Monastery
Every year, the Long Life Puja Fund supports a 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. The next puja will be offered ... Read more »
Phase One of Vajrapani Institute’s Prayer Wheel of Compassion Complete
Vajrapani Insititute, an FPMT retreat center in Northern California, is now well on its way to building the Prayer Wheel of Compassion which was announced in December 2016. The 10 ft x 7 ft prayer wheel will contain 5 trillion ... Read more »