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Rejoicing in the Compassionate Work of FPMT Mongolia’s Lamp of the Path
Lamp of the Path NGO (LOP), part of FPMT Mongolia, offers social services to some of the poor and homeless living in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It has two main programs: a soup kitchen, which offered over 12,290 meals in 2017; and ... Read more »
Vajrapani Institute’s Ambitious Infrastructure Overhaul
Vajrapani Institute, an FPMT retreat center, is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains near Boulder Creek, CA at the end of a five-mile dirt road on the border of Castle Rock State Park. Being entirely off-grid has been an ongoing ... Read more »
New Tracksuits Offered to the Children of Root Institute’s Maitreya School and Tara Children’s Project
The charitable mission of Root Institute, located in Bodhgaya, India, is to provide support to impoverished children, adolescents and adults in neighboring areas through three focused projects. Maitreya School is a primary school providing free education for local children; Tara ... Read more »
Continued Support for Lugsum Samduling Home for the Aged and Disabled, Bylakuppe, India
Lugsum Samduling Home for the Aged and Disabled, an elderly home in Bylakuppe, India, cares for approximately forty elderly individuals. Without homes and accommodation like this, many elderly first-wave Tibetan refugees have very little prospect of accommodation or support as ... Read more »
Wisdom Publications Completes the Longest and Most Detailed Lamrim Commentary Available in English
In 1976, Geshe Lhundub Sopa, one of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachers, began offering commentary to Lama Tsongkhapa’s Lamrim Chenmo. The lamrim, or “graduated path,” is a presentation of Shakyamuni Buddha’s teachings that detail the stages on the complete path to ... Read more »
Offering to Padmasambhava for World Peace
Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) is perhaps the most universally cherished realized being in all of Tibetan Buddhism. Padmasambhava came to Tibet from India in the 8th century and helped establish a pure lineage which is still practiced today by all four ... Read more »
Rolwaling Gompa Project Continues Toward Completion
Thanks to a kind and generous donor, in 2016, a substantial grant was offered from the Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund to Rolwaling Monastery in Nepal, at the Tibet border, for the rebuilding of their gompa which was nearly destroyed in ... Read more »
Supporting the Education of Tibetan Refugees’ Children
The Social Services Fund has been sponsoring the midday meals for the children attending The Central School for Tibetans, Cauvery Valley Project (CVP), located in Bylakuppe, South India. The school was was established in 1971 to serve the children of ... Read more »
Offering Food to the Monks of Thame Monastery, Nepal
The Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund was very pleased to offer a grant for over US$10,000 to Thame Monastery in the Solo Khumbu District of Nepal. The grant will cover the cost of food for all the monks during 2018. The ... Read more »
Rejoicing in Virtuous Activities Sponsored During 15 Days of Miracles
The Fifteen Days of Miracles began on the first day of the Tibetan new year (Losar, February 16) and continues until March 1. This period commemorates the special time when Guru Shakyamuni Buddha showed many powers. All fifteen days are ... Read more »
Large Stupa in Thame, Nepal, to Benefit the World
Recently, a grant was offered toward a large stupa being built in Thame in the Solo Khumbu district of Nepal to replace one that was destroyed in the 2015 earthquake. The new stupa, which will stand nearly 44 feet tall ... Read more »