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Annual Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche on December 14, 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 »
Rebuilding Pema Choeling Monastery Following the 2015 Earthquake
Pema Choeling Monastery has stood above the village of Phakding for more than 500 years. Phakding is a small village in the Khumbu region of Nepal. It is just north of Lukla. The monastery suffered severe damage following the massive ... Read more »
Offering Toward the 2017 Gelug Examination at Drepung Monastery and Stipend for Teachers
Each year the foremost scholars from the main Gelug monasteries come together for the annual Gelug examination and the Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund offers a grant to cover the basic expenses including food for participants. In September of this year ... Read more »
Don’t Miss the Opportunity to Participate in Lhabab Duchen Activities
Lhabab Duchen, one of the four great holy days of the Buddhist calendar when merit is multiplied by 100 million times, takes place this year on Friday, November 10. Don’t miss the opportunity to rejoice in an incredible array of ... Read more »
New Recreation and Community Room Completed at Jampaling Elder’s Home, Dharamsala, India
Jampaling Elder’s Home, situated in Dharamsala, is about 15 minutes walking distance from the main temple of His Holiness the Dalai Lama with many prayer wheels lining the way. This home was built to accommodate elders who are sixty and ... Read more »
Investing in Maratika Monastery, Nepal
Due to the kindness of a generous donor the Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund issued a grant of US$70,000 to build a monastery in Maratika, Nepal. The small monastery was built adjacent to the entrance of Maratika Cave. This holy site ... Read more »
New Rooms Sponsored at Lugsum Samduling Home for the Aged and Disabled
The Social Services Fund sponsored five new rooms for elderly Tibetan refugees residing at the Lugsung Samdupling Home for the Aged and Disabled in Bylakuppe, India. Lama Zopa Rinpoche visited this home in 2016 and spent time with the forty-six ... Read more »
Rebuilding Khumjung Gompa, Nepal
The Nepal earthquake and aftershocks of 2015 devastated much of Nepal including many parts of Khumbu region where Khumjung Gompa is located. At 12,400 feet near Everest, this monastery is a 400-year-old monastic center of Sherpa culture and Tibetan Buddhism. ... Read more »
Grant Offered Toward New Sewage System at Sera Lachi, South India
Earlier this year when Lama Zopa Rinpoche was in Bangalore, he was requested to help with a desperately needed new sewage system at Sera Lachi. Sera Lachi is made up of Sera Je and Sera Mey Monasteries in southern India. ... Read more »
Support of Food Continues for the Children and Staff of Ngari Institute in Ladakh, India
For the forth year, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, through the Social Services Fund, has offered food every day of the year to the school children and staff of Ngari Institute in Ladakh, India. This year, 53 school children in addition to ... Read more »
Offering Gold and Robes to Precious Jowo Statue in Tibet
On full moons and during Sakadawa the Puja Fund sponsors special offerings to the Jowo Buddha Statue in Tibet. Gold is offered to the statue’s face (and will soon be offered to the whole body on Buddha days) and robes ... Read more »