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Jangchub Stupa Project at Shalu Monastery, Tibetan Cholsum Settlement, India
Shalu Monastery was founded by Chetsun Shetsun Jugney in 1027 A.D at Shalu Village near Shigatse town in Tibet and was consecrated by Atisha. The number of the monks studying there reached 7,700 at the peak of its opulence. During ... Read more »
Moving Long Life Puja Offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Bendigo, Australia
On May 12 a moving long life puja was offered by over four hundred students to Lama Zopa Rinpoche at The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo, Australia, following the conclusion of an incredible six-week-long retreat. During the puja, ... Read more »
Supporting the Rebuilding of a Kagyu Nunnery in Nepal
Shri Sengedrak Ngedhon Samten Choeling Retreat Center, a Kagyu nunnery, was badly damaged in the 2015 earthquake that devastated Nepal and surrounding areas. This nunnery, located on the border of Nepal and Tibet (on the Nepal side), is under the ... Read more »
Saka Dawa: Celebrating Lord Buddha’s Birth, Enlightenment, and Parinirvana
Saka Dawa is the most important Tibetan Buddhist festival day, celebrating Lord Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and parinirvana. Buddhists around the world engage in many auspicious and merit-making activities such as sponsoring or engaging in beneficial pujas, practices, and prayers; and ... Read more »
Investing in Sangha Health, Hygiene, and Environmental Conditions
Thanks to a very kind benefactor plus funds offered from Lama Zopa Rinpoche personally, over US$73,000 was offered from the Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund toward a desperately needed new sewage system at Sera Lachi in southern India. Sera Lachi is ... Read more »
Stupa to Hold Holy Body of Trulshik Rinpoche
Thubten Chöling is a large monastery built by the late Trulshik Rinpoche in the 1960s in Solu Khumbu near Chailsa, Nepal. One of the greatest living masters of the Nyingma and rime traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, Trulshik Rinpoche, who passed ... Read more »
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 »