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Grant Offered to Kopan House at Sera Je Monastery for Much Needed Construction

Grant Offered to Kopan House at Sera Je Monastery for Much Needed Construction

Lama Zopa Rinpoche, through the Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund, issued a grant for US$85,400 to assist with much needed construction, maintenance, and repairs at Kopan House at Sera Je Monastery, India. Kopan House is occupied by sixty monks from Kopan ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Support of Root Institute Social Service Projects

Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Support of Root Institute Social Service Projects

Lama Zopa Rinpoche was in Bodhgaya, India, for several weeks from late December 2016 through February 2017. During that time Rinpoche attended the Kalachakra initiation offered by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, went on pilgrimage to many holy sites, met ... Read more »
Stupa for Geshe Gendun Choephel Completed

Stupa for Geshe Gendun Choephel Completed

Earlier this year we announced that a new stupa was being built at Sera Je Monastery for Tenzin Ösel Hita’s teacher, Khen Rinpoche Geshe Gendun Choephel, who passed away on July 31, 2016. Ösel requested Lama Zopa Rinpoche to assist ... Read more »
Top Scholars Awarded New Robes for Memorization

Top Scholars Awarded New Robes for Memorization

For seventeen years the Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund sponsors an oral examination of Sera Je Monastery’s top scholars who have shown a propensity for memorization. This year, 213 monks were awarded new robes for their successful memorization of particular texts. ... Read more »
Grant Offered to the Animal Liberation Sanctuary in Nepal

Grant Offered to the Animal Liberation Sanctuary in Nepal

Every day around the world millions of animals are killed and mistreated needlessly. In countries like Nepal, the care and management of animals is very poor and animal sacrifices are common creating tremendous suffering for the animals and those involved. ... Read more »
Helping Monasteries and Nunneries Thrive

Helping Monasteries and Nunneries Thrive

The Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund was established to support monasteries, nunneries, and individual monks and nuns with food, accommodation, health care, education and Dharma practice. Supporting monks and nuns is one of the highest priorities for the FPMT organization, because ... Read more »
Grant Offered to MAITRI Charitable Trust for Social Service in Bodhgaya

Grant Offered to MAITRI Charitable Trust for Social Service in Bodhgaya

MAITRI Charitable Trust provides essential education, medical care, aid to mothers and children, animal care, and various forms of charitable service to the destitute in Bodhgaya, India. MAITRI began its work in 1989 when Adriana Ferranti put her leprosy training ... Read more »
The Puja Fund Sponsors Pujas and Offerings on Chokhor Duchen

The Puja Fund Sponsors Pujas and Offerings on Chokhor Duchen

Each year on Chokhor Duchen, one of the four great holy days of the Tibetan Buddhist calendar, The Puja Fund sponsors pujas and offerings all over the world dedicated to success of the entire FPMT organization. The practices are offered ... Read more »
Monthly Medicine Buddha Puja to Benefit Entire FPMT Organization

Monthly Medicine Buddha Puja to Benefit Entire FPMT Organization

Every month on the Tibetan 8th day The Puja Fund sponsors all the monks of Sera Mey Monastery to offer Medicine Buddha puja dedicated FPMT centers, projects, services; all students who are ill or having life obstacles; benefactors of The ... Read more »
Support for Social Services at Root Institute Continues

Support for Social Services at Root Institute Continues

For the past six years, due to the kindness of one main benefactor, the FPMT Social Services project has been able to offer substantial grants toward the amazing projects of Root Institute, India, which directly benefit underprivileged individuals in the ... Read more »
Investing in Retreat Houses for Geshes in Chailsa, Nepal

Investing in Retreat Houses for Geshes in Chailsa, Nepal

Chailsa is in Solu Khumbu, north-eastern Nepal, the district where Lama Zopa Rinpoche was born. Chailsa is in the southern part of the district. In May, Lama Zopa Rinpoche stayed at Thubten Shedrup Ling Monastery for a month and visited ... Read more »
Ven. Tsering Comments on Fifteen Years of Writing out the Prajnaparamita Sutra

Ven. Tsering Comments on Fifteen Years of Writing out the Prajnaparamita Sutra

In March we reported that Ven. Tsering has entered his fifteenth year of writing out the Prajnaparamita Sutra in gold ink on archival quality rainbow paper as a means to create the karma needed to build the large Maitreya Buddha ... Read more »