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Progress on Land of Medicine Buddha Mahabodhi Stupa Continues

Progress on Land of Medicine Buddha Mahabodhi Stupa Continues

Progress continues on Land of Medicine Buddha’s 39-foot-tall Mahabodhi stupa project in California. Earlier this year the community filled the final structural chamber of this stupa and celebrated by enjoying a picnic in the meadow after the work of the ... Read more »
714 Monks Participate in Annual Gelug Exam at Gaden Lachi Monastery

714 Monks Participate in Annual Gelug Exam at Gaden Lachi Monastery

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. This September 714 monks participated ... Read more »
Guru Rinpoche Statue Arrives at Lawudo

Guru Rinpoche Statue Arrives at Lawudo

“My wish is for FPMT to build many holy objects everywhere, as many as possible. Making it so easy for sentient beings to purify their heavy negative karma and making it so easy for sentient beings to create extensive merit. ... Read more »
Progress Made Rebuilding the Gompa at Rolwaling Monastery, Nepal

Progress Made Rebuilding the Gompa at Rolwaling Monastery, Nepal

Earlier this year we reported that due to a donation from a generous benefactor, a substantial grant had been offered from the Social Services Fund to Rolwaling Monastery in Nepal, at the Tibet border, for the rebuilding of their gompa ... Read more »
Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Benefits of Offering to Sangha

Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Benefits of Offering to Sangha

By Lama Zopa Rinpoche Why Offering to the Sangha Is So Powerful In the past, there was one man who had nothing, but he offered medicinal food just one time to four fully ordained monks. (These were not monks who ... Read more »
Progress Made on Prayer Wheel Restoration Project, Namche Bazaar, Nepal

Progress Made on Prayer Wheel Restoration Project, Namche Bazaar, Nepal

Last month we reported that a grant was issued from the Prayer Wheel Fund to the Mani Chungyur, Stupa and Water Park, a project being built in Namche Bazaar, Nepal to be used for five prayer wheels which are turned ... Read more »
Tashi Chime Gatsal Rebuilds Nunnery

Tashi Chime Gatsal Rebuilds Nunnery

Tashi Chime Gatsal Nunnery (also known as Bigu Nunnery), located in a remote area of Nepal, is still rebuilding following devastation from the April 2015 earthquake. All of the buildings at the nunnery were destroyed and there was no safe ... Read more »
100 Million Mani Retreat Begins at Newly Built Tibetan Settlement Community Center

100 Million Mani Retreat Begins at Newly Built Tibetan Settlement Community Center

In July we reported that a new community hall at Rabagayling Tibetan Settlement in South India was completed. The Social Services Fund provided a grant for this new building which will be used by by 2,710 refugees. We are delighted ... Read more »
Sera Je Food Fund is Twenty-five Years Old

Sera Je Food Fund is Twenty-five Years Old

We’d like to invite you to rejoice in twenty-five years of the Sera Je Food Fund offerings meals to the monks of Sera Je Monstery! The Sera Je Food Fund began in 1991 when Tenzin Ösel Hita, the recognized incarnation ... Read more »
Rebuilding Kopan Monastery and Nunnery After the 2015 Earthquake

Rebuilding Kopan Monastery and Nunnery After the 2015 Earthquake

At the end of last year we reported on the extensive rebuilding needed at Kopan Monastery and Nunnery following the devastating April 2015 earthquake in Nepal. Kopan Monastery is FPMT’s most precious destinations as the very first FPMT teachings happend ... Read more »
Grant Offered to Prayer Wheel Restoration and Water Park Construction Namche Bazaar, Nepal

Grant Offered to Prayer Wheel Restoration and Water Park Construction Namche Bazaar, Nepal

The Holy Objects Fund recently offered a US$50,000 grant to the Mani Chungyur, Stupa and Water Park, a project being built in Namche Bazaar, Nepal, located in the Sagarmatha National Park and Buffer Zone (SNPBZ). The grant will be used ... Read more »
Pujas, Practices, and Prayers Sponsored on Chokhor Duchen

Pujas, Practices, and Prayers Sponsored on Chokhor Duchen

Each year on Chokhor Duchen (commemorating Lord Buddha’s first teaching) the Puja Fund sponsors pujas and offerings all over the world dedicated to success of the entire FPMT organization. The practices are offered by up to 15,650 monks and nuns. ... Read more »