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Puja Fund Activities on Losar
This year on Losar, in addition to the wide array of pujas and offerings, the Puja Fund also sponsored 100,000 tsog offerings by the Kopan monks and nuns and dedicated to the long life of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and to ... Read more »
Community Hall in Tibetan Settlement of 2,710 Refugees
In July we reported that a US$116,8 48 grant from the Social Services Fund had been offered to Rabagayling Tibetan Settlement in South India for the building of a new community hall that will benefit the 2,710 refugees there. We ... Read more »
79,000 Sentient Beings Liberated in 2015 in California and Washington
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has requested the Sangha at his residences in California and Washington state to offer the practice of animal liberation every week dedicated to anyone who is sick or having life obstacles. Additionally, Sangha in California offer a ... Read more »
Yeshe Norbu Onlus Ongoing Support to Post-Earthquake Nepal
Yeshe Norbu Onlus is an Italian FPMT non-profit association which supports important projects benefiting Tibetan refugees and children. Since the earthquake in Nepal last April, Yeshe Norbu has offered a tremendous amount of emergency aid to assist those in need ... Read more »
Offering to 32,000 Participants of the Jangchup Lamrim Teachings with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
During the 2015 Jangchup Lamrim teachings ( 18 Treatises on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment ) with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the newly inaugurated Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered tea to 32,000 participants, money ... Read more »
Wisdom Publication’s Steps on the Path to Enlightenment Series: Commentary by Geshe Lhundub Sopa
For over eighteen years Wisdom Publications has been working on publishing a series of commentaries, Steps on the Path to Enlightenment, on Lama Tsongkhapa’s Lam-rim Chenmo by Geshe Lhundub Sopa. Volumes, 1 (The Foundational Practices), 2 (Karma), 3 (The Way ... Read more »
Ongoing Efforts to Improve the Sera Je Food Fund’s Operations
Since its inception in 1991, the Sera Je Food Fund has strived to assess and make adjustments and improvements to operations, procedures, and services offered to help ensure that this project is bringing the most benefit to those it serves. ... Read more »
Ongoing Practices to Pacify Earthquakes
After receiving news that scientists were forecasting a huge earthquake and possible tsunamis on the West Coast of the United States, Lama Zopa Rinpoche began offering advice about how to help mitigate the effects of karma that can result in ... Read more »
Support to Tashi Chime Gatsal Nuns Following the Earthquake in Nepal
Following the earthquake of April, 2015, the conditions at Tashi Chime Gatsal Nunnery (also known as Bigu Nunnery), located in a remote area of Nepal, were such that the nuns living there had to evacuate and take up temporary shelter ... Read more »
Retreat Cabin Sponsored for Ordained Sangha
Due to the kindness of a generous benefactor, the Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund was able to sponsor the International Mahayana Institute’s building of a retreat cabin specifically to be used by Sangha at Thakpa Kachoe Retreat Land. This new cabin, ... Read more »
Long Life Puja Offered to His Holiness the Dalai Lama January 1, 2016
Over twenty years ago, Lama Zopa Rinpoche requested that the FPMT organization offers a long life puja to His Holiness the Dalai Lama every year. This year the annual long life puja will be offered on January 1, 2016 following ... Read more »