receive our newsletters
join Friends of FPMT
Charitable Projects News
building a more compassionate world
Monthly Offerings to Statues of Buddha in Bodhgaya and Tibet
Every month, on the full moon, the Puja Fund sponsors offerings to Buddha statues in Tibet and Bodhgaya. An offering of robes, made of the most precious material chosen by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, to the Buddha Statue in Mahabodhi Temple, ... Read more »
1,000 Statues of Lama Yeshe for Vajrapani Institute’s New Gompa
Since 2011, Vajrapani Institute has been working with others to create a lifelike statue of FPMT’s precious founder, Lama Yeshe. In 2013, Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered US$10,000 toward the completion of his statue. In November of 2015, after an unusual ... Read more »
Food Offered to 17,000 During His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Teaching Event at Tashi Lhunpo Monastery
In December, the Preserving the Lineage Fund sponsored the offering of lunch to 17,000 people during His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s anticipated three day teaching event at Tashi Lhunpo Monastery which preceded His Holiness’s Jangchup Lamrim teachings, also held at ... Read more »
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 »