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Annual Long Life Puja Offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Annual Long Life Puja Offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Each year, a long life puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche is offered on behalf of the entire FPMT organization. This puja takes place at the close of the yearly Kopan lam-rim course, or at the end of a CPMT meeting. ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Advises Israeli FPMT Study Group on Practices to Bring Peace to Area

Lama Zopa Rinpoche Advises Israeli FPMT Study Group on Practices to Bring Peace to Area

Israel’s Shantideva Study Group was recently advised by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on pujas, practices and offerings to complete in order to help bring peace to the Palestine and Israel conflict and the whole world. Rinpoche advised the study group to ... Read more »
Offering Made to Bylakuppe Accommodation for His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Offering Made to Bylakuppe Accommodation for His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Lama Zopa Rinpoche, through the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund, recently offered US$50,000 toward a new place for His Holiness the Dalai Lama to stay when in Bylakuppe, India. This new accommodation is being built by the Tibetan Settlement Office ... Read more »
Three Months of Food Offerings to 2500 Monks

Three Months of Food Offerings to 2500 Monks

Every day, 8,300 meals are offered to all the monks studying at Sera Je Monastery. 3,300 monks join for breakfast and 2,500 monks are offered lunch and dinner. Every three months, approximately 750,000 meals are offered through the Sera Je ... Read more »
Maitreya Project Kushinagar Update

Maitreya Project Kushinagar Update

In October 2014, Maitreya Project Kushinagar published an update regarding the project. You can read this update which includes details on the history of the project as well as its current and future aims. One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast ... Read more »
Extensive Offerings at Kachoe Dechen Ling

Extensive Offerings at Kachoe Dechen Ling

Lama Zopa Rinpoche has requested Sangha at Kachoe Dechen Ling to make extensive offerings daily including the extensive offering practice. These offerings have been done every day for 16 years and include water bowls, light offerings and flower offerings outside ... Read more »
Bodhichitta the Elephant Moved to Tears by Mantras

Bodhichitta the Elephant Moved to Tears by Mantras

Since 2011 Lama Zopa Rinpoche, through the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund, has been covering the cost of food for a large elephant Rinpoche named “Bodhichitta” who lives in Bodhgayga, India. Rinpoche gave one condition to the owner of this ... Read more »
Pujas for Choden Rinpoche’s Health

Pujas for Choden Rinpoche’s Health

When Lama Zopa Rinpoche heard that his guru, Choden Rinpoche, was manifesting some health obstacles, Rinpoche immediately sponsored a number of pujas through the Puja Fund. One puja Rinpoche sponsored, dedicated to Choden Rinpoche’s long life, was the reading of ... Read more »
Padmasambhava Statues Around the World

Padmasambhava Statues Around the World

One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for FPMT is to build many large statues of Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) around the world in order to create the cause for peace for all beings. To date, 27 statues have been built, ... Read more »
Update on the Stupa to Minimize Harm from the Elements in San Francisco

Update on the Stupa to Minimize Harm from the Elements in San Francisco

In June of this year, Teresa Mia Navarro joined the team in the search for a site for the Stupa to Minimize Harm from the Elements. This stupa was recommended by Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme (Khadro-la) to help minimize ... Read more »
1000 Nyung Nas Accumulated by 125 Students at Institut Vajra Yogini

1000 Nyung Nas Accumulated by 125 Students at Institut Vajra Yogini

One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s vast visions for the FPMT organization is to sponsor 1,000 Nung-Nä retreats. Upon hearing about Rinpoche’s vision, Institut Vajra Yogini quickly picked up the project of hosting these retreats and has now started a third ... Read more »
Continuous Light Offered to Chenrezig

Continuous Light Offered to Chenrezig

In July 2013 Lama Zopa Rinpoche engaged in retreat with Khadro-la and Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche in the valley of Lahual, India, which is known by meditators as Garsha Khandroling, “Land of the Dakinis.” The retreat took place in one of ... Read more »