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38,931.14 Pounds of Rice & Flour Offered in One Month from the Sera Je Food Fund
In order for the Sera Je Food Fund to offer three meals per day to all 2,500 monks studying at Sera Je Monastery (3,300 monks join for breakfast), the Sera Je Kitchen must acquire, prep, cook, and clean-up after an ... Read more »
US$10,000 Offered to Vajrapani Institute for Life-Sized Statue of Lama Yeshe
Lama Zopa Rinpoche was very happy to make an offering of US$10,000 toward a new life-sized statue of Lama Yeshe which Vajrapani Institute, Boulder Creek, CA, USA is having built. This will be the second life-sized statue of Lama Yeshe ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Sponsors Kitchen for Bylakuppe School for Tibetans
Sera Monastery is located in the Tibetan settlement Bylakuppe near Mysore, Karnataka in South India. Lama Zopa Rinpoche sponsored the new kitchen at the Bylakuppe School for Tibetans, which was inaugurated on December 19, 2013. Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of ... Read more »
Gold Leafing and Equipment Offered to 70 ft Statue of Padmasambhava
The Padmasambhava Project for Peace is dedicated to fulfilling Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s goal of building many large statues of Padmasambhava around the world in order to create the cause for peace for all beings In October of 2013 the project ... Read more »
Update on the Stupa to Minimize Harm From the Elements
In order to minimize harm caused by possible earthquakes in California, USA; a stupa is being built near the Golden Gate Bridge, under the advice of Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme (Khadro-la). This project is called the Stupa to Minimize ... Read more »
Long Life Puja Offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Drati Khantsen, Sera Je Monastery
On December 22, 2013 at the conclusion of this year’s oral transmission of Most Secret Hayagriva given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Sera Je Monastery’s Drati Khangtsen in India offered a long life puja to Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Ven. Roger Kunsang, ... Read more »
Monthly Extensive Most Secret Hayagriva Puja Offered
Every month on the Tibetan 29th day, an important day to offer protector pujas, The Puja Fund sponsors about 40 of the most senior monks of Sera Je Monastery, who specialize in the practice of Most Secret Hayagriva, to offer ... Read more »
Annual Long Life Puja for His Holiness the Dalai Lama
FPMT has the incredible opportunity to be one of the main sponsors of the long life puja that will be offered to His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the conclusion of this year’s Jangchub Lam-Rim teaching event at Sera Je ... Read more »
2013 Continuation of the Eighteen Great Lam-Rim Commentaries by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
In November 2012, on the very auspicious occasion of the 610th Anniversary of Lama Tsongkhapa’s composition of his masterpiece Lam-rim Chen-mo (The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment) and the 600th Anniversary of Lama Tsongkhapa’s teaching ... Read more »
Annual Long Life Puja Offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Kopan Monastery, Nepal
The annual long life puja was offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche on behalf of the entire FPMT organization at Kopan Monastery, December 9, 2013. 800+ monks and nuns; 280+ Western students; and many local Nepalis, Tibetans and Sherpas were in ... Read more »
Ven. Tsering: “The most fortunate one in the whole world to do this.”
Ven. Tsering, a Kopan Monk, has dedicated his life to writing out the Prajnaparamita Sutra in pure gold at the request of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Effort of this magnitude is worth rejoicing in, as this is the eleventh consecutive year ... Read more »