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August 2012: The most immediate need of the Amdo Eye Hospital is to purchase a laser surgery machine (Phacoemulsification machine). The cost for one of these machines is US$120,000. FPMT is currently fundraising in order to be able to sponsor ... Read more »Ven. Pemba Sherpa visits Amdo Eye Hospital and Reports
August 2011: Ven. Pemba Sherpa (FPMT board member, resident teacher and co-director of Cham Tse Ling, in Hong Kong) visited the Amdo Eye Hospital to report on its progress and operations. Read the report with photos. Currently there are 24 ... Read more »Amdo Eye Hospital Inauguration
August 2011: The inauguration of the building was in July 2010, it took a year to equip the hospital and get the necessary documents to be able to perform the surgeries and in August 2011 the hospital was officially opened ... Read more »![Padmasambhava Project for Peace Accomplishments as of July 2012](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/projects/Padmasambhava/IMG_3431.jpg)
Padmasambhava Project for Peace Accomplishments as of July 2012
Padmasambhava statue for Lawudo nearly finished.US$14,000 offered to build one 11-foot (3-meter) and two life-sized statues of Padmasambhava in Lawudo, Nepal. Lawudo is the site of particular significance for FPMT as the meditation cave of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s previous incarnation, ... Read more »![Sponsor Teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on The Eighteen Great Lam-rim Commentaries in 2012!](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/projects/PLF/LZR%20and%20HHDL.jpg)
Sponsor Teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on The Eighteen Great Lam-rim Commentaries in 2012!
Lama Zopa Rinpoche with His Holiness the Dalai Lama November 2011.July 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 ... Read more »![A Request I Couldn’t Refuse](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/projects/prajnaparamita/IMG_5009.jpg)
A Request I Couldn’t Refuse
By Jane Seidlitz Lama Zopa Rinpoche called me very early one morning in 2004, and after giving me some advice on a thangka I was planning to paint, asked me how my Tibetan handwriting was. “It’s okay, not that great,” ... Read more »![Ven. Tsering Dedicates His Life to Prajnaparamita Project](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/projects/prajnaparamita/DSCN3174.jpg)