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Rejoicing in the Extensive Offerings Around the World
Since 1999, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has arranged to have continual extensive offerings of water bowls and lights offered twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year to create merit for the FPMT organization. Since this began over two decades ago, ... Read more »
Food Offering to Paonta Cholsum Tibetan Settlement on His Holiness’s Birthday
The COVID-19 pandemic has created hardship around the world. Paonta Cholsum Tibetan Settlement, located in Paonta Sahib Himachal Pradesh, India, has lost a significant source of income due to lockdown restrictions. The settlement recently reached out to Lama Zopa Rinpoche ... Read more »
Support to Seven Elderly Homes Serving Tibetan Elders in 2021
Since 2015, the FPMT Social Services Fund has been offering support to hundreds of Tibetan elders residing in elderly homes throughout India. Tibetans have been living in exile since 1959 when Communist China invaded Tibet, forcing 100,000 Tibetans to flee ... Read more »
Rejoicing in TEN YEARS of 108 Nyung-Na Retreats at Institut Vajra Yogini
By Nicolas Brun One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the FPMT organization is to sponsor 1,000 Nyung-Na Retreats. In response to Rinpoche’s vision, Institut Vajra Yogini (IVY) has been hosting the TENTH 108 Nyung-Na Retreat and has now ... Read more »
Continued Support to Prisoners Wishing to Study Dharma
Liberation Prison Project (LPP) is an FPMT international project founded in 1996 dedicated to supporting students around the world in prison who wish to study Dharma. Since its inception, LPP has helped thousands of prisoners worldwide study Buddha’s teachings and ... Read more »
Tibetan Elders Creating Merit in Elderly Homes in India
Advice for the Elderly Lama Zopa Rinpoche recently offered extensive advice on different ways to help and benefit the elderly, particularly Tibetans in Nepal and India, who are Buddhist. Rinpoche has made the point that as Buddhists we shouldn’t only ... Read more »
Support to Taru Gayphel Tsogspa Animal Welfare Society, Leh, Ladakh
Taru Gayphel Tsogspa Animal Welfare Society is an animal care facility located in Taru, Leh, Ladakh. Tsering Dorjay Malik first developed the idea in 2013 to help the animals in the village by drawing inspiration from Buddha’s teachings that every ... Read more »
Extensive and Vast Array of Pujas, Practices, and Offerings Sponsored this Saka Dawa
Through the FPMT Puja Fund we have arranged for an incredible vast array of pujas, practices, and offerings for Saka Dawa May 26 when any merit created is multiplied 100 million times. The pujas and offerings are being undertaken with ... Read more »
Rejoicing in Lama Zopa Rinpoche Starting to Write the Prajnaparamita
Lama Zopa Rinpoche had been writing the 8,000 verse Prajnaparamita Sutra in pure gold for several years, but since 2011 Rinpoche hasn’t been able to write, as Rinpoche felt his handwriting was not stable enough, since manifesting a stroke that ... Read more »
Rejoicing in the White Tara Long Life Puja Offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche on April 19, 2021
Please join the entire FPMT community by rejoicing in the recent long life puja which was offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, on behalf of FPMT centers, projects, services, study groups, and students on April 19. This ... Read more »
Important Update on the Maitreya Project in Bodhgaya
The creation of Holy Objects for World Peace is an important aspect of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s vast vision for the FPMT organization. Specifically, Rinpoche envisions the creation of many statues of Maitreya Buddha around the world. Currently, there are two ... Read more »