A magnificent Stupa of Complete Victory is being built for Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal. The stupa stands 42 feet high (12.8 meters) and is encircled by 32 smaller stupas. Beneath the main stupa is a large meditation hall, and below that are private meditation rooms.

We are delighted to announce that the grand inauguration ceremony of the Stupa will take place on December 11, 2026, at Kopan Monastery.

Learn more about the Stupa of Complete Victory for Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

Rendering of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Stupa of Complete Victory.

Thame Stupa Nov 2023. Photo by Ven. Tenzin Michael

Building 100,000 stupas for world peace is one of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s wishes for the FPMT organization. Stupas are powerful symbols of the mind’s limitless potential. They represent the mind of enlightenment. Rinpoche explains that since there is unbelievable benefit from holy objects, the organization should aim to build 100,000 stupas (minimum size, one story, up to the distance from the earth to the moon) in different parts of the world. To date, 94 stupas have been built or are in the process of being built … only 99,906 remain to be built.

You can learn more about our work supporting stupas.

The minute you see a holy object you create infinite merits,
So no question, if you actually make prostrations,
Offerings and so forth, you create far greater merit.

—Sutra of the Mudra of Developing the Power of Devotion

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is the greatest source of inspiration for FPMT, and Lama Zopa Rinpoche emphasized that serving His Holiness and fulfilling his wishes is our highest priority. Rinpoche expressed his wish for FPMT to keep offering Buddha statues to His Holiness, who gives these statues to the people who come to visit him. To fulfill this wish, FPMT now offers one hundred statues each year on auspicious occasions. Each statue is made in Nepal, filled with mantras, painted, gilded, and consecrated. To date, 2,200 statues of Shakyamuni Buddha have been offered to His Holiness.

You can learn more about offering Buddha statues to His Holiness.

The heart thing, the most important thing, is to do what pleases His Holiness the Dalai Lama, no matter how many other billions of things we do. That’s the key, the heart.

—Lama Zopa Rinpoche

A prayer wheel is a cylindrical wheel on a spindle made from metal. Inside the prayer wheel are many millions or billions of the mantra of the Buddha of Compassion, OM MANI PADME HUM, printed on paper or microfilm. By turning the prayer wheel the mantra of compassion emanates and blesses the area and all beings. Lama Zopa Rinpoche has explained that he would like to sponsor the building of 100,000 prayer wheels for world peace (including prayer wheels under the ocean). The prayer wheels are to have a minimum height of six feet. Wherever a prayer wheel is built, it becomes a great blessing for that country. To date, 22 prayer wheels have been built or are in the process of being built … only 99,978 remain to be built.

You can learn more about our work supporting prayer wheels.

Simply touching a prayer wheel brings great purification of negative karma. Turning a prayer wheel containing 100 million OM MANI PADME HUM mantras accumulates the same merit as reciting that many mantras.

—Lama Zopa Rinpoche

The Padmasambhava Project for Peace is sponsoring the building of many large statues of Padmasambhava around the world in order to create the cause for peace for all beings. To date 35 statues have been built, one measuring 70 feet (21 meters) high.

You can learn more about our work supporting Padmasambhava statues.

Building Guru Rinpoche statues will bring immeasurable benefit, peace, happiness, and freedom to the world. They will have immeasurable impact.

—Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Lama Zopa Rinpoche has requested the FPMT organization to contribute towards the building of 1,000 Maitreya statues (the minimum size should be 6 feet). This includes the Maitreya statues planned to be built in Kushinagar and Bodhgaya, India. By contributing to the building of Maitreya statues, whether it be money or time, one makes a connection with Maitreya Buddha, and the result is that one becomes a direct disciple of Maitreya Buddha when Maitreya returns to manifest enlightenment.

To date, 105 Maitreya statues have been completed or are in progress toward this goal of 1,000 Maitreya statues around the world. Please rejoice!

• 100 life-sized statues from Maitreya Project (26 have been offered to FPMT centers by Lama Zopa Rinpoche)
• Two 7.3m/24ft statues from Maitreya Project (one at Land of Medicine Buddha, California, USA, and the other in Bodhgaya, India)
• Two-story statue built in a monastery in Asia
• One-story statue built in a nunnery in Asia

Thangkas are painted or appliquéd depictions of Buddhas, deities and venerated spiritual figures, usually framed by brocade. Lama Zopa Rinpoche has expressed the wish that the bigger FPMT centers have large thangkas which can be displayed, with extensive offerings, including offerings of music and dance, as a celebration enjoyed by the community on festival days and during special events. In this way, by seeing the large thangkas it is a way to leave imprints for enlightenment for all the people who view them.

You may think that a statue or thangka is just a statue or thangka, but it is the transcendental wisdom of dharmakaya, which understands and directly sees absolute truth, as well as conventional truth.

—Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Master thangka painter Peter Iseli has generously completed a number of large thangkas (all done for free!) towards Rinpoche’s Vast Vision, including a large 21 Tara thangka. The thangka was painted at a workshop specially built for large thangkas at Institut Vajra Yogini in France. See the full list of large thangkas and photos of completed thangkas.

In 2023, Lama Zopa Rinpoche expressed his wish for FPMT to start creating Tara thangkas in different aspects, and for this to be ongoing. Rinpoche wished for Tara thangkas to be continually created and painted for the success and protection of the FPMT organization. The very first Tara thangka was painted and offered to Arya Tara Institute in 2025.

You can learn more about Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for holy objects.

All the actions of the buddhas have manifested in this female aspect of buddha, Tara the Liberator, in order to help living beings to accomplish successfully both temporal and ultimate happiness.

—Lama Zopa Rinpoche