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Tenzin Osel Hita giving a talk at Aryatara Institute, Germany, February 2017. Photo by Hermann Wittekopf.
- Reincarnation: The Boy Lama, by Vicki Mackenzie
- Reborn in the West, by Vicki Mackenzie
- Man’s Work, From Telegraph Magazine, London, England
- 1987 TV3 issued a documentary entitled Osel: the petit Lama
- 2010 RTVE issued a documentary entitled Osel, Granada Lama
- Ösel in Mandala- all Articles.
- Audio of Ösel and Gomo Tulku engaged in Q & A at Amitabha Buddhist Center, Singapore, April 25, 2016.
- Audio and unedited transcript of Ösel’s talk, “How to Understand Reality from the Universal Point of View” in Bangalore, India, February, 2013.
- Audio interview between Ösel and the BBC called, “The Reluctant Lama.”
- Interview with Ösel by Thane Burnett of the Toronto Sun.
- Interview with Ösel from July – September 2010 Mandala magazine.
- Videos of Tenzin Ösel’s talks.
Tenzin Osel Hita during long life puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Sarnath, India, February 2017. Photo by Paulo Regis.
Watch a video of Osel’s talk at Losang Drakpa Centere here!
One of the most moving ceremonies in Tibetan Buddhism is the long life puja for a teacher, an elaborate display of devotion towards a spiritual guide comprising heartfelt prayers and praises, and a procession of symbolic offerings. We have collected videos of these incredible offerings of veneration sponsored by the Long Life Puja Fund.
Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Bodhgaya, India
Full Long Life Puja Offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, September 29, 2013, Land of Medicine Buddha, CA, USA
(Dakinis enter @ 52 minutes, Tenzin Ösel reads praise to Lama Zopa Rinpoche at @3.00 hours, Lama Zopa Rinpoche starts teaching @ 3.16 hours, )
Tenzin Ösel Hita’s Praise to Lama Zopa Rinpoche During Long Life Puja
Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Praise to Lama Zopa Rinpoche composed by Kay Cooper and Gordon McDougall, at Institut Vajrayogini, France, June 2009
You may donate any amount to the yearly Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche
You can read a recent article in Mandala magazine (October-December 2012) about Nalanda’s 15-Year Master Plan.
*These funds are disbursed in an ongoing manner, according to the needs of the project.
March 2012: Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered 26 Maitreya Buddha statues to FPMT centers, projects and services that wished to have one. Read more and view a photo gallery created by Mandala magazine!
Practicing Bodhichitta (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)- Bodhichitta Motivation in Daily Life
- Bodhisattva Attitude: How to Dedicate Your Life to Others
- How to Live with Bodhichitta
- Training the Mind in Bodhichitta
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching on bodhichitta at Bodhgaya stupa (video)
- Living in the Path: Refuge and Bodhichitta
- Discovering Buddhism: How to Develop Bodhichitta
- The Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta
- Cooking with Bodhichitta: Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Momo Recipes
Practicing Bodhichitta (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)Occasionally Osel Hita shares his thoughts and experiences on his Facebook page. In this update, he details his recent visit to California, USA, where he attended an FPMT Board of Directors meeting.
So again, I wanted to thank all of you for your hard work, your perseverance, and your Big Love!
Very happy to be part of this amazing movement for humanity’s improvement as a whole, starting from each individual!
Onelove family!
Thank you!
Occasionally Osel Hita shares his thoughts and experiences on his Facebook page. In this update, he discusses the evolution of our specials and updates us on the condition of his mother, Maria.
And where are we as individuals? Is this a turning point in history?
I’m just glad to be alive, even though I don’t fully understand the big picture. Just being here and having the capacity to decide over my actions, is enough to learn and improve.
Whatever is going to happen, will happen.
So let us learn to be better people while we are at it, and if the world has to implode, at least we tried!
My mother, Maria, is already walking and enjoying her new life after 24 years with a kidney tumor. When they took it out, it weighed around 1 kilo (750 grams). It is crazy! The tumor had veins the size of a thumb!
Now she is so much better, it is quite a difference. She is already gaining weight, has a lot of energy, and is much happier than before. We are all so glad she finally decided to go through with the operation.
And she definitely felt the energies coming from all over the world. It went very smoothly, thank you all so very much!
Well take care family, and talk soon!
onelove
Occasionally Osel Hita shares his thoughts and experiences on his Facebook page. In this update, he discusses the meaning of happiness.
The following, from Osel, was included in FPMT’s Annual Review, February 2011:
2011 was a great year for me. I was able to travel so much and had the opportunity to become involved in many FPMT activities.
I was thrilled to be able to meet many old friends and to make so many new friendships too.
From my home in Ibiza, Spain, I traveled to California for an FPMT Board meeting in March.
In April together with Gomo Tulku I traveled to Australia to visit Lama Zopa Rinpoche who was in the initial stages of recovering from his stroke.
In July I traveled to Kopan with Karuna Cayton. I very much wanted to visit Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup whose health was declining.
It turned out to be a great visit. Lama Zopa Rinpoche requested me to speak to the assembly of nuns at the nunnery and then to all the monks at the monastery. I was very happy with the visit and connected very well with the monks and nuns.
In August I was able to direct the filming of a documentary on Universal Wisdom Education (UWE) along with Matteo Passigato and other crew members. The filming took place at Vajrayogini Institute in France during the first international gathering of UWE which was attended by individuals and families from all over the world. The documentary is currently in the stage of “director’s final cut.”
In November I traveled with my partner Mai, and brother Kunkyen to India. We stayed in my former home Osel Labrang at Sera Monastery.
I was invited to address the Kopan monks at Sera and was able to spend time with my teacher, Geshe Genden Chomphel, and thoroughly enjoyed the visit. From Sera we traveled onto Bodhgaya to attend the Kalachakra initiation given by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in January 2012.
In between my travels, I have been developing a number of business concepts I hope will contribute to FPMT’s long-term sustainability.
So many people welcomed and helped me everywhere I went and I really thank everyone especially those I didn’t get to thank personally. I am looking forward to being much more in touch with everyone who has been helping me over the years, and I am so happy to be available to help wherever I can in the future.
Big love,
Osel
Osel gave this message at the January 2012 South Asian Regiona Meeting. Pictured below is Osel with other participants of this meeting.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche is such an inspiration and someday he will have private time for himself. Up until now he has dedicated all of his time to others, we have to give him space so he can rest. Given his situation now, I think it is important to be aware of that.
Things evolve slowly, slowly. We’re all trying to reach as many people as possible through different ways, not just through this organization, but other ways also. One of my jobs is to reach people who are not Buddhist, people who will never pick up a book, people who never even think of meditating, for example. As things evolve we have to also adapt to those changes which don’t have to necessarily be bad. In the long run it can be positive too, we all learn from our mistakes in the long run.
There are many different levels of helping others that FPMT is working on. Like in the collective memory each individual works for themselves, each of us has to do our own thing, whether or not we are doing it for someone else we have to do it for ourselves. We are all connected, the real guru is inside ourselves, no one can give you the truth. You have to find your own truth and that’s your guru. The same way just like when Lama Yeshe passed away and people are still attached to that image of Lama Yeshe that will never exist again, things change and we have to adapt. We have to help ourselves in the end, only we can do that, in the end it depends only on ourselves. The regional thing [the establishment of FPMT regional offices] is to come together so we can all help each other grow and make the organization last as long as possible so we can expand and do what we have to do in order to reach people so they can help themselves.