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Lama Chopa (Guru Puja) is an extensive guru yoga practice, often done as a group practice in FPMT centers on the 10th and 25th of the Tibetan Calendar. While everyone is welcome to participate in the puja, the study of…
Tagged - Advice From Lama Zopa Rinpoche
FPMT.org’s Rinpoche Available Now page is an incredibly rich resource for those wishing to explore full teaching events offered by Lama Zopa Rinpoche over the years. In 2018 Lama Zopa Rinpoche spent six weeks leading the Bodhicaryavatara (A Guide to…
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered four teachings at Kopan Monastery on April 7, 8, and 9 before leaving for Tsum Valley on April 10. As we now all know, Rinpoche showed the aspect of passing away on April 13, and as…
We recently shared news that Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s newest volume from Wisdom Publications, Perseverance: The Determination of the Bodhisattva is available. Today we offer you a chapter from this book made available from Wisdom titled “Overcoming Laziness.” In this transformative…
In this short and intimate teaching from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, which was recorded over lunch at Maitreya Instituut, the Netherlands, in July 2015, Rinpoche explains the incredible merit that is collected by offering to the guru. https://youtu.be/_gUIT1aXRRY?feature=shared Lama Zopa Rinpoche…
One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s highest priorities was providing guidance to students’ requests for advice on daily and lifetime practices. We are so happy to let you know we have created a new page that is based on Rinpoche’s essential…
In June 2005 Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave a three hour long interview to Christina Lundberg on the benefits of Universal Education. In 1983 Lama Thubten Yeshe began formulating the idea of Universal Education. “The world needs a new system of…
Lama Zopa Rinpoche often spoke about solar and lunar eclipses, which are considered auspicious for practice and provide opportunities for accumulating merit by multiple folds. As stated in the vinaya text Treasure of Quotations and Logic, the karmic results of…
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave a series of teachings in January-February 2017 at Root Institute, Bodhgaya, India, with great emphasis on lojong (thought transformation). This entire video series is available to you! Rinpoche gave a full commentary on the Seven Point…
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered teachings and advice to a group of Vajrasattva retreaters at Kopan Monastery on April 7, 8, and 9, 2023. In his final teaching from this series, Rinpoche discussed how to develop one’s mind in Dharma, the…
Translations: French | German | Italian | Portuguese | Russian | Spanish At 9:30am on April 13, 2023 at Kopan Monastery in Nepal, FPMT’s most precious guru and spiritual director, Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, entered his final meditation. Although it…
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered teachings and advice to a group of Vajrasattva retreaters at Kopan Monastery on April 7, 8, and 9, 2023. In his second teaching from this series, Rinpoche discussed the benefits of purification practice, the necessity of…