In 2019, Atisha Centre, an FPMT center in Myers Flat, Victoria, Australia, offered their annual Spring Retreat with Geshe Thubten Rabten, the center’s FPMT resident geshe, from September 12-17. The theme of this year’s retreat was In Praise of Dependent…
Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins a third week of teachings at The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo, Australia, for the six-week long Bodhicaryavatara and Rinjung Gyatsa Retreat. During the first two weeks of the retreat, Rinpoche’s teachings, more than…
A group of students from Tara Institute in Victoria, Australia, took the initiative to commence study of the Yamantaka sadhana. A small but devoted number of people soon developed a regular practice, culminating in the decision to undertake retreat this…
Recently, a group of students from Tara Institute in Melbourne, Australia, who had previously received a Yamantaka initiation from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and again from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, gathered to form a Yamantaka study group. Yamantaka is a…
While leading a month-long retreat in Australia in March 2011 and just prior to manifesting a stroke, Lama Zopa Rinpoche received a card from a student attending the retreat. Rinpoche requested that the card be shared by Mandala so that…
FPMT News Around the World From Cherry Rattue, Director of Atisha Centre In April 2012, over a dozen students participated in the extraordinary and beneficial nine-day Lam-rim Retreat led by Thubten Gyatso. Thubten Gyatso traditionally leads an annual retreat at…
October-December 2011 TAKING CARE OF OTHERS: Animal Liberation By Ven. Holly Ansett Three days after manifesting a stroke [in April 2011], Rinpoche dictated the following messages to go with three new boats with three sets of animals: For the kangaroos:…
By Ven. Chönyi Taylor It was a very subdued atmosphere in retreat at Atisha Centre. Suddenly our various expectations of being rescued from our unwanted situations have gone. Our guru, Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche is in the hospital, his right…
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