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Lama Zopa Rinpoche advised a student who wanted to help the sick and dying. You don’t have to go [to the hospital] to help them; instead, wherever you stay, you can do the Eight Prayers to Benefit the Dead. Recite…
Tagged - Death And Dying
Of the thousands of items offered by the FPMT Foundation Store, the Liberation Box: Tools for a Fortunate Rebirth is one of the most unique and special. It is a collection of materials to assist students at the time of…
The Liberation Card for a Dying Person includes images and mantras that by merely seeing them help a dying person to purify negative karma and be led to enlightenment. The front of the card features ten mantras and ten images…
Each year Dorje Chang Institute, an FPMT center in Auckland, New Zealand, organizes a Yamantaka Jangwa Puja. Venerable Gyälten Wangmo, spiritual program coordinator, shares about the most recent puja which took place on August 25, 2018. Our FPMT resident teacher…
Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive recently published The Path to Ultimate Happiness , an ebook of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche during the 42nd Kopan lamrim course. In this book, Rinpoche discusses our potential to bring benefit and happiness, including…
It is difficult to accept the inevitability of our own deaths or the deaths of our loved ones. And although avoiding death is not possible, it is possible to prepare for death and equip ourselves with tools to help those…
FPMT Education Services would like to remind you of three invaluable resources on death and dying: Heart Advice for Death and Dying, How to Enjoy Death: Preparing for Life’s Final Challenge without Fear, and the Liberation Box. Heart Advice for…
In a conversation with a student in 2015, Lama Zopa Rinpoche discussed how to make a difficult decision: whether and when to remove a patient who is not expected to recover from life support. He mentioned the importance of maintaining…
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has given extensive advice and instruction for caring for ourselves and others during death and dying. FPMT Education Services would like to remind students of all the materials available to them for this critical time of transition.…
In the Living in the Path module “Realizing the Lam-rim,” students can find “This Is Going to Happen to You,” a free course based on Pabongka Rinpoche’s Heart Spoon, one of the most graphic and heart-wrenching poems on death ever…
Lama Zopa Rinpoche sent recorded advice to the French monk Ven. Thubten Kunsang and his caregivers during the final days of Ven. Kunsang’s life. Ven. Kunsang passed away on July 24 in India. He had traveled in Rinpoche’s entourage for…
Tara Home, located at Land of Medicine Buddha in Soquel, California, is a home for terminally ill people entering their last few months of life. Around-the-clock compassionate care is provided by trained volunteers. Tara Home relies completely on donations to…