The 104th Ganden Tripa Lobsang Tenzin Rinpoche visited FPMT International Office in Portland, Oregon, US, on June 24. The visit came during a three-day teaching event at Maitripa College. Tri Rinpoche, who was formerly known by the title Jangtse Chöje,…
During March 9-13, Kopan Monastery hosted its annual Monlam, a prayer festival first founded by Lama Tsongkhapa in 15th-century Tibet that has survived the Tibetan diaspora. Kopan hosts the annual event for all of the Gelug monasteries and nunneries in…
TEACHING June-July 2007 Khensur Rinpoche (Lobsang Tenzin) is one of the most respected scholar-adepts in the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. He is a retired Abbot of Gyume Tantric Monastery in South India, thus conferring upon him the title of…
By Heidi Oehler Jangtse Chöje Lobsang Tenzin Rinpoche, second in line for the Ganden throne (Ganden Tripa), arrived at Vajrapani Institute near Boulder Creek, California, for the first time June 11, 2013. It had been over two years since Lama…
WORLDVIEW India Hayagriva Retreat at Tushita Meditation Centre By Melissa Mouldin The one-month Most Secret Hayagriva Retreat with the amazing Lama Zopa Rinpoche and 120+ FPMT sisters and brother at Tushita Meditation Centre in Dharamsala, India, during March 2010 was,…
BUDDHISM AND ECONOMICS August-September 2007 By Rodney Stevenson A small stone dropped in a stream can change the course of a river. For me, the stone was a political science course I wanted to take in my sophomore year. The…
Use problems as ornaments, seeing them as extremely precious, because they make you achieve enlightenment quickly, by getting you to achieve bodhicitta. Experience these problems on behalf of all sentient beings, giving all happiness to sentient beings. This is the ornament.
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