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How to Practice with Your Merit Box FPMT recommends the practice below for generating the most merit while using your Merit Box. At the end of your practice, you may place a donation in your Merit Box (collection information here),…
Tagged - Lama Zopa Rinpoche
In the Medicine Buddha sadhana published by FPMT Education Services, Lama Zopa Rinpoche offers advice on doing Medicine Buddha practice. Mantra recitation as part of the practice is very powerful, as Rinpoche explains: The Medicine Buddha encompasses all the buddhas.…
Teachings from Vienna, Austria 2017 Venue: VZ Praterstern, Vienna, Austria Host: Panchen Losang Chogyen Center, Vienna Date: September 29 to October 1, 2017 Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives preliminary teachings before the great Medicine Buddha initiation.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has stressed the importance of circumambulating holy objects like stupas and has given specific advice for how to do that. In March 2017, when he led a large group of students in a late-night circumambulation of the…
The month-long 2017 Light of the Path retreat in North Carolina, US, concluded on September 17. Recorded video and audio of the teachings in English as well as in translation to Chinese, French, Italian, and Spanish are all available from…
In the video below, Lama Zopa Rinpoche talks about the impact of keeping vows on the power of prayer. He says that the more vows we have, and keep purely, the more power our prayers will have. Therefore, when monastics…
Registration is now open for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Bodhicaryavatara and Rinjung Gyatsa retreat at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo, Australia, March 30-May 12, 2018! This six-week retreat is the third in series of retreats given in Australia…
“How does taking vows or Mahayana precepts helps end famine and war?” a student asked Lama Zopa Rinpoche during the Light of the Path 2016 retreat. Rinpoche’s reply was captured in the video below. Rinpoche responds by saying, “those vows…
While he was in Bodhgaya, India, in January this year, Lama Zopa Rinpoche invited some influential people onto the roof of the FPMT center, Root Institute, for a small party. Included were actor Richard Gere as well as a number…
Teachings from Light of the Path, NC, USA 2017 Venue: YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly, Black Mountain, North Carolina Host: Kadampa Center, Raleigh Date: August 22 to September 17, 2017 Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave extensive teachings at the Light of the…
Lama Zopa Rinpoche arrived in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, where he taught on August 19 at Kadampa Center. Then he traveled to Black Mountain where the month-long Light of the Path 2017 retreat commenced on the evening of August…
Welcome to the August FPMT International Office e-News! In this month’s e-News we bring you: Updates on Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Schedule, News about New Modules of Living in the Path , New Features from Mandala , News of a New…