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Welcome to our new initiative, the Protecting the Environment and Living Beings Project. This project began due to Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s recent advice that specific pujas and practices should be done regularly to pacify harm from the elements and to…
Tagged - Natural Disasters
The retreatants at the Light of the Path 2017 retreat spent a practice session reciting Kshitigarbha mantras on Tuesday, September 5. Participants did 2,000 recitations of the long Kshitigarbha mantra and 10,000 recitations of the middle-length Kshitigarbha mantra at Lama…
Wildfires are burning out of control in many parts of the United States’ Pacific Northwest, including several large fires in Okanogan County, Washington, where both Buddha Amitabha Pure Land (BAPL) and Pamtingpa Center are located. Sangha were evacuated from Buddha…
Wildfires, typhoons, earthquakes and other natural disasters can affect FPMT students, centers, projects and services around the world. And Lama Zopa Rinpoche has given advice on practices for different natural disasters. This advice is always available on Rinpoche’s advice page…
With bushfires raging in New South Wales, Australia, one can turn to Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s advice page “Disasters of the Elements.” The advice includes Rinpoche’s practices for dispelling fire, a “Letter Regarding the Disasters of the Elements,” a PDF of…
FPMT News Around the World FPMT students on the Atlantic coast of North America are hunkered down as hurricane Sandy make its way across the eastern United States and Canada. The powerful storm has already passed through Haiti, the Dominican…
July-September 2011 DHARMA IN THE MODERN WORLD Gathered from news updates from www.dalailama.com and FPMT affiliates His Holiness the Dalai Lama traveled extensively during April and May. On April 13, he began his three-country European visit in Dublin, Ireland, where…
July-September 2011 TAKING CARE OF OTHERS By Tania Duratovic The start of 2011 saw the Australian state of Queensland experience some of the worst flooding in history, resulting in three-quarters of the state, an area the size of France and…
July-September 2011 PRACTICING DHARMA IN DAILY LIFE One serious result of the tsunami that hit Japan in March was the damage to several nuclear reactors. Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave a list of advice for those concerned about the effects of…
July-September 2011 PRACTICING DHARMA IN DAILY LIFE On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake hit Japan, triggering a devastating tsunami killing 14,704 (with 10,969 still missing) and severely damaging several nuclear reactors on Japan’s coastline. Shortly after, Lama Zopa Rinpoche…
July-September 2011 A DHARMA FRIEND TELLS US WHY Reader Question: l keep seeing on the news new tragedies, natural disasters, wars, food scares, etc. How can I take this on as part of the path and keep composure even if…