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        護持大乘法脈基金會”( 英文簡稱:FPMT。全名:Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition )是一個致力於護持和弘揚大乘佛法的國際佛教組織。我們提供聽聞,思維,禪修,修行和實證佛陀無誤教法的機會,以便讓一切眾生都能夠享受佛法的指引和滋潤。

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Jan
5
2023

Practice Patience by Remembering Karma

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche in the Peace Park at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, Bendigo, Australia, May 2018. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

In this video extract from a 2018 teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche describes a useful method for developing our practice of patience. It consists of reflecting on how everything that we experience is the result of our past actions.

So, when something happens to us that we don’t like, we should think about how it is the result of our negative karma, our nonvirtuous actions in the past. That is the best way to think and then you don’t get angry, Rinpoche says. Think that it is your mistake, not the other person’s mistake.

Then we also need to understand that the person who hurts us has created their own negative karma and will suffer because of it. Rinpoche wants us to reflect on how we caused that suffering as well and how we need to think about that to develop compassion. When we understand how our anger creates more suffering, we won’t want to be angry anymore. Instead, we will only want to help and be beneficial. So we aren’t just practicing patience, we are also developing our compassion.

We need the people who bother us and disturb so we can develop our practice of patience. We wouldn’t be able to become enlightened without them because we wouldn’t have the opportunity to develop our practice of patience.

Watch the video “Practice Patience by Remembering Karma”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4P_O5gl6KI


The above video is extracted from a teaching given on May 8, 2018 at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo, Australia. You can find more blogs with short video clips from Rinpoche’s teaching as well as the complete collection of these “Essential Extracts” videos on FPMT.org.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

  • Tagged: advice from lama zopa rinpoche, essential extract, patience, video
Jan
3
2023

Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 4: Others’ Happiness Depends on How You Act with Your Body, Speech, and Mind

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching at the fifty-third Kopan lamrim meditation course, Nepal, December, 2022. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

The first way to quickly actualize the realizations of the path to enlightenment is to purify our obscurations, and the best way to purify is to fulfill the guru’s wishes and advice; Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains in his teaching from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery, on December 11, 2022. There are many practices for purification and to collect merit, but the most important thing we can do is to make our guru’s mind happy.

The second way to quickly actualize the realizations on the path is to collect merit. Many practices, including mandala offerings, can be done, but again Rinpoche emphasizes that the most important thing you can do to collect merit is to make the guru most happy.

The third way to quickly actualize the realizations of the path is to one-pointedly—without a distracted mind—make requests to the guru with devotion: to receive blessings in our hearts, blessings to achieve enlightenment, blessings to understand Dharma and realize the meaning.  

The fourth way to quickly actualize the realizations of the path is to meditate on the path. But meditation alone is not enough. First we need to purify obscurations and delusions, and collect the merit needed to achieve realizations and understand Dharma. Then, one-pointedly requesting the guru with devotion to receive blessings in the heart—then through this, the more and more we can “clean the mirror,” the more the reflection comes, because it has power. Then, meditation can lead to realizations.  

Other’s happiness depends on how we act with our body, speech, and mind. Not only within our families, but everywhere we go in the world, anyone we meet, even animals, their happiness is in our hands, so we must be kind and peaceful. We have responsibility for the happiness and suffering of others, not just for our own. And everyone is the source of our own happiness—past, present, and future, up to enlightenment. They are the source of numberless Buddhas, Dharma, and Sangha. Starting with our parents, partners, children, and extending outward to everyone—poor, rich, educated, uneducated, we must respect everyone. We should respect everyone just like we respect His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Yeshe.

We must be kind with our body, speech, and mind by doing pleasant actions to others. We can use sweet words, praise, and honorific language to others, this makes them very happy. No one, including animals, likes rude sounds directed at them, this causes others to feel threatened or run away. We can offer a smile from our heart to others, it not only creates the cause to be a very beautiful person in future lives, it also becomes the cause of enlightenment when done with bodhicitta. We can also be kind to others with our mind—how we think about those we meet, cultivating loving-kindness and compassion toward them, this is incredible. By having a good heart benefiting others, everything becomes the cause of enlightenment.

We can’t bring peace and harmony into our lives or our work with a selfish mind. A selfish mind causes others to be unhappy with us and creates so many problems. We have to work for others, at the beginning of anything we do, we can think, “I want to help others, I want to help others.”

We invite you to go deeper into the topics presented here, plus many others, by watching Rinpoche’s video below, and reading the full transcript of Rinpoche’s teaching. An unedited video recording of the live transcription alongside Rinpoche’s teaching is also available.

Watch Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teaching “Others’ Happiness Depends on How Your Act with Your Body, Speech, and Mind”:
https://youtu.be/XQn0aqExQ5k


This summary of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teaching is by Carina Rumrill based on the transcript by Ven. Joan Nicell which was corrected by Tania Duratovic, Laura Haughey, and Ven. Tenzin Tsomo. Editorial input and additions by Justin Jenkins. 

This summary is meant to highlight key topics presented by Rinpoche in the recorded video and is not intended to serve as a full representation of Rinpoche’s teaching, which is best received through watching the video.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

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Dec
30
2022

Starting the New Year with Purification

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Vajrasattva.

With the new year approaching, many of us are reflecting on the past year— rejoicing in the blessings we received, and also assessing mistakes we have made in relation to ourselves and others. Fortunately, we have methods at our disposal to help us purify negative karma we have created. We can utilize these practices daily, and also as a way to enter the new year with a renewed sense of resolve to be the best versions of ourselves, so we can be of most benefit to others. 

“Of course by purifying negative karma collected since beginningless rebirth and by collecting extensive merits, this allows you to have realizations on the path to enlightenment and for your mind to change,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche once explained to a student. “There is always hope the mind can change, even to achieve enlightenment, so you can achieve a higher rebirth, ultimate happiness, liberation from samsara and enlightenment.” 

Rinpoche gave four teachings to students attending the 2022 Vajrasattva retreat at Kopan Monastery: an introductory teaching on March 30 and three subsequent teachings from April 26–28. You can find all the videos and a combined transcript of these teachings on our page Teachings for 2022 Vajrasattva Retreatants at Kopan Monastery.

Of particular note: During the April 28, 2022 teaching, Rinpoche discusses the Four Opponent Powers practice, which is essential to Vajrasattva practice (starting at 1:12:14 in the video):

  1. The Power of Reliance
  2. The Power of Reflecting on the Shortcomings of Negative Karma (the Power of Regret)
  3. The Power of Always Engaging in the Remedy
  4. The Power of Not Committing the Negative Karma (Faults) Again

Rinpoche also discusses the meanings of both the long and short Vajrasattva mantras and offers instruction for the visualizations and meditations to be done when reciting the mantras (starting at 1:24:48 in the same video).

By practicing Vajrasattva, we can purify the five heavy negative karmas without break which cause us to be reborn in hell; and we can achieve the general and sublime realizations, Rinpoche explained in his April 28 teaching. This is why Rinpoche stresses that Vajrasattva practice is so important.


Explore Rinpoche’s four teachings on Vajrasattva from 2022: Teachings for 2022 Vajrasattva Retreatants at Kopan Monastery.

Read more in “Benefits of Vajrasattva Practice,” posted in Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Online Advice Book:
https://www.lamayeshe.com/advice/benefits-vajrasattva-practice

You can find resources to support your Vajrasattva practice and other purification practices on the new Practices for Purification page:
https://fpmt.org/education/prayers-and-practice-materials/purification/

  • Tagged: lama zopa rinpoche, purification practice, vajrasattva
Dec
27
2022

Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 3: Great Compassion Comes from Realizing Samsara is the Nature of Suffering

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching at the Kopan November Course, Nepal, December 9, 2022. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

Rinpoche began this teaching, given on December 9, 2022 from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, reminding us that everything comes from the mind—depression, feeling suicidal, and everything we experience. When problems arise it becomes clear whether we are able to actually practice Dharma or not. If we examine our motivation in daily life, what arises is mostly anger and attachment. Virtuous thoughts are very rare. As a result, most of our actions come from negative karma and the result from them is suffering.

With one single action to benefit others, we achieve two goals: happiness for others and happiness for ourselves. Before becoming buddhas and bodhisattvas, they generated the realization of bodhicitta. This realization comes from great compassion understanding the numberless sufferings of numberless sentient beings. Rinpoche stressed the importance of having loving-kindness and compassion in our lives.

All of the problems in our lives come from the self-cherishing thought and not cherishing others. It is good to always think of serving others. If you live your life this way, you don’t cheat others, you don’t cause suffering, only happiness. Your future lives get better and better. We need to realize what samsara is and the nature of suffering. This is needed to generate compassion, bodhicitta, and to become a bodhisattva and a buddha.

Achieving happiness depends on how we use our minds. We need to change ourselves. If we don’t want suffering we need to change our mind. We need to realize emptiness, actualize bodhicitta, and achieve enlightenment

We invite you to go deeper into the topics presented here, plus many others, by watching Rinpoche’s video below, and reading the full transcript of Rinpoche’s teaching. Unedited video recordings of the live transcription alongside Rinpoche’s teaching is also available in videos Part 1 and Part 2.

Watch Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teaching “Great Compassion Comes from Realizing Samsara is the Nature of Suffering“:
https://youtu.be/OexUOGkh5EE

Unedited video recordings of the live transcription alongside Rinpoche’s teaching is also available in videos Part 1 and Part 2.)


This summary of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teaching is by Carina Rumrill, with editorial input and additions by Justin Jenkins. This summary is meant to highlight key topics presented by Rinpoche in the recorded video and is not intended to serve as a full representation of Rinpoche’s teaching, which is best received through watching the video.

These teachings are being livestreamed with transcription so that everyone can receive them, until the Kopan retreat ends on December 26, 2022. Subscribe to the FPMT YouTube channel to get notified when new videos are uploaded or a livestream starts. Livestreams are also announced on Telegram as well as Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Facebook page, and the FPMT and Kopan Monastery Facebook pages. Livestreams can also be watched without a transcript for those who prefer that format.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

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Dec
23
2022

Enjoy with Compassion this Holiday Season

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche, December 22, 2022. Boudhanath, Nepal. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

This holiday season, all of us at FPMT International Office would like to offer our warmest wishes for you to actualize true joy, peace, love, and compassion in your heart. “The sun of real happiness shines in your life when you cherish others,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche has said, and this time of year offers us many opportunities to practice this. 

Lama Yeshe taught in Silent Mind, Holy Mind, in 1971 “Some of you might think, ‘Oh, I want to have nothing to do with Jesus, nothing to do with the Bible.’ This is a very angry, emotional attitude to have towards Christianity. If you really understood, you would recognize that what Jesus taught was, ‘Love!’ It is as simple and as profound as that. If you had true love within you, I am sure you would feel much more peaceful than you do now.”

Representing all of us at FPMT International Office: Ven. Roger Kunsang, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and Ven. Holly Ansett, Boudhanath, Nepal, December 22, 2022. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

Ripoche has offered the following definition of a “holiday” as:

  • The mind abiding in correctly following the virtuous friend.
  • The mind abiding in renunciation of samsara.
  • The mind abiding in bodhicitta.
  • The mind abiding in emptiness.
  • The mind abiding in tantra path – the two stages.
  • The completion of your holiday is when you cease all the obscurations and complete all the realizations.

Whatever traditions you enjoy this time of year, please consider taking Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teaching on compassion to heart:

Live with compassion
Work with compassion
Meditate with compassion
When problems come, experience them with compassion
Die with compassion
Enjoy with compassion
Practicing this gives you the best happy life
It fulfills all your wishes and all living beings’ wishes for happiness.


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Dec
22
2022

Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 2: How the Letter Z Comes Into Existence

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching at the Kopan November Course, Nepal, December, 2022. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

Everything comes from the mind, Rinpoche reminds us in this second teaching from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery, given on December 8, 2022. Samsara, nirvana, suffering, enlightenment, all appearances we have, anything we hold as good or bad – all of this comes from the mind. Rinpoche uses the letter Z as an example. This letter appears and we hold on to that appearance. In fact, everything is like this. Nothing exists from its own side, not even an atom. Everything comes from the mind, is merely imputed by the mind, and later due to the false hallucination, appears as totally existing.

Do everything for sentient beings, Rinpoche advises, with a bodhicitta motivation. We have to cultivate the thought to naturally wish to lead every sentient being we meet to enlightenment, like how a mother feels for her child who fell in a fire. Even one second of her child being in a fire is unbearable to her. This is how it should feel toward sentient beings is samsara.

Rinpoche shared the following quotation from Lama Tsongkhapa’s Three Principal Aspects of the Path to Enlightenment:

Without the wisdom realizing ultimate reality,
Even though you have generated renunciation and the mind of enlightenment,
You cannot cut the root cause of circling.
Therefore, attempt the method to realize dependent arising.

To eliminate ignorance, we have to realize the Prasangika school’s view of emptiness. The four schools happened in Buddha’s time in India, but the Prasangika view – this is the one we have to realize.

Rinpoche offers the oral transmission of the Heart Sutra starting at 2:14:33 in the video.

We invite you to go deeper into the topics presented here, plus many others, by watching Rinpoche’s video below and reading the full transcript of Rinpoche’s teaching. An unedited video recording of the live transcription alongside Rinpoche’s teaching is also available.

Watch Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teaching “How the Letter Z Comes Into Existence”:
https://youtu.be/RVRJolNbM-U


This summary of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teaching is by Carina Rumrill, with editorial input and additions by Justin Jenkins. This summary is meant to highlight key topics presented by Rinpoche in the recorded video and is not intended to serve as a full representation of Rinpoche’s teaching, which is best received through watching the video.

These teachings are being livestreamed with transcription so that everyone can receive them, until the Kopan retreat ends on December 26, 2022. Subscribe to the FPMT YouTube channel to get notified when new videos are uploaded or a livestream starts. Livestreams are also announced on Telegram as well as Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Facebook page, and the FPMT and Kopan Monastery Facebook pages. Livestreams can also be watched without a transcript for those who prefer that format.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

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Dec
20
2022

Long Life Puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery, December 21

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching at the Kopan lamrim meditation course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, December 9, 2022. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

As a reminder, an official long life puja will be offered on behalf of FPMT centers, projects, services, study groups, and students for Lama Zopa Rinpoche, on December 21, at Kopan Monastery, Nepal. This second long life puja in 2022 will be offered in accordance with the advice of Khandro Kunga Bhuma (Khandro-la), and is part of a collection of practices offered for Rinpoche’s health, and the well-being of the entire FPMT organization.

The puja will be live streamed on the main FPMT Youtube livestream page and the FPMT Facebook page, starting around 8:30am in Nepal (2:45am GMT).

Please note: in our December FPMT Monthly e-news, we incorrectly shared the date of this puja as being December 22. The correct date is December 21 and we apologize for any confusion this has caused. 

Our prayers have tremendous power, and we invite you to join us by rejoicing in the puja being offered, generating your own prayers for Rinpoche’s health and long life, or making an offering toward the expenses associated with the pujas and practices for Rinpoche’s health and long life.


Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

For all sessions and information about Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s livestreamed teachings during the fifty-third Kopan November Course, which continues until December 26, please visit: https://fpmt.org/media/streaming/lama-zopa-rinpoche-live/

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Dec
15
2022

Kopan Lamrim Course 2022 Teaching 1: By Studying Buddha Dharma, You Come to Know Yourself

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching at the fifty-third Kopan lamrim meditation course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, December 2022. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

In this first teaching Rinpoche offered to the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, on December 7, 2022, Rinpoche thanked everyone for coming to Nepal to learn lamrim (the gradual path to enlightenment) and get to know the mind. The purpose of this is not just to intellectually learn, but to train the mind in non-anger, non-attachment, non-ignorance. We have tried everything for our happiness – studying in the university, trying yoga, so many activities in our busy lives done with self-cherishing thought. But we didn’t think to protect our minds, didn’t think of developing ourselves. Lamrim introduces us to who we are. The more we know Dharma, the more we know ourselves. Otherwise, we cheat ourselves with wrong concepts and ignorance.

The answers to why we have been suffering since beginningless rebirths is in the lamrim. The effect of meditating on the lamrim is peace and freedom because it leaves so many positive imprints for the mind to become closer to enlightenment. It brings the light of Dharma wisdom within oneself. This is called the gradual path to enlightenment because we can’t just jump to bodhicitta without having the lower realizations, we need the foundation. However, even though we are starting at the beginning, it is important to practice with the motivation of bodhicitta.

We invite you to go deeper into the topics presented here, plus many others, by watching Rinpoche’s video below and reading the full transcript of Rinpoche’s teaching. An unedited video recording of the live transcription alongside Rinpoche’s teaching is also available.

Watch Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teaching “By Studying Buddha Dharma, You Come to Know Yourself”:


This summary of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teaching is by Carina Rumrill, with editorial input and additions by Justin Jenkins. This summary is meant to highlight key topics presented by Rinpoche in the recorded video and is not intended to serve as a full representation of Rinpoche’s teaching, which is best received through watching the video.

These teachings are being livestreamed with transcription so that everyone can receive them, until the Kopan retreat ends on December 26, 2022. Subscribe to the FPMT YouTube channel to get notified when new videos are uploaded or a livestream starts. Livestreams are also announced on Telegram as well as Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Facebook page, and the FPMT and Kopan Monastery Facebook pages. Livestreams can also be watched without a transcript for those who prefer that format.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

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Dec
9
2022

Kopan Monastery’s Birthday Celebration for Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Upcoming Long Life Puja

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the celebration of his birthday, with Khen Rinpoche Geshe Chonyi, Ven. Roger Kunsang, and others at Kopan Monastery, Nepal. December 3, 2022.

Birthday Celebration

On Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s birthday, December 3, the Kopan community, joined by monks and nuns, locals, and November Course participants, offered a Sixteen Arhats long-life puja to Rinpoche, and organized a joyous celebration for FPMT’s spiritual director, which included many performances of song, traditional Tibetan dances, and prayers. During the celebration, Lama Zopa Rinpoche shared and explained some extremely impactful quotations, including this verse from Padmasambhava:

However much effort you put into worldly activities, they never finish.
If you put effort into holy Dharma, you quickly finish the work.
Although samsaric works are good at the beginning, in the end they fail.
If you practice holy Dharma, the result never goes down.

And verses on bodhicitta, including this from Lama Atisha in the Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment:

If the merits of generating bodhicitta
Were to take form,
They would fill the whole sky
And be even more than that.

Please enjoy this video of Rinpoche’s message as well as the ceremonies and festivities offered at Kopan Monastery in celebration of Rinpoche’s birthday:

FPMT centers, projects, and services around the world also had their own celebrations and offerings to Rinpoche on his birthday, including, for example, this video prepared by Chenrezig Institute, Australia, and this video offered by Institut Vajra Yogini, France. 

Traditional Tibetan dance offered during the celebration of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s birthday, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, December 3, 2022.

Long Life Puja

An official long life puja will be offered on behalf of FPMT centers, projects, services, study groups, and students to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, on December 21, at Kopan Monastery. This second long life puja in 2022 will be offered in accordance with the advice of Khandro Kunga Bhuma (Khandro-la), and is part of a collection of practices offered for Rinpoche’s health, and the well-being of the entire FPMT organization.

Current Teachings at Kopan Monastery’s November Course

Lama Zopa Rinpoche started teaching at Kopan Monastery as part of the 2022 lamrim meditation retreat (known as the November Course). These teachings are being livestreamed so that everyone can receive them, please explore all the ways you can engage in these teachings both live and following each teaching. 


Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation, and community service.

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Dec
7
2022

Lama Zopa Rinpoche Teaching from Kopan Monastery – Join in the Livestreams!

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Yesterday Lama Zopa Rinpoche officially started teaching from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery in Nepal. In this teaching Rinpoche discussed the importance of the lamrim teachings and he stressed to the participants how meaningful it is for them to have come to Kopan for this course in order to learn about the mind. 

These teachings are being livestreamed with transcription so that everyone can receive them. Subscribe to the FPMT YouTube channel to get notified when new videos are uploaded or a livestream starts. Livestreams are also announced on Telegram as well as Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Facebook page, and the FPMT and Kopan Monastery Facebook pages. Livestreams can also be watched without a transcript for those who prefer that format. Additionally, we will also be blogging about the teachings and providing final videos, transcripts, and summaries of the topics Rinpoche is covering regularly, so if you haven’t yet, subscribe to our FPMT Daily News blog email list!

Lama Zopa Rinpoche meeting students from Spanish speaking countries who are doing the November course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, November 30, 2022. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.


Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

For all sessions and information about Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s livestreamed teachings, please visit: https://fpmt.org/media/streaming/lama-zopa-rinpoche-live/

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Dec
6
2022

Blessing Sentient Beings in the Ocean

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche leading prayers on how to bless sentient beings in the ocean, as well as blessing the ocean with the Namgyalma mantra board and blessed water, Singapore, July 2022. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered this video teaching on July 8, 2022 from Bedok Jetty, a popular fishing and walking pier, in Singapore. In this intimate video, Rinpoche shares prayers and mantras which are most beneficial for blessing beings in the ocean. Rinpoche stresses that these practices are not only beneficial to the beings abiding in the water, but are also enjoyable for us to offer. 

We are also so happy to share this new booklet from FPMT Education Services, “Blessing Animals in the Ocean” which is based on the instructions from Rinpoche on this meaningful practice. This practice can be done on sentient beings living in any body of water including oceans, lakes, ponds, rivers, etc. 

We invite you to go deeper into the topics presented here, plus many others, by watching Rinpoche’s video below.  

Watch Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teaching “Kindness of Sentient Beings”:


This summary of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teaching is by Carina Rumrill, with editorial input and additions by Justin Jenkins. This summary is meant to highlight key topics presented by Rinpoche in the recorded video and is not intended to serve as a full representation of Rinpoche’s teaching, which is best received through watching the video.

Download “Blessing Animals in the Ocean” from the Foundation Store: https://shop.fpmt.org/Blessing-the-Animals-in-the-Ocean-PDF-_p_3758.html

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

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Dec
2
2022

A Most Happy Birthday and Long Life to Lama Zopa Rinpoche!

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche, November 2022. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s birthday is celebrated on December 3. We invite you to join the entire FPMT community as we rejoice in another year of Rinpoche’s compassionate and inspiring life, and transformative teachings. 

A celebration for Rinpoche will begin at Kopan Monastery, first thing on December 3. Early in the morning a long life puja (Namgyal Tsechok) will be offered to Rinpoche. During this puja a monetary offering will be made to all of the monks and nuns in attendance on behalf of the entire FPMT organization. In the afternoon, lunch will be offered to all at Kopan including local people from the area, and November Course participants. After lunch, traditional entertainment will be offered including skits and Sherpa dance. We will share photos and more details of this joyous event after the occasion. 

Please join the entire FPMT community, including students and friends around the world, in offering sincere prayers for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s long and healthy life. (All are welcome to download Long Life Prayers for Lama Zopa Rinpoche.)

Rinpoche, on behalf of all the six-realm sentient beings who rely on you—please, please live long!


Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation, and community service.

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