One must practice with the bodhisattva attitude every day. People can't see your mind, what people see is a manifestation of your attitude in your actions of body & speech.Pay attention to your attitude all the time, guard it as if you are the police, a nanny who cares for a child, like a bodyguard

For the 10th year in a row, a very large thangka of Padmasambhava has been displayed & 100,000 tsog offering event has taken place at Kopan Nunnery. We are delighted to share a report on this year's event from Ven. Sarah Thresher, who also offers details on the history.. fpmt.org/lama-zopa-ri...

Wrapping up the huge thangka of Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) that is 75 feet (23 meters) high & 87 feet (27 meters) after the amazing Bum Tsog (Guru Rinpoche 100,000 Tsog offering) offered annually. The thangka is joyfully & carefully taken off the scaffolding & rolled up for next years offering.

On Dec 3 we observe the birth date of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. A very large thangka of Padmasambhava will be displayed & an auspicious 100,000 tsog offering event will take place at Khachoe Ghakyil Ling in honor of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s birthday, to commemorate Rinpoche’s life fpmt.org/lama-zopa-ri...

Pleasing all the buddhas and bodhisattvas ~ Lama Zopa Rinpoche https://justdharma.org/pleasing-all-the-buddhas-and-bodhisattvas/ #LamaZopaRinpoche #bodhisattvas #buddhas #compassion

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.​ ​ ~ Lama Zopa Rinpoche~

Every year in the United States, tens of millions of turkeys are killed for the holiday of Thanksgiving, which is this Thursday, Nov 27, 2025. Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered advice in a 2018 teaching to help benefit the turkeys killed, and how we can think during the holiday. fpmt.org/lama-zopa-ri...

Practicing patience is the path of the bodhisattva. When you meet obstacles, be strong. Then the obstacles won’t last. If you are strong and practice compassion, patience, thought transformation, and emptiness, then obstacles don’t last. – Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Our November 2025 e-News is available & brings many causes for rejoicing 🪷Progress on the Stupa of Complete Victory 🪷Teachings from Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa Rinpoche 🪷A generous offer for FPMT centers from the LYWA 🪷Grants offered for education & preservation And much more fpmt.org/media/newsle...

Use all criticism and bad reputation, whether it is your mistake or not. Use it to destroy one’s ego, one’s self-cherishing thought...which blocks one to achieve enlightenment. As long as self-cherishing abides in one’s heart it stops one achieving enlightenment. – Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Most precious recitation of the Prajnaparamita sutra happening in Gyudmed Monastery today on Lhabab Duchen. The Buddha said “Wherever this Prajnaparamita teaching is, I am there.”

Lhabab Duchen, one of the 4 great holy days. This special day occurs this year on Nov 11. Lhabab Duchen celebrates Shakyamuni Buddha’s return to Earth from the God Realm of the 33. The karmic results of actions done on this day are multiplied 100 million times tinyurl.com/yey33zdv

"Lama Zopa Rinpoche inquired about the killing of turkeys for Thanksgiving and was told that they are all killed in advance, since all the supermarkets are packed with frozen birds, all piled up like a mountain." Here's advice about what you can do ⤵️ www.lamayeshe.com/advice/thanksgiving

A Stupa of Complete Victory is being built at Kopan Monastery, Nepal & over monsoon extensive work has been undertaken on the incredible decorations that grace the stupa & the 32 smaller stupas that will surround the main stupa are currently being carved in sandstone in India.. tinyurl.com/5dsmuuzp

Our October e-Newsletter is now available & includes 🪷Teachings from Lama Zopa Rinpoche & Lama Yeshe 🪷News about His Holiness the Dalai Lama 🪷Information about Lhabab Duchen on Nov 11 🪷News from FPMT centers 🪷Resources practice 🪷Job opportunities in FPMT fpmt.org/media/newsle...

Wisdom Publication’s new release, How to Live and Die: The Transformative Power of Meditating on Impermanence by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. In this overview of death & impermanence—Rinpoche shows us how this practice can free us from fear, & transform the way we live. fpmt.org/lama-zopa-ri...

Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche expressed in His Vast Visions the wish for the FPMT organization to build many holy objects everywhere. In this way, countless beings can easily purify their negative karma & create merit. Read about the grants offered in 2025 toward holy objects. fpmt.org/charitable-a...

Our September e-News is now available & includes: 🪷Teachings from Lama Zopa Rinpoche & Lama Yeshe 🪷An update from the FPMT Inc. Board 🪷Grants offered for health care & for animals 🪷Job opportunities in the FPMT including for FPMT International Office Executive Director fpmt.org/media/newsle...

Lama Zopa Rinpoche chanting 'Calling the Guru from Afar" Nov 2011: youtu.be/RARznEaLqgU

In 2025, the FPMT Social Services Fund remained dedicated to its mission of uplifting the most vulnerable populations in India & Mongolia. These grants facilitated the operation of health camps, mobile clinics, soup kitchens, & outreach programs & impacted 44,000 individuals tinyurl.com/3af32emz

Tomorrow (7 September 2025) is a 🌒 lunar eclipse. Eclipses are considered an auspicious time for practice & provide opportunities for accumulating merit 700,000 times. See all the advice & links of practices: 👉https://fpmt.org/teachers/zopa/advice/practice-during-solar-and-lunar-eclipses/

Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered teachings in January 2017 at Root Institute, Bodhgaya, India. In these teachings Rinpoche put strong emphasis on mind training. In one of these teachings, Rinpoche offered advice at about how to think & practice when working for a Dharma center. youtu.be/4R9rmYXjGg8?...

Rinpoche walking and reciting Words of Manjrushri: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rhi...

In April 2019 Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave series of teachings at Nagarjuna Center in Madrid, Spain. Today we are sharing the first video from that event, “How to Have a Happy Life With a Happy Mind.” fpmt.org/lama-zopa-ri...

Our August 2025 e-News is now available & brings many causes for rejoicing including: 🪷Teachings from Lama Zopa Rinpoche & Lama Yeshe 🪷Support offered to 8 schools in India & Nepal 🪷Resources for study & practice 🪷New opportunities to offer service in the FPMT organization fpmt.org/media/newsle...

Recently we shared that 44 new 2004 videos of Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Italy, are now available. Today we’d like to bring your attention to one of these precious teachings, Overcoming Obstacles with Lojong. fpmt.org/lama-zopa-ri...

In the Vast Visions for the FPMT organization, Lama Zopa Rinpoche said “Anybody who dedicates their life to achieving lamrim realizations with the goal to liberate numberless beings & to bring to enlightenment, this is what I regard as the most important thing in the world” fpmt.org/lama-zopa-ri...

In the remote valleys & small communities of India and Nepal, FPMT’s Social Services Fund continues to play an important role in offering consistent support to schools that serve children from Tibetan, Nepali & Indian backgrounds. In 2025 grants were offered to 8 schools fpmt.org/charitable-a...

Every month Sera Mey Monastery offer extensive Medicine Buddha puja dedicated to the whole FPMT family, every center, student, volunteer, benefactor, to all our teachers, to all who are sick or experiencing obstacles.

The precious nuns of Khachoe Ghakyil Nunnery reciting praises to Tara, Chanting the names of Manjrushri & Migtsema mantra today on Chokhor Duchen. This puja is dedicated to the entire FPMT family & for the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama & the swift return of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Happy Chokhor Duchen (Turning the Wheel of Dharma) and merit-multiplying day. For rejoicing in…. all the monks of Gyudmed Tantric Monastery offered Yamantaka self initiation and extensive consecration, sponsored and dedicated to the entire FPMT family and all beings.

In 2004, Lama Zopa Rinpoche covered many topics during a Ganden Lha Gyama retreat from September 3-30 at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Italy. The 44 teaching sessions covered 🪷Integration of study & meditation 🪷The importance of lamrim & Guru Yoga 🪷How to do deity retreats fpmt.org/lama-zopa-ri...

Happy Chokhor Duchen 🙏🙏🙏all the monks of Sera Je & Sera Mey Monastery are performing 1000 sets of offerings to Namgyalma puja, reciting the names of Manjrushri & Migtsema mantra dedicated to all beings, for the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, & the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche..

Chokhor Duchen, one of the four annual holy days of Guru Shakyamuni Buddha, takes place this year on July 28. On these holy days of Guru Shakyamuni Buddha, the power of any meritorious action is multiplied by 100 million, as taught in the vinaya text… fpmt.org/edu-news/cho...

Like molding dough ~ Lama Zopa Rinpoche https://justdharma.org/like-molding-dough-lama-zopa-rinpoche/ #LamaZopaRinpoche #direction #mind

Oser Rinpoche offering Lama Chopa tsog in Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s room.

Our July 2025 e-News is now available and brings many causes for rejoicing including: 🪷Teachings from Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe 🪷Practice advice for upcoming Chokhor Duchen 🪷Celebrating International Sangha Day 🪷Support offered to nine elder homes in 2025 & more fpmt.org/media/newsle...

Since 2016, FPMT’s Social Services Fund has been providing essential support to Tibetan elder refugees living in homes across India and Nepal. In 2025 the Social Services Fund supported 9 elderly homes in India & the support includes food, accommodation & medical care. fpmt.org/charitable-a...

The filling, consecrating and the offering of 100 statues of Shakyamuni Buddha that were offered during the long life puja offered to His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the 5th July, in honor of His Holiness 90th birthday on July 6, 2025. youtu.be/XPYB1Zwr70o?...

On July 5, 2025, five FPMT representatives joined in the long life puja offered in Dharamsala to His Holiness the Dalai Lama in honor of His Holiness’s 90th birthday. They successfully offered 100 Buddha statues on behalf of the entire FPMT organization. fpmt.org/charitable-a...

Fundamental importance of the practice of morality ~ Lama Zopa Rinpoche https://justdharma.org/fundamental-importance-of-the-practice-of-morality/ #LamaZopaRinpoche #morality #enlightenment #ethics

We are delighted to share the June 2025 enews with you. 🪷Rejoicing in His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday 🪷Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche & Lama Yeshe 🪷Pujas & prayers offered on Saka Dawa 🪷News from FPMT centers & Opportunities for service & retreat fpmt.org/media/newsle...

🪷 As His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday (July 6, 2025) nears, we reflect on his vast kindness. Lama Zopa Rinpoche composed “Remembering the Kindness of His Holiness and the Tibetan People” to honor this. 🙏 Read & download: fpmt.org/fpmt-communi...

Think that from Guru Padmasambhava’s heart, beams radiate & totally purify all the 6 realms’ sentient beings, all the delusions & negative karmas collected from beginningless rebirths, especially anger, attachment, & ignorance; think that these are totally purified. fpmt.org/lama-zopa-ri...

“by reading this prayer, cause all the people’s hearts be filled with loving kindness, bodhichitta, and the thought to only benefit and not harm….May the sun of peace and happiness arise and may any wars that are happening stop immediately.” fpmt.org/lama-zopa-ri...

The monks who are school students at Gaden Jangtse School offered the whole day of Saka Dawa reciting Migtsema and Jampal Tsenjoe for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s swift return according to His Holiness Dalai Lamas guidance. How amazing 🙏🙏🙏 May all their pure prayers be actualized.

The nuns of Khachoe Ghakyil Nunnery reciting 100,000 praises to Tara. This puja is dedicated to the entire FPMT family, every center, student, volunteer & benefactor. May Tara fully protect FPMT. May all the centers and activities of FPMT be of most benefit to all beings.

For rejoicing ….One thousand sets of offerings to Namgyalma (Deity of Long Life) and Drukchuma was offered by the entire Monastery of Sera Je and Sera Mey. Sponsored for the entire FPMT family, all the centers and students, volunteers and benefactors. For their health and long life and protection.

Today, June 11, 2025, is Saka Dawa Duchen which commemorates Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, & parinirvana when karmic results are multiplied by 300 million times as it commemorates Buddha’s 3 major life events. Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains more in this video fpmt.org/edu-news/sak...

Extensive Medicine Buddha puja happening at Kopan Monastery, sponsored for the entire FPMT organization; for all the kind donors, students, & volunteers; for the supporters of the FPMT Puja Fund & all beings.