Teachings

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Pomaia, Italy

Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to avoid burnout and maintain a happy mind while offering service at the center.

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Italy

Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this inspiring talk at the European Regional Meeting in June 2014. Rinpoche teaches on the four immeasurables and the kindness of others, and advises why Western students need to actualize the path.

Find links here to all the latest FPMT updates regarding Lama Zopa Rinpoche, our most precious guru and spiritual director, who showed the aspect of passing away on April 13, 2023.

By Lama Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush

Lama Yeshe: Lama's Concluding EEC1 Talk

By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Tushita Retreat Centre, Dharamsala, India

Lama Yeshe gave this powerful teaching about bringing the Dharma to the Western world at the first Enlightened Experience Celebration (EEC1), 1982.

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A special issue of Wisdom magazine in honor of Lama Yeshe's life and work, published in 1984. This commemorative issue features thirty pages of tributes, teachings, poems and photographs.

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal

Rinpoche discusses the benefits of Medicine Buddha practice in this teaching excerpt from the 36th Kopan Meditation Course.

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Lama Zopa Rinpoche sent this advice to a Dharma center which was having difficulties with the decisions and conduct of one of the people working at the center.

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Singapore

Sentient beings' happiness comes from Dharma, from virtuous actions.

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Chenrezig Institute, Queensland, Australia

A talk about guru devotion, the FPMT organization and the benefits of the Dharma center

By Nicholas Ribush

Dr. Nicholas Ribush gives an account of his personal experience of Lama Yeshe, the founder of the FPMT.

By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Instituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Italy

Advice to FPMT center and project directors about the purpose, structure and direction of the organization.

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Raleigh, USA

How to rejoice in the hardships borne while working for the Dharma center

By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Italy 1983

Lama Yeshe: Why We Established the FPMT

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in 1989

Rinpoche's advice on the benefits of working for Dharma centers

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