UPDATES REGARDING LAMA ZOPA RINPOCHE

On April 13, at 9:30 a.m. Nepal time, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, our most precious guru and spiritual director, entered his final meditation.

You can find all news, updates, and resources here.

Ongoing Livestream: In addition to the resources and updates below, livestream continues of the pujas, prayers and practices being offered twenty-four hours a day (apart from occasional breaks) at Kopan Monastery in front of Rinpoche's holy body.

This period of 49 days (until May 31) is an especially very precious time for us to practice strongly to create merit and purify negativities and to make strong prayers for Lama Zopa Rinpoche's swift return. In particular, those who have benefited in any way from Rinpoche's teachings, taking advantage of this time to join together in community at the Center and engage in practices is a rare and special opportunity, not to be missed. It is for our own benefit that we practice - Rinpoche does not need our help. It is for us to have the merit to meet with his teachings life after life, and to create merit for us to achieve realizations on the path, leading to great happiness for ourselves and others.

Swift Return Prayers Compilation

For the convenience of students, FPMT, Inc. have kindly compiled a booklet consisting of His Holiness' prayer (starting on page 5), along with a small collection of additional prayers for Rinpoche's swift return, composed and offered spontaneously by other distinguished lamas with whom Rinpoche had a connection in this lifetime, including Khenzur Jhado Rinpoche, Rangjung Neljorma Khandro Tseringma, and Lelung Rinpoche — A Prayer for the Swift Return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche by His Holiness the Dalai Lama with additional prayers by other distinguished lamas. You can download a PDF copy from the FPMT, Inc. website.

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CHAPTER 6 (PATIENCE) OF SHANTIDEVA'S GUIDE TO THE BODHISATTVA'S WAY OF LIFE

Geshe Tenley returns to Sunday morning teaching with a commentary on Chapter Six, "The Perfection of Patience", from Master Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva way of Life. In the whole of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, there is no single treatise more deeply revered or widely practiced than Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life. Composed in the eighth century by the Indian Bodhisattva Shantideva, it became an instant classic in the curricula of the Buddhist monastic universities of India, and its renown has grown ever since. In Chapter Six, Shantideva focuses on why it is essential to cultivate patience and how we can begin to do so.

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