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Thubten Zopa Rinpoche (Tibetan: ཐུབ་བསྟན་བཟོད་པ་, Wylie: Thub-bstan Bzod-pa ; 1946 Thami, Nepal as Dawa Chötar) is a Nepalese lama from the Solu Khumbu valley, the entryway to Mount Everest.
Early in life, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Lawudo Lama Kunzang Yeshe, from the same region (hence the title "Rinpoche"). He took his monastic vows at Dungkar Monastery in Tibet where he travelled in 1957, but he had to flee due to the Chinese army's severe treatment of monks after the 1959 Tibetan uprising. Instead of continuing in Tibet, his spiritual teacher, Geshe Rabten, entrusted him to the care of Lama Thubten Yeshe. Thubten Zopa learned English at the Young Lamas Home School. Lama Zopa has received teachings from many high lamas.
Lama Zopa met the previous Panchen Lama in Nepal in 1986 and in Tibet.
Lama Zopa is most noteworthy as the co-founder, with Lama Yeshe, of Kopan Monastery and the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT). In 1972 he along with Lama Yeshe founded Tushita Meditation Centre near McLeod Ganj at village Dharamkot in Himachal Pradesh. Since the 1984 death of Lama Yeshe, Lama Zopa has served as the FPMT's spiritual director.
In October 1982, after the visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Italy, which Lama Yeshe arranged, Lama was interviewed on behalf of the Meridian Trust, the Buddhist film and video archive, by Geoff Jukes, Meridian's founder, and Brian Beresford. In the first interview, Lama explains how he and Lama Zopa Rinpoche first began teaching Buddhism to Westerners, how to teach Dharma in the West, the form Buddhism might take in its transition from East to West, the development of the first FPMT centers...and more. In the second interview, Lama details how the first centers began, what their purpose was, how life in the centers should be, how he selected the resident teachers and what their relationship with the center's administration should be, how the different as...
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the benefits of wearing the Namgyalma mantra and of having it in your house and car. Recorded while Rinpoche was offering advice to the staff of FPMT International Office in Portland, Oregon, US, on April 21, 2014.
In this short video Ven. Amy Miller presents Kyabje Pabongkha’s Heart Spoon, a heart-wrenching poem that sets out the reality of death with strong imagery intended to move our minds and exhort us to not delay our Dharma practice. A more detailed explanation of this text can be found in Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teaching “This is Going to Happen to You,” a module of the online program Living in the Path (http://onlinelearning.fpmt.org/course/view.php?id=122).
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In this short video Ven. Amy Miller explains the meaning of a verse for taking and refuge and generating bodhichitta that is often recited at the beginning of prayers and practices. She discusses why to take refuge and the objects in which a Buddhist takes refuge, as well as the meaning of bodhichitta and the reasons for generating this altruistic thought to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. A more detailed explanation of this subject can be found in Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teaching “The Refuge and Bodhichitta Verse,” a module of the online program Living in the Path (http://onlinelearning.fpmt.org/mod/page/view.php?id=4993).
This short documentary video by Claudio Curciotti follows Geshe Tenzin Namdak through the graduation ceremony and beyond. Note: due to copyright issues the original music at 13:04 was replaced with copyright free music by FPMT media resource management
Education TV is a channel of Mongolian television. The interview is in English.
In 1990, Margot Kool of Maitreya Instituut interviews five year old Ösel Hita, the recognized reincarnation of Lama Yeshe, with Lama Zopa Rinpoche at his side. From an early age, Ösel travelled to FPMT monasteries and centers in Nepal, America, Australia and Europe, usually accompanied by one of his parents, Paco Hita and Maria Torres. In 1991, at the age of seven, Ösel went to live at Sera Monastery in southern India, where he studied traditional Tibetan subjects and received private tutoring in Western subjects. To learn more about Ösel please visit http://www.lamayeshe.com/teacher/Tenzin-Osel-Hita Video by Jan-Paul Kool Copyright 1990 Maitreya Instituut (INF745)
Teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Vajra Yogini Institute (http://www.institutvajrayogini.com) - may 2009 - Download mp3/videos : http://www.institutvajrayogini.fr/AVLZR2009EN_1.html - Description : Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual leader of Vajra Yogini Institute. He is a Tibetan Buddhist scholar and meditator who for 30 years has overseen the spiritual activities of the extensive worldwide network of centers, projects and services that form the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (http://www.fpmt.org) which he founded with Lama Thubten Yeshe. in 2009, he led a 100 million mani retreat at Vajra Yogini Institute and gave those precious teachings.
Lama Osel joins Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the teaching throne at Milarepa Center, Barnet, VT. October 1986. Tim McNeill (camera)
Teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Vajra Yogini Institute (http://www.institutvajrayogini.com) - may 2009 - Download mp3/videos : http://www.institutvajrayogini.fr/AVLZR2009EN_1.html - Description : Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual leader of Vajra Yogini Institute. He is a Tibetan Buddhist scholar and meditator who for 30 years has overseen the spiritual activities of the extensive worldwide network of centers, projects and services that form the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (http://www.fpmt.org) which he founded with Lama Thubten Yeshe. in 2009, he led a 100 million mani retreat at Vajra Yogini Institute and gave those precious teachings.
Teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Vajra Yogini Institute (http://www.institutvajrayogini.com) - may 2009 - Download mp3/videos : http://www.institutvajrayogini.fr/AVLZR2009EN_1.html - Description : Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual leader of Vajra Yogini Institute. He is a Tibetan Buddhist scholar and meditator who for 30 years has overseen the spiritual activities of the extensive worldwide network of centers, projects and services that form the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (http://www.fpmt.org) which he founded with Lama Thubten Yeshe. in 2009, he led a 100 million mani retreat at Vajra Yogini Institute and gave those precious teachings.
In October 1982, after the visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Italy, which Lama Yeshe arranged, Lama was interviewed on behalf of the Meridian Trust, the Buddhist film and video archive, by Geoff Jukes, Meridian's founder, and Brian Beresford. In the first interview, Lama explains how he and Lama Zopa Rinpoche first began teaching Buddhism to Westerners, how to teach Dharma in the West, the form Buddhism might take in its transition from East to West, the development of the first FPMT centers...and more. In the second interview, Lama details how the first centers began, what their purpose was, how life in the centers should be, how he selected the resident teachers and what their relationship with the center's administration should be, how the different as...
This interview in Kathmandu, Nepal with Lama Yeshe was excerpted from Weed (1972), a documentary about the prevalence and popularity of marijuana in the early 1970's. Visit http://www.LamaYeshe.com for more wisdom from Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche...
Lama Yeshe talks about the skillful means needed to transmit the Dharma to people in the West recorded at Lama Tsongkhapa Institute on October 25, 1982. Excerpted from the full length interview "How We Started Teaching Westerners" Please visit http://www.LamaYeshe.com to explore more Dharma from Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
We stopped for dinner, at a food court on the drive to Kaoshung. (We were driving from Taipei in the north to Kaoshung in the south of Taiwan. Rinpoche then mentioned with a mixture of sadness and compassion, "When you don't think of the next life ... people are wandering, like in a dream, believing 100% the dream is real! Like in a illusion or mirage ... believing it's all real. to read more: http://www.mandalamagazine.org/2013/dreaming-in-the-food-court/ http://www.fpmt.org/ http://www.fpmt.org/teachers/zopa.html