FPMT Australia Ltd

It is with great pleasure that we announce the first ever two-day mini Foundation Training Downunder, which will be held at Chenrezig Institute 14th & 15th November 2008.

"If everyone used the methods contained here, it would change the organization."  - Lama Zopa Rinpoche

All centre directors, board members, spiritual program coordinators, teachers, staff members, volunteers, and interested students are invited and strongly encouraged to attend.  This will be an extraordinary retreat-style two day program, in the gorgeous Chenrezig surroundings, and an integral part of one’s practice of offering service within the FPMT organisation.

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Picture: Four Harmonious friends

It is with great pleasure that we formally announce that Kyabje Thubten Zopa Rinpoche has kindly agreed to lead a retreat in Australia immediately after His Holiness’ teachings, from Tuesday 17th June to Sunday 22nd June 2008.

"These two things - study and practice - are key to making the mind more familiar with the path to enlightenment. " - Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Tara Institute, Melbourne were the hosts of the bi-annual FPMTA national meeting held on November 17-18, 2007. The meeting had a really good turnout with most centres/activites of FPMT within Australia represented. Phillipa Rutherford and Bruce Farley attended the meeting from Chandrakirti Meditation Centre - Nelson, New Zealand and Nancy Patton, Editor of Mandala magazine joined the group on Sunday.

Photo: Nancy Patton, editor of Mandala Magazine and Ven Tenzin Namdag, Dewachen Study group Coordinator.

The Dalai Lama will return to Australia to give a 5 day Buddhist teaching 11-15 June, in Sydney, Australia. The teachings "Stages of Meditation" a rare text by ninth-century Indian Buddhist scholar Kamalashila.

“This text can be like a key that opens the door to all other major Buddhist scriptures” - HHDL
For more information please visit www.dalailamainaustralia.org

Venerable Robina Courtin returns to Australia in September, October and November 2007.  Ven Robina Courtin will visit

Revered Tibetan meditation master and spiritual practitioner, Venerable Choden Rinpoche, will teach at Australian FPMT Centres in January and early February 2008. This is a rare opportunity to receive teachings and initiations from an eminent lama who is recognised as both a great scholar and a skilful teacher in the Mahayana tradition.  

'Rinpoche has vast knowledge and experience- not only having vast intellectual understanding, but also his holy mind enriched with oceans of realizations as vast as space, being soft-minded, having completed the mind training in good heart, being pure and possessing all the qualities of the learned ones.' Lama Zopa Rinpoche 

Andy Weber returns to Australia and New Zealand for more information