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FDCW Brings Universal Education to the World
Lama Yeshe at a family gathering, Vajrapani Institute, California, US, 1983. Photo by Carol Royce-wilder, courtesy of Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.The new issue of Mandala features the Foundation for...
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A New Mandala Magazine!
COVER: Lama Zopa Rinpoche during an Amitabha Buddha celebration at Buddha Amitabha Pure Land, Washington, US, October 2016. Photo by Chris Major.Mandala magazine is in the mail! The exciting new issue...
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Mandala Online: Reflections on Teaching Buddhism
Dr. Roger Jackson gives Dharma teachings to Maitri the cat and others at Sravasti Abbey, Washington State, USA, February 2016. Photo courtesy of Sravasti Abbey.Can university professors help to spread...
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Mandala Online: Expanding a Meditator’s Paradise
View of De-Tong Ling’s stupa and dam surrounded by pristine Australian bush. Photo by center director Will Abram.“De-Tong Ling Retreat Centre,” says retreat manager Dani Guo proudly in “De-Tong Ling...
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Mandala Online: A Retreat Center Is Launched
Land of Joy Retreat Centre and garden. Photo by Fiona Oliver.As part of Mandala‘s January-June 2017 online content, long-time FPMT student Andy Wistreich reports on the founding of Land of Joy Retreat...
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Mandala Online: The Hardships and Joys of Community
Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Ven. Yönten in Russia, 2015. Photo by Ven. Tenzin Chodron.Was the Buddha a community worker?In a reflection on life in community published online as part of the January-June...
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Dieter Kratzer on Becoming a Teacher
Dieter Kratzer with his wife Maria. Photo courtesy of Dieter Kratzer.In an interview with Mandala now published online, FPMT registered in-depth teacher Dieter Kratzer, 75, talks about his life in the...
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Mandala Online: At the Kalachakra, FPMT Supports the Aims of His Holiness
His Holiness talks with students from Maitreya School after their recitation, Bodhgaya, India, January 2017. Photo by Bill Kane.Mandala has just published “His Holiness the Dalai Lama Gives His 34th...
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Mandala Online: How Does Mindfulness Relate to Middle Way Philosophy?
Jacob Sky Lindsley presenting his research at the November 2016 conference of the Mind and Life Institute, San Diego, California, USA. Photo by Doug Huppe.We hear about mindfulness everywhere, it...
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New Mandala Ebook: ‘From Warm Heart to Warm Heart’
Mandala has just published a new ebook called From Warm Heart to Warm Heart: The Transmission of Dharma in the Modern World.The ebook contains seventeen interviews about the transmission of Dharma,...
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Mandala Online: Pilgrimage to Vikramashila
The main stupa of Vikramashila monastic university, destroyed approximately 1200 C.E. India, October 2016. Photo by Annie McGhee.“Pilgrimage needs faith. The more faith, the more happiness. Otherwise,...
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Mandala Online: The Benefits of Monasteries and Nunneries
Nuns of Chenrezig Institute. Back row from left: Vens. Lozang Tsondru, Thubten Damcho, Lozang Tseten, Lozang Rigsal and Lozang Wangmo. Front row from left: Vens. Lozang Tsultrim, Gyalten Tsultrim,...
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