The International Mahayana Institute (IMI) is initiating recitations of “Chanting the Names of Manjushri” (“Jampal Tshan Jo”), as requested by HH the Dalai Lama. This commitment could mean a round-the-clock relay, a powerful and unceasing force emanating from the entire IMI and FPMT community.
Awaken compassion and courage with the blessings of Green Tara — a sacred gathering to nurture healing, protection, and inner peace. The perfect remedy to clear away obstacles to your dharma practice.
Join a Lhagsam facilitator for the preliminaries to the Year-End Purification. We will read prayers and dedications from the FPMT Prayer Book, as compiled in the Lhagsam Prayer Book, as well the Prayers for the Swift Return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Join Lhagsam’s annual tradition: A final talk by Venerable Robina Courtin on the urgency of a regular purification practice.
Join us for a guided Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga practice.
Join us for our Losar celebration and welcome the arrival of the Tibetan New Year. This auspicious event is an opportunity to rejoice and engage in practices, allowing us to abandon negativities and open our hearts to positive aspects. We invite you to start this year’s Losar with a commemoration of Lama Yeshe, the late founder of the FPMT
Join us for a guided Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga practice.
Join Lhagsam on this merit-multiplying day: Chotrül Düchen is one of the Four Great Buddhist Festivals (Düchen) in Tibetan tradition. It commemorates the time when the Buddha displayed miraculous powers for fifteen days to inspire faith and devotion. On Chötrül Düchen, karma is multiplied 100 million times per Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Therefore, virtuous activities done on this day are vastly magnified in benefit.
Join us for a guided Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga practice.
In this guru yoga on Guru Vajrasattva, we apply the four opponent powers to purify our negative karma: Regret, Refuge with Reliance, Remedy and Resolve. We end the guru yoga with a meditation on emptiness or mahamudra meditation. On this occasion, due to the facilitator being onsite, the meditation session is longer.
Join us for an inspiring afternoon with Venerable Thubten Chodron, live at our center in Zurich and online via Zoom. With her signature warmth, clarity, and humor, Ven. Chodron will guide us in exploring the Eight Worldly Concerns - the shifting tides of extremes - that so often entangle the mind and obscure genuine happiness.
Join us this evening and rejoice in the life and legacy of our most kind and dear guru, Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Join us for a guided Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga practice.
Join us for a guided Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga practice.
Join us for a guided Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga practice.
Join us for our annual Lama Tsongkhapa Day celebration, featuring the profound Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga practice. Known as Ganden Ngamchoe—which translates to “Ganden Offering of the Twenty-Fifth Day”—this special day commemorates the anniversary of Lama Tsongkhapa’s parinirvana. Marked on the twenty-fifth day of the tenth month in the Tibetan calendar, this occasion is a time for deep reflection and joyous offerings in honor of Lama Tsongkhapa’s extraordinary legacy.
