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February 18-21 The Courage of Compassion Meditation Retreat with Ven. Robina Courtin Venerable Robina Courtin will lead a meditation-retreat based on Chenresig, the Buddha of Compassion. Strength and practicality are the distinguishing features of Ven. Robina's way of teaching, and every advice she gives awakens people from laziness and inactivity of Dharma...Read more
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We are pleased to announce that on September 18 and 19, 2021 there will be held at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa the Mind Science Academy Conference entitled Reality Is Not What It Appears: A Joint Investigation between East and West. This event is organized by Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa in...Read more
FPMT BASIC PROGRAM Next subject: Grounds and Paths of the Secret Mantra with Ven. Geshe Jampa Gelek We are pleased to announce the opening of applications for the next Basic Program subject: “Grounds and Paths of the Secret Mantra" with teacher Ven. Geshe Jampa Gelek. Daily teachings will...Read more
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On Friday, 18th of June 2021, there was the Closing Puja, in the Meditation hall, of the third FPMT Masters Program in Buddhist studies of sutra and tantra, which began in March 2015 at the Lama Tsong Khapa Institute; the next step for the students, after a two-month summer...Read more
The FPMT Basic Program's residential and on-line students, at the end of the period of study dedicated to the Fourth Chapter of the Ornament to Clear Achievements, wanted to thank with a homage master Geshe Tenzin Tenphel, who teached them for these last three years. The students will continue...Read more
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Dear Friends, The second part of the official annual long life puja for 2020 will be offered on behalf of FPMT centers, projects, services, study groups, and students, to our most kind and immeasurably precious spiritual director, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, source of our inspiration and guidance, at Kopan Monastery, Nepal,...Read more
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Losar literally means New Year. The Losar festival in Tibet is the biggest occasion of the year. Celebrated with great fervor, the event is full of ancient ceremonies that commemorate the struggle between good and evil. Traditionally, Tibetan people go out into the streets, singing and dancing. A moment...Read more
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Looking back at 11 years of living in Pomaia, at the Institute Lama Tzong Khapa: In September 2009 I arrived at the Institute as a newly ordained nun. Most fortunate, I could follow the Masters program where Khensur Jampa Tegchok was teaching the second module: The Middle Way – how...Read more
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A message from Ven Roger Kunsang: Dear Friends, These are challenging times with Covid 19, it brings many serious challenges to everyone, like the world has never seen before. It is important we support our FPMT family as much as we can. This is the reason that Rinpoche is offering these regular teachings,...Read more
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Almost a month ago, the Lama Tzong Khapa Institute hosted the teachings of the 104th Ganden Tripa, Kyabje Jetsun Lobsang Tenzin Rinpoche, welcoming more than two hundred people from all over the world. With the Masters Program coming closer to its final module, the Grounds and Paths of the Secret...Read more
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This morning we met to say goodbye to our precious Master Gaden Tri Rinpoche, who's leaving for Austria. Happy and touched we showed our gratitude to Rinpoche, with a prayer of a very soon return to our Institute and with the wish he may remain till the end of...Read more
His Eminence the 104th Gaden Tripa. highest authority of the Gelug tradition, arrived in Pomaia. Rejoice! It is an extremely rare and precious opportunity to know and receive initiations from such a great Master, especially during this year in which, all over the world is celebrating the 600th anniversary of...Read more
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The Lama Tzong Khapa Institute is pleased to invite you to the public talk with Tenzin Ösel Hita, on Sunday 21 July at 6.00 pm on the theme "Harmony, Respect, Gratitude, are the bases for a true Community". A precious opportunity to learn more about Ösel, who is in Italy ...Read more
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It is with pleasure that we share the statement of the Professor Bruno Neri, professor of the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Pisa, concerning the joint activities between the University of Pisa and the Lama Tzong Khapa Institute, result of the scientific collaboration agreement signed between...Read more
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It has been already one semester since the Basic Program started at the Institute Lama Tzong Khapa. As the second semester begins with the subject of “Tenets” and the daily schedule steadily unfolds, we decided to follow one of our students through a full day and get an insight...Read more
Monday 15 April We are happy to announce that Venerable Geshe Tenzin Tenphel will return to Pomaia this Wednesday, April 17 at around 12:00/12:30. We will gather in the courtyard in front of the house of the teachers to welcome him with a kata. We kindly ask everyone to respect the...Read more
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On Tuesday, December 4, on end of Madhyamaka subject occasion, the Masters Program students offered a "Thanksgiving Puja" to Venerable Geshe Jampa Gelek, the teacher of the Program. With Lama Chopa and the Tsog offering, the students wanted to express their gratitude to Geshela for the precious and exceptional explanation...Read more
Greetings from Venerable Geshe Tenzin Tenphel and students of the FPMT Basic Residential Program. 22nd Thursday, the last lesson of the first subject "Mind and Cognition: How the Mind Works" was held. Best wishes to residential students who will take the final exam for the first module on 6th December...Read more
A series of ceremonies will take place at the Institute from 2nd to 4th December, in a private form and guided by the resident teachers, Ven. Geshe Tenzin Tenphel and Ven. Geshe Jampa Gelek. At that time it will be possible to fill and bless the statues representing the...Read more
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The FPMT Basic Program is an in-depth Buddhist education program designed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and developed by FPMT Education Services. Olga Planken, FPMT’s In-depth Program Coordinator introduces the full-time residential Basic Program that will start in September 2018 at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa (ILTK) in Italy: ILTK has a...Read more
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The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama has released ‘Dalai Lama’, a new iPhone App now available for download at the Apple App Store http://apple.co/2C5zpco. With Dalai Lama stay up to date with what His Holiness is doing, his travels, and his teachings. Get official news, videos, and...Read more
- Farina, if you are not the youngest among the students of the 6-year Residential Masters Program, certainly you are one of the youngest. Was your decision a spontaneous, quick impulse, or the outcome of a long reflection? I am indeed the youngest. I wished to undertake Budddhist studies since...Read more
The blessing of marine wildlife with Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Sea Shepherd, Lipu (Italian Society for Bird Protection) and Angelo Vaira, founder of the ThinkDog school, took place on a magnificent sunny day, 8 October 2017, at marina Cala de’ Medici. Lama Zopa Rinpoche boarded the Sea Shepherd’s Brigitte Bardot trimaran...Read more
Basic Program last subject: Grounds and Paths of Secret Mantra October 2 – December 15, 2017 A Highest Yoga Tantra Initiation is needed to follow this subject either resident or online! Grounds and Paths of Secret Mantra offers a concise overview of the structure of the tantric path, widely renowned in Tibet as...Read more
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We are pleased to announce that tickets for the event on September 19th, 2017, in Florence, with his Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama will be available starting at 12:00pm today, Monday, May 22nd. The ticket, which is a form of a contribution to organizational expenses, is €10 and will be...Read more
From 12-29 June and 4–21 Sept. 2017 the new Module of the Basic Program starts soon: Ornament for Clear Realization - Fourth Chapter. The Ven. Geshe Tenzin Tenphel will highlight "The 37 practices harmonious with enlightenment!" It is possible to follow this module without having done the previous modules. The course is offered...Read more
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We are very pleased to announce that His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama has accepted the invitation of Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa of Pomaia and will be in Tuscany from 19 to 21 September 2017. This visit will follow His Holiness’s stop in Sicily from 16 to 18 September,...Read more
- Keah, you come from South Africa. Your Country underwent a difficult change: first banned from the international community because of the apartheid and then, thanks to such outstanding persons as Nelson Mandela and Willem de Klerk, striving for a peaceful transition towards a multiethnic society. The Truth and...Read more
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On the occasion of the Losar festivities, Monday the 27th February 2017, the Lama Tzong Khapa Institute is organising a day dedicated to Lama Yeshe's memory, who passed away during the Losar in 1984. On Sunday the 26th February, in the Mandala room, starting at 15.30 you are invited to “Remembering Lama...Read more
8-Week Retreat "The Foolish Dharma of an Idiot Clothed in Mud and Feathers," "Buddhahood Without Meditation" & "The Fine Path to Liberation" with B. Alan Wallace. Location: Lama Tzong Khapa Institute, Tuscany, Italy From: April 3rd- May 30th, 2017. The daily schedule for the retreat consists of two hours each day, Monday-Saturday, of group...Read more
Madhyamika - Study of the Middle Way: from April 5th, 2017 to October 2018 "It is said that one accumulates more merits by studying the teachings whose explicit subject is emptiness, although one may still have doubt about it, than practicing the other five perfections for a hundred cosmic eons."...Read more
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LAMA ZOPA RINPOCHE 100 MILLION MANI RETREAT 4 OCTOBER - 5 NOVEMBER 2017 You can register as of January 25, 2017 The Lama Tzong Khapa Institute is pleased to announce that from October 4th to November 5th, 2017, Lama Zopa Rinpoche will lead the 100 million “OM MANI PADME HUM” mantra retreat here...Read more
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In occasione dei 40 anni dell’Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, dal 10 al 12 giugno, abbiamo organizzato a Pomaia il FESTIVAL DEL TIBET. E’ stata un’occasione unica per centinaia di persone di conoscere da vicino questo Paese, la sua storia travagliata, la sua bellezza e il suo prezioso lascito di...Read more
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