Line drawing of Naropa by Andy Weber.

FPMT Education Services is pleased to present this volume of teachings on the six yogas of Naropa by Gyume Khenzur Rinpoche Lobsang Jampa, A Detailed Commentary on the Practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa. Lama Zopa Rinpoche held Khenzur Rinpoche and his mastery of tantric topics such as Vajrayogini and the six yogas in high regard. It was Rinpoche’s personal request that Khenzur Rinpoche’s teachings on the six yogas be made available.

Khenzur Rinpoche kindly granted permission for us to publish these teachings. His wish is that these teachings are only made available to students who have received a great highest yoga tantra initiation (wang) such as Chakrasamvara, Guhyasamaja, Yamantaka, Hevajra, or Kalachakra.

Lorne Ladner, who had attended many of Gyurme Khenzur Rinpoche’s teachings on this topic and meticulously took copious notes, generously accepted this project and following Khenzur Rinpoche’s advice, compiled and edited them into this book. With Khenzur Rinpoche’s permission, Lorne supplemented the six yogas book with materials from Rinpoche’s other teachings, particularly, teachings on the five stages of the completion stage of Guhyasamaja, and the completion stage of Yamantaka, mahamudra, and tantric stages and paths.

Khenzur Rinpoche’s source for these teachings was primarily Lama Tsongkhapa’s A Guide to the Profound Path of the Six Yogas of Naropa Endowed with Three Convictions. Khenzur Rinpoche also often based his explanations on Source of the Attainment of Great Bliss by Nagtsang Lozang Tenpa Dargye. According to Lorne, despite Khenzur Rinpoche already having a deep and personal understanding of these practices, Khenzur Rinpoche reviewed different commentaries and practice manuals on the six yogas by various Kagyu and Gelug masters before giving the teachings.

With its step-by-step instructions, clear explanations, and appendices, this manual is a wonderful reference and guide for those interested in practicing the six yogas of Naropa.

Kyabje Jhado Rinpoche will be giving teachings on the six yogas of Naropa at Maitripa College in Portland, Oregon, this month. 

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche blessing a buffalo that he named Bodhichitta, Kopan Monastery, August 2021. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

Several years ago Lama Zopa Rinpoche requested Geshe Tenzin Namdak to translate sections of Geshe Thubten Soepa’s book on vegetarianism, Dharma Discourses on Abandoning Killing, Harming and Consuming the Meat of Innocent Sentient Beings, titled ‘The Melody of Willows Bending in the Wind,’ published by Sera Jey Library in 2018.

Benefiting all sentient beings, including insects and animals, was a Vast Vision of Lama Zopa Rinpoche for the FPMT organization which has a number of animal projects including the Animal Liberation Fund, Animal Liberation Sanctuary and MAITRI Charitable Trust. Many centers host regular animal blessings in parks and public places.

 We are pleased to report that earlier this year Geshe Namdak kindly completed this request with Dharma Discourses on Vegetarianism, and we are very happy to share it with you via the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.

As Geshe Soepa’s book was primarily aimed at a monastic audience and includes various debates concerning Vinaya and Vajrayana scriptures, Rinpoche indicated to Geshe Namdak that it was not necessary to translate the entire book; instead, the translation should focus on sections relevant to the general Buddhist community of lay people.

This text has many important points to consider, including, on “The Benefits of Avoiding Meat”:

“Unlike animals, humans have the freedom to choose what food we consume. Certain animals, by virtue of being born in the wild, must hunt other beings for survival. In contrast, humans can maintain a healthy diet without meat and various scientific studies suggest that there may be unhealthy aspects associated with meat consumption.”

You can download Dharma Discourses on Vegetarianism, translated by Geshe Tenzin Namdak from the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive and also access more teachings from Geshe Soepa regarding protecting the lives of animals.

Please rejoice that these teachings, which support Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Vision, are now available, thanks to this translation from Geshe Namdak!

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Lama Tsongkhapa with his two main disciples.

Ganden Ngamchoe, literally “Ganden Offering of the Twenty-Fifth Day,” or Lama Tsongkhapa Day, is a celebration of the anniversary of Lama Tsongkhapa’s parinirvana. It is celebrated on the twenty-fifth day of the tenth month of the Tibetan calendar. This year, Lama Tsongkhapa Day falls on December 14, 2025.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche encouraged FPMT centers, projects, and services to engage in a variety of practices on Ganden Ngamchoe to celebrate and create merit. Of course, students are more than encouraged to engage in these practices individually as well, however one is able. Rinpoche also gave advice and suggestions for practices that can be done according to your time and ability. They can be found on the FPMT webpage Practices for Ganden Ngamchoe, Lama Tsongkhapa Day. 

You will also find links to resources in English, French, Tibetan, Spanish, and other languages, and specific advice given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche for the 2019 celebration of the 600th anniversary of Lama Tsongkhapa’s parinirvana.

A traditional offering on Lama Tsongkhapa Day is light offerings. Lama Zopa Rinpoche says,

Just as many people use lots of lights during Christmas and at marriages, we too should use lots of lights on Lama Tsongkhapa Day… Students at the center can hang up as many Christmas lights as possible. You can hang lights around the center buildings, like a net of light offerings that cover a whole wall, outside and inside. The lights can be white or different colors. Or you can hang lights over the trees and bushes or in the garden around the center.

By offering lights to Lama Tsongkhapa, merit fields, and so forth, we create the cause of enlightenment, of liberation from samsara, and of the happiness of future lives. Also, success will happen in this life. Even if you hate happiness in this life, it will still come by the way. This is what you get from offering every single candle or Christmas light to the Guru Three Rare Sublime Ones.

The Extensive Offering Practice composed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche can be used.

Monks making light offerings at Kopan Monastery in Nepal on Lama Tsongkhapa Day, December 2020. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

We also wanted to take this opportunity to remind everyone about the precious advice we received from His Holiness the Dalai Lama to recite Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri for the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, which can be added to the Lama Tsongkhapa Day auspicious activities. We are delighted to share a beautiful recording of Ven. Tenzin Gendun reciting Chanting the Names of Manjushri. The video contains many precious photos of Lama Zopa Rinpoche as well. 

This is a very special and powerful day to recite any Swift Return Prayers one is able, for our most precious Rinpoche! Please also rejoice that on this special day, Lama Zopa Rinpoche began the tradition of offering lunch and dessert to all Sangha in IMI communities.

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Teachings at the start of the Nalanda’s second FPMT Masters Program, February 2024. Photo courtesy Nalanda Monastery.

The FPMT Masters Program in Buddhist Studies of Sutra and Tantra (MP) is FPMT’s most advanced education program, the realization of the vision of Lama Thubten Yeshe. Its mission is to provide a full-time, in-depth education for students of the Tibetan Mahayana tradition of Lama Tsongkhapa that emphasizes the integration of academic, practice, behavior, service, and training components. In addition to offering students a profound deepening of their Dharma understanding and practice, the program aims to provide the FPMT with highly qualified Western teachers of Buddhist theory and practice.

Nalanda Monastery, with its beautiful setting in the rolling hills of Southern France, extends an invitation to all interested students to join the teachings on the Madhyamakavatara, the next subject of their MP, starting February 2026.

Chandrakirti’s famous masterpiece, the Madhyamakavatara or Supplement to the Middle Way, explores in great depth the grounds, or levels of practice, of bodhisattvas. Its profound and detailed exposition of emptiness is the source of Lama Tsongkhapa’s unexcelled presentation of ultimate and conventional truth.

Geshe Gyaltsen and Venerable Jamyang at the conclusion of the first term of Nalanda’s MP. Photo courtesy of Nalanda Monastery.

Renowned for his accessible explanations, Geshe Jamphel Gyaltsen, Nalanda’s resident MP teacher, will base his teachings on Lama Tsongkhapa’s commentary Illumination of the Thought, a fascinating and enlightening text.

MP Teaching Assistant, Venerable Lhundub Jamyang, teaches four review classes per week, encouraging investigation, proper understanding, commitment to practice, and sharing. She also provides questions for the discussions. With students offering presentations, leading meditations, and attending various workshops, this is a rich and deeply engaging MP.

MP students and staff enjoying a picnic, October 2025. Photo courtesy of Nalanda Monastery.

This is a last chance to immerse oneself in this subject at MP level for many years to come. Please be encouraged, (or encourage your study inclined friends and students), to consider going to France and making use of this unique opportunity which starts February 2026, in English and in French, with residential and online options. Please read more for further information and to register.

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For twenty-seven years, the Liberation Prison Project has been producing the Liberation Tibetan calendar to support their work helping people in prison with their Buddhist practice. The calendar is a beautifully crafted guide grounded in authentic Tibetan lunar astrology and presents Tibetan lunar dates along with solar and lunar eclipses and over thirty kinds of auspicious and inauspicious days for spiritual practice, information on Buddha Days as well as appropriate days for performing Medicine Buddha and Tara pujas, putting up prayer flags, doing fire pujas, tsog offerings, and various activities.

This calendar is a reliable resource for FPMT students around the world. The calendar is prepared by astrologer Paksam Ngawang Thartho based on the Tibetan Medical and Astrological Institutes calendar, with additional advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Geshe Ngawang Dakpa.

The 2026 Liberation Tibetan calendar, year of the Fire Horse, is available now as a printable PDF.

Liberation Prison Project (LPP) envisions a world where every incarcerated person has access to the transformative power of the Dharma. LPP empowers individuals on their spiritual journey of exploration, learning, and personal transformation through Buddhist study and mentorship.

Shakyamuni Buddha statue inside the Mahabodhi Temple, Bodhgaya, India. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

Lhabab Duchen, one of the four great holy days of the Buddhist calendar. As a reminder, this special day occurs this year on November 11. 

Lhabab Duchen celebrates Guru Shakyamuni Buddha’s return to Earth from the God Realm of the Thirty-Three after teaching Dharma for three months to the gods, including his mother, Mayadevi, who had died a week after Buddha’s birth and been reborn there. As a merit multiplying day, the karmic results of actions done on this day are multiplied 100 million times. This amazing result is taught in the vinaya text Treasure of Quotations and Logic.

Specific practices recommended by Lama Zopa Rinpoche for merit-multiplying days can be found on the fpmt.org website on our “Practice on the Four Great Holy Days” page.

Specific practices recommended by Lama Zopa Rinpoche for merit-multiplying days include:

• Taking the eight Mahayana precepts—students can receive the lineage of these precepts from a specially produced video of Lama Zopa Rinpoche granting them
• Reciting the Sutra Remembering the Three Jewels

The translated Sutra of Great Liberation, which Lama Zopa Rinpoche extolled the immense benefits of engaging in, is another sutra that can recited on this special day.

In accordance with the advice of Ven. Choden Rinpoche, one of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachers, Lama Zopa Rinpoche observed all the auspicious dates in the Buddhist calendar by Indian Standard time, instead of any other local time.

Of course, in any activities done at your center during Lhabab Duchen, please do take the opportunity to dedicate all of the merit generated for the swift return of our most precious Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Please read the latest advice offered by His Holiness to continue reciting Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri as well as Migtsema.

Offerings on Lhabab Duchen 

On Lhabab Duchen the FPMT Puja Fund will be sponsoring numerous pujas including the recitation of the Prajnaparamita Sutra, Lama Chopa, Medicine Buddha Puja, Drugchuma and Chanting the Names of Manjushri. The stupas of Boudhanath and Swambyunath in Nepal will be freshly painted and the umbrellas will be offered at the pinnacle of each stupa. A new set of robes will be offered to the Buddha statue in the Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya. Additionally, animals will be liberated, sutras recited and printed, and offerings will be made to all of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s gurus and to all the IMI Sangha communities in FPMT. 

Please consider sharing information about these offerings and extensive prayers that have been specifically set up by Lama Zopa Rinpoche for the benefit of the whole organization and all beings. Rinpoche mentioned many times that he wishes for “the pujas being sponsored and offered on each of the four Buddha days to continue forever, or for as long as the monasteries and nunneries exist.” 

Please join us in rejoicing in all the meritorious activities happening within the FPMT organization and around the world on this auspicious merit-multiplying day!

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H.E. Ganden Trisur Lobsang Tenzin Rinpoche with Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery, January 14, 2023. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

At the request of many organizations and students, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, composed a swift return prayer for His Eminence the 104th Ganden Trisur Rinpoche Jetsun Lobsang Tenzin (1934–2025), who showed the aspect of passing away on September 26, 2025 at his residence at Sera Je Monastery, Bylakuppe, India. 

This prayer was translated by Geshe Namdak and is now available in English. A Chinese translation is also available to download. 

We join all students of His Eminence the 104th Ganden Trisur Rinpoche Jetsun Lobsang Tenzin in praying for his swift return and deep rejoicing in this truly beneficial and inspiring life of kindness, service, and humility. 

Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), is a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service. 

Lama Zopa Rinpoche with large Chenrezig thangka at Chenrezig Institute, Eudlo, Queensland, Australia, September 2014. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

On July 6, 2025, students, friends, and admirers around the world celebrated His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday with strong prayers for His Holiness to remain among us for a very long time. The events surrounding His Holiness’s birthday also launched the start of  “the year of compassion”  which will be a year-long celebration of His Holiness’s many compassionate activities and qualities. 

His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Chenrezig Institute, Eudlo, Queensland, Australia, June 2011. Photo by Bonnie Jenkins.

We want to draw your attention to a valuable resource for those wishing to enrich their practice of compassion. We have collated materials related to Chenrezig practice and mantras. His Holiness is respectfully held as a manifestation of Chenrezig (Avalokiteshvara), the Buddha of compassion. 

“Compassion is not just for those with faith in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche explained in The Power of Mantra: Vital Practices for Transformation. “It is not just for those who are Buddhist, for those who seek enlightenment. Everyone needs compassion. No matter what style of life we have, the compassionate life is the best life. With that, our life is totally transformed. Before it was like kaka, but now it is transformed into gold. Before there was just ego, the self-cherishing mind, but now there is compassion. Compassion brings a huge difference in our life, like the difference between the earth and the sky.”

To further explore the practice of Chenrezig, visit our website for more information and materials.

We recently published several stories about His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and we invite you to explore those as well. For more on His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his beneficial activities, please visit DalaiLama.com.

Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), is a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service. 

Lama Zopa Rinpoche writing mantras on a patio umbrella in order to bless all those that sit underneath it, Aptos, California, US, June 2017. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

A mantra is a series of syllables, most often in Sanskrit, that is the subject of recitation, meditation, or other spiritual practice. The term “mantra” means “mind protection,” because mantras function to protect the mind from ordinary impure appearances as they evoke the energy of a particular buddha or bodhisattva.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche taught extensively on the power of mantra and offered us volumes of advice on specific mantras to utilize for various internal and external conditions and virtuous objectives. Rinpoche was very often using the power of mantras to bless sentient beings, even the countless creatures living in vast bodies of water! 

Our Mantras Page contains a complete list of the mantras we have available for download. 

We invite you to explore all that our Mantras Page has to offer you and your practice. Additionally, please feel very free to peruse all that is available on our Prayer and Practice Materials Page.  Please also see the  Sutras, Mantras, and Root Texts page on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive Advice page. 

 Also available from Wisdom Publications is The Power of Mantra: Vital Practices for Transformation, in which Lama Zopa Rinpoche guides students through understanding the power and benefit of mantras. Rinpoche explains many popular mantras, giving specific instructions for practicing them, including Shakyamuni Buddha, Chenrezig, Manjushri, Tara, Medicine Buddha, Vajrasattva, and more.

Through comprehensive study programs, practice materials, and training seminars, FPMT Education nourishes the development of compassion, wisdom, kindness, and true happiness in individuals of all ages.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching inside the temple called the Golden Abode of Shakyamuni Buddha, Elista, Kalmykia, May 2017. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

Chokhor Duchen, one of the four annual holy days of Guru Shakyamuni Buddha, takes place this year on July 28.  On these holy days of Guru Shakyamuni Buddha, the power of any meritorious action is multiplied by 100 million, as taught in the vinaya text Treasure of Quotations and Logic.

Known in English as “Turning the Wheel of Dharma,” Chokhor Duchen commemorates the anniversary of Guru Shakyamuni Buddha’s first teaching. It is said that for seven weeks after his enlightenment, the Buddha did not teach. Afterward, Indra and Brahma offered a dharmachakra and a conch shell, and requested Guru Shakyamuni Buddha to teach. Accepting, Guru Shakyamuni Buddha turned the wheel of Dharma for the first time at Sarnath in his teaching on the four noble truths.

Please read all of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s advice for making the most of this meritorious opportunity!

Of course, in any activities done during Chokhor Duchen, please do take the opportunity to dedicate all of the merit generated for the swift return of our most precious Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Please read the latest advice offered by His Holiness to continue reciting Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri as well as Migtsema.

Celebrating the Real Heroes! 

Lama Zopa Rinpoche with IMI Sangha at Light of the Path Retreat, 2017. Photo by Kalleen Mortensen

Chokhor Duchen is also the day on which FPMT celebrates International Sangha Day! International Sangha Day provides an opportunity for monastic and lay communities to come together in recognition of their interdependence and celebrate the ways in which they mutually rely on each other’s practice of the Dharma.

As Lama Zopa Rinpoche remarked in a talk given to Sangha: “Monks and nuns are the real heroes because they are defeating the delusions. What causes all the suffering to you and to sentient beings? Your delusion, the three poisonous minds. You are defeating them. You are the real hero. Those other people who the world calls ‘heroes’ for killing people, they may be leaders, but they are also totally a slave to their egos, totally a slave to the self-cherishing thought, totally a slave to ignorance from beginningless rebirths, which made them kill so many sentient beings. You are the real one defeating the delusion from where all your suffering and other sentient beings’ past, present, and future suffering come from. You are defeating the delusions by practicing morality! By living in ordination! You have to know that! You have to recognize that! That’s why you became a monk or nun. You are a real hero.” Please enjoy a video and transcript of Rinpoche offering this advice.  

Rinpoche offered other powerful teachings to the Sangha during this period and we invite you to explore all of these teaching summaries, transcripts, and videos. These teachings are particularly powerful at this time as we, as a community, celebrate our most precious Sangha leading up to International Sangha Day.

Pujas and Prayers Offered on Chokhor Duchen

The monks and nuns of Kopan monastery and nunnery engaging in puja, Khachoe Ghakyil Nunnery, Nepal. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

On Chokhor Duchen, the FPMT Puja Fund will also be arranging numerous pujas including Yamantaka, Guhyasamaja, and Heruka self-initiations; Mitrugpa and Namgyalma pujas; and Drugchuma. The stupas of Boudhanath and Swambyunath in Nepal will be freshly painted and the umbrellas will be offered at the pinnacle of each stupa. A new set of robes will be offered to the Buddha statue in the Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya. Additionally, animals will be liberated, sutras recited and printed, and offerings will be made to all of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s gurus and to all the IMI Sangha communities in the FPMT. These offerings and extensive prayers are all dedicated for the benefit of the whole FPMT organization and all beings.

We wish all of you a truly meritorious and joyful Chokhor Duchen on July 28! 

Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), is a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

Sakyamuni Buddha.

Today, June 11, 2025, is the day we observe the merit-making day of Saka Dawa Duchen which commemorates Shakyamuni Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana when karmic results are multiplied by 300 million times as it commemorates Shakyamuni Buddha’s three major life events. As Lama Zopa Rinpoche explained, “Because Saka Dawa combines these three special days, the possibility to create merit is unbelievable. Due to this, it is very important for one to use this opportunity to do everything the best!”

We wish to remind you of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s advice for merit multiplying days, in particular:

• Taking the eight Mahayana precepts. Students can receive the lineage of these precepts from a specially produced video of Lama Zopa Rinpoche granting them, recorded in 2020 at Kopan Monastery.
• Reciting the Sutra Remembering the Three Jewels

Lama Zopa Rinpoche also advised that, “It is so important also to understand that if one collects non-virtue on merit multiplying days, then that will also increase by that many number of times. One has to be careful to not increase non-virtuous actions during the merit multiplying days.”

In 2020, Rinpoche offered “Advice for Saka Dawa” from Kopan Monastery. (Rinpoche’s teaching starts at 22:51 in this video). You can also read the transcript of this advice. 

Watch Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teaching “Advice for Saka Dawa”:

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Shakyamuni Buddha.

Saka Dawa, Duchen which occurs this year on June 11, is one of the four great holy days of the Tibetan calendar, each of which celebrates an anniversary of Shakyamuni Buddha’s display of extraordinary powerful deeds for sentient beings’ sake. On this particular holy day, karmic results are multiplied by 300 million times as it commemorates Shakyamuni Buddha’s three major life events.

Please refer to Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s advice for merit multiplying days, in particular:

• Taking the eight Mahayana precepts. Students can receive the lineage of these precepts from a specially produced video of Lama Zopa Rinpoche granting them, recorded in 2020 at Kopan Monastery.
• Reciting the Sutra Remembering the Three Jewels

Offerings on Saka Dawa 

On Saka Dawa Duchen the FPMT Puja Fund will be sponsoring numerous pujas, including two recitations of the 100,000 Praises to the Twenty-One Taras and Names of Manjushri (Jampal Tsen Jo) for the swift return of our precious Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, as well as many additional pujas and prayers. The Puja Fund will also be making monetary offerings to all the Sangha undertaking these practices and to all of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s gurus; and a new coat of paint, umbrellas, and new robes to holy objects in India and Nepal. Please consider sharing information about this vast offering and extensive prayers that have been specifically set up by Lama Zopa Rinpoche for the benefit of the whole organization and all beings.

Please join us in rejoicing in all the meritorious activities happening within the FPMT organization and around the world on this auspicious merit-multiplying day!

Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), is a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.