Geshe la teaches Buddhist philosophy in Auckland at Tibetan Buddhist centre, Dorje Change Institute. Teaching schedule here; www.dci.org.nz/program.shtml
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2025 India Pilgrimage with Geshe Wengchen Overview: We'll begin in Bodh Gaya, home to the Bodhi tree under which the Buddha gained enlightenment. After visiting some of Buddhism's most important pilgrimage sites, our journey ends in Varanasi, one of the longest-continually-inhabited cities in civilization, resting along the banks of the fab...
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Interfaith Garden Working Bee
Interfaith Garden Working Bee!
The enthusiasm, kindness and hard work that everyone contributed at yesterday's Interfaith Garden Working Bee at DCI was inspiring and much progress was accomplished in the garden oasis!
Approximately 28 people participated, including quite a few people from the West Auckland Women's Interfaith Initiative, the Ahamadiyya Mosque in South Auckland, missionaries and other volunteers from the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as well as others. Each group offered a food blessing prayer before we shared a lovely afternoon tea at the end of the afternoon.
Heartfelt thanks to everyone who participated and made this such a joyful experience!
Interfaith Garden Working Bee front garden work
Interfaith Garden Working Bee front garden
Interfaith Garden Working Bee wheelbarrows of mulch
Interfaith Garden Working Bee trimming and weeding behind the cabins
Interfaith Garden Working Bee weeding and raking
Interfaith Garden Working Bee afternoon tea
Veggie Garden and Other Grounds Volunteer Work
Thanks to the hard work of Claire and other veggie garden volunteers, the DCI vegetable garden is producing veggies! Ann, Jenny, Richard and their team of helpers have made great progress removing creeper vines and privet along the wall across from the stupa. Sandy continues to steadily tend and remove weeds from various parts of DCI's garden. Sarah and Brian have cleared a path through the new and old orchard that will soon be mow-able and have lifted the ever-growing flame tree. Other occasional volunteers have also helped us make progress in the garden.
With New Zealand's borders fully reopened we have also been happy and fortunate to welcome mutiple HelpX-ers (similar to WWOOFing) including young people from France, Canada, Israel/USA and Germany over the past couple of months who have used their weeding, digging and planting skills as well as hedge trimming and trimmer skills (and cleaning skills) to great effect! When they come they also have the opportunity, if they wish, to attend classes, meet with Geshe-la, enjoy guided meditations with Ven. Carolyn and read books from the library.
HelpX volunteers meeting with Geshe-la
HelpX volunteers enjoying a guided meditation with Ven. Carolyn
HelpXer hard at work scrubbing paths
Claire with harvested veggies from the DCI veggie garden
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche during a long life puja offered at Sera Je Monastery, India, November 2017. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab
Lama Zopa Rinpoche during a long life puja offered at Sera Je Monastery, India, November 2017. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab
Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Birthday Celebration
Saturday, 3 December, 10.30am
We will celebrate our precious Spiritual Director, Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche's 77th Birthday on Saturday, 3 December at 10.30am with a Guru Puja with Tsog Offering.
Everyone is welcome!
Program
29 November
7.30pm Grounds and Paths - FPMT BP Intermediate Level Class with Geshe Wangchen Registration required. Please note this class started in August 2021.
1 December
7.30pm Tara Puja
2 December
7.30pm Medicine Buddha Puja
3 December
Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Birthday Celebration Puja:
10.30am Guru Puja with Tsog Offering
Sunday
4 December
10am The Awakening Mind: Meditation Morning with Geshe Wangchen (All Levels) We welcome you to attend in person or request recordings:
Classes
Introductory & All Levels Classes
Shantideva Sundays!
The Awakening Mind
with Geshe Wangchen
Sundays 10am
from 18 September (For 11 classes)
Be inspired by Chapter 3 of Shantideva’s renowned A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, in which Shantideva introduces us to what it is like to fully accept and embody the awakening mind of bodhicitta.
This class is suitable for all levels.
Facility Fee $10 per session (Dharma Friend Monthly Contributors are free)
Intermediate & Advanced Classes
FPMT Basic Program Intermediate Series:
Grounds and Paths of Secret Mantra
with Geshe Wangchen
Tuesdays at 7.30pm
This class which began in August 2021 has been extended until the end of 2022.
Registration Required. Prerequisites apply.
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama smiling to members of the audience during the Long Life Prayer at the Main Tibetan Temple in Dharamsala, HP, India on 7 September, 2022. Photo by Ven. Tenzin Jamphel.
"Genuine happiness and satisfaction must come from within."
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Quoted from "Compassion as the Source of Happiness"
Announcement
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DCI Interfaith
Garden Working Bee
Saturday, 26 November
2 - 4pm
in the Dorje Chang Institute gardens
followed by afternoon tea
We welcome you to join DCI and the West Auckland Women's Interfaith Initiative (WAWII) for a garden working bee at DCI! Spring is well underway and garden growth is abundant. Everyone's help is welcome and appreciated [weather permitting]. If you have your own gardening tools, or gloves, we encourage you to bring them. After a couple of hours in the garden we will sit down to enjoy some afternoon tea.
This will be a special, hands-on opportunity to enjoy some interfaith teamwork on practical gardening tasks. Join us!
Everyone is welcome!
Program
22 November
7.30pm Grounds and Paths - FPMT BP Intermediate Level Class with Geshe Wangchen Registration required. Please note this class started in August 2021.
25 November
7.30pm Medicine Buddha Puja
26 November
2pm DCI Interfaith Garden Working Bee followed by afternoon tea
Sunday
27 November
10am The Awakening Mind with Geshe Wangchen (All Levels) We welcome you to attend in person or request recordings:
Classes
Introductory & All Levels Classes
Shantideva Sundays!
The Awakening Mind
with Geshe Wangchen
Sundays 10am
from 18 September (For 11 classes)
Be inspired by Chapter 3 of Shantideva’s renowned A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, in which Shantideva introduces us to what it is like to fully accept and embody the awakening mind of bodhicitta.
This class is suitable for all levels.
Facility Fee $10 per session (Dharma Friend Monthly Contributors are free)
Intermediate & Advanced Classes
FPMT Basic Program Intermediate Series:
Grounds and Paths of Secret Mantra
with Geshe Wangchen
Tuesdays at 7.30pm
This class which began in August 2021 has been extended until the end of 2022.
Registration Required. Prerequisites apply.
FPMT Basic Program Intermediate Series:
BP Three Month Review
facilitated by Simon Harrison and FPMT Education Services
3 September - 26 November 2022
Now that DCI has completed its second round of the nine FPMT Basic Program (BP) subjects, all students who have newly completed these nine BP subjects have already been invited to participate in the FPMT BP Three Month Review and FPMT BP Final Exam.
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Lama Yeshe (Founder of DCI and FPMT) in Zurich, Switzerland, 1978. Photo by Ueli Minder
Asking Lama Yeshe:
How do we practice Dharma in the West while working full-time and living in the city?
An inspiring excerpt from a new Lama Yeshe book, Knowledge-Wisdom: The Peaceful Path to Liberation. Collected Teachings, Volume 1. Forthcoming from LYWA, spring 2023.
Knowledge-Wisdom The Peaceful Path to Liberation Forthcoming Book by Lama Yeshe
Q. How do we practice Dharma in the West while working full-time and living in the city with many personal and professional commitments? How can we adapt the teachings of the Buddha and integrate them fully into daily life? In what can we take sincere refuge?
An Excerpt of Lama Yeshe's Answer:
"How to answer that? Now, first of all, what is Dharma? What is Buddhism all about? It looks like there are so many subjects, so many philosophies, so many meditations, so much psychology. You feel there are so many things going on in Buddhism….
"Buddhism teaches two things: loving kindness for others, which eliminates self-cherishing concepts, and wisdom eliminating ignorant wrong conceptions in order to realize universal reality…
"What you should do is the essence: really learn what true love is and how to practice the techniques for developing it, and how to practice true wisdom. Wisdom is awareness, or comprehension, and knowing what’s going on in your mind. That’s the only business you need to be concerned with. Don’t worry about what’s going on in other peoples’ minds, in your friends’ minds…
"Buddhism teaches us how to develop loving kindness, but not by merely saying, 'You should love everyone.' We explain why we should have love and how to generate it...
"Meditation is not only sitting; it is also thinking about something. For example, let’s say you have to work until four or five o’clock and when you come back you are already tired, exhausted. So, you get home and maybe lie down and think back on your day—your work, how people reacted, how your mind worked, how many times you became angry, how many times disturbances happened. That’s a kind of meditation, thinking, “Was it worthwhile or not?” I think that’s good enough."
Lama Yeshe answered this question at the sixteenth Kopan meditation course. Excerpted from a new Lama Yeshe book, Knowledge-Wisdom: The Peaceful Path to Liberation. Collected Teachings, Volume 1. Compiled by Sandra Smith, edited by Nicholas Ribush and Uldis Balodis. Forthcoming from LYWA, spring 2023.
Program
1 November
7.30pm Grounds and Paths - FPMT BP Intermediate Level Class with Geshe Wangchen Registration required. Please note this class started in August 2021.
3 November
7.30pm Guru Puja with Tsog Offering
4 November
7.30pm Medicine Buddha Puja
Sunday
6 November
10am The Awakening Mind with Geshe Wangchen (All Levels) We welcome you to attend in person or request recordings:
Classes
Introductory & All Levels Classes
Shantideva Sundays!
The Awakening Mind
with Geshe Wangchen
Sundays 10am
from 18 September (For 11 classes)
Be inspired by Chapter 3 of Shantideva’s renowned A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, in which Shantideva introduces us to what it is like to fully accept and embody the awakening mind of bodhicitta.
This class is suitable for all levels.
Facility Fee $10 per session (Dharma Friend Monthly Contributors are free)
Intermediate & Advanced Classes
FPMT Basic Program Intermediate Series:
Grounds and Paths of Secret Mantra
with Geshe Wangchen
Tuesdays at 7.30pm
This class which began in August 2021 has been extended until the end of 2022.
Registration Required. Prerequisites apply.
FPMT Basic Program Intermediate Series:
BP Three Month Review
facilitated by Simon Harrison and FPMT Education Services
3 September - 26 November 2022
Now that DCI has completed its second round of the nine FPMT Basic Program (BP) subjects, all students who have newly completed these nine BP subjects have already been invited to participate in the FPMT BP Three Month Review and FPMT BP Final Exam.
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Amitabha Hospice Service (Affiliated with the FPMT)
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FPMT's Amitabha Hospice is looking for someone with bookkeeping experience to work 4-8 hrs (paid) a week to file expenses and income in the right places so that their accountant can produce their GST report, which is then paid to the government.
If you have this know-how and have a few hours a week to do this for Amitabha Hospice please contact Amitabha Hospice directly to apply.
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama joins in the two day Mind & Life Conversation in Dharamsala, HP, India on October 12-13, 2022 organized by the Mind & Life Institute.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Meeting with Mind & Life Institute on Interdependence, Ethics and Social Networks
"His Holiness the Dalai Lama joined approximately 180 people in the audience hall at his residence. 101 were members or friends of the Mind & Life Institute. The remainder included Tibetan monks and nuns who have participated in the science programs at Emory University, as well as students of science from the Men-tsee-khang, the Library of Tibetan Works & Archives and so forth, as well as Lamas and Abbots from the centres of learning at the great monasteries in South India." (quoted from His Holinesses News) The topic was Interdependence, Ethics and Social Networks.
Below are links to read summaries of each day and also the links to the videos of both sessions (2 sessions each approximately 2 hours).
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Video of Day One
A photo from one of the sessions of the Meeting with Mind & Life at His Holiness the Dalai Lama's residence in Dharamsala, HP, India on October 12, 2022. Photo by Tenzin Choejor
Video of Day Two
Announcement
Register Dedications Online by 27 October!
Tara Wealth Vase Puja 2022
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Closed for Spring Break Over the Labour Day Public Holiday 19 - 24 October
Classes will resume on the evening of Tuesday, 25 October and the office, bookshop and Meditation Hall will reopen from Wednesday, 26 October.
25 October
7.30pm Grounds and Paths - FPMT BP Intermediate Level Class with Geshe Wangchen Registration required. Please note this class started in August 2021.
29 October
9am On-the-Day Donation Table Opens
9.20am Chai and Morning Treats Offered
10am Annual Tara Wealth Vase Puja
30 October
10am The Awakening Mind with Geshe Wangchen (All Levels)
Classes
Introductory & All Levels Classes
Shantideva Sundays
The Awakening Mind
with Geshe Wangchen
Sundays 10am
from 18 September (For approximately 12 classes)
Be inspired by Chapter 3 of Shantideva’s renowned A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, in which Shantideva introduces us to what it is like to fully accept and embody the awakening mind of bodhicitta.
This class is suitable for all levels.
Facility Fee $10 per session (Dharma Friend Monthly Contributors are free)
Intermediate & Advanced Classes
FPMT Basic Program Intermediate Series:
Grounds and Paths of Secret Mantra
with Geshe Wangchen
Tuesdays at 7.30pm
This class which began in August 2021 has been extended until the end of 2022.
Registration Required. Prerequisites apply.
FPMT Basic Program Intermediate Series:
BP Three Month Review
facilitated by Simon Harrison and FPMT Education Services
3 September - 26 November 2022
Now that DCI has completed its second round of the nine FPMT Basic Program (BP) subjects, all students who have newly completed these nine BP subjects have already been invited to participate in the FPMT BP Three Month Review and FPMT BP Final Exam.
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Long Life Puja and Gratitude Award Offered by Sera Je Monastery to Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Sera Je Monastery offered a beautiful long-life puja for Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche on 14 October 2022 at the Main Prayer Hall in the monastery, and presented Rinpoche with a special “Gratitude Award” for the many decades of support Rinpoche has shown to the monastery, including the 25+ year accomplishment of the Sera Je Food Fund, which is now a full endowment covering the monastery’s yearly food expenses for over 2,000 Sangha.
"In honoring our gratitude to Venerable Lama Zopa Rinpoche, for his immense contribution to Buddha Dharma through his global network of the esteemed FPMT, that has undertaken several social and cultural projects besides its spiritual mission benefiting several sections of societies & communities and devotees alike in the past several decades. Rinpoche has been the principal patron in funding the Sera Jey Monastery's food program since 1991, and for establishing the Food Fund in the year 2016. To mark this 30th year of Venerable Lama Zopa Rinpoche patronage to Sera Jey, on behalf of Sera Jey Monastery's Abbot, former Abbots, Tulkus, Geshes and member monks, we take the privilege to present a “Long-Life Prayer Offering Ceremony” and “Gratitude Award”."
Announcements
Photo of new prayer flags at DCI 2022
Spring Break Over the Labour Day Public Holiday
Please note that Dorje Chang Institute will close for our annual Spring Break from 19 - 24 October (over the Labour Day Public Holiday) with classes resuming on the evening of 25 October and the office reopening from 26 October. The Bookshop and Meditation Hall are also closed over the break.
Tara Wealth Vase Puja 2022
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Amitabha Hospice is Looking for a Donor Care Coordinator
Amitabha Hospice Service offers free practical home help and compassionate companionship for the elderly and the incurably ill of any age and their families with specially trained and supervised Caregivers throughout the greater Auckland area.
For full description and details of the Donor Care Coordinator position and how to apply visit:
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Program
18 October
7.30pm Grounds and Paths - FPMT BP Intermediate Level Class with Geshe Wangchen Registration required. Please note this class started in August 2021.
22 October
10am BP Three Month Review - FPMT BP Intermediate Level Series - This Saturday review session will be facilitated by Simon Harrison [Please note: participation in this review is only open by invitation to those who have completed the BP Intermediate Level Class Series on the nine core subjects of the FPMT BP Program.]
Closed for Spring Break Over the Labour Day Public Holiday 19 - 24 October
Classes will resume on the evening of Tuesday, 25 October and the office and bookshop will reopen from Wednesday, 26 October.
Classes
Introductory & All Levels Classes
Shantideva Sundays
The Awakening Mind
with Geshe Wangchen
Sundays 10am
from 18 September (For approximately 12 classes)
Be inspired by Chapter 3 of Shantideva’s renowned A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, in which Shantideva introduces us to what it is like to fully accept and embody the awakening mind of bodhicitta.
This class is suitable for all levels.
Facility Fee $10 per session (Dharma Friend Monthly Contributors are free)
Intermediate & Advanced Classes
FPMT Basic Program Intermediate Series:
Grounds and Paths of Secret Mantra
with Geshe Wangchen
Tuesdays at 7.30pm
This class which began in August 2021 has been extended until the end of 2022.
Registration Required. Prerequisites apply.
FPMT Basic Program Intermediate Series:
BP Three Month Review
facilitated by Simon Harrison and FPMT Education Services
3 September - 26 November 2022
Now that DCI has completed its second round of the nine FPMT Basic Program (BP) subjects, all students who have newly completed these nine BP subjects have already been invited to participate in the FPMT BP Three Month Review and FPMT BP Final Exam.
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Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche blessing a buffalo that he named Bodhichitta, Kopan Monastery, August 2021. Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.
Living with Loving-kindness
"If we are living with loving-kindness, with compassion, with the precious thought of enlightenment, then we are practicing the essence of the Mahayana. The whole purpose of whatever we do within Mahayana Buddhism is to develop the good heart, and so whatever we do that helps bring this about helps us on the path to enlightenment. Then all temporary and ultimate happiness and all realizations come easily, with hardly any effort at all."
- Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Excerpted from Rinpoche's book Bodhichitta: Practice for a Meaningful Life
Announcements
Tara Wealth Vase Puja 2022
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Photo of new prayer flags at DCI 2022
Spring Break Over the Labour Day Public Holiday
Please note that Dorje Chang Institute will close for our annual Spring Break from 19 - 24 October (over the Labour Day Public Holiday) with classes resuming on the evening of 25 October and the office reopening from 26 October. The Bookshop and Meditation Hall are also closed over the break.
Program
11 October
7.30pm Grounds and Paths - FPMT BP Intermediate Level Class with Geshe Wangchen Registration required. Please note this class started in August 2021.
14 October
7.30pm Medicine Buddha Puja
Sunday
16 October
10am The Awakening Mind with Geshe Wangchen (All Levels) We welcome you to attend in person or request recordings:
Classes
Introductory & All Levels Classes
Shantideva Sundays
The Awakening Mind
with Geshe Wangchen
Sundays 10am
from 18 September (For approximately 12 classes)
Be inspired by Chapter 3 of Shantideva’s renowned A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, in which Shantideva introduces us to what it is like to fully accept and embody the awakening mind of bodhicitta.
This class is suitable for all levels.
Facility Fee $10 per session (Dharma Friend Monthly Contributors are free)
Intermediate & Advanced Classes
FPMT Basic Program Intermediate Series:
Grounds and Paths of Secret Mantra
with Geshe Wangchen
Tuesdays at 7.30pm
This class which began in August 2021 has been extended until the end of 2022.
Registration Required. Prerequisites apply.
FPMT Basic Program Intermediate Series:
BP Three Month Review
facilitated by Simon Harrison and FPMT Education Services
3 September - 26 November 2022
Now that DCI has completed its second round of the nine FPMT Basic Program (BP) subjects, all students who have newly completed these nine BP subjects have already been invited to participate in the FPMT BP Three Month Review and FPMT BP Final Exam.
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DCI Sangha Attend Queen's Memorial
The DCI Sangha were invited to Auckland's Holy Trinity Cathedral to attend the Memorial Service for the late Queen Elizabeth II held on Monday, 26 September 2022.
The Queen's steadfast commitment to service as well as her care and compassion were some of her inspiring qualities that were celebrated at the service.
The procession, choir, pipe organ, bag pipes, beautiful stained glass church windows together with the warm interfaith welcome extended by multiple members of the Holy Trinity Cathedral's clergy and staff adorned the community prayer gathering.
Here are some photos from the evening.
Photos from DCI Sangha attending Queen's Memorial Service in Auckland
Photos From Other Recent DCI Community Outreach and Interfaith Events
Interfaith Visit from West Auckland Women's Interfaith Initiative
West Auckland Women's Interfaith Visit
In July ten women from West Auckland Women's Interfaith Initiative (WAWII) came to visit Ven. Carolyn and Ven. Gyalten at DCI to learn more about Buddhist faith and practice and also to enjoy a tour. It was a lovely visit.
School World Religions Class Visit
St. Dominic's College World Religions Field Trip
In August, over 100 students from St. Dominic's Catholic College visited Dorje Chang Institute as part of their World Religions Class. Geshe Wangchen gave an Introduction to Buddhism talk and Ven. Gyalten took them on a tour of the stupa, prayer wheel, bodhi tree and Buddha gardens. We were happy their school's annual visits were able to restart again.
Unitec talk Finding Inner Peace as a Way to Mental Health
Geshe-la's Talk at Unitec as part of Mental Health Awareness Week
On 28 September, Geshe Wangchen gave a talk at the Unitec Mt. Albert campus on "Finding Inner Peace as a Way to Mental Health" during the lunch-hour as part of Mental Health Awareness Week.
Program
3 October
7.30pm Tara Puja
4 October
7.30pm Grounds and Paths - FPMT BP Intermediate Level Class with Geshe Wangchen Registration required. Please note this class started in August 2021.
5 October
7.30pm Guru Puja with Tsog Offering
7 October
7.30pm Medicine Buddha Puja
Sunday
9 October
10am The Awakening Mind with Geshe Wangchen (All Levels) We welcome you to attend in person or request recordings:
Classes
Introductory & All Levels Classes
Shantideva Sundays!
The Awakening Mind
with Geshe Wangchen
Sundays 10am
from 18 September (For approximately 12 classes)
Be inspired by Chapter 3 of Shantideva’s renowned A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, in which Shantideva introduces us to what it is like to fully accept and embody the awakening mind of bodhicitta.
This class is suitable for all levels.
Facility Fee $10 per session (Dharma Friend Monthly Contributors are free)
Intermediate & Advanced Classes
FPMT Basic Program Intermediate Series:
Grounds and Paths of Secret Mantra
with Geshe Wangchen
Tuesdays at 7.30pm
This class which began in August 2021 has been extended until the end of 2022.
Registration Required. Prerequisites apply.
FPMT Basic Program Intermediate Series:
BP Three Month Review
facilitated by Simon Harrison and FPMT Education Services
3 September - 26 November 2022
Now that DCI has completed its second round of the nine FPMT Basic Program (BP) subjects, all students who have newly completed these nine BP subjects have already been invited to participate in the FPMT BP Three Month Review and FPMT BP Final Exam.
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Dorje Chang Institute for Wisdom Culture (DCI) is affiliated to the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT).
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