Empty of self,
full of others

Join a community of communities of beings. The FPMT Trainings offer meditators long-term support. It guides them in practising meditation and experiencing the nature of reality and bodhicitta.

In-Depth Meditation

This is an FPMT In-Depth Training, in which over four years the full range of traditional Buddhist methods is gradually introduced in ways suitable for a modern Western audience.

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Ngöndro Lamrim

This FPMT training generates the motivation that supports the development of calm abiding, special insight, and tantra. It cultivates the inner qualities that ease unskillful patterns of mind, clearing hindrances on the path and opening the way to deep transformation.

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Retreats

Meditative practice deepens through continuity in daily life and is sustained through regular periods of dedicated retreat. Ven. Gendun offers five yearly retreats, from foundational vipaśyanā and lojong to kriya tantra, śamatha, mahāmudrā.

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Events

Explore the upcoming events.
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08.09.2026

TOUR

Ven. Losang Gendun USA Tour 2026

Various

08.09.2026

TEA

Introduction to the FPMT Ngöndro Lamrim Training Course

Shantideva Buddhist Center NY, USA

18.09.2026

RET

Urban Retreat | Awakening the Heart: Method and Insight

Tibet House US

23.10.2026

RET

Week retreat | The Four Foundations of Mindfulness in the Mahāyāna

Vajrapani Institute, CA, USA

14.11.2026

TEA

City Weekend on Emptiness and Compassion

Maitreya Instituut Amsterdam, The Netherlands

30.11.2026

RET

Mahāmudrā: Practicing Being a Buddha

Maitreya Instituut Loenen, NL

26.12.2026

RET

The Breath of the Path Retreat

Institut Vajrayogini, France

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