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.

Start training

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.

Start training

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.

Start training

Events

Explore the upcoming events.
Follow the calendar and register with your centre.

18.09.2026

RET

Urban Retreat | Awakening the Heart: Method and Insight

Tibet House US

17.10.2026

RET

Weekend Retreat | The Highway of the Conquerors: An Introduction to Mahāmudrā

Thubten Norbu Ling, Santa Fe, USA

23.10.2026

RET

Week Retreat | The Four Foundations of Mindfulness in the Mahāyāna

Vajrapani Institute, CA, USA

06.11.2026

RET

Weekend Retreat | Clearing the Ground: Karma, Mind, and the Art of Dying Well

Land of Medicine Buddha, CA, USA

14.11.2026

TEA

City Weekend on Emptiness and Compassion

Maitreya Instituut Amsterdam, The Netherlands

26.12.2026

RET

The Breath of the Path Retreat

Institut Vajrayogini, France

Follow us
@thebuddhaproject.org

Discover the latest The Buddha Project social media posts.