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The FPMT is devoted to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation, and community service.

The organization provides integrated education through which people's minds and hearts can be transformed into their highest potential for the benefit of others, inspired by an attitude of universal responsibility.

The organization is based on the Buddhist tradition of Lama Tsong Khapa of Tibet as taught to us by the founder Lama Thubten Yeshe and spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche was born in 1946 in Thami, in the Mount Everest region of Nepal, not far from the Lawudo cave where his predecessor had meditated for the last 20 years of his life.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the Spiritual Director of the Foundation and oversees all of its activities.

About Us
Ganden Yiga Chozin Meditation & Retreat Centre was started in 1993 to provide a peaceful place where the Tibetan Buddhist teachings could be presented, studied and meditated upon.

The centre is part of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a worldwide organisation of over 100 Buddhist centres and activities directed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche