Cover: Lord Maitreya, the future founding Buddha, the sixth in this world age of 1000 Buddhas. Photograph: Ueli Minder

September – October

News

• International News
  • Australia’s Great Stupa runs through Aboriginal songlines
  • His Holiness Sakya Trizin in Taiwan
  • His Holiness the Dalai Lama brings his vision of peace to Europe
  • Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and USA
  • Fifth Western Buddhist Monastic Conference
  • Maitreya Project
  • New management at FPMT International Office and Mandala’s new publisher
• News from FPMT centers & activities around the world

Features

• Education
  • A Day in the Life of Western Monks at Sera Je by Ven. Fedor Stacke
  • Advice from the Virtuous Friend, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
  • Fifty people successfully complete first five-year course of Basic Program in the Netherlands
• Auspicious Events – Receiving the Blessings of Chenrezig Himself
• Holy Beings – How St. Francis Lost Everything and Found His Way by Gretel Erlich
• Transformation – Reclaiming Life on Death Row by Lief Halvorsen
• Book – Journey to Realms beyond Death

Columns

• A Day in the Life of an FPMT Lama – Chime Lama
• Monks and Nuns of FPMT – Ven Thubten Shenphen
• The Passing Scene by Jonathan Landaw
• Home Truths by Adéle Hulse
• Vajra Brothers and Sisters Have a Say - Miffi Maximillion
• Advice from the Virtuous Friend – Lama Zopa Rinpoche says that, “if your intention is towards the cessation of delusion and karma, then even if the whole world talks badly about you and things of you negatively, you get so much peace and inner satisfaction.”
• Other Lamas – Geshe Acharya Thubten Loden
• The Wisdom of Lama Yeshe – ‘Looking for the hungry I’ Lama Yeshe says that “The sense of who we are is a complete hallucination, having nothing whatsoever to do with reality.”
• Lama Ösel’s News by Lama Tenzin Ösel

And So Forth

• Communication
• Getting the Essence
• Obituary
• New Centers
• Books
• People
• FPMT Resources