Charitable Project Impact in 2025

Students at Gaden Jangtse School.
We wanted to highlight from this year’s Annual Review, the extensive work undertaken in 2025 through FPMT’s Charitable Projects continued to bring compassion into action by benefiting beings in profoundly meaningful ways.
In 2025, US$2,708,905 was offered to a wide range of initiatives, including care for monks and nuns, education for children and young monastics, healthcare and essential aid for the elderly and disadvantaged, animal liberation, the creation of holy objects, and the sponsorship of prayers and practices for the peace and happiness of all beings.
Guided by the compassionate vision of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, these projects transform generosity into tangible benefits: alleviating suffering, preserving the Buddhadharma, and creating vast merit for sentient beings worldwide.
Please take a moment to rejoice in what we have accomplished together in 2025:

Support was offered to eight schools across Nepal and India, reaching over 1,400 children and young monastics in some of the most remote and underserved communities in the world. By covering nutritious meals, teacher salaries, learning materials, boarding facilities, and values-based education rooted in Buddhist principles. Of the eight schools supported, four are directly connected to FPMT, either situated at an FPMT center or linked to Kopan Monastery, so these grants also shoulder expenses that would otherwise fall to Kopan.
Nine elderly care homes received grants helping 273 elders with food, accommodation, medical care, and facility improvements for some of the most vulnerable members in the community. This work continues to reflect the compassion of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and this year’s support was offered in honor of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday, who has been a lifelong source of refuge for all these Tibetan elders.

Phuntsokling elderly home resident with local children.

Essential support was offered to seven essential health initiatives in India, Nepal, and Mongolia, reaching nearly 44,000 individuals — children, the elderly, the sick, and the extremely poor. From mobile clinics in remote villages to soup kitchens in Mongolia. This work embodied the Buddhist commitment to alleviating suffering wherever it is found. Two of them were based at FPMT centers, allowing the Social Services Fund to support these vital projects.
The Community Support Fund awarded grants to nine FPMT Dharma projects worldwide. From retreat centers in Vermont and California to study groups in Romania and Spain, these grants reflect our commitment to keeping Dharma accessible within our FPMT family around the world, offering direct and tangible support.
Supporting monks and nuns is at the heart of FPMT’s mission — without the Sangha, the Buddhadharma cannot be preserved and passed on and in 2025 twelve grants were offered reaching over 1,500 monastics across different traditions and regions, ensuring that Sangha could live, study, and practice with stability and dignity. Four of the twelve grants went directly to FPMT Sangha communities, reflecting the organization’s commitment to caring for our own monastics. The year’s most extraordinary milestone was the completion of the Gyudmed Food Fund endowment a US$2.1 million endowment for Gyudmed Tantric Monastery, that ensures sustainable food support for over 600 monks in perpetuity.
Throughout the year prayers and practices were performed by ordained Sangha on the most powerful days of the Buddhist calendar, when merits are magnified, for the healing, success, and removal of obstacles for all beings — especially those within the FPMT organization and our kind donors.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche held a profound wish for FPMT to build as many holy objects as possible around the world — so that countless beings can purify negative karma and generate merit, reflecting this supported ten projects supporting holy objects. Five of these projects were at FPMT centers, directly supporting the wider FPMT community.

Stupa of Complete Victory at Kopan Monastery progress, chaSeptember 2025. Photo by Tenzin Tsultrim.

Supporting our lamas is a core priority for FPMT, through contributions to Long life Pujas for His Holiness the Dalai Lama, fulfilling the offerings that Lama Zopa Rinpoche wished to make to all his Gurus and for the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche we supported pujas and sacred objects dedicated to Rinpoche’s swift return.
We offered direct support to preserve and share the profound teachings of the Mahayana tradition – nearly all the grants went directly to FPMT projects and centers. These contributions supported scholarships, translation, publication, teacher development, and multimedia initiatives, making the Dharma accessible for people of all cultures and generations.
Reflecting Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s vision of loving-kindness and compassion for all living beings, animals were rescued from suffering and offered the opportunity to receive imprints of the Dharma through blessings, hearing mantras or going around holy objects. In 2025, we supported four FPMT center initiatives spanning Washington State, Mongolia, Nepal, and France.

Please take a moment to rejoice in these meaningful activities benefitting all beings and thank you to all the support enabling these meaningful activities.

Please read FPMT International Office’s 2025 Annual Review and enjoy our extensive photo gallery.
Please learn more about all of our FPMT Charitable Projects that are working to build a more compassionate world.