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Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition
The FPMT is an organization devoted to preserving and spreading Mahayana Buddhism worldwide by creating opportunities to listen, reflect, meditate, practice and actualize the unmistaken teachings of the Buddha and based on that experience spreading the Dharma to sentient beings. We provide 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 and service. We are committed to creating harmonious environments and helping all beings develop their full potential of infinite wisdom and compassion. Our organization is based on the Buddhist tradition of Lama Tsongkhapa of Tibet as taught to us by our founders Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche.
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Die Stiftung zur Erhaltung der Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) ist eine Organisation, die sich weltweit für die Erhaltung und Verbreitung des Mahayana-Buddhismus einsetzt, indem sie Möglichkeiten schafft, den makellosen Lehren des Buddha zuzuhören, über sie zur reflektieren und zu meditieren und auf der Grundlage dieser Erfahrung das Dharma unter den Lebewesen zu verbreiten.
Wir bieten integrierte Schulungswege an, durch denen der Geist und das Herz der Menschen in ihr höchstes Potential verwandelt werden zum Wohl der anderen – inspiriert durch eine Haltung der universellen Verantwortung und dem Wunsch zu dienen. Wir haben uns verpflichtet, harmonische Umgebungen zu schaffen und allen Wesen zu helfen, ihr volles Potenzial unendlicher Weisheit und grenzenlosen Mitgefühls zu verwirklichen.
Unsere Organisation basiert auf der buddhistischen Tradition von Lama Tsongkhapa von Tibet, so wie sie uns von unseren Gründern Lama Thubten Yeshe und Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche gelehrt wird.
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La Fundación para la preservación de la tradición Mahayana (FPMT) es una organización que se dedica a preservar y difundir el budismo Mahayana en todo el mundo, creando oportunidades para escuchar, reflexionar, meditar, practicar y actualizar las enseñanzas inconfundibles de Buda y en base a esa experiencia difundir el Dharma a los seres.
Proporcionamos una educación integrada a través de la cual las mentes y los corazones de las personas se pueden transformar en su mayor potencial para el beneficio de los demás, inspirados por una actitud de responsabilidad y servicio universales. Estamos comprometidos a crear ambientes armoniosos y ayudar a todos los seres a desarrollar todo su potencial de infinita sabiduría y compasión.
Nuestra organización se basa en la tradición budista de Lama Tsongkhapa del Tíbet como nos lo enseñaron nuestros fundadores Lama Thubten Yeshe y Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
A continuación puede ver una lista de los centros y sus páginas web en su lengua preferida.
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L’organisation de la FPMT a pour vocation la préservation et la diffusion du bouddhisme du mahayana dans le monde entier. Elle offre l’opportunité d’écouter, de réfléchir, de méditer, de pratiquer et de réaliser les enseignements excellents du Bouddha, pour ensuite transmettre le Dharma à tous les êtres. Nous proposons une formation intégrée grâce à laquelle le cœur et l’esprit de chacun peuvent accomplir leur potentiel le plus élevé pour le bien d’autrui, inspirés par le sens du service et une responsabilité universelle. Nous nous engageons à créer un environnement harmonieux et à aider tous les êtres à épanouir leur potentiel illimité de compassion et de sagesse. Notre organisation s’appuie sur la tradition guéloukpa de Lama Tsongkhapa du Tibet, telle qu’elle a été enseignée par nos fondateurs Lama Thoubtèn Yéshé et Lama Zopa Rinpoché.
Visitez le site de notre Editions Mahayana pour les traductions, conseils et nouvelles du Bureau international en français.
Voici une liste de centres et de leurs sites dans votre langue préférée
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L’FPMT è un organizzazione il cui scopo è preservare e diffondere il Buddhismo Mahayana nel mondo, creando occasioni di ascolto, riflessione, meditazione e pratica dei perfetti insegnamenti del Buddha, al fine di attualizzare e diffondere il Dharma fra tutti gli esseri senzienti.
Offriamo un’educazione integrata, che può trasformare la mente e i cuori delle persone nel loro massimo potenziale, per il beneficio di tutti gli esseri, ispirati da un’attitudine di responsabilità universale e di servizio.
Il nostro obiettivo è quello di creare contesti armoniosi e aiutare tutti gli esseri a sviluppare in modo completo le proprie potenzialità di infinita saggezza e compassione.
La nostra organizzazione si basa sulla tradizione buddhista di Lama Tsongkhapa del Tibet, così come ci è stata insegnata dai nostri fondatori Lama Thubten Yeshe e Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Di seguito potete trovare un elenco dei centri e dei loro siti nella lingua da voi prescelta.
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“护持大乘法脉基金会”( 英文简称:FPMT。全名:Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition) 是一个致力于护持和弘扬大乘佛法的国际佛教组织。我们提供听闻,思维,禅修,修行和实证佛陀无误教法的机会,以便让一切众生都能够享受佛法的指引和滋润。
我们全力创造和谐融洽的环境, 为人们提供解行并重的完整佛法教育,以便启发内在的环宇悲心及责任心,并开发内心所蕴藏的巨大潜能 — 无限的智慧与悲心 — 以便利益和服务一切有情。
FPMT的创办人是图腾耶喜喇嘛和喇嘛梭巴仁波切。我们所修习的是由两位上师所教导的,西藏喀巴大师的佛法传承。
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護持大乘法脈基金會”( 英文簡稱:FPMT。全名:Found
ation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition ) 是一個致力於護持和弘揚大乘佛法的國際佛教組織。我們提供聽聞, 思維,禪修,修行和實證佛陀無誤教法的機會,以便讓一切眾生都能 夠享受佛法的指引和滋潤。 我們全力創造和諧融洽的環境,
為人們提供解行並重的完整佛法教育,以便啟發內在的環宇悲心及責 任心,並開發內心所蘊藏的巨大潛能 — 無限的智慧與悲心 – – 以便利益和服務一切有情。 FPMT的創辦人是圖騰耶喜喇嘛和喇嘛梭巴仁波切。
我們所修習的是由兩位上師所教導的,西藏喀巴大師的佛法傳承。 察看道场信息:
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When I talk of being detached, what I mean is to be simpler, more easy-going. Detachment doesn’t mean totally renouncing everything. It means that you loosen your grip and be more relaxed.
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The Foundation Store is FPMT’s online shop and features a vast selection of Buddhist study and practice materials written or recommended by our lineage gurus. These items include homestudy programs, prayers and practices in PDF or eBook format, materials for children, and other resources to support practitioners.
Items displayed in the shop are made available for Dharma practice and educational purposes, and never for the purpose of profiting from their sale. Please read FPMT Foundation Store Policy Regarding Dharma Items for more information.
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Death and Dying: Practices and Resources
Practices and Advice | Handbook | Request for Prayers and Services | Books and Study Programs | Obituaries
Practices and Advice
Below you can find the most essential practices recommended by Lama Zopa Rinpoche for dying and deceased, additional practices, books, advice on how to prepare to one’s own and loved ones’ death.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche recommends various practices to perform when someone is dying or has died. However, the most essential practices to do are:
- The Array of Sukhavati Pure Land: A Concise Mahayana Sutra | PDF | Audio
This sutra can be recited three times and then tap the sutra on the head of the dying person three times - The Eight Prayers | PDF, which includes King of Prayers | PDF | Audio
A collection of prayers which is commonly recited in the gelug monastic communities for the recently deceased - Helping Yourself and Others Die Happily: Instructions and Practices for the Time of Death | PDF
- Liberation Tools to Help the Dying and Deceased | PDF
- Medicine Buddha Practices
- Rinchen Tsugtor Chen: Holy Name and Commentary | PDF | Audio
During the 2010 Light of the Path retreat, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advised that this verse is the very first thing to recite in a person or animal’s ear when they are dying or dead. - Recite OṂ MAṆI PADME HỤ̄M and Request to Chenrezig | PDF | Audio
- Additional Practices to Benefit the Deceased: Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche | PDF
- Amitabha Pure Land Prayers | PDF | Audio
- Benefits of Medicine Buddha Mantra and Practice by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- Blessing Medicine
- Holy Objects to Place on the Body at the Time of Death | PDF
- The Jangwa Practice Associated with the Medicine Guru [Buddha] Entitled Freeing the Wretched from the Chasm | PDF
- Liberation Card for a Dying Person | Chinese | English | French | Spanish
- Liberation Cloth – to place on the body of the dying and deceased | PDF
- Mantras to place on the body of someone who is dying or has died | PDF
- Nyung Na: The Means of Achievement of the Eleven-Face Great Compassionate One | PDF
- Recitations for the Time of Death | Audio
- Recitations for Alleviating Pain | Audio
- Sur Ritual | PDF
- Sur – Aroma Charity for Spirits | German | Spanish
Mantras
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- Individual (some of these mantras are contained in the “Collections” above):
- Kunrig Mantra | PDF | Audio
- Lotus Pinnacle of Amoghapasha Mantra | PDF | Audio
- Mantra from the Sutra of Great Liberation | PDF | Audio
- Milarepa Mantra | Audio
- Mitrugpa Mantra | PDF | Audio
- Namgyalma mantras | PDF | Audio | Video | Card | Benefits
- Sarvanivaranaviskhambhin – The Exalted Zung Called “Eliminating Obscurations”
Contains the mantra to be recited every day to not have pain at the time of death | PDF
- Practicing the Five Powers Near the Time of Death – Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s commentary on integrating the five powers into one lifetime as the best preparation for the happiest death (also available in Heart Practices for Death and Dying)
- Advice to a Person Who Is Dying
- How to Think When Death Comes New! Dec 2023
- Rejoice before Dying
- Making preparations at the place where a person is dying
- How to Make Your Possessions Most Meaningful at the Time of Death – In this PDF document, which was created as an insert for the book Heart Advice for Death and Dying, Lama Zopa Rinpoche sets out how to use our money so as to create merit that will bring us happiness and good conditions for Dharma practice in future lives.
Books by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- Heart Advice for Death and Dying – This book contains essential advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche for preparing for the time of death and leading a fulfilling life.
- Wholesome Fear: Transforming Your Anxiety About Impermanence and Death – A condensed and edited version of the book Heart Advice for Death and Dying by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
*Additional information and advice is available to FPMT centers, projects, and services in the Death and Dying Resources section of the FPMT Affiliates Area.
A Practical Handbook by Lama Zopa Rinpoche: “How to Face Death without Fear”
How to Face Death without Fear: A Handbook by Lama Zopa Rinpoche is a well-structured book by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and edited by Ven. Robina Courtin, published by Wisdom Publications, that explains how to help our loved ones, including animals, before, during, and after death. Below is information about how to obtain various items and practices recommended by Rinpoche in the book: the numbers in brackets refer to the relevant practices, all listed in numerical order in Part Six.
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Show the Mitrukpa Mantra [2]
The mantra of Mitrukpa (Sanskrit: Akshobhya) is included in Liberation Card for Dying Person PDF.
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Bless the Body with a Text [5]
There is a very powerful text, the benefits of which are unbelievable, called Natural Liberation of the Aggregates: Liberation Through Wearing According to the Profound Dharma of the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities’ Natural Liberation of the Mind (Zhi Thro).
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Bless Your Loved One’s Body with Written Mantras [58]
A small version of eleven mantras is in Powerful Mantras for the Body at Death Time PDF (Tibetan).
A Liberation Cloth with mantras on it is available from FPMT centers.
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Bless the Body with a Stupa [6]
There is a stupa in the Liberation Tools Set.
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Meditate Using Stupas [37]
There is a stupa in the Liberation Tools Set.
- Offer a Mani Pill from His Holiness the Dalai Lama [56]
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Put Blessed Substances on Your Loved One’s Crown [61]
There is a phowa pill in the Liberation Tools Set.
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Recite the Namgyalma Mantra [25]
Namgyalma mantras are available from the Foundation Store.
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Sponsor Monasteries, Dharma Centers, or Friends to Perform Practices Such as Medicine Buddha [59]
Information about where to have prayers and pujas done can be found on Request for Prayers and Services.
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Recite Calling the Guru from Afar or the Guru Puja [72]
The practice of Guru Puja is available from the Foundation Store.
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Do a Retreat, such as a Nyungné Fasting Retreat [73]
The practice of Nyunge is available from the Foundation Store.
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Consult a Tibetan Astrologer [76]
Information about how to locate a Tibetan astrologer is available from Tibetan Medical and Astro Institute.
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Bless the Ashes, Hair, Nails, and So Forth of Your Loved One with Jangwa [78]
The practice of jangwa and information about centers that can bless the ashes of your loved ones with jangwa are available from Request for Prayers and Services.
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Make the Offering of Sur [82]
The practice of sur is available from the Foundation Store.
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Offer Money on Behalf of Your Loved One [85]
Information about charities is available from FPMT’s Charitable Projects.
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Sponsor Dharma Activities with Your Loved One’s Money [86]
Information about Dharma activities you can support with your loved one’s money is available from Education and Preservation Fund and Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.
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Make Holy Objects on Behalf of Your Loved Ones [87]
Information about where to have holy objects made is available from Nalanda Monstery’s Buddhist-Art Workshop and Chenrezig Institute’s Art Studio.
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List of FPMT hospice services at the back
A list of FPMT hospice services is available from the Community Services in the FPMT.
Request for Prayers and Services
Below you can find resources on prayers for sick and dead, pujas and prayers performed by the Sangha of Kopan Monastery, jangwa ritual performed by qualified Sangha members, and end of life care offered by the FPMT hospice services.
- In order to request prayers for someone who is sick please email and mention the sick person’s full name. The Sangha at Rinpoche’s house will dedicate for them during regular animal liberation practices and in Nalanda Monastery when making long life tsa-tsas daily.
- If you would like to make a donation for this service please go to the Animal Liberation Fund and Stupa Fund.
- For advice on what are the best practices you can do at this time, Lama Zopa Rinpoche always recommends Medicine Buddha practice and Using Sickness for the Path.
You can request prayers for people who have passed away in the past 49 days. The names of people who have recently passed away are given to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, FPMT sangha communities, and individual Buddhist practitioners with a request for their prayers. Students at Nalanda Monastery, France will also dedicate a stupa tsa tsa for them. You can also subscribe to the prayer list so that you can contribute your own prayers to those who have died in the past 49 days.
Kopan Monastery offers free prayer services as well as opportunities to sponsor pujas for those who are sick, dying, or have passed away.
The following FPMT centers offer jangwa puja, a purification ritual to benefit the deceased, please contact them directly for more information:
- Amitabha Buddhist Centre Singapore
- Chokyi Gyaltsen Center Penang, Malaysia
- Dorje Chang Institute Auckland, New Zealand
- Jinsiu Farlin Taipei, Taiwan
- Kopan Monastery Kathmandu, Nepal
- Land of Medicine Buddha Soquel, USA
- Losang Dragpa Centre Selangor, Malaysia
- Potowa Center Tangerang, Indonesia
- Rinchen Jangsem Ling Retreat Centre Triang, Malaysia
There are also many FPMT hospice services that help provide end of life care for those in need.
Books and Study Programs
Below you can find further resources, books and FPMT study programs, for learning how to prepare for your own death and how to help others who are dying.
- Life, Death and After Death – Understand the death process and train on how to deal with it so that when the time of crisis arrives you will know what is going on.
- Meeting Death with Wisdom: A Mandala Ebook on Death & Dying – This is a collection of teachings, advice, stories, and interviews drawn from Mandala magazine’s archive that takes a look at how both high lamas and ordinary students have experienced the death and dying process.
- Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying – An account of a historic dialogue between leading Western scientists and the Dalai Lama revolving around three key moments of consciousness—sleep, dreams, and death.
- Mind of Clear Light: Advice on Living Well and Dying Consciously – His Holiness the Dalai Lama draws from a wide range of traditions and beliefs to explore the stages we all go through when we die.
- Death, Intermediate State, and Rebirth in Tibetan Buddhism unfolds in detail the complex Tibetan Buddhist system of subtle physiology, providing a complete exposition of the channels, drops, and winds which serve as foundations for consciousness.
FPMT Education Programs
- Heart Advice for Death and Dying
An FPMT introductory course available online and in some FPMT centers. The course provides practical instructions for the time of death to anyone who is interested in learning about death and dying from the Tibetan Buddhist perspective. - Discovering Buddhism, Module 5. Death and Rebirth
An FPMT foundational-level course available online and in many centers. It explores life, death, and rebirth and the nature of mind. Students learn to use the fear of death to overcome the fear of death. They discover how to use the certainty and imminence of death to enhance their quality of life.
Obituaries
We invite you to visit our Obituaries page to read obituaries of teachers and community members. You can also submit an obituary for someone in the FPMT community that has passed away recently.
Visit our Distributing FPMT Education Materials page for information about our distributing, licensing and copyright guidelines.
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