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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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Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Please find below collected advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on a number of topics. This page is updated regularly.
Featured Advice
Retreat of a Lifetime: Video of Lama Zopa Rinpoche from 2011 Australia Retreat
Advice By Topic
Find teachings and advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on specific topics below.
- Helping Stray Dogs: A Thank You Letter from Rinpoche (posted February 20, 2017)
- How to Benefit Animals
- How to Benefit Insects and Other Small Beings (posted January 4, 2017)
- Request to stop animal sacrifice in Nepal (November 2009)
- Liberating Animals Practice
- Sign ‘Please Don’t Hunt’
- Prayers and Practices to Do for Turkeys at Thanksgiving (updated November 2021)
For more advice from Rinpoche on this subject in the form of short talks and letters, please go to Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
- Advice for FPMT Sangha
- Benefit of Centers
- Benefits of Study Groups and Centers
- Can’t Think Like a Normal Organization
- Centers Must Help Their Own Students
- Collect Merit So Easily at the Center
- Dharma Centers – Why Do They Exist
- Dharma is Needed for the Happiness of Sentient Beings
- Dragons at the Doors of Centers
- FPMT Organization – How it Started
- FPMT Education – Essence of
- FPMT Education and Organization
- FPMT Helps at the Time of Death
- Gong to Call All Buddhas & Bodhisattvas
Drawing of Gong » - Head of the FPMT Organization, The (posted September 4, 2018)
- How Fortunate and Happy We Are!
- How to Bless Tea Sold at a Center (posted January 30, 2017)
- How to Practice: Advice to a Study Group (condensed advice for each of us on how to practice for our entire lives)
- Incredible Benefit Offered by FPMT Centers, Projects and Services
- ‘In the Centers, Everything That Is Done Is for Sentient Beings’ (posted September 20, 2017)
- Need for Organization
- Remembering the Kindness Prayer
Rinpoche would like this prayer used throughout the organization. The prayer should be done following the Prayer that Spontaneously Fulfills All Wishes (Tong nyi nying je ….) at the end of dedication prayers.
Prayers for His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Tibet (for those without Prayer Books) - The Role of the Center and Study Group in Providing a Dharma Education
- The Proper Motivation for Dharma Centers (posted September 28, 2018)
- The Purpose of the Center Building
- Sangha Are the Heroes
- Sur Offering
- Why We Need Dharma and Dharma Centers
- Why We Need Dharma Centers!
- Wish for Us to Achieve Realizations
For more advice from Rinpoche on Centers and the FPMT Organization in the form of short talks and letters, please go to Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.
For more advice from Rinpoche on this subject in the form of short talks and letters, please go to Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive – “Death and Transitions” and Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive – “Sickness and Health”.
- Benefits of Having Many Holy Objects
- Benefits of the Prayer Wheel
- Benefits of Offering Gold to Statues
- Display Lama Atisha’s Stupa (added August 2018)
- Eight Auspicious Symbols
- Essential Mantras for Holy Objects
- How to Use a Stupa to Bring You to Enlightenment (posted April 1, 2019)
- Holy Relics
- Mantras for Microfilm
- Padmasambhava statue: Prayer for inviting statue to new home
- Prayer Wheel (a card for display)
- Sixteen Arhats, Benefits of Making Offerings and Requests to
- Stupas – Benefits of Offering to
- Why Holy Objects are Precious and Wish-fulfilling
“Life Practice Advice” consists of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s advice to students who consulted him on what to do as daily practices and as preliminary practices. Rinpoche referred to this advice as “Life Practices.” These practices comprise Essential Daily Practices that include lamrim meditation, and Life Preliminary Practices that consist of the nine standard Gelug preliminary practices and eight additional practices. Find Rinpoche’s advice and practice materials on the web page Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Life Practice Advice.
- Advice for Severe Weather Conditions
- Disasters of the Elements, letter from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, 2002
- Earthquake and Tsunami: to control, and for all affected
- Fire: Practices and Advice to Dispel Fires (links to practices updated January 2020)
This advice is also for tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, and any of those dangers from water, air, earth, and fire. - Fire: Advice on California Wildfires (posted October 18, 2017)
- Heat: Advice on Dealing with Intensely Hot Conditions (posted July 2, 2021)
- Radiation: Practices for Protection
- Rain: How to Stop
For more advice from Rinpoche on this subject in the form of short talks and letters, please go to Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.
- Advice for a New Director
- Annual Review 2020: Advice From Our Spiritual Director Lama Zopa Rinpoche (posted April 14, 2021)
- Attitude for Offering Service
- Attitude for Our Work
- Benefits of Offering Service To the Guru (July 2014; teaching on video)
- Benefits of Serving a Dharma Center (posted October 17, 2016)
- Benefits of Serving the Guru (posted April 5, 2019)
- Benefits of Working at a Dharma Center (posted April 29, 2019)
- Benefits of Working for Dharma Centers
- Benefit of Working for the Center – Wow!
- Benefits of Working for the Guru
- Creating Merit for the Center, Project or Service
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Directors – How to Practice
- How to Rejoice about Hardships Borne Working for the Center and Thanks
- How to Run a Dharma Organization
- Lama Zopa’s Letter to New Center Director and Study Group Coordinator (given November 5, 2009)
- Message to Directors
- Overwhelmed? Advice
- Pay Attention to Geshes and Visitors
- Qualities of a Leader
- Service as a Path to Enlightenment
- Service is the Best Offering, and Thanks
- Successful Service due to Guru Devotion
- Talking on the Phone – How to Make it Beneficial
- Thank you for Volunteering
- The Real Professional (excerpt from How to Be a Real Professional)
- Volunteers – Importance of and Thanks to
- Work at the Center so Important and Beneficial
- Advice for Generating Peace in the World (posted September 2, 2022)
- Advice specifically for Iraq and “for people who desire peace for themselves and for others” (given June 28, 2004)
- Avoid Negative Rejoicing (given after September 11, 2001)
- The Best Way to Live Your Life (posted June 28, 2019)
- For Peace and Harmony in Israel and Palestine (given July 2014, updated November 2014)
- For World Peace (given after September 11, 2001)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Request for Prayers After the US Election (posted November 16, 2016)
- Practices to Benefit the Whole Country
- Practices for Ukraine (posted February 25, 2022)
- Recite the Golden Light Sutra for peace in the world (given May 7, 2007)
- Support His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Tibet (given March 27, 2008)
- Treat Others Peacefully, Be a Good Example for the World (posted April 26, 2019)
- Attitude to Have After Being Robbed
- Avoid the Ten Non-Virtues
- Benefits of Knowing How to Cook
- Bodhisattva Attitude: How to Dedicate Your Life to Others
- Bodhichitta Mindfulness
- Breaking Up with a Partner, Advice While (posted March 11, 2016)
- Buddhist Marriage Ceremonies
- Change has to Come From the Mind
- Check Carefully When Meditating on Emptiness (posted March 4, 2019)
- Chenrezig Practice and Mantra
- Collecting Merits and Purification Is First (posted March 18, 2019)
- Coming to a Kopan Course Is the Most Important Education of Your Life (posted October 8, 2018)
- Compassion is of the Utmost Need – Ten frame-ready quotes on compassion
- Cooking – How to Use in the Path
- Daily Practice Advice
- Daily Taking and Giving
- Depression: How to Overcome (given September 2015)
- Depression: No Time For As So Much to Rejoice About
- Dharma is Needed for the Happiness of Sentient Beings
- Dharma Essential for Happiness
- Dharma Protector Explanation (April 2021)
- Discovering Dharma
- Don’t Waste your Perfect Human Rebirth
- Driving – The Wheel of Sharp Weapons of My Negative Karma When Driving
- Eliminating Obstacles (Guru Rinpoche prayer)
- Essential Daily Practice Advice
- Financial Anxieties – Put in Perspective
- ‘The Friend Who Is Angry Can Be the Most Kind Person in Your Life’ (posted July 17, 2017)
- Heart Advice of Achos Rinpoche, with commentary from Rinpoche (letter version and A4 version)
- Hell or Enlightenment Depends on Your Mind
- How a True Dharma Practitioner Bears Hardship (posted October 19, 2018)
- How to Be a Real Professional
- How to Bless Food with OM AH HUM (posted March 11, 2015)
- How to Find a Guru (posted February 25, 2019)
- How to Help Turkeys on Thanksgiving (posted November 27, 2019)
- How to Make your Life Most Beneficial for Sentient Beings, Even Your Speech (posted September 6, 2016; blog version, posted September 7, 2016)
- How to Think During Relationship Problems (posted August 3, 2015)
- How to Think When Doing a Puja (posted March 8, 2019)
- Importance of Meditation
- Importance of Studying and Applying Lamrim in Daily Life (posted July 12, 2019)
- Keep Your Wisdom in the Pure Path (posted June 4, 2018)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche Offers Thanks for Practices for Tibet and Fulfilling the Wishes of His Holiness the Dalai Lama (posted August 31, 2018)
- Learning about Dharma: Give Trillions of Dollars for
- Living with Bodhichitta Is the Happiest Life (posted June 1, 2019)
- Merit Multiplying Days, Advice for (posted April 12, 2019)
- Morality Is the Support and Foundation for All Good Qualities
- Most Important for Success
- New Students and Prisoners
- On Feeling Loved (posted March 29, 2017)
- Oral Transmission of Verses for the Eight Auspicious Noble Ones to Bring Success (posted March 30, 2020)
- Ordinary Life Actions – Make Them Meaningful
- Pacifying the Date of Cutting Hair
- Parenting – Advice for Parents
- Patience – need for and benefit of
- Patience – We Must Practice Patience (from FPMT Annual Review 2022)
- Pilgrimage, How to Go On
- Pithy Advice
- Plan to Practice Never Seems to Happen (posted March 18, 2015)
- Practices to Do for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Health and Long Life
- Prayer Book Updates: Essential Buddhist Prayers Volumes 1 & 2 and Retreat Prayer Book Updates
- Prayers after an Election (posted November 16, 2016)
- Prison Is the Best Opportunity (posted March 21, 2016)
- Prostrations and Benefiting People You’ve Killed (posted May 28, 2015)
- Purifying Your Forefathers’ Killing Karma (posted June 1, 2015)
- ‘Put All the Blame to One’ (posted August 9, 2017)
- Real Chöd Practice
- Reasons to Practice Dharma
- Recognize All the Wrong Views and See Things as a Hallucination (posted May 26, 2016)
- ‘The Remedy Is to Think of Reincarnation’ (advice on suicide, posted July 28, 2015)
- In Response to Appreciation after Following Rinpoche’s Advice
- Studying and Making Life Dharma
- Taking Care of Sentient Beings is the Most Meaningful Life
- Teeth, How to Think While Brushing (posted January 15, 2018)
- The Best Way to Develop Bodhichitta (posted March 25, 2019)
- The Main Thing Now Is Attainment (posted May 26, 2015)
- The Meaning of Defective View (posted March 11, 2019)
- The True Meaning of the Guru (posted November 30, 2018)
- There Is No Liberation without the Guru, Even with All the Qualities Completed (posted April 8, 2019)
- Whatever Appearances We See are the Result of Past Karma (posted August 8, 2019)
- What Brings the Happiest Life
- What to Focus On, for Experienced Students (given June 2, 2018)
- What Students Need to Do (given 2010)
“Within the FPMT organization we are doing well studying the words. Now students need to experience the lam-rim.” - You Have So Much to Rejoice About in This Life (posted July 31, 2015)
- Your Death Can Happen at Any Time (posted October 1, 2018)
For more advice from Rinpoche on this subject in the form of short talks and letters, please go to Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
- Best practices to do: Lama Zopa Rinpoche always recommends Medicine Buddha practice and Using Sickness for the Path
- Bird Flu (Nov 2005)
- ‘By Having This Sickness I Can Practice Pure Dharma’ (posted September 18, 2017)
- Cancer and Chemotherapy, Advice for (posted March 25, 2016)
- Contagious Diseases, Practices to Do
- Coronavirus, Protection from (updated March 18, 2020)
- Counteract the SARS virus
- How to Enjoy Sufferings or Obstacles (posted February 8, 2022)
- How to Think about Caring for the Sick (posted February 22, 2017)
- How to Think about Obstacles and Look at Everything as Positive (posted October 4, 2022)
- Protection from from Cancer, Swine Flu As Well As New Diseases
- Your Broken Arm Is Another Form of Teaching (posted April 1, 2016)
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice BookFor more advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on a wide range of topics in the form of short talks and letters go to the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive. |
*Important to Note
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these offerings of advice out of compassion in response to the requests of specific individuals for specific situations. All of the names have been changed to respect each individual's privacy. We make these offerings of advice available to give an idea of different ways to think and practice in different situations. They are provided for informational purposes only; apply them at your own discretion. We do not guarantee that these practices will help you in your specific case and can’t be held responsible if they do not bring the result you expect.
Sometimes people who don’t have a qualified teacher to whom they can turn to have found that when following these suggestions for practice, it has been helpful. Rinpoche said that sometimes people see a piece of advice and have a strong feeling to try it and that this is the Buddha’s action guiding the person toward the correct method to help them. We encourage you to consult a qualified teacher before applying the advice.
The health (physical and mental) advice provided is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment from a doctor or health care professional. Always contact your health care professional regarding any medical advice. Do not disregard medical advice or delay seeking it because of information on this website.
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