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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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In March 2017, Lama Zopa Rinpoche visited the village of Chailsa, in Solu Khumbu, Nepal. Among various activities there, he visited Sagarmatha Secondary School. More than two years ago, FPMT took on the commitment of sponsoring this school, which has about 120 students, with its Social Service Fund. Kopan Monastery oversees the management of the school.
Chailsa is in Solu Khumbu, north-eastern Nepal, the district where Lama Zopa Rinpoche was born and where many Himayalan Buddhists live. Chailsa is in the southern part of the district near Salleri, the district headquarters. The area is remote but still reachable by jeep—a day-long drive from Kathmandu over difficult roads.
Rinpoche blessed the school and was welcomed by the children with a traditional dance. He gave a talk to them, giving them an explanation of how to do water bowls. He also sponsored a picnic for the children and their teachers. The school provided prizes for the children’s exams, which Rinpoche handed out. Rinpoche and Kopan are working to identify the needs of the schoolchildren so they can ensure that the necessary donations are organized.
In the village, Rinpoche gave a lung and some commentary for the Vajrayogini three-year retreat privately to some students, one who is planning to soon do the retreat. He also gave a short commentary to the local gompa keeper of the torma gyatsa practice. Finally, he offered an Amitabha long life initiation with teachings.
Rinpoche also visited Thubten Shedrup Ling. This monastery, located in Chailsa, is under the care of Kopan Monastery, which took it over in 2004. It has only a few dozen residents, and with the help of Kopan, it has been partially rebuilt. It offers an opportunity for young people to receive a monastic education, to live in their vows in a monastic environment, and study and practice the teachings of the Buddha.
Rinpoche is also trying to locate land in Chailsa on which to keep goats and other animals whose lives have been saved.
On the trip, Rinpoche also went to Thubten Chöling, a large monastery built by the late Trulshik Rinpoche in the 1960s in Junbesi, which is near Salleri and on the Jiri-Everest trekking trail.
One of the greatest living masters of the Nyingma and rime traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, Trulshik Rinpoche, who passed away in 2011, was one of Rinpoche’s gurus. While at Thubten Chöling, Rinpoche offered to sponsor a portion of the costs of a stupa being constructed there. He paid his respects to Trulshik Rinpoche’s holy body (which is in a mandala house above the altar), made prayers, and made offerings to each of the approximately 400 Sangha present. Rinpoche’s assistant, Ven.Roger, requested the Sangha to do an extensive Medicine Buddha puja for Rinpoche’s health and long life, following the advice of Khadro-la (Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme).
Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation, and community service.
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Please Rejoice in Another Year of Ongoing Animal Liberations
Benefiting animals in any way possible is a high priority for FPMT and one of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the organization. The Animal Liberation Fund helps carry forth this work.
The Animal Liberation Fund sponsored the liberations of approximately 70,400 animals at Rinpoche’s houses in California and Washington State in 2016. Not only were the animals saved from untimely death by resident Sangha, but they were also taken around an incredible amount of holy objects, mantras were recited and blown on them and they were carefully placed where they could live out the rest of their life. When Sangha finish these liberations, they make strong prayers for all those who are sick, have recently died, or who have requested prayers. This is one of the most beneficial aspects of this practice as the merit is shared among so many. All are welcome to request prayers and dedications from the Sangha at Rinpoche’s residences for themselves or loved ones. In addition to the animal liberations in Washington State, the Sangha regularly bless the beings living in the lakes of this area.
About once a month at Amitabha Buddhist Centre (ABC), Singapore, sea creatures are purchased at a seafood market to liberate. The animals are then circumambulated around center, which has 100 sets of the Kangyur and Tengyur as well as more than 300 stupas and many holy objects, including prayer wheels and statues. The community then offers animal liberation practice for the animals according to Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s instructions and advice. Incredibly, 4,199,007 crabs, shellfish, and fish were liberated in 2016. ABC estimates that they have helped liberate 218,000,000 lives to date.
Recently, a student wrote to Rinpoche asking what they could do when finding dead insects. Rinpoche responded, not only to give advice but to describe in detail how he and Sangha at his residences work to benefit insects, birds, and other small animals.
Animal liberation is a specific practice done for animals which would otherwise be killed. The practice involves taking the animals-in-danger around holy objects to leave positive imprints in their minds, reciting mantras for them, blessing water to sprinkle onto their bodies, and then releasing them. This differs from general animal blessings which involve blessing any animal with mantras or a holy object. Animal blessings are, of course, wonderful to do for animals, but this is not what is meant by “animal liberations.”
Animal liberation practice is an incredible practice for anyone who has illnesses or is experiencing life obstacles. FPMT Education Services makes available many resources for those wishing to engage in this practice.
All are welcome to contribute to the Animal Liberation Fund to help ensure that our work sponsoring animal liberations around the world continues.
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Please Rejoice in a Year of Charitable Giving!
In 2016, FPMT Charitable Projects provided grants totaling US$3,512,326 toward various beneficial activities, including offering food to ordained Sangha and children; providing Buddhist philosophy scholarships; sponsoring beneficial pujas and practices; monthly offerings to the main teachers of the Lama Tsongkhapa tradition and sponsoring annual debates; offering grants to social services such as elder care homes, schools, hospitals, and monastic institutions; providing comprehensive Dharma programs; translating Dharma texts; sponsoring the creation of holy objects, such as statues, stupas, prayer wheels, and large thangkas; and saving animals from death and giving them Dharma imprints.
Of particular note in 2016 was the US$356,727 disbursed from the Social Services Fund. Supporting those in need—such as children, the elderly, the poor, and sick—is the main priority of this fund. Lama Zopa Rinpoche has also indicated that in addition to offering much needed material resources, we should also help by offering Dharma talks and when possible holy objects, which helps change karma for the better and bring real lasting benefit.
Another area we are so happy to have supported in 2016 is the creation of holy objects. The Holy Objects Fund contributes to the construction of holy objects for world peace, which is a high priority among Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the FPMT organization. This year, US$879,972 was offered toward these projects, including the Maitreya Projects in Kushinagar and Bodhgaya; seven large prayer wheels, including five water-turned prayer wheels in Nepal, one in a Tibetan settlement in India, and one in New Zealand; thirteen Guru Rinpoche statues for Lawudo Retreat Center in Nepal; and seven statues that will be placed inside a larger statue in India.
We’d like to invite you to rejoice in all the grants that FPMT Charitable Projects was able to offer this year. You can read more about this in this year’s FPMT International Office annual review. Tremendous thanks for the kindness and generosity of many who give to the various funds and initiatives this past year, enabling our compassionate work to continue.
You can learn more about the FPMT Charitable Projects, follow news and updates, or make a donation of any amount to help this work continue.
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Midday Meals Offered to Tibetan School Children in Bylakuppe, South India
The Central School for Tibetans, Cauvery Valley Project (CVP), located in Bylakuppe, South India, was established in 1971 to serve the children of refugees living at Dickey Larsoe Tibetan Settlement. Twenty-four staff help educate 217 elementary, middle, and secondary students.
The Social Services Fund has been sponsoring midday meals for the children of CVP for the last few years. In a letter of thanks from the school, the Parent’s Representative Committee wrote, “The diet that the children are enjoying these days is very nutritious…. We have never forgotten your kind help and support and to the school and the children. We always have felt that without your kind financial support and good will, our situation would have been very different.”
Lama Zopa Rinpoche also sponsored the complete renovation of the school’s kitchen in 2013.
The school has not only established an impressive academic program with an emphasis on preserving the student’s Tibetan cultural heritage, but also offers extracurricular activities such as sports, arts, and crafts. The principal reports that, “Overall, the school has exalted status in the community and among the local settlers.”
Please rejoice in the offering of meals to these school children! Helping the children of Tibetan refugees receive quality education is a high priority for FPMT, and through this offering of food, the school can use precious and scarce resources for continuing to develop and implement quality academic programs for the students.
If you would like to support the Social Services Fund and help ensure grants such as this can continue, you can read more about the charitable projects this fund supports or donate any amount to the fund itself.
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Support Offered to Jampaling Elder’s Home, Dharamsala, India
Jampaling Elder’s Home, situated in Dharamshala, is about 15 minutes walking distance from the main temple of His Holiness the Dalai Lama with many prayer wheels lining the way. The resident Tibetan elders are able to attend all the teachings of His Holiness at the main temple. This home was set up to look after the elders who are scattered in different Tibetan settlements without appropriate facilities and also for destitute ex-army members without any family. It also houses elderly who are unable to earn a living due to old age and who have no one to rely on. This facility provides food, shelter and medical services to residents.
This facility can support 156 residents but currently has 131 with more joining over the winter months. Among the residents are fourteen elderly nuns and sixteen elderly monks. Thirteen local staff are utilized including a nurse, cooks, caretakers, a maintenance person, and the director.
The Social Services Fund was very pleased to sponsor a new recreation room for the residents. The previous recreation room was located on the third floor of the building which was extremely difficult for the elderly residents to access. The home’s management explained, “The purpose of constructing the hall is to improve the facility and to create a friendly environment where the elders can engage in various recreational activities during their leisure time, and most importantly to watch His Holiness the Dalai Lama teaching on the television and to keep up on Tibet related news.”
Additional needs for the residential home are to hire an additional caretaker, make repairs to the facility, accommodate special dietary needs, and provide pocket money for residents. The Social Services Fund is very pleased to be able to support Jampaling Elder’s Home with these improvements and needs. Without such homes, many elderly first-wave Tibetan refugees have very little prospect of accommodation or support. In addition to financial support, Lama Zopa Rinpoche asked that FPMT support their Dharma studies as well. Access to geshes and Dharma teachers is particularly important and we will support the home in this way as well.
Offering support in this way is one way that FPMT can help repay the kindness of the Tibetan people. Lama Zopa Rinpoche has explained that because of the Tibetan people, the “sun of Tibetan Buddhism has now risen in the West.”
FPMT Charitable Projects is honored to support the eldest and most destitute Tibetan refugees. You can show your support by making a donation to the Social Services Fund.
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The Lawudo Retreat Centre, situated high in the Himalayan mountains of eastern Nepal, holds particular significance for FPMT. Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the reincarnation of the Lawudo Lama, Lama Kunzang Yeshe, who lived and practiced in Lawudo until his passing at age 81. The Lawudo Retreat Centre was built over several years and completed in 1972 under direction from Lama Zopa Rinpoche. The gompa was built so that young monks in the area could receive a good education with favorable conditions. Since that time, Rinpoche’s mother (who passed away in 1991), sister Anila Ngawang Samten, and brother Sangay Sherpa have cared for the Lawudo Lawudo Retreat Centre and welcomed pilgrims, retreatants and locals to this extremely blessed and remote place.
The property suffered damage from the earthquake and subsequent aftershocks which struck in April 2015 and a considerable amount of repair and rebuilding has been needed in response. Additionally, other improvements and renovations have long been needed at the center and these projects are also being undertaken. For example, a new room is being built for Lama Zopa Rinpoche so when Rinpoche is visiting, he can be offered a proper accommodation complete with a bathroom. The old gompa was also in need of renovation, and the mani prayer wheel house needed reconstruction. These improvements are underway as well.
The Nepal Earthquake Support Fund has been helping support the rebuilding and renovations needed at Lawudo, and there are still many repairs to be made. All are welcome to participate in the improvements needed on this very precious property.
All are welcome to donate to the Nepal Earthquake Support Fund.
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You can learn more about Lawudo Gompa and its history at Lawudo.com.
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Support to 120 Students of Sagarmatha Lower Secondary School
For the past two years, Kopan Monastery has taken on the responsibility of supporting Sagarmatha Secondary School in Chailsa, Nepal. The school is located on what was once a Tibetan refugee camp and currently serves 120 young students.
A foundation caring for Tibetan refugees, The Snow Lion Foundation, previously helped fund teacher salaries, caretaker salaries, education materials, office materials, extracurricular activities, and utilities; but this funding is no longer available to the school and the school was prepared to close. Parents of the children, who are ethnically Tibetan or Sherpa and come from meager means, requested Kopan to accept management of the school. Kopan had previously taken on management of Thubten Shedrup Ling Monastery, and the Maitreya Children’s Home, a hostel for nearly fifty children. Understanding that education key for breaking the cycle of poverty, Kopan accepted the request to take on responsibility for the school as well.
While the school does receive some income from student registration and donations, the amount received is only enough to cover some operational expenses, maintenance, emergencies, and scholarships for highly gifted, special needs, and poor children. Private funding is needed for this school to operate.
The Social Services Fund is very pleased to offer US$37,623 to this school to cover half of 2015’s shortfall expenses, and all of 2016’s.
Sagarmatha Lower Secondary School is a government-registered school which means it is recognized by the Nepal government and can participate in nationwide exit exams. The school has to expand to best support students. Without expanding, children will have to go to boarding school in Kathmandu to finish their educations. This is prohibitively expensive for many local families and these children would simply have to drop out of school once their education at Sagarmatha Secondary School finishes. In 2016, grades 1-6 are accommodated. In 2017 this will classes will be offered through grade 7. Going forward, one grade per year will be added so the school can expand slowly.
Please rejoice that this school is now funded through 2016. Access to quality education is extremely important for these young children’s future. Please consider helping us support this school in 2017. US$25,831 needs to be raised to cover this commitment next year.
If you would like to support the Social Services Fund and help ensure grants such as this can continue, you can read more about the charitable projects this fund supports, or donate any amount to the fund itself.
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Progress Made Rebuilding the Gompa at Rolwaling Monastery, Nepal
Earlier this year we reported that due to a donation from a generous benefactor, a substantial grant had been offered from the Social Services Fund to Rolwaling Monastery in Nepal, at the Tibet border, for the rebuilding of their gompa which was nearly destroyed in the 2015 earthquake. The buildings were already in poor condition (the gompa hadn’t been renovated since 1957), and the destruction of the earthquake proved too much for the structures to withstand.
For many in the surrounding community, the monastery gompa is more important than their own homes. It was reported that when assistance was offered to locals to help rebuild their houses following the earthquake, many locals became very emotional, making statements such as, “Please help us save the gompa, we don’t mind staying in open spaces or living in caves, but we can’t see our gompa in ruins.” This monastery is particularly precious to FPMT as Lama Zopa Rinpoche attended this monastery between the ages of 7-12.
Work on the main gompa is underway with the foundation now laid and the wall paintings secured. Relics, statues, and texts have all been moved to the new building.
Rolwaling Sangag Choling is a community-centered monastery and its history spans about nine generations. It is the only monastery in the entire community of Sherpa Buddhists. Please rejoice in the rebuilding progress made possible by this generous grant from a kind benefactor. Restoring this monastery helps preserve the local culture and reestablish the monastery as a place for Buddhist practice and community.
The Social Services Fund also offered a grant to the monastery school to help with a youth hostel and repairs following the earthquake.
If you would like to support the Social Services Fund and help ensure grants such as this can continue,you can read more about the charitable projects this fund supports, or donate any amount to the fund itself.
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In July we reported that a new community hall at Rabagayling Tibetan Settlement in South India was completed. The Social Services Fund provided a grant for this new building which will be used by by 2,710 refugees.
We are delighted to share that in August this community commenced a 100 Million Mani Retreat in the new building! One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for FPMT is for 100,000 of these beneficial retreats to be completed. Rinpoche sent the following message to the community upon hearing about this retreat beginning:
“I was very happy to hear this news, this mani retreat is most needed, most important, not for only for the people attending but for all sentient beings, even the ants and slugs and all sentient beings. It is for peace and happiness and peerless happiness enlightenment -Sangye: the total cessation of all the obscurations and completion of all the realizations.”
Please rejoice in this incredible retreat undertaking. This new building was needed to accommodate the community engaging in group practices such as this, and we’re so pleased that they are quickly utilizing it for such auspicious activities.
If you are inspired by grants such as this, you are welcome to contribute to the Social Service Fund and help ensure that work like this can continue.
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At the end of last year we reported on the extensive rebuilding needed at Kopan Monastery and Nunnery following the devastating April 2015 earthquake in Nepal.
Kopan Monastery is FPMT’s most precious destinations as the very first FPMT teachings happend there with Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche in the early seventies. Since the early days of the organization, this Chenrezig Gompa has been a place for new and old students to connect or reconnect to the Dharma. The gompa was severely damaged in the earthquake. In response to the damage, engineers from Taiwan flew to Kopan to professionally evaluate the structural damages to buildings. Based on their advice, the entire Chenrezig gompa was pulled down and is being rebuilt. The foundation has now been laid and construction has begun.
There are more buildings at Kopan that still need to be completely rebuilt or extensively repaired due to the earthquake and these repairs will be happening soon.
Kopan Nunnery is currently the largest Tibetan nunnery in Nepal with 400 nuns. The nunnery provides full scholarship for the nuns, which includes education, accommodation, health care and food.
One of the ways the nunnery supports itself is by making incense. The building used for making the incense (which was a newly completed building at the time of the earthquake), was completely damaged and had to be rebuilt following the earthquake destruction.
All of this rebuilding is due to the generosity of donors who so kindly contribute to the Nepal Earthquake Support Fund and there is still extensive need for rebuilding at Kopan Monastery and Nunnery as well as Lawudo and we will continue to support this in whatever way we can.
Thanks to all who have contributed to this fund and to those who feel moved to do so in the future. With everyone’s help, these most precious FPMT institutions can be rebuilt soon so the Sangha, teachers, and students who depend on them can benefit for many, many years to come.
All are welcome to donate to the Nepal Earthquake Support Fund.
https://fpmt.org/support/socialservices/
You can learn more about Lawudo Gompa and the history of Lawudo.
http://www.lawudo.com/About
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Tara Home’s Compassionate Care for End of Life
Tara Home, located at Land of Medicine Buddha in Soquel, California, is a home for terminally ill people entering their last few months of life. Around-the-clock compassionate care is provided by trained volunteers.
Tara Home relies completely on donations to cover the monthly costs of rent, insurance, telephone, supplies, and paid caregivers when volunteers are not available. Care is prioritized for those who do not have family support, so procuring donations for needed care is essential.
Residents of Tara Home are offered spiritual care as well as material care and comfort. Two large prayer wheels are located just outside the hospice so those in the home can easily access them, and resident Sangha offer prayers daily on location. This provides the residents with the ability to easily generate merit and receive blessings for their minds, even in the final stages of life when they may be physically weak and unable to exert much energy.
The Social Services Fund recently offered a grant to Tara Home, to assist in their compassionate ongoing work. Please rejoice in this most essential work being done to care for those who need kindness and support as they pass on from this life.
All are welcome to donate directly to Tara Home.
The Social Services Fund was established to help children, the elderly, sick and the very poor by offering grants for schools, hospices, health clinics, soup kitchens, elderly homes, orphanages and much more.
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Animal Liberation Fund Supports Animal-Saving Work in Bhutan
Jangsa Animal Saving Trust (JAST), established in 2000 in Bhutan, is a non-profit charity founded on Buddhist principles of animal activism. JAST currently cares for hundreds of animals across ten provinces. Bulls, yaks, sheep, pigs, goats, ducks, dogs, and fish are saved from terrible conditions and death and then given proper care and nursing, and exposure to Buddhist teachers and ordained Sangha helping to create a a positive mental imprint on the animals to meet the Dharma in the future.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche recently visited one of these rescue houses in Thimbu where 60 dogs and 11 large pigs are taken care of. Rinpoche blessed the animals with mantras and prayers and also offered US$5,000 to JAST for their ongoing work. The sanctuary was set up with small dog houses and a large grassy area for exercise and play. Please enjoy this short video of Rinpoche blessing the dogs.
During this visit Rinpoche commented, “Saving even one animal can create good karma for all sentient beings but Jangsa has saved thousand and thousands. The work of Jangsa is even greater than that of the powerful leaders of America or Russia. So please keep it up!”
In June, JAST responded to a report that sacks of more than 100 dogs were thrown along a highway close to Thimphu. Twenty of the dogs were dead when JAST arrived and the others were weak, injured, traumatized, and aggressive from the stress. Most of these dogs will be permanently moved to the Jangsa Animal Shelter in Serbithang, Thimphu. This service to these animals, who have been shown unbelievable cruelty, is incredible precious and kind.
Please rejoice in the compassionate activity of Jangsa Animal Saving Trust. These animals have no one to rely on and through this organization they are given care, attention, and Dharma imprints.
The US$5,000 grant was made possible through the Animal Liberation Fund, and all are encouraged to donate directly to JAST, to help them continue this most valuable work.
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