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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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Right understanding is the only solution to both physical and mental problems. You should always check very carefully how you’re expending your energy: will it make you happy or not? That’s a big responsibility, don’t you think? It’s your choice: the path of wisdom or the path of ignorance.
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Rinpoche’s Art, part 2
While Lama Zopa Rinpoche was in the Bendigo-area for the CPMT 2014 meeting and the retreat that followed, he added mantras to statues of an elephant and a kangaroo and wrote text for many signs to be placed next to those statues and others. Ani Wy helped Rinpoche with the mantras on the elephant that is shared above.
The sign next to the large elephant offering flowers to the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion says:
If the merit of taking Refuge has form
even these three realms (desire, form, formless)
become a small container
The treasure of the water of the great ocean cannot be
counted by the handful
Even though I am an animal Elephant,
This is my most exciting happiest life in the world
In numberless eons this is the one opportunity
to make offerings and prostrations to the holy stupa
and all the numberless
Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, stupas and scriptures.
You human beings have a better form (body)
So you really have an amazing opportunity to
Benefit sentient beings.
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Rinpoche’s Art
After Lama Zopa Rinpoche manifested a stroke in 2011, he stayed in a hospital in Bendigo, Australia. While there Rinpoche bought a painting that was part of a fundraiser for the hospital. Rinpoche returned to Bendigo in September 2014 for the CPMT 2014 meeting and the retreat that followed. He stayed at Thubten Shedrup Ling through November 2014 and while there added mantras to the painting so it is of more benefit when people see it.
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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Receive All New FPMT.org Posts Now in One Email
Beginning today, all posts to the many news blogs on FPMT.org are now being distributed together in one email! If you have signed up in the past to receive one of our blogs like “Lama Zopa Rinpoche News,” “FPMT News Around the World,” “Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Schedule” “FPMT Charitable Project News,” “Education News,” or “Mandala Today” by email, you will now receive all posts from all of the blogs, digested into one free email per day via Mailchimp.* This streamlines our ability to keep you up to date with the many aspects of FPMT’s beneficial activities and our international community’s work to fulfill Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Vision.
If you would like to sign up for this free service and receive one email from FPMT most days of the week, you can do so on any of our News pages, where it says “Get FPMT News delivered by email.” If receiving a daily email from FPMT becomes too much for your inbox, you can unsubscribe at any time by scrolling to the bottom of the email and clicking on the “Unsubscribe” link.
This daily email of FPMT blogs is separate from our monthly FPMT eNewsletter, which highlights the activities and news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and the FPMT organization and comes to you only once a month. There is also the monthly FPMT Foundation Store Newsletter, which shares news of special offers, new practice items and Dharma gifts. If you’d like to receive either of these free newsletters, you can sign up here.
*For those already receiving the email, today’s will have more stories than usual due to this change. Most days will only contain about two new posts.
FPMT communications is supported, in part, by programs like Friends of FPMT.
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Blessing the Rabbits at Osel Labrang
“It’s very important not only to have human rights, caring for and supporting humans, but also to be helping animals.” – Lama Zopa Rinpoche, “Animal Welfare,” Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
Read more “Advice for Non-harming” from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.
More information, photos and updates about FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche can be found on Rinpoche’s homepage. If you’d like to receive news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche via email, sign up to Lama Zopa Rinpoche News.
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Rinpoche Begins Teaching at Choe Khor Sum Ling Centre
After spending part of December at Gaden Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, in South India to attend the Jangchup Lamrim teachings with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lama Zopa Rinpoche traveled to Sera Je Monastery, where he stayed at Osel Labrang. Then Rinpoche traveled to Bangalore to visit the students of Choe Khor Sum Ling, which recently transitioned from a study group to a full FPMT center.
On January 9, Rinpoche begins a week-long set of teachings, organized by Choe Khor Sum Ling, starting with a public talk entitled “Transforming Problems into Happiness.” The rest of the week will center on a Heruka Five Deities initiation.
After Bangalore, Rinpoche will go to Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre in Delhi to give a two-day teaching on how to apply Dharma in daily life.
You can receive updates to Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s schedule by email by subscribing today.
More information, photos and updates about FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche can be found on Rinpoche’s webpage. If you’d like to receive news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche via email, sign up to Lama Zopa Rinpoche News.
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Amitabha Buddhist Centre
Amitabha Buddhist Centre (ABC) in Singapore spent the last year celebrating its 25th anniversary. At the end of November 2014, Lama Zopa Rinpoche visited ABC and attended a special anniversary dinner attended by more than 600 people. The dinner included a talk by Rinpoche as well as speeches and entertainment. Hup Cheng Tan, director of ABC, was one of the featured speakers and gave a history of the center and described how it had evolved up to the present, including the history of the seven-story building that houses the center.
The dinner’s program “honored Rinpoche’s involvement,” Ven. Roger Kunsang told Mandala, “because Rinpoche had been so much a part of ABC’s development. … Rinpoche had felt that Dharma could be very strong in Singapore. And the evening highlighted Rinpoche’s role in its development.”
ABC is a very successful center. More than 200 people are attending ABC’s Basic Program taught by Khen Rinpoche Geshe Chonyi, resident geshe at ABC and abbot of Kopan Monastery.
ABC also offered a long life puja for Lama Zopa Rinpoche, which was attended by about 1,000 people.
More information, photos and updates about FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche can be found on Rinpoche’s webpage. If you’d like to receive news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche via email, sign up to Lama Zopa Rinpoche News.
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The Benefits of Reciting Mani Mantra
Lama Zopa Rinpoche wrote a letter to a student’s mother in September 2013, describing the benefits of reciting OM MANI PADME HUM:
“I just arrived from Mongolia [in September 2013], where they did a 108 million mani retreat. There were more than 60 Westerners, mostly nuns, and many Mongolians, who did extremely well. They recited 108 million OM MANI PADME HUM mantras.
“This is incredible, unbelievable purification, purifying negative karma collected from beginningless time. This is the way to collect most extensive merits up to enlightenment and particularly to purify many negative karmas, disease and problems. Many difficult things that are not easy to get rid of can be purified with this mantra, and particularly we can develop compassion for all living beings – numberless hell beings, numberless preta beings, numberless animals, numberless human beings, numberless suras, numberless asuras and numberless intermediate state beings. That compassion for all beings is what makes us achieve peerless happiness up to enlightenment, to be able to do perfect works for others. …”
One of Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for FPMT is to sponsor 100,000 100-million mani retreats around the world. FPMT Mongolia is one of several FPMT centers currently working towards this Vast Vision. The Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund has helped sponsor the Mongolia retreats as well as many others.
You can read more advice about mantra recitations in “Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Online Advice Book,” compiled by the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.
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The Correct Path to Achieve Happiness
“Buddhism reveals the correct path to achieve happiness – all the happiness of future lives, especially ultimate happiness, liberation from samsara, and enlightenment – and all the realizations, and perfect cessation of all the mistakes and defilements of the mind,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche wrote to a new student.
“Not only that, with this achievement you are able to liberate numberless hell beings, preta beings, animals, human beings, sura beings, and asura beings.
“With this achievement you are able to have happiness in all future lives, and, a more important service than that, you are able to bring each and every single being, from each realm, to everlasting liberation and full enlightenment.
“This is the ultimate goal of our life, why we took rebirth. This is just an introduction for you.”
Read more “Advice for New Students” from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.
Learn more about FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche and his beneficial activities by visiting Rinpoche’s webpage, where you will find links to Rinpoche’s schedule, new advice, recent video, photos and more.
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A Lam-rim Prayer Every Day
“… Do at least one lam-rim prayer every day, such as the ‘Foundation of All Good Qualities,’ ‘Calling the Guru from Afar’ (long version), the ‘Three Principles of the Path,’ etc.,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche advised an ex-monk who had stopped practicing and wrote Rinpoche wanting guidance. “You can change it each day, like having a different appetite for the lam-rim, so you don’t get bored. This is a very, very essential thing. However many million other preliminary practices you do, reciting at least one lam-rim prayer a day is the most important thing. Lam-rim is what makes one’s life meaningful; it is the path to enlightenment. So, reciting a lam-rim prayer is a direct meditation on the lam-rim. Just reading a lam-rim prayer, mindfully, relating it to your own life, is a direct meditation. Lam-rim is the essence. It has the whole path to enlightenment in it. So, reading mindfully becomes a direct meditation on the whole path, and it leaves positive imprints of the whole path to enlightenment on your mind, just within those few minutes.
“This is much more meaningful than reciting 100 million mantras. It is even more meaningful than seeing Buddha, because just seeing or even meeting Buddha directly doesn’t mean you will become enlightened, because you have to have the realizations. Meditating on the lam-rim ceases the defilements and gradually you will have the realizations.
“This direct meditation, going through the lam-rim prayer, is the most important thing in your daily life, in order to achieve enlightenment, so that then you are able to liberate numberless sentient beings from the oceans of samsara’s sufferings and bring them to enlightenment. Each time you meditate on the lam-rim by reciting even one lam-rim prayer, it brings you one more day closer to enlightenment, and to enlightening all sentient beings. …”
Read more of Rinpoche’s advice on “Restarting Daily Practice” on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.
More information, photos and updates about FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche can be found on Rinpoche’s webpage. If you’d like to receive news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche via email, sign up to Lama Zopa Rinpoche News.
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The Power of the Names of the Thirty-five Confession Buddhas
“Lama Atisha explained why reciting the names of the Thirty-five Buddhas has so much power,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche said, speaking on purification practices during the Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga retreat at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa in 2003. “In the past, when the Thirty-five Buddhas were bodhisattvas, they made many prayers to be able to benefit sentient beings, to easily purify our defilements and negative karma. When they achieved enlightenment, they achieved the Buddha’s ten qualities or powers, one of which is the power of prayer. So, their names have the power of all those past prayers. That is why, when sentient beings recite their names, they have so much power to purify defilements and eons of negative karma. Every single quality the Thirty-five Buddhas attained was in order to benefit sentient beings, there was no other reason or motivation for it, so we should use this advantage. …”
Visit Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive online to read the complete teaching “Thirty-five Buddhas Confession and Purification Practice.” The FPMT Foundation Store offers materials for the practice of prostration to the Thirty-five Buddhas.
Learn more about Lama Zopa Rinpoche, spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), and Rinpoche’s vision for a better world. Sign up to receive news and updates.
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Jangchup Lamrim Teachings Conclude
The Jangchup Lamrim teachings with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Gaden Monastery have concluded. More than 25,000 people, including 2000 foreigners from 43 countries, attended the week-long teaching event in South India. Lama Zopa Rinpoche was among the many high lamas, rinpoches and geshes in attendance. On Christmas Day, Lama Zopa Rinpoche had lunch with American actor Richard Gere, who was also attending the teachings.
You can find daily summaries and video and audio links of the teachings on JangchupLamrim.org. His Holiness’ website DalaiLama.com also has daily summaries of the teachings and His Holiness’ activities.
More information, photos and updates about FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche can be found on Rinpoche’s webpage. If you’d like to receive news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche via email, sign up to Lama Zopa Rinpoche News.
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Happiness Depends on Transforming the Mind
“… Everybody wants happiness and does not want problems or suffering. I think that if you want to be happy, it’s very important to know how to enjoy life. If you know how to enjoy life, whether you are a prime minister or a porter, a millionaire or a beggar, you will find happiness in every situation. If you know how to live your life and you understand the methods to apply, you can make your life happy,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche says in the featured teaching of Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive’s November 2014 E-letter.
“Your mind, or mental continuum, has all the potential to apply methods that can make your life really happy, peaceful, and satisfying, but this depends on your actions in everyday life. Whether you are a prime minister or a porter, a millionaire or a beggar, whether you live alone or live in a city with many people, whatever the situation, if you know how to live life, there’s always a way to make your life happy and to find satisfaction and peace.
“It all depends on your daily activities — on what you do and how you think. The main thing is your attitude in life. Everything depends on your own mind. If you create one concept, you will find problems in your life. With another concept, the correct way of thinking, there will be no problems in your life; the problems won’t exist. You won’t find any problems in your life. So, everything depends on your own mind. Problems come from your own mind and happiness also has to come from your own mind. It is not that problems come from your mind and happiness comes from outside. Both come from your own mind. …”
You can read the entire teaching “Happiness Depends on Transforming the Mind” on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.
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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