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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.
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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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Rejoicing in Offerings to Holy Objects in 2021
When discussing his Vast Visions for the FPMT organization, Lama Zopa Rinpoche said, “My wish is for FPMT to build many holy objects everywhere, as many as possible. Making it so easy for sentient beings to purify their heavy negative karma and create extensive merit, which also makes it so easy to achieve the realizations of the path to achieve liberation and enlightenment.” In his March 10 thought transformation teaching, Rinpoche explained that, “Every single holy object is the basis for you to create all the merits that bring every success and pleasure that you experience now, as well causing your future liberation and enlightenment. Whether a person is Buddhist or not, just seeing a holy object allows them to create soooo much merit.”
Further, as Buddhism continues to spread around the world, clear and accurate translations of Buddhist texts, prayers, and teachings—which are also holy objects—are crucial; and distribution of these texts is essential so that interested students can retain access to authentic teachings.
Please find details on how a number of the FPMT Charitable Projects recently supported the creation of holy objects, such as stupas, prayer wheels, and statues; arranged monthly offerings to precious holy objects; and offered grants for the translation, printing, and circulation of Dharma texts.
Stupas
About the benefits of building stupas, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has said, “We can build stupas to inspire people without even teaching Dharma. However many hundreds and billions of years the holy object lasts, it continues to liberate many sentient beings every day, freeing them from the lower realms, causing them to actualize the path, liberating them from samsara and bringing them to enlightenment. After we die, even if we are in another universe, in the hell realms or a pure land, wherever we are, the stupa that we built or helped to build, is continually benefiting sentient beings. It is incredible how we can continually benefit sentient beings by building a stupa.”
Mahabodhi Stupa at Land of Medicine Buddha, CA, US
On the advice of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Land of Medicine Buddha has been building a 39-foot-tall Mahabodhi Stupa in California for the past seven years. This stupa will be the main attraction of the 100,000 Stupa Project in a beautiful garden featuring an area to meditate, thousands of memorial stupas, places to perform prostrations, and areas with spots for reflection and contemplation. While observing proper protocol for themselves and others during the pandemic, work continued at the Stupa Project in 2020 and is ongoing.
Highlights from the ongoing work include: Artist Gelek Sherpa continued to create and apply decorative panels to the main stupa and is now working on the fifth of the seven levels of the stupa and creating silicone molds, casting cement, and doing finishing artist work; last year the first twenty Kadamapa stupas were placed on the inner mandala wall. In the coming month these stupas will be painted and filled. More than twenty new stupas have been sponsored this year! In 2021, US$25,000 was offered for the stupa and an amazing US$137,743 in total has been offered from the Stupa Fund. You can learn more about this stupa and support it directly.
Thame Stupa
The Thame region of Nepal was seriously damaged during the 2015 earthquake. Almost all the homes in the area were damaged and also a large very precious stupa was destroyed. The monks from Thame Monastery requested Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s help to rebuild the stupa, as it was the biggest holy object in the region. Lama Zopa Rinpoche was very happy to do this and through the Stupa Fund covered the entire cost of the building of the stupa as well as a large prayer wheel inside and prayer wheels around the stupas. The new stupa stands nearly 46 feet tall with a base measuring 54 feet across, took two years to complete, and is larger than the one which previously stood. This impressive stupa features a large prayer wheel inside making it possible for pilgrims and locals to enter the stupa and spin it to create so much merit, even when the area is covered by snow.
The stupa was to be officially consecrated in June 2021, but unfortunately Lama Zopa Rinpoche was not able to travel there due to the pandemic and restrictions. A smaller consecration occurred, as all the materials had already been prepared, and at the same time Rinpoche offered the puja and prayers and consecrated the stupa from afar at Kopan Monastery.
Prayer Wheels
About prayer wheels, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has explained, “Prayer wheels are my hobby, there are so many benefits from building prayer wheels. It blesses all the insects on the ground and in the area, this is besides all the people who turn it. It is such a great blessing for the area! It is a quick way to liberate sentient beings from the lower realms, which is where they have been for numberless times, and enlighten them.” Reciting OM MANI PADME HUM as much as possible while turning the prayer wheel is a quick way of enlightening one’s self and others. Just by turning one time provides the benefit of having done many years of retreat, in a few seconds. It is unbelievable purification and one can collect skies of merit. Why? Because, as Rinpoche has explained, you receive the blessings from the heart of Chenrezig, the buddha of compassion. This is a quick way of developing compassion for sentient beings and in this way you can help others develop enlightenment more quickly.
Prayer Wheel Sponsored in Taplejung, Nepal
A new 9-ft high, 6-ft wide prayer wheel is being built in Taplejung, Nepal, for the benefit of all in the area which includes a school for children which the Social Services Fund has recently started supporting, as well as an elderly home for those in advanced age in the community. In 2021, US$30,100 was offered through the Prayer Wheel Fund for the building of the prayer wheel, prayer wheel house, and mantras needed for this project.
Ongoing Offerings to Precious Statues and Stupas
From the Sutra of the Mudra of Developing the Power of Devotion:
The minute you see a holy object you create infinite merit,
So no question, if you actually make prostrations,
Offerings and so forth, you create far greater merit.
Every full moon and on each of the Buddha multiplying days, on behalf of all FPMT, the Puja Fund sponsors the repainting of the Boudhanath and Swayambunath stupas, as well as the best quality cloth to the umbrellas at the pinnacles. Gold and robes are offered to the Jowo Buddha statue in Tibet and robes are offered to the Buddha statue in the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya. Rinpoche has advised that these important offerings happen for as long as FPMT exists, to generate merit for all those working within the organization and to help ensure the success of all the beneficial activities within FPMT.
Statues
“Just seeing a portrait or statue of Buddha purifies our mind and plants the seed of enlightenment. Whether we are believers or non-believers, we get that benefit, to be free from oceans of samsaric suffering. We have never been free from suffering, since beginningless rebirths up until now, so it gives us that incredibly precious opportunity.” — Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Padmasmabhava Statue at Nalanda Monastery, France
Following the advice of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nalanda Monastery is building a 1.82 meter (almost 6 feet) statue of Padmasambhava. The statue will be very visible to everyone who visits Nalanda and will be placed above the lake. The Padmasambhava Project for Peace was so happy to offer US$5,000 toward the statue. The total project cost €45,000 and this includes making the statue, gilding it with 24-carat gold, shipping it from Nepal to France, and filling it with mantras and life tree, and building the platform and roof. You can learn more about this statue and donate directly.
108 Aspects of Chenrezig at Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered over US$65,340 toward the creation of 108 aspects of Chenrezig, these statues will be three dimensional tiles that are on the walls of the newly built Chenrezig gompa at Kopan Monastery.
Padmasambhava Statue in Maratika, Nepal
A 45-foot tall Padmasambhava statue with a 15-foot tall throne is planned to be built in Maratika, the holy place where Padmasambhava achieved immortality through his practice of Amitayus. This incredible statue will have a gold face, hands, and body. The aspect of this statue is the first manifestation of the Twelve Manifestations of Padmasambhava, Gyalwey Dungdzin (Padma Gyalpo), and is Guru Rinpoche’s magnetizing form. Recently Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme (Khadro-la) offered pujas and consecrated the land where the future statue will be built. The construction will take approximately five years.
Texts
Sponsorship of Bengali Translation of Nalanda and the Seventeen Pandits
Through the Education and Preservation Fund we were delighted to sponsor the translation of Nalanda and the Seventeen Pandits from Tibetan to Bengali. The seventeen pandits of Nalanda refers to a grouping of seventeen of the most important and influential Mahayana Buddhist masters from India’s past. Translations like this are instrumental in reviving Mahayana Buddhism in Bengali from where great Buddhist masters like Santaraksita, Atisha, and Santideva were born.
Printing Rare and Precious Heruka Body Mandala Commentary in Tibetan
After many years in process, the two volume commentary on Heruka Body Mandala by His Holiness Trijang Rinpoche has been completed by Geshe Rinchen with a team of Lamas of Sera Mey Monastery! Lama Zopa Rinpoche sponsored the printing of 2,000 copies for free distribution to 20 different monastery libraries in India, which cost over US$20,000. The translation of this commentary was worked on for many, many years and is a tremendous accomplishment.
Writing of the Prajnaparamita
Ven. Tsering has been continually writing out the Prajnaparamita Sutra in gold ink on rainbow paper for more than sixteen years and is working on volume six of twelve. Recently we shared the news that after a ten year pause, Lama Zopa Rinpoche is again writing the 8,000 verse Prajnaparamita Sutra. Two other students in the US and Nepal are also working on writing different volumes of this precious sutra and a monk at Kopan Monastery is also beginning to write it out. Rinpoche has explained that by writing even one word of Prajnaparamita, the teachings on emptiness, you create far greater merit than making skies of offerings to numberless buddhas for many eons. The Prajnaparamita Project offers US$25,000 a year which includes all the costs related such as gold and paper. Recently, Rinpoche shared on video some of the history of this project, the benefits of writing out this most precious sutra, extensive commentary on the incredible benefits of the sutra, the process for doing so, the quality needed in the writing and supplies, and other details related to the process.
Please Rejoice!
Lama Tsongkhapa taught that the best way to collect merit is through rejoicing. Lama Zopa Rinpoche has explained that every time you rejoice in an offering, the construction of a holy object, and in the effort of all those who are working to actualize beneficial activities, the merit doubles. When you rejoice the second time, the merit is multiplied by four. The third time, it is multiplied by eight. It simply makes good sense to incorporate rejoicing into one’s daily practice!
All of these offerings toward the creation and preservation of holy objects as well as the translation and distribution of precious Buddhist texts are made possible by the kindness of so many people who offer support to the Holy Objects Fund, as well as to those who work on building, taking care, and making offerings to the holy objects; translating texts; and through offering service in so many ways to these most powerful and beneficial projects.
All of these offerings are made on behalf of all the FPMT centers, projects, services; and all students, benefactors, and anyone offering service to the FPMT organization.
If you would like to contribute to the building of holy objects around the world, you are welcome to offer any amount to the Holy Objects Fund which contributes to the creation of stupas, prayer wheels, and statues.
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