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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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If you listen to the advice of the Buddha – who has only compassion for sentient beings and no trace of self-centred mind; who is perfect in power, wisdom and compassion; whose holy mind is omniscient – all you get is benefit.
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The FPMT Social Services Fund offers grants to beneficial projects primarily in India, Nepal, and Mongolia, which are aimed at serving children, the elderly, the sick, and very poor. We offer grants for schools, hospices, health clinics, soup kitchens, and elderly homes. In addition, due to shutdowns in 2021, we also offered food and monetary assistance to thousands of families in need.
We would like to invite you to rejoice in some of the grants recently offered specifically toward medical care, living expenses, and food to those in India, Nepal and Mongolia.
Patient Care Trust, India
Patient Care Trust (PCT) is an NGO operating in India, with a large proportion of its field work being conducted in Northern India. The NGO facilitates access to quality healthcare and also organizes free medical camps with partner hospitals. The mission of this project is to provide timely access to affordable quality healthcare for the socially marginalized Tibetan Refugees.
Tibetans refugees in India are disproportionately exposed to risk due to lack of access to quality healthcare. Because of a variety of factors, many of them have a choice between costly but timely access to healthcare in private institutions, or affordable but untimely access through Indian public hospitals. As such, Tibetan refugees either give up on healthcare access, or contract high levels of debt. Most Tibetan refugees reside in rural areas of India, where local facilities are understaffed and under equipped. Additionally, reputed public government hospitals in urban areas such as Delhi have a waiting list of five to six months, but lower average costs. A number of Tibetan refugees are monks or nuns receiving very little or very low income and many have no income at all, especially the newly exiled from Tibet, who sometimes cannot speak English or Hindi. Due to these factors, the Tibetan refugees in India suffer from direct and disproportionate access to quality healthcare, particularly in the case of emergency treatment.
Since 2012 over 4,500 vulnerable patients have been assisted by this project. In 2021 the Social Services Fund was happy to support the important work of Patient Care Trust by covering the operational budget for an entire year with a grant of US$27,954.
Shakyamuni Buddha Clinic, India
Shakyamuni Buddha Health Clinic, a social service project of Root Institute, Bodhgaya, began in 1991 as a home for the destitute and has evolved into a diverse community health program encompassing a wide range of medical and rehabilitative services and health promotion activities.
The clinic continued to do important work in the community in 2020, some highlights are:
- The purchasing of a new Mobile Clinic vehicle that will serve hundreds of families in remote villages every week for those who cannot come to Root Institute. Through this, doctors, health educators, and physiotherapists brought much needed care to many poor families.
- The Adolescent Girls Health Training classes continued. The mission of this program is to create awareness regarding the dangers of child marriages and domestic violence, and the value of education, health, and hygiene for women for the overall wellbeing of the family.
- The teachers and students of Maitreya School, also a project of Root Institute, participated in a workshop on menstrual health and hygiene organized by Sakya Hospital. The students then continued to share this learning with students of other schools.
The clinic was required to shut it’s doors in March 2020 due to the lockdown declared by the government of India. The doctors however, continued to help patients in their personal capacities. They also distributed medicine and helped the community in whatever way they could. In February 2021, the clinic reopened with all required protocols.
The annual cost of operations for the clinic is US$30,292 and in 2021 we were very happy, through the Social Services Fund, to offer US$14,700 toward these operating expenses.
The Social Services Fund has been providing annual grants to the incredible work of Shakyamuni Buddha Clinic since 2012 and in total has offered over US$172,000.
Lamp of the Path, Mongolia
Lamp of the Path NGO (LOP), part of Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling, has offered social services to some of the poor and homeless living in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia for the past eighteen years. The soup kitchen, which is its main program, offers food to those in need and free medical support is offered through a health clinic. LOP also helps bring awareness to the epidemic of alcoholism in Mongolia and offers tuberculosis checkups for the disadvantaged in the area.
A grant for US$35,281 was offered to this beneficial project toward the 2021 operating budget.
The Social Services Fund has been providing annual grants to the incredible work of LOP since 2012 and in total has offered over US$318,000.
Please watch this moving video featuring the lives of three individuals who have been positively impacted by the services offered by Lamp of the Path.
MAITRI Charitable Trust, Bodhgaya
MAITRI is engaged in the eradication of leprosy, the control of TB, medical assistance and care for expecting mothers and new born babies, life-saving assistance to malnourished small children, education of children and adults in rural areas, rehabilitation of disabled people, the provision of opportunities to women and other underprivileged people, promotion of a holistic development in villages, rescuing and care of animals, and awareness campaigns for all of these programs.
In 2021 during the lockdowns, MAITRI’s work continued, as they had inpatients in the hospital and animals in the shelter, the staff came to work regularly. They were provided with face masks and Vitamins C and D to boost their immune system and the staff were grateful to have a regular job and regular income. Registered patients of the TB and mother and child care programs defied the lockdown restrictions and came to the gates for their monthly rations which MAITRI duly provided.
During the year the programs continued with new patients being registered and others being released from treatment. In particular, MAITRI helped to hospitalize two leprosy patients and with MAITRI’s special treatment their condition has been greatly improving. The work of the animal care program continued with the rescuing of animals in distress and injured, including a monkey.
A grant for US$68,600 was offered to this beneficial project in 2021 toward the operating budget.
The Social Services Fund has been providing annual grants to the incredible work of MAITRI since 2012 and in total has offered over US$606,000.
Helping Nepali and Tibetan Refugees Affected by the Pandemic
Kopan Helping Hands has been distributing food to families affected by the pandemic and who have lost their livelihood due to the lockdowns and restrictions. Kopan is working with the local government to identify families most in need and distribute food to as many as 400 families. In addition, Kopan is working with trusted local contacts to identify elderly people living by themselves and families without any means of support in the Upper Solu Khumbu area of Nepal. Food will likely be distributed to them through the local shops. Lama Zopa Rinpoche recently spoke to the senior Kopan monks about how important it is for monks and nuns to engage in social activities that directly relieve the suffering of sentient beings. However, in addition to the immediate benefit, Rinpoche emphasized that by seeing monks and nuns do activities for their benefit, people will develop faith in them and this will plant the seed of liberation in their minds and cause them in future lives to meet the Dharma and the Sangha.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered a grant of US$20,000 to Kopan Helping Hands toward these food distribution efforts.
The Central Tibetan Relief Committee (CTA) arranged support in the form of direct cash assistance as an emergency relief measure, to alleviate the financial burden of the most vulnerable households. Cash assistance will help these homes meet basic nutrition and financial security needs over the next several months, and prevent them from falling into deep poverty due to their inability to earn income during the pandemic.
The financial impact of the pandemic has been especially devastating for the poorest households in Tibetan settlements. According to a rapid survey conducted in June, 2,774 households across India, Nepal, and Bhutan are now struggling to afford basic necessities, and are at risk of falling into a cycle of poverty from which they cannot soon reemerge. The CTA offered a one-time payment of 10,000 Indian rupees for each household (1,000 rupees per month for ten months).
Emergency cash relief is expected to help enable them to maintain financial stability in the short term, and increase their ability to regain or advance toward self-reliance when economic activity normalizes.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered a grant of US$50,000 toward this beneficial initiative of the CTA.
Tsum Community Center, Nepal
This year the Social Services Fund was happy to support the construction of a new community center in Kathmandu to support those from the Tsum region. This new community center is being built in the area of Swayambhunath and the community center will serve as a place for people to gather and offer prayers, particularly at the time of death, by offering a space for the final rituals before cremation. The other objective of this center is to teach the younger generation in the area about the cultural traditions of Buddhism as they are not taught this in their schools.
In 2021 US$ 40,996 was offered toward the building expenses of this community center.
Rejoice!
Please join us in rejoicing in some of the ways that FPMT is offering direct support for those most in need in India, Nepal, and Mongolia by providing grants for medical and heath care, food, and living expenses. In 2021 we have offered US$257,531 so far this year. Thank you to the many who make these grants possible and continue to support the Social Services Fund.
All are welcome to support the Social Services Fund and help ensure we can continue to offer support toward the health of those in need.
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