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Children of Sagarmatha Secondary School engaged in prayer. A school supported by FPMT Charitable Projects.
FPMT Charitable Projects had an incredible year offering support to beneficial initiates which include: offering food to ordained Sangha; providing scholarships to study Buddhist philosophy; offering to the main teachers of the Lama Tsongkhapa tradition and sponsoring annual debates; offering grants for social services such as schools, hospitals and monastic institutions; providing comprehensive Dharma programs; translating Dharma texts; sponsoring holy objects: statues, stupas and prayer wheels, and saving animals.
We invite you to rejoice in a few areas of great accomplishment which were made possible by grants generated from FPMT Charitable Projects in 2018.
- The final handover of an endowment large enough to support the long-term health of the Sera Je Food Fund has been completed. The interest from this endowment will cover the annual costs associated with offering three nutritious meals daily for all the monks of Sera Je Monastery, for as long as the endowment remains. After offering the daily meals through the fund to the monks of Sera Je for twenty-six years, this is a massive achievement.
- A new project was launched, Protecting the Environment and Living Beings Project, which was initiated due to Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s recent advice that specific pujas and practices should be done regularly to pacify harm from the elements and to protect those (humans, animals, insects) who have been affected.
Residents of the Dhondenling Elderly Home, one of the elderly homes supported by FPMT Charitable Projects.
- Ongoing support was offered to six elderly homes serving Tibetan refugees in India. We have been offering support to elderly Tibetans in this way since 2015.
- Ongoing support was offered to six schools providing education to children of Tibetan, Nepali, Sherpa, and Indian heritage in India, Nepal, and Mongolia. We have been offering support to education in this way since 2012.
- Completed rebuild of a magnificent 460-foot by 54-foot stupa, with a large prayer wheel inside, on the site where a previous stupa was destroyed by the 2015 earthquake in the Thame region of Nepal.
- Grants were offered to programs which support people in prison wishing to study and practice Buddhism in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Mexico through the Liberation Prison Project.
- On every one of the four great Buddha holy days of the calendar, up to 15,650 Sangha are sponsored through the FPMT Puja Fund to offer specific pujas and engage in particular practices selected by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and dedicated to the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and to the success of all the FPMT centers, projects, services, students, benefactors and those serving the organization in any way, as well as all beings.
- Continued support to annual Winter Jang Debate and Special Memorization Examination for top scholars of the Gelug tradition.
- Sponsorship of ten people continued with food and accommodation for each round of 108 nyung nä retreat at Institut Vajra Yogini, south-west France. This year marked the seventh round of 108 nyung näs to be completed there.
- Weekly animal liberations were sponsored at Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s residences in California and Washington State. Sangha offer the practice of animal liberation every week (the Winter months in Washington State are not conducive to this practice due to the snow being too much for the animals), dedicated to anyone who is sick, dying, or having life obstacles and extensive prayers are made for the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
- A grant was offered toward the building of a gompa, reception area, offices, and library for
Dorje Pamo Monastery, a new nunnery for approximately twelve FPMT nuns in the South of France.
Tremendous thanks to everyone who donated to the various FPMT Charitable Projects or generated good wishes for our work, and rejoiced in grants offered.
You can learn more about all the activities of FPMT Charitable Projects and keep up on news of grants offered and progress made on sponsored projects.