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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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。
護持大乘法脈基金會”（ 英文簡稱：FPMT。全名：Foundation 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。
You don’t need to obsess over the attainment of future realizations. As long as you act in the present with as much understanding as you possibly can, you’ll realize everlasting peace in no time at all.
The Foundation Store is FPMT’s online shop and features a vast selection of Buddhist study and practice materials written or recommended by our lineage gurus. These items include homestudy programs, prayers and practices in PDF or eBook format, materials for children, and other resources to support practitioners.
Items displayed in the shop are made available for Dharma practice and educational purposes, and never for the purpose of profiting from their sale. Please read FPMT Foundation Store Policy Regarding Dharma Items for more information.
Could you give me some guidance on the 35 Buddhas prostration practice and the Vajrasattva purification practice?
A student asks:
What do I need in order to do the Discovering Buddhism Module 14 Integration Requirement? I don’t plan on making a lifetime commitment at this point, but I do want to get the Certificate of Completion.
Please clarify for me exactly what needs to be done for the 35 Buddhas prostrations and the Vajrasattva mantra practice, only to meet the completion requirement of module 14.
I’m very new to, and exploring Tibetan Buddhism right now, so l need very specific guidance.
Another student answers:
I’d say we ALL need specific guidance! 🙂 What you need to do in order to “properly” do the Module 14 requirements is to really have, or simply want to work to have, the conviction deep inside that every single sentient being needs you to do those practices for them to get out of Samsara and that all those purification practices are absolutely necessary for you to help even one sentient being escape the awful existence that is Samsara, much less the “whole lot” of the sentient beings that you want to help. The rest is “just details”. (Details that happen to be given to us by very kind folk so we aren’t flailing in the dark, so to speak. ) Lama Zopa Rinpoche often remarks that one prostration done with the right attitude (bodhicitta) is worth a “gazillion” (my paraphrase) of prostrations doing in a rote manner, just reeling them off.
That attitude is something that you can develop and you can help the development of that attitude by studying the Dharma and doing the prostrations. That attitude can be gained by studying the subject matter of the Lam-Rim, which is exactly what the db@home Program teaches and the purification practices taught in the db@home Program. So, the two go hand-in-hand, so to speak, and each practice, one of learning and other of purification, helps the other get better. Either practice, learning or purification, can be done alone, but it’ll be like trying to making gallons of lemonade without either the lemons or the water, or trying to keep the right proportions so it tastes best (so folk will drink it?) even as you are making it. (There’s gotta be a better analogy out there…)
Every thing you do in the Modules will prepare the foundation that you will need for the Module 14 Integration Practices. Actually, each Module’s materials will pretty much start you out on the practices done in Mod. 14 so that you will already have significant experience with the Module 14 practices when you start the actual Module or be giving you great advice as you go. Unless you have a Center near-by, it might be sometime before you are able to receive (or go to receive) the empowerments for the practices. The practices, as I understand them, can be done without empowerments, but the empowerments (the initiations into the practices) will help those practices immensely.
You note that you don’t plan on making “lifetime commitment at this point”, at this point. That’s fair enough. Sounds like you are taking careful steps. I am not sure, though, what “commitment” you are referring to. Buddhism? The course? The certificate will have no value with out a “commitment” of some sort and if you develop a real commitment, the certificate will simply be a step on the Path.
Hope this helps some.
Thubten Yeshe replies:
I couldn’t have said this better. Good advice for all.
Merry Colony adds:
Again, apologies if this has already been answered, but because there are many opinions about what one can and cannot be practiced with Vajrasattva I will mention here what Lama Zopa Rinpoche says and what you will find within our “The Preliminary Practice of Vajrasattva” book where all the references are clearly made:
According to Lama Zopa Rinpoche one can practice both the solitary Vajrasattva and also the Vajrasattva with consort without empowerment. One can also recite the Vajrasattva mantra or the Heruka Vajrasattva mantra without empowerment. What one cannot do is visualize oneself as the deity without empowerment. Also it is always better to receive the oral transmission of this or any practice, though that is not mandatory.
Many times we mix our compassion with attachment. We begin with compassion, but after some time, attachment mixes in and then it becomes an attachment trip.
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