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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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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.
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Exploring Buddhism
Introduction
The Exploring Buddhism Program (EB) is a foundational level program developed by FPMT Education Services. It is intended to follow the Discovering Buddhism (DB) program and complement the DB contents by exploring in greater detail various topics related to Buddhist philosophy and practice.
The EB program helps to familiarize students with the concept of text-based explanations featured in our in-depth programs. It also provides an explanation of prayers and practices commonly done in the FPMT, as well as the preliminary practices (ngondro) performed in the tradition.
The program is fully revised and is being offered at various FPMT centers. It is ideally suited for students with a good understanding of basic Buddhism, at a level equivalent to our Discovering Buddhism program, which is based on the Stages of the Path (lamrim) teaching.
For more information, please contact the FPMT Foundational Program coordinator.
FPMT centers offering the revised Exploring Buddhism in 2024
Collaboration among Jamyang Buddhist Centre (London), Maitreya Institute (Amsterdam), Nagarjuna Buddhist Centre (Madrid) and Nalanda monastery (Lavaur). Taught by Geshe Tenzin Losel and Geshe Tenzin Namdak. Available as a combination of in-person and online learning or exclusively online. Starting May 2024. Registration is now open. Details here.
Vajrayana Institute (Sydney), taught by Wai Cheong Kok. Available as either on-site or online learning. Module 2 starting in May 2024 is open for registration. Details here.
The Exploring Buddhism Modules
The complete program is divided into two sections, with four modules each.
Section One: Exploring the Mind and Philosophy
Exploring the Mind presents the mind or consciousness, our principal means for knowing reality, with its nature, functions and divisions along with mental factors that positively or negatively impact its operation. This is followed by Exploring the View, Tenets and the Middle Way that teaches the right views we need to know and realize with our mind to bring about transformation by uprooting successively more subtle levels of ignorance that are the roots of suffering. In particular, we examine the various aspects of the tenet systems of the main schools of Buddhist philosophy, culminating in the Middle Way view, which clarifies the deepest meaning of emptiness.
The tools we apply for gaining such realizations are presented in Exploring the Fundamentals of Reasoning and Debate. Here, the methods of debate, reasoning, and logical analysis found in traditional Buddhist texts are explained. The module Exploring the Sutra Grounds and Paths rounds up the philosophical aspect of the program with a presentation of the path for mental development on the way to liberation and enlightenment.
Details for each module are listed below.
- What the Mind Is and How It Works
- Destructive and Constructive Emotions
- Seven Types of Awarenesses
- Conceptual and Non-Conceptual Consciousnesses
- Main Minds and Mental Factors
- The two truths, four truths and dependent origination
- Introduction to the four Buddhist tenet schools with emphasis on their presentation of the two truths and selflessness
- Introduction to the Middle Way school
- The way to generate the correct view of selflessness according to the Middle Way school
– recognition of the object to be refuted, presentation of different types of reasoning (four-point analysis, sevenfold reasoning and reason of dependent origination)
- Understanding the three-fold structure of a classic text (refuting others’ systems, presenting the author’s own system and eliminating disputes)
- How to debate
- Introduction to basic Buddhist concepts drawn from Collected Topics
- Introduction to Signs and Reasoning (Tarig)
- How one progresses from a wrong view, through the three types of doubt, to correct assumption, and finally valid inference
Section Two: Exploring Meditation and Practice
It starts with Exploring Meditation for us to gain confidence integrating intellectual understanding into the fabric of our being by generating more focused levels of awareness immersed in the Dharma. To proceed on the stages of the path to enlightenment, it is also important to have a good roadmap. Exploring the Path allows us to get an overview of all topics of contemplation for the entire spiritual journey.
Then, in order to develop our full potential, we need to apply the teachings of mind training that convert all experiences, especially hardships, into fuel for path. Exploring Mind Training will explain these invaluable topics. As a support for developing realizations, it is also essential to engage in prayers and practices that purify negative karma and accumulate vast stores of merit. This is emphasized in the traditional preliminary practices beginning with relying on a teacher, going for refuge and generating altruistic motivation, prostrations, mandala offerings, purifying with the Vajrasattva mantra and others. Clear instructions for doing these practices in the correct and most powerful ways are presented in Exploring the Conditions for Realizations.
Details for each module are listed below.
- How to Organize a Meditation Session
- Basic Types and Components of Meditation
- How to Train in Calm Abiding
- The Stages in which Mental States Are Developed
- The Four Close Placements of Mindfulness
- Based on HHDL’s commentary in Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment
- Three Capable Beings and Relying on a Guru
- Precious Human Rebirth and Impermanence-Death
- Lower Realms, Refuge, and Karma
- Renunciation
- Bodhichitta
- Concentration and Wisdom
- Explanation of the Bodhisattva’s Garland of Jewels by Atisha
- Explanation of the Eight Verses of Mind Training by Langri Tangpa
- The Threefold Activities of Learning, Reflecting and Meditating for generating Realizations
- The Favorable Conditions for Realizations
- Support and Motivation for Realizations (include refuge preliminary practice)
- Purification of Obstacles to Realizations (include Vajrasattva and prostration preliminary practice, etc.)
- Accumulation of Positive Momentum for Realizations (include mandala offering preliminary practice, etc.)
- Receiving Blessings that Ripen Realizations (include guru yoga)
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