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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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Our problem is that inside us there’s a mind going, ‘Impossible, impossible, impossible. I can’t, I can’t, I can’t.’ We have to banish that mind from this solar system. Anything is possible; everything is possible. Sometimes you feel that your dreams are impossible, but they’re not. Human beings have great potential; they can do anything. The power of the mind is incredible, limitless.
Manjushri Institute, 1977, Currently unpublished
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Recently, Amitabha Buddhist Centre (ABC) in Singapore completed an ambitious holy object project advised by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. The three-year project added statues of all the Twenty-one Taras, each standing twenty-four inches high, to the altar in ABC’s beautiful gompa. As part of the October 2021 statue consecration ceremony activities, Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered a teaching via Zoom. We are happy to share the video of this teaching with a complete transcript.
Here’s a summary of Rinpoche’s teaching:
Rinpoche begins by thanking everyone listening for their daily Dharma practice, specifically for benefiting others. Rinpoche then offers praise directly to Tan Hup Cheng, director of ABC, for his decades of service to Rinpoche, actualizing Rinpoche’s wishes. Rinpoche also thanks Khen Rinpoche Geshe Chonyi, resident teacher of ABC, explaining that, “Even if you offer him skies of wish-granting jewels, not just diamonds, it is never enough. It is not enough to repay the kindness of Khen Rinpoche teaching each word, each time, each class.” Rinpoche also thanks all of the people who have worked to develop ABC and have put effort in with body, speech, and mind over the years. (Watch a short history of ABC on YouTube.)
“Without ABC having started, then all those sentient beings wouldn’t get this opportunity,” Rinpoche explains. “They would not get this opportunity to be closer to freedom from samsara and closer to achieving enlightenment. So many didn’t get reborn in the lower realms and got a higher rebirth. You have to know that—it all came from all the members who worked at different times, who dedicated their precious time to ABC.” Rinpoche emphasizes that working for the center is fulfilling His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s wishes.
Rinpoche explains that everything you do with bodhichitta covers the six-realm sentient beings and benefits all the beings you see around you. When you help one single sentient being, you are fulfilling all the Buddhas’ holy wishes. In fact, helping sentient beings is the best offering to the buddhas and bodhisattvas.
Even if you don’t believe in reincarnation and karma, Rinpoche says, you still need holy Dharma, you still need patience. Even if you don’t know Dharma, you need loving kindness and compassion, forgiveness, and moral discipline.
You also need to practice contentment and satisfaction, Rinpoche urges. Without it, it is like your mind is in hell. Your happiness has to come from your mind and your suffering has to be stopped from your mind. The mistake is believing that happiness and suffering come from the outside. In fact, enlightenment and hell are in your hands and depend on how you think.
Rinpoche then offers some practical advice for practicing thought transformation in daily life:
- When you experience suffering think that it finishes your negative karma and that you will have happiness in the future.
- When you experience suffering take others’ suffering on yourself.
Rinpoche then spends time discussing Mother Tara, who Rinpoche says is the manifestation of all the buddhas’ holy actions. The consecration of the statues followed this teaching.
Please join us in rejoicing in the completion of this beautiful holy object project, the ongoing success of ABC fulfilling Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s wishes, and the offering of this teaching from Rinpoche during the auspicious consecration event.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.
To help ensure grants like this continue toward holy objects, all are welcome to offer a donation of any amount to the Holy Objects Fund.
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The French nun Ven. Thubten Lhamo took refuge at Kopan Monastery in Nepal with Lama Thubten Yeshe in December 1979. She was ordained at Kopan in April 2017, on her sixty-sixth birthday. On November 13, 2017, under Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s advice, she started a three-year Vajrayogini retreat at Thakpa Kachoe Retreat Land in France. To conclude the retreat, Ven. Lhamo had to do fire pujas, which were done with the advice of Geshe Tenzin Loden, the resident geshe at Institut Vajra Yogini (IVY) in France. It took her four months to prepare for doing these pujas at IVY and four additional months to complete them, which happened in July 2021. As we publish this interview, Ven. Lhamo is in the Pyrenees finishing some commitments and doing more retreat.
As she was doing the fire pujas, Nicolas Brun, director of IVY, sat down with Ven. Lhamo to talk about the retreat. She shared that it does not feel appropriate to her to call it “her retreat” since so many people helped her with it. This reflection of her humble and sincere approach to practice runs throughout this interview. Please note that this interview was done in English although French is Ven. Lhamo’s first language. We are so pleased to share it with you. May it be the source of incredible inspiration for your own practice and retreat aspirations!
The Interview
Nicolas Brun: How did you decide to do three-year retreat? It is a large undertaking. What motivated you to do it?
Ven. Lhamo: So, I did not decide. I asked Lama Zopa Rinpoche for advice because I have made so many mistakes. There were many things to do. The advice was written: “three-year retreat.” I thought it was a preliminary practice. I didn’t understand. And then when I stopped working, I asked Rinpoche about this retreat, and he told me, “Vajrayogini retreat.” That’s the way it happened.
How long did it take to prepare to go into retreat? What are the preparations you made?
It took me a long time because when you do retreat you have to do nine preliminaries. Some preliminaries I had done before, but some I had not done. It took me, maybe … two years? More than one year. So I did them at different places—Osel Ling, my house, Institut Vajra Yogini, Nepal, Bodhgaya. I received help from Holly [Ansett] to know what all these preliminaries were because, again, I didn’t know anything about this. It was very funny, you know, I had no information about all this. So the main thing was this preparation.
Describe what an average day was like during the three-year retreat. What was your environment like?
For me it’s not easy to wake up early in the morning, so I woke up at 6:20 A.M. and would start quite late. But I felt okay doing like this. I was doing four sessions a day, maybe two hours each, and finishing later in the evening. I think it was okay for me to do like this. The main thing was to do the four sessions. Except sometimes when I was very tired, I would do three or even one when I was exhausted. But I kept doing my four sessions most of the time. I also had to do my normal practice. I had to cook. I went for a walk every day at lunch time because I was in a very beautiful place in the mountains, and I think for me this was a very good habit because I needed space, you know. The forest was beautiful, and there were animals. It was a good way to relax.
What advice was important to you during this retreat?
I was doing what Lama Zopa asked me to do. This was very important because most of the time I felt that I don’t understand anything, I’m unqualified, my mind is unsubdued. The only thing I had was Rinpoche told me to do this retreat. That was the only thing that could keep me there on my cushion. He knows why I am doing this. But I don’t remember that he gave me special advice. Maybe I would have needed more advice, but maybe I didn’t know how to ask for it, I don’t know. This could maybe have to come from me, but I didn’t ask Rinpoche.
For other people, I think it might be really nice if you have someone who can really help you when you feel bad. And at some point Geshe-la [Geshe Loden] here helped me, but more for practical questions like how to do the fire pujas and things like this.
But what was going on inside, I had to cope with it. I didn’t feel helpless, but maybe that’s the job to do.
What was the most difficult part of doing the three year retreat? Did you ever think about giving up?
It was difficult just to be with myself. This is always difficult because you face your mind all day long. You cannot escape. You have to cope with it and face it.
I didn’t think to give up, I don’t think so. But I was desperate, I cried a lot. I had many wounds inside. But I could see that everybody has, so that gives me more compassion for people. When I do funny things or bad things, it is because I have this wound that is not cured. But my challenge was not to get hypnotized by my wounds, but to go very deep inside the wound because then at some point it’s like it disappears. I had this experience. I didn’t think to give up because I said, “Yes, I will do.”
Were there other difficult things other than being with yourself?
Sometimes you can be sick. I became very thin during my retreat. I had problems with the liver, pain all night. And to cope with this, the main thing is the mind.
You have to accept yourself and learn to love yourself. I considered that if I don’t love myself, then I cannot love anyone because then I will pretend I love others just to gain a good feeling or to look nicer or to have a reputation or things like this. I could see it was a duty to love myself. And I wrote, “I have to love myself even when I don’t love myself.” And maybe this is the main thing I have learned. I mean, I am not finished learning this.
Because then, all of the practice is twisted, and I had this question all the time, “Where is the practice? What is the practice?” I had this question and I still have this question. It’s like you have questions, and you just follow something, and the questions are more important than the answers. This is the feeling I have; it is a process—“Where is the practice? Who am I? Who is practicing?”—because I didn’t want to just pretend.
What was the most pleasurable part of doing the retreat?
It was not coming from my practice. [Laughter.] The pleasurable part was to go outside in the woods and to see the animals, and I met the people living there, very simple people. It helped me a lot because I talked with them, not much, but yes I talked. They knew I was in retreat, but I didn’t talk about my retreat. I like people like this. No big words, no big complicated Buddhist world.
Sometimes I felt good, and I followed the advice of Lama Yeshe. Lama Yeshe said to write down things. So I had on my table a small booklet, and especially in the morning I wrote many things.
So you had the advice to have a little booklet for writing down notes during the retreat?
Yes, when the thought comes, write it down because some seconds after, it’s finished. So you have to write it down when it comes. It used to come during my first session in the morning. I started and then I write. It was the best time to write. Have it ready to write in, so you don’t have to look for anything.
Do you read through the booklet again sometimes?
I am sometimes surprised what I wrote. Sometimes nice things, yes. So it’s just like a glimpse of something.
What was the most significant thing you learned in the retreat?
What I said before, to love myself. Then, at some point, I don’t know why I had this feeling that good or bad is the same—feeling good, feeling bad is the same. I had this feeling when I finished my retreat. I lost it now.
You noticed after the retreat there was a little bit of equanimity?
I have no name [for it]. I have this feeling to go somewhere I have no name. I cannot say. Just, to love oneself. Because it’s not me, me, me. Because you can be fascinated by this. It’s just to love yourself, kind of, at the same time detached. I had this feeling that really, this was necessary. And that [there are these questions about] the practice—Where is the practice? Where is the real point? You have to [do this] work, you know? Because I can pretend, which I did before. I did pretend I was a holy being [laughs]. Then I made so many mistakes. So, yeah, Where is the practice? What is the practice? What does it mean really?
What advice do you have for others who are considering doing a long retreat?
I would like to say first that I am a very ordinary being. That means, anybody could do this retreat. Because I am just nobody special. I could do this retreat because so many people helped me all the time. So I had this feeling that it’s not my retreat.
When you feel bad, when you feel lost, at least you remember, “my guru told me to do this.” At least I had this.
Of course, to prepare the material things is so important. Like your papers [such as mail], medicine, health, teeth, what to eat. So with these things you have to be very well organized and have different solutions if things change. People can die. People can get sick. So be very clear about all this.
And then, if you are sick, what do you do? Do you go to see a doctor? Are you going to stay in your house? So I think maybe something has to be done about the caretaker. To help them to know what to do. Because when I was sick, it was difficult, and it’s like, I had to really be sure that I was sick, you know. To allow myself to go to the doctor. I waited until really I couldn’t cope with it. I went to the doctor, and one time to the dentist also.
So the caretakers, it would be important that the caretakers have training or maybe advice about how to help people during retreat because sometimes you have to make big decisions.
Yes, like to go to the doctor, I was not sure if I could wait. Do I have to go or not? I didn’t know, so that was difficult. And you have to think about what to do if people die. Because, of course, some people can die. You have to prepare to separate from your family. For me to separate from my grandson was most difficult.
Do you have any more advice?
Not to wait to be too old. You need energy and to be in good health. Because, of course, if you have pain, it is difficult. You have to know your limits and to know what you need. And for me, I had pain in the knees. But I couldn’t go see a physical therapist. I can go once to the doctor, but I cannot go every week to see them. So then, okay, you have to cope with your pain.
You are doing fire pujas to complete the retreat. How long will that last?
About the fire pujas, I didn’t know anything because you cannot know everything before starting, there are too many things to know. So then you learn little by little. When I asked Lama Zopa Rinpoche he told me to ask Geshe Loden at Institut Vajra Yogni. So then Geshe Loden spoke about making pills, 650,000 pills. Then, I had to buy a machine in China to make pills. So then, that was very difficult. But, what was nice is that many people helped me to make these pills. And during the process we learned a lot. Sometimes we were desperate during the retreat because the machine was not working. Then it was very friendly and very joyful at the same time—the feeling to help each other and do something nice. Actually it was a very good experience. So when we finished it was, “Oh! Finished!” But it is not finished because now I have to burn all of these pills. So to burn I think it will take maybe three months. Something like this.
What do you have planned for what comes next?
I don’t know what I will do next. Maybe I will go to Dorje Pamo Nunnery. I will ask Rinpoche’s advice. This is the main thing. I will offer what I intend to do, and I will ask his advice because I don’t know.
And I still have more retreats to do anyway, all the other retreats. But when I was doing the three-year retreat, I had the feeling that my life now is retreat. I didn’t have the feeling that I will finish now. It’s not that I mediate, I am not a meditator. And if I did this retreat I think it is because I am lazy, I have no discipline. So I need something strong, and then I do.
I hope you are able to find another strong project.
I will see what Lama Zopa Rinpoche says. Really, I feel him a lot. And this place, this place in the Alps, is a very nice place. Because as soon as you go outside, you have this big, big space and it’s beautiful. So this helped a lot.
Billions of Thanks from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
After the retreat, Lama Zopa Rinpoche wrote a letter to Ven. Lhamo, including the following:
Billions of thank yous for finishing this retreat … so inspiring! And great that Geshe-la was able to help so it was clear for you.
Numberless thanks for doing the retreat and dedicating the life to sentient beings, following His Holiness’ wishes and Lama Yeshe, and that you were able to complete with Geshe-la’s help—as he did two three-year retreats himself—so fortunate! I am sure Vajrayogini is blissed out and extremely pleased. Now you’re ready to go to the pure land. Now in the world there are so many problems with the pandemic, environment, etc. Now you can go to Vajrayogini pure land and there you can become enlightened very quickly, much quicker than in Amitabha pure land, as it takes more than one life there.
This is great inspiration in the world for others to do the three-year retreat of Vajrayogini.
More Advice and Reflection from Ven. Lhamo
In addition to what Ven. Lhamo said about the retreat in her interview, she also wanted to share the following with students thinking about engaging in retreat:
- Know yourself with honesty before starting.
- Have a schedule that you can keep according to your capacities and preferences, but have a clear structure and rhythm.
- Have a mentor with whom you can communicate, receive help, and clarify what you are doing and what is happening involving inner work and practical issues.
- Receive the blessing of your teacher, sometimes it is the only “thing” you have to continue.
- Solitude makes you discover and perceive new things. You go through death and craziness. It is not an intellectual reflection but a practical living experience.
- You can sing the practice, listen to audio.
- Do practical work like painting and making things.
Ven. Lhamo said, “When I finished, my first thought was, ‘This was a preparation. I would like to do the real retreat.’ To finish is not easy. … And I really don’t know what I will do after.”
Ven. Lhamo also wishes to sincerely thank the many people who helped her, including sending offerings on her behalf, helping her with the fire pujas, and preparing the pills needed for the fire pujas.
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Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche inspired thousands of students from around the world through the teachings they offered at Kopan Monastery in Nepal during the 1970s and 80s. The centers started by those early students formed the basis for the international FPMT organization. Many of those centers continue to thrive, bringing Dharma teachings to a new generation of students. This year two FPMT centers, Nalanda Monastery in France and Buddha House, in Adelaide, Australia, celebrated their fortieth anniversaries. Here’s an update on Buddha House, based on an article by Lyndy Abrams, who was both key to the founding of the Buddha House and currently serves as the center’s director.
In early December, Buddha House hosted a celebration of its fortieth anniversary. Due to the pandemic, the event was smaller than anticipated. Regardless, forty people gathered for a celebratory dinner, which included a special video from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, a presentation on the history of the center with 200 photos, and lots of shared reminiscing, laughter, and rejoicing.
In Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s video, he sends his greetings and reminisces about the times he has spent at Buddha House. Rinpoche named and thanked all the past directors many times and said they created “skies of merit” and “sacrificed their lives” with patience and dedication. He thanked all the past teachers making special mention of the incredible kindness of Khensur Kangyurwa Lobsang Thubten Rinpoche. He called him Khensur Rinpoche Guru, saying he had helped very much, was very knowledgeable, and was an expert on all the teachings. After giving specific teachings on emptiness, developing bodhicitta, and not wasting our lives, Lama Zopa finished by saying if you help the FPMT center, you help so many sentient beings and this is why the center exists. This is most important, Rinpoche says, to give the opportunity to study the Buddha’s teachings.
Buddha House’s history goes back to the 1970s when Lyndy and Will Abram attended a month-long lamrim courses at Kopan Monastery in Nepal with Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. In 1981, when Lyndy and Will heard that Lama Yeshe would be doing a teaching tour of Australia, they extended an invitation for him to come and teach in Adelaide.
In late July of that year, Lama Yeshe arrived in the South Australia capital city and taught for three days on The Three Principal Aspects of the Path. The teachings were attended by about seventy-five people, many asking if there was a local center where they could learn more about Buddhism. While in the car driving Lama Yeshe to the airport, Lyndy asked Lama Yeshe if they could start a center in Adelaide.
“Lama said, ‘Yes,’ and to call it Buddha House, Centre for Advanced Buddhist Studies,” Lyndy writes about the historic moment. “He added that it was up to the students to make it happen, and he advised that we do lamrim meditation.”
Lama Yeshe was accompanied by Ven. Thubten Dondrub on the visit, who is from Adelaide and was by then an ordained monk. Gen Dondrub, as his students call him, became the resident teacher of Buddha House in 2012. This year the center purchased an adjoining property for Gen Dondrub to live in, ensuring he is well cared for even after retirement. The center also offered him a long life puja in June. “We are most fortunate to have him as our teacher,” Lyndy writes.
Over the years, Buddha House has been served by many excellent resident teachers, who Lama Zopa Rinpoche listed and thanked in the video he recorded for the anniversary. The center has also been blessed with visits by many inspiring and well regarded teachers. In particular, in 1992 the center organized a visit to Adelaide by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, which included a multi-faith event, a Dharma teaching and Chenrezig empowerment, and a public talk attended by over 12,000 people.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has also visited Buddha House on seven occasions over the years. Rinpoche’s first visit was in 1984. Rinpoche’s most recent visit was in 2018, when Rinpoche came to the opening of the center’s new building.
“Buddha House has a very strong volunteer base, with no paid workers. Many have given over twenty years of service, either in the office or leading meditations. Some of the founding members still lead meditations,” Lyndy Abram writes. “Buddha’s Bowl Catering has brought in need funds during our evolving years with up to twenty volunteers cooking and serving food at major events. Buddha House volunteers supported the building of the stupa at DeTong Ling Retreat Centre, our sister center on Kangaroo Island, and volunteers have ensured the success of many other projects, including the initial visits of the Gyuto monks and events with the Maitreya Loving Kindness Relic Tour.”
The center has an active spiritual program that includes regular Dharma teachings and several guided meditations offered each week. They also organize several popular outreach programs, including a program for those recovering from addiction, a children’s class, programs for those with life challenging illnesses, and a mental health first aid training course. The center also mentors the Himalayan Buddhist refugee community living in the northern suburbs.
Please join us in rejoicing in all the beneficial activities of Buddha House and its dedicated students for so many years.
To learn more about Buddha House, visit their website Buddhahouse.org.
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Seasons Greetings from our December e-News!
With our warmest season’s greetings, FPMT International Office invites you to enjoy our December e-News.
This issue offers news, updates, and causes for rejoicing including:
- News about the Light of the Path Retreat 2022
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s advice on how anger and patience relate to each other
- 1,000 statues of Shakyamuni Buddha offered to His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- How to find our study and practice materials more easily
and much more!
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FPMT’s Give a Gift That Helps Others Program
Throughout the year, FPMT International Office offers a gift giving option that raises support for a few of our Charitable Projects.
Contributions, which you make on behalf of someone else, can be made to social projects in India and Nepal; offerings to Sangha; the building of new stupas, statues, and other holy objects; and showing kindness to vulnerable animals.
International Office in return provides a gift card to you that can be personalized with the names of the giver and recipient, and a short highlight about the benefits of the project supported. These cards are offered in print for mailing and also as digital e-cards that can be emailed.
Since 2015, the Give a Gift That Helps Others program has raised US$15,303 for the Social Services Fund, Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund, Holy Objects Fund, and Animal Liberation Fund, and surely brought smiles to grateful recipients.
You can Give a Gift That Helps Others through the FPMT website:
https://fpmt.org/projects/fpmt/give-a-gift/
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One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the FPMT organization is to sponsor 100 million mani retreats around the world. During a 100 million mani retreat, participants collectively recite 100 million OM MANI PADME HUM mantras. For a ninth year, FPMT Mongolia and Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling, the FPMT center in Ulaanbaatar, have organized a successful 100 million mani retreat. Tuya Purevgonchig, who became director of Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling and FPMT Mongolia in June 2021, shared the news of the completion of the retreat in a letter to Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
“I am happy to report to you that we have successfully completed the ninth Mani Retreat, a hundred percent online, in accordance with the current guidelines and circumstances of the pandemic, as instructed by the Mongolian government,” Tuya writes. The retreat took place September 6 through October 6, 2021.
FPMT Mongolia and Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling organized their first mani retreat in 2013. That initial retreat was led by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and was the first big retreat that he led after he manifested a stroke in 2011. Since then, they have organized a 100 million mani retreat annually.
Ven. Thubten Gyalmo, resident teacher at Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling, and four other nuns of Dolma Ling Nunnery in Ulaanbaatar led the retreat from 7:30 A.M. until 6:30 P.M. every day in the gompa at the center, which was streamed live to the public.
Jhado Rinpoche spoke at the retreat’s opening ceremony. He also gave a talk on the benefits of the six syllables of the mani mantra during the retreat. Geshe Thubten Zopa, an FPMT touring teacher, attended the first and last sessions, giving a talk and concluding dedications.
The center organized mantra recitations separately at the Battsagaan Temple of Gandan Tegchenling Monastery for the last three days of the retreat. Two hundred monks attended on the first day, then between thirty to fifty monks from Idgachoinzinling Dratsangs attended on the last two days.
“It was challenging and yet truly a rewarding first mani retreat experience for me as a new director. However, with the kindness of all the FPMT Mongolia staff, nuns, donors, and the Dharma students from all around the world, we managed to complete the Mani Retreat 2021 together successfully,” Tuya writes.
“This year, the total number of mantra recitations was 114,442,502. On behalf of FPMT Mongolia, I’m delighted to offer Rinpoche this mantra number with all the merit accumulated. May it be a cause for Rinpoche to have a very long life and may it steadily accomplish all your wishes for Mongolia, bringing limitless benefit to sentient beings.”
The Practice and Retreat Fund provides grants and sponsorships for students engaged in retreats such as 108 nyung nä retreats, 100 million mani retreats, recitations of sutras, and long term retreat.
FPMT.org and Mandala Publications brings you news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and of activities, teachings, and events from over 160 FPMT centers, projects, and services around the globe. If you like what you read, consider becoming a Friend of FPMT, which supports our work.
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Please Enjoy the November e-News!
Our November e-News is now available!
This issue is packed with news, updates, and causes for rejoicing including:
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s recent teaching events, activities, and new photo album
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s message for FDCW’s Compassion and Wisdom in Action conference
- Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling’s ninth 100 Million Mani Retreat, Mongolia
- Teacher Development Service Seminar at Nalanda Monastery, France
and more!
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The Foundation Service Seminar (FSS) is the “FPMT immersion retreat.” It provides essential information and nourishment for all serving, or wishing to serve, in the FPMT organization. The FSS Retreat is key to deeply understanding the FPMT organization and the attitude we seek to cultivate as we offer service in the organization. This experiential retreat helps us to actualize the advice that service is practice and to enjoy and rejoice when offering service. Séverine Savignan, who participated in the recent FSS at Nalanda Monastery near Lavaur, France, shares her thoughts on the experience:
Those of us who gathered for the Foundation Service Seminar in late September were fortunate to be able to retreat for a few days at Nalanda Monastery in France. With beautiful gardens surrounding us, a great group of thirty-seven participants settled into the monastery’s amazing gompa for five days of sessions. I’ve been living and studying here in Lavaur since 2019, and it was truly refreshing to be able to connect with other Dharma practitioners, coming from Brazil, Romania, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
While we all can look at the FPMT.org website to learn more about what the FPMT organization has to offer, attending the FSS in person helped me really understand in-depth what this international mandala is about. Facilitators Annelies van der Heijden and François Lecointre walked us through FPMT’s lineage, its foundation by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and the history of its development. We learned about Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for FPMT and the Five Pillars of Service (Dharma, Universal Education for Compassion and Wisdom, social/community service, interfaith activities, and revenue generating activities). Participants had opportunities to reflect and talk to each other throughout these sessions, making it highly meaningful.
I was quite surprised to discover the amount of resources that are available within the FPMT network to support our individual and collective practices. There are many study programs and secular materials available. In addition, there are many charitable projects around the world. Navigating all of these activities and resources is a bit like a maze. Our challenge will be using these resources wisely in order to support our respective projects.
Lama Yeshe created a sense of “family feeling” within the FPMT organization, and it was a key point of the FSS to foster that community feeling and help us set the intention for perpetuating it. Another key point was Lama Yeshe’s vision for the preservation of the Dharma. All this was quite powerful on a personal level, and I think that all of the participants went back to their respective centers and projects with many ideas and points to reflect upon.
The format of the seminar was both focused and participatory. There was so much to learn about offering service within the FPMT mandala. We could have spent two more days covering all the details. We nonetheless had time to exchange ideas during tea breaks and lunch time.
This seminar reinforced my conviction that for any Dharma project to succeed, we need a clear motivation, a solid common foundation, and an appropriate structure for doing the work. Our role while offering service within the FPMT organization is to think on how we can help support and actualize the vision and wishes of our lamas, whatever our competencies are, and whatever time we can wisely and happily give.
We know that serving a center, a monastery, a project, or a study group requires a lot of energy. And indeed, as mentioned during the seminar, I shall not forget to relax, rejoice, and rest!
Séverine Savignan is a French student based in Lavaur, France. While living in Singapore, she and her husband met the Dharma in 2015 at Amitabha Buddhist Centre. Now both Séverine and her husband study at Nalanda Monastery, while also raising a nine-year-old son.
For more information on the Foundation Service Seminar and to find out how to register for future events, visit FPMT Service Seminars.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation, and community service.
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Nalanda Monastery, located in Labastide St. Georges, Lavaur, France, is a thriving international center for Dharma study and practice. As a way to celebrate four decades of hard work and devotion, former center director Ven. Tendar and Ven. Jampa (Joris van Bakel) hosted online interviews with many people integral to the founding and development of the monastery. Here Vens. Tendar and Jampa share more on the video series and anniversary activities:
More than forty years ago Nalanda Monastery was founded in an old run-down building in the South of France. Now Nalanda is a flourishing monastery with almost thirty monks, two resident geshes, and an incredibly rich history. As a way to celebrate our fortieth anniversary, we have taken the opportunity to go back in time and see how Nalanda has developed over the years into what it is today. In addition, we want to honor Lama Zopa Rinpoche and his wish to preserve our rich history, honor those who came before us, and understand where we come from. We also wanted to do this while we still have the opportunity to hear the direct experiences of those who started it all.
With these things in mind we started a series of interviews that we call “Nalanda Monastery 40th Anniversary, Honouring Our Former Generations.” With our former directors spread out around the world and our newly acquired Zoom skills, we decided to stream the interviews, which are in English and French. The resulting video recordings create a kind of virtual time capsule, and thus they will be available for all those who come after us as well. In addition to the world-wide Zoom audience, we have a gompa filled with monks, students, and volunteers, who are all eager to learn more about the history of the place they call home.
We started the series interviewing the French nun Ven. Elisabeth Drukier, who we might refer to as our founding mother as she was instrumental in acquiring the Rouzegas property that we now call our home. Ven. Elisabeth is currently the director of Kalachakra Centre in Paris. More than forty years ago, she was the director of Institut Vajra Yogini, which is also in the South of France. One day she had to call Lama Yeshe to notify him that one of the towers of the Vajra Yogini property had burned down. To this Lama Yeshe replied with great delight, and it turned out that this event would indeed be a great event. The insurance money for the fire allowed for the purchase of the Rouzegas property. It is these kind of priceless stories that make up the history of Nalanda Monastery. Toward the end of the video, Ven. Elisabeth was joined by Ven. Chantal, who is now the director of the nearby Monastére Dorje Pamo. Ven. Chantal also had many stories to share of her memories of these early Nalanda days.
Our second interview was with the first Nalanda monk: Ven. Thubten Gyatso (Adrian Feldmann), an Australian monk who has offered service in many capacities within the FPMT organization. Ven. Gyatso shared his very vivid memories of those first nights in the old building, which looked more like a ghost house than a monastery at that time. Ven. Gyatso told a precious story about the visit by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama to Nalanda in the 1980s. As His Holiness was preparing to depart from Nalanda by car, just before stepping into the car, His Holiness stood next to the old gate and suddenly looked back at Nalanda. Time seemed to stop while His Holiness made strong prayers. This particular instant was not only recognized by Ven. Gyatso as a defining moment for Nalanda, but also by others who we interviewed later.
For our third interview, we talked to Geshe Losang Jamphel, our greatly respected and cherished current abbot. It is due to Geshe Jamphel’s incredible persistence that Nalanda is flourishing. Geshe-la came to Nalanda in 2000 and in the interview described his journey from a small Tibetan village to crossing the Himalayas into India to eventually arriving in the small French village that we now call our home. Not only did Geshe-la talk about his experiences in Nalanda, but he also took the time to thank all of those that helped him and that are still helping him today.
Our fourth interview was with English monk Ven. Steve Carlier, who joined us online from the United States. Ven. Steve served as a translator for Geshe Jampa Tegchuk, who was abbot of Nalanda in the 1980s, and now teaches at Land of Medicine Buddha in the United States. Our fifth interview was with the American student John Feuille, who served as an acting director of the monastery in the 80s and director during 1998-99. Both Ven. Steve and John talked about their time at Nalanda, mainly during the 1980s, and inspired a sense of wonder in us. As John Feuille said, “Think about Nalanda, about the whole FPMT, it is almost an impossible thing in this age.”
In a highlight of this series, on October 16, a group of former directors and people who contributed greatly to the monastery were interviewed. This interview includes memories from Ven. Roger Kunsang, Ven. Gyaltsen, Ven. Tendar, Henri Charpentier, and Stephan (Pende) Wormland. Ven. Tendar symbolically handed over the keys of the monastery to our new director Ven. Tharchin. In a separate video interview, Canadian student Jean-François Bergevin, who was a monk at Nalanda in the 1990s and then served as director from 1999-2002, shares stories from this period and also talks about the construction of the public building at Nalanda, completed in 2008. A special video presentation on the building is included in this video.
On October 18, we received a great honor when Lama Zopa Rinpoche himself offered us a live teaching from his room at Kopan Monastery in Nepal. It was wonderful to have Rinpoche participate in our fortieth anniversary celebration in this way.
Please rejoice with us for all the years of Dharma study and practice at Nalanda Monastery. May it continue long into the future.
You can learn about Nalanda Monastery by visiting their website. Find the “Nalanda Monastery 40th Anniversary, Honouring Our Former Generations” videos and more on Nalanda Monastery’s YouTube channel.
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In 2021 the Malaysian FPMT centers—Chokyi Gyaltsen Center, Losang Dragpa Centre, and Rinchen Jangsem Ling Retreat Centre—worked together with interfaith organizations to help with the COVID situation in India and Nepal, and then in Malaysia. Community service and interfaith activities are two pillars of FPMT’s Five Pillars of Service. Pek Chee Hen, president of the Vajrayana Buddhist Council Malaysia and a trustee of Losang Dragpa Centre, and Pik-Pin Goh, director of Losang Dragpa Centre and Kasih Hospice, shared the story of this work:
In early May 2021, when the sudden surge of COVID-19 patients hit India and Nepal, the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC) India reached out to IBC Malaysia, which led to a meeting with various Buddhist organizations of Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. The meeting discussed the process of donation and procurement of needed medical equipment, masks, and PPEs to be sent to India and Nepal.
The donation drive in Malaysia was named “Aids to the Buddha’s Land” and inspired Buddhists from the region to join hand-in-hand to gather as quickly as possible the equipment to save lives and protect the front liners. The Taiwan Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation Malaysia also assisted greatly in providing donations for this venture.
In total, IBC Malaysia arranged for the following donations to government hospitals in India and Nepal as well as to forty-four monasteries and nunneries in both these countries:
- 950 oxygen concentrators
- 2,000 oxygen cylinders
- 1.5 million gloves
- 58,000 N95 masks
- 2,000 PPEs
FPMT Malaysia centres, Rinchen Jangsem Ling (RJL) and Losang Dragpa Centre (LDC) respectively contributed eleven and ten oxygen concentrators to this sum, while Chokyi Gyaltsen Centre (CGC) donated RM2,000 (US$480) for purchase of masks and PPEs.
Soon after that, the fourth wave of COVID-19 hit Malaysia. With the experience of “Aids to the Buddha’s Homeland,” this group of Buddhist organizations re-convened in June 2021 and decided to do a similar fundraising effort for Malaysia coordinated with the efforts of Tzu Chi Foundation Malaysia. This effort included Christian, Catholic, Muslim, Sikh, and Hindu groups as well as various Buddhists groups. A follow-up Zoom meeting (that is available to watch on YouTube) was organized for member organizations.
The aim was to raise funds to donate critical medical equipment such as ICU ventilation and respiratory monitoring devices, high-flow nasal cannulas, ICU beds, etc., needed for some of the healthcare facilities in Malaysia. The effort was named the “Malaysia Solidarity Fund Against COVID-19.” By October, RM 31,612,556 (US$7,600,000) had been raised and RM (USD$6,400,000) worth of equipment has been donated and committed to hospitals. (See Tzu Chi Foundation’s website for the most up to date numbers.)
This multi-faith cooperation has shown that when one has difficulties, help from all directions will come and together everyone achieves more.
We are proud that LDC members and resident teachers have contributed significantly to the Solidarity COVID Fund and fulfill the Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Vision for FPMT.
Watch a video report on the work of Malaysia Solidarity Fund Against COVID-19
Vajrayana Buddhist Council Malaysia recent shared a special video of light offerings, advice, and gratitude for the Malaysian Tibetan Buddhist organizations and students involved in offering aid and support during the pandemic and to benefit all during this difficult time.
You can learn more about the FPMT centers in Malaysia by visiting their respective websites.
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The Vajrayana Buddhist Council of Malaysia, which is an association of Malaysian Tibetan Buddhist centers and organizations, has created a beautiful video of advice and prayers, featuring His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Ganden Tripa, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and many other high lamas from the various Tibetan Buddhist traditions.
The VBCM, of which the Malaysian FPMT centers are members, made a request to its teachers to pray for the victims of COVID-19 and give advice to Malaysians, who were facing many challenges.
This video is a result of VBCM’s request and includes light offerings and advice from a dozen precious teachers. In addition, many venerable ordained sangha and lay students also make light offerings. There are also many expressions of gratitude for the COVID support organized by VBCM members.
On this auspicious day of Lhabab Duchen, we invite you to please enjoy this video of light offerings, advice, and prayers from so many precious teachers:
https://youtu.be/qGbYNRsMqsk
You can learn more about the FPMT centers in Malaysia by visiting their respective websites.
FPMT.org and Mandala Publications brings you news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and of activities, teachings, and events from over 160 FPMT centers, projects, and services around the globe. If you like what you read, consider becoming a Friend of FPMT, which supports our work.
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In August 2021, Institut Vajra Yogini (IVY), an FPMT center in southeastern France, hosted a ten-day Vajrasattva retreat with Yangsi Rinpoche. Christian Charrier, the spiritual program coordinator at IVY, shared this story of the retreat.
In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the safety measures decided by the government, we could not, as usual, host Yangsi Rinpoche for our yearly Vajrasattva retreat at Institut Vajra Yogini. Still the conditions were not so bad, since we managed to organize this retreat online with Rinpoche giving talks every day from a remote location.
But this year, our repeated prayers and aspirations had proved successful! Rinpoche, out of kindness, accepted our invitation to come in person to visit us. After a few months of suspense, not knowing for sure if he would be able to travel to France from the United States, we were delighted to see him come out of the director’s car after arriving at IVY and greet all the people waiting in line to welcome him with colorful khatas, broad smiles, and “thanks” on their lips. This was August, the sun was bright, and we all had masks!
As soon as Rinpoche entered the chateau, he went straight to the gompa to do full-length prostrations in front of Geshe Tengye’s reliquary stupa. With tears pearling in our eyes, we felt so fortunate and grateful that Rinpoche had come from such a far distance and was with us in his “real” physical form to help us purify our negativities.
The next day, Rinpoche started the retreat as usual by giving Vajrasatta initiation and practice instructions. The sessions were structured as he advised, starting with prostrations to the Thirty-Five Buddhas of Confession and supplemented with Lama Tsongkhapa’s Guru Yoga. As additional methods for transforming the mind during this Vajrasattva retreat, Rinpoche had us recite the Song of the Four Mindfulnesses, Calling the Guru from Afar, and stanzas on emptiness from the Wheel of Sharp Weapons.
Those who were not able to do the whole retreat or had not been tested for COVID could follow some sessions outside on the lawn. They could also join the evening events, which were organized every other day, and attend other practices such as reciting the Praises to the Twenty-one Taras, doing fumigation (smoke purification) practice, and receiving the lung of the Diamond Cutter Sutra from Rinpoche.
On the first day of the retreat, Rinpoche had suggested that we take notes of whatever insights on emptiness and of other experiences we had to be presented during a performance planned for the close of the retreat. Many people wanted to participate, and it was challenging to integrate everybody’s ideas and present them in a coherent and playful form. After a few rehearsals, it turned out that “COVID” and “emptiness” (“vide” in French) would make a tempting play on words and help us turn difficulties into humor. Several participants performed little sketches, accompanied by music, songs, duets, dances, scarfs, bubbles, … and much laughter.
In the same way that Rinpoche had led us to the open stage in the shade of the oak trees, he brought us all into bright light around the white stupa, where all the participants could fit in a complete circle. Finally, right in front of the main door, Rinpoche sang with us a homemade song created for the occasion, called “Tong pa nyi Blues.” Indeed it chased our blues away, giving us confidence that the lama is always at our heart’s door, ready to come in … whenever we invite him.
Learn more about Institut Vajra Yogini online.
FPMT.org and Mandala Publications brings you news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and of activities, teachings, and events from over 160 FPMT centers, projects, and services around the globe. If you like what you read, consider becoming a Friend of FPMT, which supports our work.
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