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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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Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching:
Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins this teaching explaining how his current video teaching series from Kopan Monastery started, due to the virus and having to stay in one place rather than traveling the world to give teachings. He thanks everyone who has been listening to the teachings on video and reminds us that the general idea of these teachings is lojong (thought transformation).
Due to old habits, we can spend our whole life distracted by attachment, anger, ignorance, pride, jealousy, and all the delusions, thus wasting our precious and perfect human life. But now, Rinpoche explains, we have the opportunity to learn Dharma through the internet without needing to travel.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama is giving live teachings online (including for Saka Dawa). Many other great teachers are also teaching online. This is a chance to receive the Dharma thanks to technology without having to spend money on travel. Technology can bring great benefit but, of course, also great harm and can be a waste of time, depending on how you use it.
The antidote to wasting our lives is to practice pure Dharma, meaning without attachment to the eight worldly concerns, without grasping to the pleasures of this life. To renounce that is to practice pure Dharma. We can do this by meditating on the lamrim, especially the graduated path of a lower capable being, which is renunciation of this life and the pleasures and happiness of this life—to see these as suffering and the causes of suffering.
Attachment to the pleasures of this life not only makes your life meaningless, it also creates negative karma. Since beginningless rebirths we have been following attachment; that’s how strong the habit is. To break this habit, we must meditate on perfect human rebirth and its usefulness, and how it is difficult to find again. We have to remember death and impermanence, which defeats the enemy of attachment to the pleasures of this life. Meditating on impermanence and death is not just for beginners.
Those who haven’t met Dharma, don’t realize they are wasting their lives under the control of attachment, clinging to the pleasures of this life. If you use technology in the wrong way, you can totally waste your life and the lives of others. Even if you think it is enjoyment to spend so much time on technology (such as the iPad), if done with a poisonous mind, with attachment, anger, your “enjoyment” is not enjoyment at all because actions arising from ignorance, anger, and attachment are non-virtue, and necessarily create negative karma.
Every day, every minute, every second you have the freedom to achieve happiness by thinking in a positive way. You can change, no matter how “bad” you are. We can use Milarepa’s life as inspiration for this. By following the guru’s advice, one can say goodbye to samsara.
To generate compassion, you need to know the suffering of the six-realms sentient beings. For example, pretas, a type of being, have bodies that are dry, and they can’t find food or drink for tens of thousands of years. Due to their karma, even if they see water, or green plants, their gaze dries the water up and makes it disappear. They have mouths the size of the eye of a needle, but stomachs as big as a mountain. Even if they do receive food or drink, it cannot fill up their stomachs. There is also a second type of preta, which has flames coming from its mouth. A third type of preta has knots in its neck. The pretas all have unmanageable, unbearable suffering. Rinpoche makes charity to the three different types of pretas.
We invite you to go deeper into the topics presented here, plus many others, by watching Rinpoche’s video and reading the full transcript of Rinpoche’s teaching.
Watch Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teaching “How to Avoid Wasting Your Life and the Sufferings of Pretas“:
https://youtu.be/YKNAayMudMA
- Read the transcript of Rinpoche’s teaching “How to Avoid Wasting Your Life and the Sufferings of Pretas.”
- Rinpoche mentions Medicine Buddha practice, which can be found in A Brief Meditation-Recitation on Guru Medicine Buddha
- Rinpoche also refers to the practice Offering Water Charity to the Pretas
- Dedication verses for COVID-19 Crisis Teachings
Watch His Holiness the Dalai Lama LIVE!
Watch a live webcast of His Holiness the Dalai Lama leading a ceremony for cultivating the awakening mind from his residence in Dharamsala, HP, India on June 5, 2020, beginning at 9:00 a.m. IST. (This is 4:30 a.m. BST on June 5 in London, UK; and 8:30 p.m. PDT on June 4 in Los Angeles, California, US. Other times can be found using Time Zone Converter.) People are requested to please follow social distancing rules while viewing the live webcast.
For links to the live webcast, live translations in thirteen languages, the schedule of upcoming webcasts, and more:
https://www.dalailama.com/live
Find more advice and video teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche from Kopan Monastery during the coronavirus pandemic and also links to videos in translation, transcripts, MP3s, and more:
https://fpmt.org/fpmt/announcements/resources-for-coronavirus-pandemic/advice-from-lama-zopa-rinpoche-for-coronavirus/
Practice advice from our teachers, Dharma study-from-home opportunities, and more can be found on the page “Resources for the Coronavirus Pandemic.”
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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*powered by Google TranslateTranslation of pages on fpmt.org is performed by Google Translate, a third party service which FPMT has no control over. The service provides automated computer translations that are only an approximation of the websites' original content. The translations should not be considered exact and only used as a rough guide.Happiness and suffering come from your own mind, not from outside. Your own mind is the cause of happiness; your own mind is the cause of suffering. To obtain happiness and pacify suffering, you have to work within your own mind.