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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 reason we are unhappy is because we have extreme craving for sense objects – samsaric objects – and we grasp at them. We are seeking to solve our problems, but we are not seeking in the right place. The right place is our ego-grasping.
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Seeking Truth: The Pilgrim becomes a Sage
Mandala‘s Michael Jolliffe is on location in Washington D.C. for the Kalachakra for World Peace event with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. His daily blog from the event will afford those of us unable to attend the opportunity to experience a bit of the excitement and blessings occurring in the capital of the United States.
Washington D.C., USA– July 9, 2011
From Michael Jolliffe:
I woke up at 6:00 a.m. exactly, threw on some clothes, and dashed out of my dorm room on foot to the nearest subway station in order to make it to the West Lawn of Capitol Hill for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s talk entitled “A Talk for World Peace.” In my excitement to get a good seat, I left without breakfast, water or sunscreen. As I was leaving the building, the TV screen behind the reception desk predicted highs in the 90s. I’ll skip the boring details, but you will not be surprised that even before the event started, I was nauseous, dizzy and burned. Ironically, despite my enthusiasm and, frankly, noble attempts to tough it out, I eventually ended up not with a good seat, but with an un-good one behind a man who seemed to be the event’s lone smoker.
The event started with prayers, musical performances, introductions from our mistress of ceremonies, American comedian and actress Whoopi Goldberg, and a video address from Desmond Tutu. By this time the sun was really starting to beat down and I was starting question whether I was really meant to be there or if maybe I was actually meant for an air conditioned café instead.
And then His Holiness’ motorcade arrived. One of His Holiness’ unique qualities is that whatever absolutely neurotic and delusional gymnastics are happening in your head at the time vanish the moment you see his face. This is my experience, anyway. Now, I won’t say that an hour later I wasn’t embittered when it became clear that I wasn’t going to hear much of the talk because of the event’s weak sound system, but just knowing that His Holiness — a formidable, flesh and blood embodiment of peace — is close by is comforting. It also helped that this was the first time I saw His Holiness the Karmapa in person (he welcomed His Holiness the Dalai Lama onto the stage). I try not to be overtly woo-woo, but it felt auspicious that I should be able to see these inspiring figures on the same stage at the same time.
When public events like this get grueling, the absolutely worse thing to do is walk away with nothing, so I strained to hear just one or two points and be satisfied with that. Luckily for me, the few points I heard on the West Lawn were later repeated during His Holiness’ formal teachings at the Verizon Center not too far away from Capitol Hill. First, His Holiness insisted that today’s Buddhists be “21st-century Buddhists,” meaning that their devotion and faith must necessarily be informed by and based in reason, logic and science when possible. He seemed concerned that contemporary Buddhists realize that understanding the Buddha’s teachings is superior to its rituals and confessed that he enjoys offering Kalachakra initiations — his “little trick” — because they are so popular, sometimes attracting tens of thousands of people, and this affords him the opportunity to explain the foundational teachings that many (including Tibetans) have never studied.
One last point that I remember His Holiness making regarded the importance of promoting the development of the good qualities of the human heart in a secular way, and that secularism does not have to be considered an attack on religious people or even religion itself. He went on to tell a story about how in ancient India even scholars who were radical materialists and did not believe in religion were called rishis — sages — not because others agreed with their philosophies, but because they pursued truth just as did the others. I was struck deeply by this story mostly because it was so clearly His Holiness’ way of saying that there’s room for everyone to live happily in society, whatever they believe. To seek truth in the best way makes someone a sage, not the conclusions they draw. Maybe it was just the sun in my eyes, but I started to tear up a little.
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