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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,
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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Arts for Enlightenment
Ven. Robina Courtin talked to Peter and Denise Griffin in October last year [1996] in London, England about their work as sculptors of Buddhist statues. A new FPMT project, The Enlightenment Project for Purification and Merit, based at Chenrezig Institute in Queensland, Australia (see below) will employ sculptors and artists such as Peter and Denise and will reproduce and distribute their work for students and centers worldwide. Peter and Denise will be in Queensland from March until June, leading workshops at Chenrezig Institute, on the Gold Coast and in Brisbane.
Robina: Tell us about your work.
Denise: I’m a trained sculptor. I studied in Camberwell School of Art in London. It was three years’ training.
And this is where you met Peter?
D: Yes, he and I studied the same thing.
When did you get involved with the Dharma?
D: When we left college we both got involved with the Dharma by going to a center of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order in London. I went initially because of skin problems I was having. An alternative doctor who was doing hypnotherapy made me realize you have to look after the mind as well as the body. I started breathing meditation practice and my skin completely cleared. It was quite impressive.
When we left college we decided that we wanted to go traveling. Peter suggested India. We managed to get a scholarship from the Indian National Trust for Art and Architectural Cultural Heritage to study temple architecture in northern India, making drawings along the route. We went to Bodhgaya for the first time.
What year was that?
D: That would have been 1988-1989. And that’s when we met Lama Zopa Rinpoche, in Bodhgaya.
Did you like him straight away?
D: Peter did! At that point I didn’t have any straight connection. We had just done a 21 Vipassana retreat, and immediately after that we met Rinpoche, who was teaching The Heart Sutra in Bodhgaya. And then we carried on traveling, ending up in Dharamsala.
We went to Tushita, the center there, and started to make tsa-tsas – relief images of the Buddhas – through Trisha Donnelly, who worked at the center. Trisha said all we need are molds. And Peter said, “I can do that!” So that’s where it all began.
For me, though, still not much connection with Buddhist art. I didn’t relate to the images. We looked in museums everywhere we went, seeing statues and thangka paintings. I found them interesting but they really didn’t touch my heart.
Say more about how you thought as an artist before, and talk about your transition from Western art.
D: In Western art you could be making a political statement or a personal statement. Basically, I was trying to find out who I was and trying to integrate that into a visual language. My artwork was personal, and I had used to collect and collate things. From these resources it would grow and evolve, ending up as an abstract sculptural form. It would be an expression of the deeper feelings I had inside of me, but using, like I say, an architectural support for the form.
There was a connection between me and Peter in our artwork. By our final year at college both Peter and I were using churches as a source of reference for our artwork, in a very abstract way, in a more spatial context. We were interested in these images because of their spiritual nature, as a source of inspiration for modern sculpture. That’s where I was at before we started traveling. And the traveling was focused on looking at temples: Buddhist, Hindu and Jain.
We weren’t practicing Christians, but were interested in churches as a three-dimensional form. I had traveled around Europe the previous summer and had visited a lot of old churches in the various countries, looking at not only the way they were decorated with mosaics and frescoes but also the form/space of the church itself. It was this that excited me rather than the way it was decorated. I used this as source material to make my own abstract sculptures; I used the spiritual energy that I had experienced by looking at the churches. Looking back on it now, I guess this was the beginning of my exploration of the spiritual needs within myself.
I think I changed a lot from being in India. When I got back I did a course in Tibetan thangka painting and that really helped to connect me to that imagery. I really enjoyed it. To be an artist you’ve got to really want to do it. You’ve got to be 100 percent dedicated. Making Buddhist art was a way of linking my two main interests. I think that is why the Tibetan tradition appealed so much to me because it is so rich, the images are so rich and so powerful.
I imagine that Tibetan thangka painting techniques are the very opposite to those in Western art; that following someone else’s pattern would be like losing your individuality, stifling your creativity.
D: I always believed the structure was important. If you’ve got the structure, then you have something to push against. If you have no structure, you are wandering aimlessly – really. But if you have structure, you can, in fact, be more creative. The kind of Western art that appealed to me was medieval Christian art, and so you’re going back to the early tradition where there is an underlying geometry or structure. So it really didn’t contradict. And when I showed the thangkas that I was doing to artist friends who had known me for a long time, they said that they didn’t see any contradictions, although the visual form was very, very different. What they saw was the same attention to detail and method in both traditions.
I don’t see that Western and Tibetan art are so different, in the sense that in both you are trying to capture an essence. I mean, in abstract art you’re trying to capture the essence of an energy. In any good art that energy has got to be there.
However, many of my Western friends now see me doing a craft. They would no longer classify it as fine art; they no longer see what we’re doing as high art. I would disagree because you are trying to go beyond the basic image. You’re still trying to capture the energy in the same way you are in Western art. To me now it is the highest, the most valuable way to dedicate my time, because of the spiritual benefit to others and myself.
So, Peter, how was it for you when you first contacted Buddhist art?
Peter: Straight away, the Dharma really struck a chord. At the time I had just about given up the idea of making art altogether; I only wanted to study and meditate. It was Rinpoche who brought me back into making art again. As soon as I met Rinpoche that became my whole connection with the Dharma. Rinpoche was teaching me the Dharma through art.
Tell us about your first meeting with Rinpoche.
P: As Denise said, it was in 1988, in Bodhgaya. It was one of those strange karmic things. Somehow I had heard that Lama Zopa Rinpoche was arriving that day and at a certain time, so I went along to see what this lama, whom we had heard such a lot about, was like. I presumed there would be lots of people there but when I arrived there were maybe four people. I felt embarrassed, so I slunk into this little shadow that I found near the Japanese temple and hoped that no one would realize I was there. Rinpoche saw me and gave me one of those Paddington Bear stares that go right through you! I still remember the feeling. I thought, “Whoa, this is spooky!” He just kept staring at me and staring at me. I didn’t know what to do.
That was the first time, but my first real meeting with Rinpoche was in London a few months later. I had made my first statue and wanted to offer this to Rinpoche. Previously in India I had met people who were doing their tsa-tsa preliminary practice and learnt that it was really difficult to get hold of the metal molds that are used to form the clay tsa-tsas. I had begun trying to clean up some tsa-tsas for people and had promised I would try and make some bronze molds when I got back to England.
What do you mean make molds – actually carve the images?
P: No. A mold is a negative impression taken from a positive form, in this case a small clay relief image of Buddha. Once you have metal mold, one can stamp out as many impressions as one wishes of that Buddha into clay. To begin with I began making bronze molds of old Tibetan tsa-tsas, but quite often the image was not so clear and so I would try to work on those, to clean up the image. Spanish nun and artist Ven. Jampa Chökyi, who lives at Tushita, had a beautiful Tibetan Vajrasattva tsa-tsa, really beautiful. Some parts of the image were not so clear because it was very old, so to make another mold from that would’ve been very difficult. So I worked with her for a while in Dharamsala, trying to clean it up. When I got back in England I made a bronze mold for her and some molds of some other tsa-tsas. I really enjoyed what I was doing, so I tried to model a tsa-tsa from scratch, as Rinpoche had told one monk to make tsa-tsas of a particular deity and we couldn’t find an existing Tibetan image. When I look back the artwork was so clumsy. I offered it to Rinpoche when he came to London. Rinpoche was very kind and patient and offered a lot of advice, and from that moment on it was clear what I was going to do.
What was your interest in Western art?
P: I wasn’t really in it long enough; I was only at art school for four years. In college, I really wanted to just learn techniques – bronze casting, welding, woodwork, etc.
What did you think, then, when you studied?
P: It seemed to me the whole system was geared towards exploring emotions, but it always seemed to be negative emotions, because they’re the easiest to see, the most tangible. It was about exploring the negative side of the mind. And when you are a part of that you don’t see anything wrong with it. But that’s college life. It’s good fun! People around me would try to bring forth and perpetuate this angry state in order to express something.
And in England during the ’80s, art became very conceptual. People would use a material, like nails or like jelly, which triggers something off in a person’s mind. It wasn’t at all about carving in wood or stone in the traditional sense.
D: To get into the art you have to know something about the artist. You have to know their history and how they are using that material to express a certain story. It is sometimes very hard for an outside person to get in. And that was always a problem for me. The art always seemed to be talking to a small educated audience and not a wider audience. Artwork should be about communication. The Buddha image communicates with a lot more people and on many different and very profound levels.
In Western art there seem to be so many styles, so many views, so many concepts: the product of the deluded mind?
P: Yes, you’re exploring the deluded mind. For example, Camus and other French writers really understood and expressed well suffering, but they didn’t have any way out of it. To convey that suffering to other people is what the artist can do, but I don’t think there is a real method to cease that suffering.
D: I think that what you are doing is identifying with these emotions; you can express anger, say, and then identify with it, because that’s a very easy one. The brush marks on a painting, for example, or the combination of forms in a sculpture, its texture, the combination of certain hues juxtaposed: any of these visual tools can capture and evoke anger in the viewer.
But what do you do with this emotion? Artists become skilled at identifying emotions and regurgitating them, but then what do you do? What do you do with them once you recognize them? Where do you take them? How do you transform, get beyond, them? Maybe if we had stuck with making Western art, these questions would have been answered as we matured within ourselves – I don’t know. But I’m content with where I am now because the Dharma tells you where to take them and how to dissolve them. That’s the exciting part.
How would you describe the purpose of Tibetan art?
P: I think it’s a very profound tool to change the mind. I think the Buddha was an incredible psychologist. Visual imagery is a very immediate and profound way to convey a whole pantheon of conscious and subconscious information. It works on so many different levels. As well as having an immediate impact upon the mind, through the power of the holy beings there are many layers of experience conveyed to us through the visual form. The holy image does nothing other than convey the Buddha’s holy mind; it conveys to us, in two-dimensional form, or three in the case of a statue, the qualities of love and compassion, and as such it is unbelievably inspiring for us. It triggers within us that potential. Enlightened beings are all around us, but due to karma we can’t see them.
We identify very strongly with information that comes through our visual senses, and I think, on a very subtle level, it provides an excellent vehicle for the holy mind to communicate with us. The visual senses are very important to us, and I believe that as humans we identify more strongly, feel more comfortable with the figurative form. Like when people are looking at the sky watching the clouds. Perhaps they’ll see something that looks like a face. The mind becomes very happy because it sees something it can label. “Oh wow! There’s a nose and there are the eyes.” Somehow the mind makes some sense out of all this abstraction and it feels happy within that.
How can we express compassion to another person? Whilst compassion remains an abstract emotion for the ordinary being how would this be possible? The image of Chenrezig, Buddha of Compassion, does this. On a subconscious level, the image becomes a framework for us to be able to “see” and get closer to the holy mind of the Buddha. The sounds of the sacred mantras and the chanting of pujas must be working in the same way, but through the auditory sense.
The image of Tara, for example, gives us a glimpse of loving kindness. It works on so many different levels. It’s working on a very subconscious level through the blessings of the deity, an also within the image itself there is the whole aspect of sacred geometry working within the form – the way the lines within the form are directing the mind in a certain way. The color green, Tara’s color, is a very peaceful, loving color – already it pacifies the mind. All of this will have a strong impact on the mind of anyone who just even glances at the image – particularly because of the blessings of the holy object. On top of all this the practitioner will be able to add more and more layers as he or she does the meditations and retreats of Tara, say, and thereby form a stronger and stronger bond with her. All of the person’s experiences will get layered onto the image of Tara. The image becomes something like a coat hanger upon which the practitioners can hang all their additional experiences of Tara. As the bond becomes stronger and stronger, the image of Tara embodies more and more of a personal experience of Tara – loving kindness. You’ve got something very tangible in front of you in which exists Buddha’s holy mind.
D: By using the image and trying to identify with that, it helps you understand what you are aiming for within the meditations, I think.
What do you mean?
D: Well, when you look at the older paintings and statues, they evoke a feeling, an emotion. Like the little Lama Tsong Khapa statue Rinpoche gave me to work from. I just feel blissful when I look at that, and I’m not quite sure why.
Maybe it’s the realization of the person who made it.
P: Yes maybe, because you can’t stop being a part of what you are making. Your energy just goes into it. Somehow in trying to do the work, you have to try to get into the meditative state. And so it’s really helpful to look at the work of previous artists who have achieved that and learn from them.
It seems there are two things involved. There’s the technique, and then there are the inner realizations. You can look at something where the technique isn’t so good, but the person who made it had some inner qualities and that makes you happy. Then you can see something that was made well, but it lacks heart.
P: yes, that’s very true. In the art texts it talks about how the Buddha comes through the artist and onto the canvas or into the statue; the artist becomes a medium. In the olden times in Tibet, the whole environment was so pure and everyone was practicing purely – no distractions. Everything, even technology, was geared towards the Dharma – the only wheel ever invented in Tibet was the prayer wheel. They didn’t have water wheels, they have water prayer wheels! So I think at that time this kind of artwork would have been much easier. The whole environment and lifestyle must have been so supportive of and conducive to this kind of artwork.
Tibetan art is practiced, is inseparable from practice.
P: Exactly!
Talk about your experience with artists in India, how that evolved.
P: We went back to India for a second time in 1991. I had been wanting to take proper teachings from a Tibetan sculptor, so I went in search of one. Later on I found out that there are hardly any statue makers left within the Tibetan tradition. There are a lot of Bhutanese statue makers, however, because the Bhutanese government has really encouraged the training of artists, but they follow a slightly different proportional measurement lineage to the Tibetans. Rinpoche recommended that I find a Tibetan teacher, and I was very fortunate to be accepted as a student by Kesang Dorje-la, my Gen-la (teacher). He has done a lot of work for His Holiness the Dalai Lama and is a very highly respected statue maker.
Do you know how the traditions evolved?
P: No, but the image evolved initially from tsa-tsas being carried back home from India, along the pilgrimage routes, by the pilgrims and early teachers of the Dharma. The style of the artwork naturally evolved as the Dharma grew within the various countries, but the roots were very strongly placed within the early Indian tradition of art. The main difference is in the features, not so much the proportions as these were all laid down by Lord Buddha in the scriptures. Within the Tibetan tradition there are differences in the style, according to the area within Tibet. For example, the closer to the Chinese border one goes, the rounder the faces become, like the face structure of the people of those areas.
Talk about learning to be a statue maker.
P: Traditionally it’s a nine year apprenticeship. You spend the first year making flowers and things just to get you used to working with the tools and the clay. Later you would start making faces, faces of Buddha, repeatedly, again and again; you’d just make faces all day long, all different sizes. They are made hollow, like a mask. Gen-la would say, “Make one three inches high, then make one a thumbnail high, then make one two feet high.” Again and again and again, all day long making faces and continually checking with your teacher. When you’ve finished, Gen-la would scrunch up the clay face and make you start again – I think so that you don’t get too attached! This is where you would really learn the proportions – many imprints on the mind. Slowly the teacher would introduce you to a different type of face. The art of the bodhisattva’s face, the main peaceful ones: Manjushri, Chenrezig, Vajrasattva; and the peaceful female bodhisattvas. Then he’d teach the wrathful deities.
According to tradition, generally you would do a nine-year apprenticeship, though sometimes students would go through more quickly. Throughout the whole time you’d also be working with your teacher on whatever job he’s doing, as his apprentice. If he was making a statue that required flames in the back, he’d get you to do the flames, he’d show you first and then you would do it and he’ll correct. Maybe you’d make the hands or the dorje or the robes, but not the main elements of the statue. He would always work on the faces and such, and then slowly you would progress in your learning.
Talk about the techniques, how you make statues.
P: There’s three main ways. The most common way is clay, and into the clay they would mash up Nepali paper. It’s a very fibrous paper, which is soaked in water overnight and then beaten into the clay, which gives it strength. The clay always contracts by about ten percent when the water evaporates, so the clay cracks, and this has to be filled again and again. The fibers inside the clay give it extra strength, and a clay statue can last for hundreds of years in a dry climate like Tibet.
Depending on how big the statue is they’ll either make the statue hollow, like you would with a coil pot, or for the bigger statues you put the prayers in first, and build the clay around them – you are kind of making a basic shape of Lord Buddha in prayers, encased in clay. Mixed into the clay, the statue maker will put relics from holy saints, earth from all the holy places in India and Tibet, water from the holy rivers, stone from places like Mount Kailash. It’s really a special process.
When the statue maker is working on a big statue, the whole community will come together. Some people will roll the mantras that will fill the statue, others will prepare the clay – and others will make the tea! It’s great because as well as all the sponsors, who are of course very important, there is a role for everyone in the community. This is something I would really like to see happening in our Western centers; it really brings the community together.
I was in south India working on a large Padmasambhava statue with my teacher, and the whole community came together and was just so devoted. They had gathered earth from Bodhgaya, Sarnath and the holy places in Tibet, and water from the holy Ganga River, and relics from lamas who had passed away from their monastery, and it all went into the clay.
How would you start?
P: Well, you start off with the lotus. You would make the ground plan of the lotus and work up from that, making the walls of the lotus as you go up. On a large statue you would fill the statue with prayers as you go along. Then you go to the next level, which might be up to the moon disk, working your way to the top of the statue like this.
So this is one of the three ways they make sculptures.
P: Yes, another way is beaten copper, used for the big statues. His Holiness established a school in Dharamsala that does a lot of this. With this method one can make huge statues from many pieces, from very thin sheets of copper that have been beaten to the shape, and then riveted together. The statue of Guru Shakyamuni Buddha in His Holiness’s temple in Dharamsala was made like this.
The other method would be to cast in bronze, which the Tibetans learned from Nepal. This method is still used widely in Nepal. A wax statue would be made, and then through a process called the lost wax process, the wax would be cast into bronze or copper. This method can only really be used on small-scale statues, although it’s possible to cast the statue in pieces and then assemble later. The huge statue of Lord Buddha on Lantau Island in Hong Kong was made this way, and I believe Rinpoche’s statue of Lord Maitreya in Bodhgaya will be constructed using the same process.
In the Tibetan tradition, by far the most common method is to use clay, and although I no longer use clay, I follow the same process.
What material do you use then?
P: I use a Western clay substitute, which can be modeled like clay but sets as hard as stone after a few hours. It is incredibly strong and it means that I can carve into the statue and continue to model until I’m happy – or rather until Rinpoche is happy.
How long did your apprenticeship last?
P: Oh, about eight months.
What happened?
P: I’d get the papal finger from Rinpoche to go off to do some work at Kopan. I really learned a heck of a lot from Gen-la and I really love him. It’s sad because statue-making does seem to be a dying tradition. It’s so sad! I mean Gen-la, he is not so young now, he is about sixty-eight and his eyesight is going. He can’t make anything smaller than two feet. When I show him my tsa-tsas, he just can’t see them. He’s got a very open mind, and I think he enjoyed having a Westerner around. I’d teach him a few little bits, like how to cast in silicon rubber, which he quite enjoyed. He didn’t want me to go, but he knows that Rinpoche is my guru. Rinpoche has become my main statue teacher by far. Same for Denise.
How did Rinpoche learn?
P: Well, Rinpoche knows everything! When Rinpoche is talking about making a deity, he’s taking about the qualities of the deity, not “how to make” a deity – he really is. You can see that he is seeing the deity there when he’s talking about making a statue. For a traditional artist, Vajrasattva’s face is within the same classification as Manjushri, same as Amitayus or Chenrezig. When Rinpoche is talking about it, he’s talking about the quality of Vajrasattva, he’s not talking about the quality of Manjushri. They’re very different. And he’s talking about that. So it’s a very, very different way of teaching. It’s so personal.
A few years ago I was staying in the same apartment as Rinpoche in Hong Kong and Rinpoche asked me to make an eight-foot statue for the center in Taiwan. Before I left Hong Kong, Rinpoche would come out of his room each day and describe to me how the deity should be made. Rinpoche explained everything, from the crown down to the toenails, describing how to make each part. Rinpoche would go into what looked like semi-meditation, and would push his cheeks around, trying to express how he wanted the cheeks to be, and he would make the most beautiful mudras (hand gestures) to explain how to make the art of the hands. Amazing! Of course, the art of the statue was nothing like what Rinpoche had wanted, but that just shows my limitations.
Denise, tell me about how Rinpoche taught you, how you finally got to start making statues.
D: I thought of making thangkas because I love color, but I’m a sculptor, not a painter. I did a thangka painting course with the German artist Andy Weber and really enjoyed it, and so continued in that vein. When we went to India the second time Peter took sculpture classes and I took thangka painting instruction. I had two wonderful Tibetan teachers while we lived in Dharamsala. And then the sculpting began when I was asked by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to work on a small portrait statue of Lama Yeshe. It was wonderful looking at photographs of Lama and watching videos of him. So that was the start. I never pushed from my side to made statues. I always used to really enjoy going to visit Peter and his teacher and just watching, then Rinpoche just requested me to do another statue.
When was that?
D: Two or three years ago. Previously I had asked Rinpoche, I said, “I’m trained as a sculptor but I’m thinking of doing thangka painting. Would it be more beneficial that I learn statue making?” He said both for me.
P: What did he say?
D: He said sculpt, paint, meditate and study.
P: Didn’t Rinpoche say to paint during the day and make statues at night?
D: Paint daytime, sculpt nighttime! I’ve never found the energy for that. Now I think it’s clear Rinpoche is requesting the statues. I’m very happy to be a sculptor.
The job in Taiwan, to make a big Thousand-armed Chenrezig statue, how did that happen?
D: Basically Rinpoche requested me to do it. Peter was already there, working for a year at Jinsui Farlin, the Taipei center. Peter helped give me the confidence to do the statue because it’s the biggest I had made – more than twenty feet high – and technically challenging. Peter has more experience so helps me a lot.
Tell us about it.
D: It was in a small nunnery in Puli town in central Taiwan.
P: It’s in a very, very beautiful location.
D: It’s where most of the Buddhist monasteries are clustered in Taiwan, very lovely, and I think the most peaceful place I’ve ever lived. Rinpoche says it’s a wonderful place for practicing Dharma. The statue was for a nunnery surrounded by other small nunneries, in the countryside, so all my neighbors were monks and nuns.
P: There are 500 monasteries and nunneries and it’s just a small local town. There are bamboo mountains, mist, the whole trip, just like a Chinese painting.
D: Yeah. There were two nuns organizing the building of the nunnery, and then there was me building the statue; the nunnery was being built around me. The building was there but the windows weren’t – these big empty spaces with the birds flying in and out of the windows.
How did Rinpoche want the statue?
D: I followed the traditional proportional drawings for a Chenrezig statue. Rinpoche gave me photographic examples of Tibetan statues and said use these for reference. I made a face and then I sent it to Rinpoche to check what I had done, to see whether it was correct or not, and then Rinpoche would send me details of the corrections to be made. The main thing Rinpoche was concerned with was the face. He also told me how he wanted the robes and other things.
How long did it take you?
D: I think it took eight months. I worked on the statue in situ, but where the form was repeated a lot, like the 1,000 hands, I worked with a factory and they made casts.
For the other 998.
D: Yes! Taiwan is very well set up. They have a good tradition of artists making Buddha statues; they’re very familiar with that kind of work. And so for the gilding and the painting of the eyes and small hands it was done in the factory, then brought back to us within 10 days. What’s so wonderful about Taiwan is that people are so generous and devote that they just wanted to offer to Chenrezig. Peter was there to help me in the beginning, with the armature and the basic structure. Because it’s big, it’s very heavy. We drilled structural supports into the wall and hung it from a metal armature.
P: An armature is a steel frame.
It’s not free-standing?
P: No. It looks like it is but it’s not.
D: The students from the center were fantastic: they rolled the abundance of prayers needed to fill the statue. And a small group of Kopan monks was in Taiwan at that time making sand mandalas; they also came and helped with rolling up prayers and did a blessing ceremony before we began putting the prayers around the armature. We got to the point where we had a basic form made from prayers, which I then built around, modeling and carving the clay-like material, but more strong, until I was happy with the final form.
What tools did you use?
D: The tools are the same as a Tibetan artist uses. You basically carve your own tools out of sandalwood. You make your own tools for each job.
P: It has to be sandalwood.
Why?
P: It says in a text that the tools should be sandalwood, because it’s sweet smelling. Actually it’s very practical. I’ve tried many different woods: it was my rebellious mind, “Oh pine smells nice.” I’ve tried lots of different hard woods but sandalwood glides across the clay so nicely. Other woods get kind of cold. I don’t know why it is – Buddha’s blessing? And the tools have to be blessed by the lama.
D: Along with that you use drills and grinders.
P: Make from sandalwood … I’m joking!
D: One thing about working on a big statue is that the community really has to get involved. Like assembling the 1,000 hands; that was a community project. And people came and helped me arrange the small hands and glue them onto the wood.
P: It’s good when the community gets involved.
D: And then the carpenters helped me lift these big panels with the thousand arms on them. It’s good when the builders get involved as well, people who aren’t part of the local Buddhist community.
P: They always feel connected afterwards, always.
How did you manage with languages?
D: Well, I’d been at Khachoe Ghakyil, the Kopan nunnery, the year before so I was used to listening to people speaking English around me, but in Puli no one speaks fluent English at all, so it was very simple: lots of hand movements. Sometimes it’s pleasant to be free from so much chit-chat. It’s good for the work – to be a bit quieter.
What did you do in Kopan?
D: I made my first life-size statue, out of clay and using traditional Tibetan techniques. I was really nervous to go to a Tibetan community and to make a Tibetan-style statue.
P: In front of Tibetan statue-makers. Men.
D: As a female with no traditional Tibetan statue training, that was quite a challenge.
How were you accepted?
D: With the lamas there was no problem, they’re always very accepting. I think everyone else was a bit amused that a woman had art skills. The women just don’t get trained. I mean they get trained as thangka painters and then they get married and have children and that becomes a full-time occupation, so they stop. But I don’t think there are any Tibetan women trained as sculptors. That was quite a novelty for them. And I enjoyed being in the nunnery, doing something like that as an example for them. I think life in the nunnery is about women becoming strong and independent. It felt good.
How long were you there?
D: Almost a year. I learned a lot from the experience of being at the nunnery and I felt very privileged. I’d never been in female energy like that before. There were 90 nuns there at that time (there are 140 now), and the energy felt so different. I always loved going up the hill to Kopan, but the energy felt so different. I would have never imagined that before. It was wonderful being with a community of women. Just being able to relax and be yourself without the relationship between men and women, which is very subtle and very strong all our lives. To not have that male influence, for the most part, was wonderful, I really enjoyed it. It’s very harmonious at Khachoe Ghakyil. And living with Tibetans like that – I’d lived in Asia but I’d always been with Western people. It was really fantastic because their way of thinking is so different. And there was a lot of warmth, a lot of love within the community. It was wonderful.
You have some future plans, I hear.
P: Yes. This is a new phase, I think, for both of us. It’s really difficult, moving around. The logistics of carting around 180 kilos of tools and artwork from place to place – I don’t have the right mantras to get on planes without paying excess baggage! And a lot of the original pieces were getting broken. Also, the visa restrictions make the work difficult sometimes. The idea of a base for the workshop has become quite important, which is what we’re trying to do here at Jamyang in London.
What have you got at the moment?
P: We’re renting a room at Jamyang for our studio, a very nice space. It’s important for this kind of work to be based in a Dharma community. We’re very fortunate to have sponsorship this year from a number of sponsors, very, very kind sponsors.
D: And it’s good to be in a center where the teachings are available to us, because often we were living in Dharma centers but not being able to participate because of the language barriers.
P: Now, a new FPMT project has recently been established in Australia, which will be reproducing and distributing our work, making it more available to the centers and to individuals. It is Rinpoche’s idea and he has named it The Enlightenment Project for Purification and Merit. It’s all quite exciting!
The idea came up when Roger Kunsang, Rinpoche’s attendant, suggested that FPMT organize a business, mainly to reproduce and distribute artwork. Rinpoche wants lots of new artwork made by Denise and me, and hopefully the Enlightenment Project will be able to support us both to make this possible.
What does Rinpoche want you to make? Tsa-tsas?
P: Well yes, but there are many statues to be made also. Tsa-tsas are my favorites; I feel happiest when I can help people to do their preliminary practices, by making a tsa-tsa of which, perhaps, there is no Tibetan example. I really feel strongly about the tsa-tsas; that’s how I got so involved in the Dharma in the first place. I guess it’s karma. As far as I am aware, there’s no one really making original tsa-tsas nowadays. Now people write to me and say, “Rinpoche has asked me to do Vajrasattva tsa-tsa practice, I need the Medicine Buddha at the top, at the bottom….” They are amazing combinations of deities that are specifically to help that one person. Rinpoche is like a doctor prescribing medications. There’s no way that one would ever find such specific tsa-tsas, so I try to do. That’s what I really enjoy doing, what gives me the most satisfaction. I feel that I can help people, even if I can’t do the formal practices myself.
What are you making now?
P: Well, I’ve just finished making a statue of the 21 Taras and a statue of 1000-armed Chenrezig. Rinpoche has just checked them both and we have already started reproducing both of them – The Enlightenment Project is doing it.
What’s next?
P: When I saw Rinpoche at Kopan in 1995, he wrote out on the back of a postcard of Boudhanath stupa a list of work he wants made. The next on that list is a larger tsa-tsa of the 35 Buddhas. But it looks like first I will be making a nine-foot statue of Buddha Shakyamuni for Jamyang here in London. I guess I will get back to my postcard list after that. I think that that postcard will keep me busy for at least 15 years!
At the bottom of the list, in big capitals, Rinpoche wrote, “…and last but not least, the Lama Chöpa Merit Field.” This probably the most complicated image one could possibly make, encompassing, as it does, the whole pantheon of Buddhas, bodhisattvas, lineage lamas and protectors: in all there are about 350 deities. They all sit in a particular order upon a huge throne, which is supported by a huge tree. I thought that I would make each deity about three inches high, making the whole structure about seven feet tall. The way I made the 21 Taras statue was really an experiment to see whether the same method would work for the Merit Field statue. Each Tara is cast in a separate mold, and then painted separately. She has her own seat on the supporting tree. It works.
The idea is for each center to have one of these Merit Field statues in their gompa, and it can be made by lots of students. It’s a perfect way to learn about and visualize the Merit Field. The basic background, the empty Merit Tree and all the offerings, will be cast in a huge seven-foot rubber mold. Then students can cast each Buddha separately from individual rubber molds, just like making ordinary tsa-tsas, then paint or gild them and place them onto the correct part of the tree according to the scriptures. I hope that Rinpoche doesn’t ask anyone to make 100,000! (May be I shouldn’t say that: it’d be quite good karma!)
I was so happy when Rinpoche asked me to make this statue. I had been praying so hard to be asked. For me, this is the crème de la crème of all possible jobs. It will take at least 12 years to make the original Merit Field; that’s allowing for an average working time of twelve days per deity – and this is probably a bit optimistic. But I can’t think of a more beneficial or joyful way to spend 12 years. Now I should pray that it can happen.
What about other artists getting involved in projects?
P: I’m sure more artists will get involved, I hope so. It’s not an easy vocation. You have to spend a lot of time, you have to be very concentrated. There’s a lot of technical stuff to know. I think that for a Westerner, even if you don’t use clay, it’s invaluable if you can learn how the Tibetans work with the clay, how they build statues. This is so important. It is the most important thing.
Apparently the first thing that the statue maker checks when somebody wants to learn to make statues is whether the person is really into the Dharma. It is the first thing. It is not whether or not they are a good artist. It has nothing to do with that. Actually the nine-year training program could train anybody. If you’ve got the Dharma, then you have the confidence, the path, everything is there. It doesn’t matter if someone is an amazing artist. It’s definitely not easy. You’ve got to have faith. The work is a holy object. It doesn’t matter what material or how the art looks. The Tibetans have total belief that once it’s been consecrate, it is the deity. I think if a Westerner hasn’t seen that, it would be difficult. I think in general, Westerners don’t see it, they still see the statue as art work and not a holy object. Tibetan art is not about having your name signed at the bottom.
The Enlightenment Project for Purification and Merit
With the growth of the Buddhadharma in the West and beyond, there is an increasing demand for holy images such as statues and stupas to grace the meditation halls and grounds of new centers and monasteries. And more and more individuals are taking on the practice of making tsa-tsas, small relief images of the Buddhas.
The Enlightenment Project for Purification and Merit, a new FPMT activity named recently by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, will sponsor sculptors and artists such as Peter Griffin and Denise Griffin to make such holy images.
“Holy objects have incredible power to enable sentient beings to purify negative karma and to accumulate merit,” says Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
The Enlightenment Project is making such powerful images available to many people by sponsoring sculptors and artists such as Peter and Denise Griffin to make statues, stupas and tsa-tsas, and by making them accessible through an international distribution system, including mail order.
All income generated by the project will be use to expand and enhance the services offered by the project and to support the artists.
Contact information for The Enlightenment Project for Purification and Merit can be found at the Chenrezig Institute listing in the FPMT Center Directory.
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- Teaching a Good Heart: FPMT Registered Teachers
- Like Nectar on Flowers: The Selfless Service of FPMT-Registered Teachers
- The Simile of a Cloud
- Mandala Talk: Ven. Thubten Chodron on “Insight into Emptiness”
- Begin with Doubt
- The Seventeen Pandits of Nalanda Monastery
- ‘Everybody Needs Universal Compassion and Wisdom Education’: An Interview with Lama Zopa Rinpoche on UECW
- ‘Everybody Needs Universal Compassion and Wisdom Education’: An Interview with Lama Zopa Rinpoche on UECW [Unedited Transcript]
- Contest Winners: Deciphering the Guru’s Grocery List!
- Illuminating the Darkness: Helping Kathmandu’s Street Kids
- FPMT Around the World Photo Gallery
- ‘She Is Not Looking for Another Man’
- Ever Shining Consummate Sun
- My November Course
- ‘You Are His Daughter and You Want to Help’
- Your Prayers and Dedications ‘Have Power’
- Editor’s Choice – Media Reviews
- Half the Woman: Losing Weight for Rinpoche
- Taking Online Dating as the Path
- Waidangong: Shaking One’s Way to Health
- October
- La joie de l’étude : une interview de Guéshé Kelsang Wangmo
- Khadro-la on Using Stupas to Minimize Harm from the Elements
- 16 Actitudes at Centro Yamantaka in Colombia
- Children and Teens Programs Take Root and Grow at Losang Dragpa Centre in Malaysia
- The Joy of Study: An Interview with Geshe Kelsang Wangmo
- Publishing the FPMT Lineage: An Interview with Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive Director Nicholas Ribush
- Key to the Cave
- The Practice of Writing: An Interview with Dinty W. Moore
- Craig Preston on Teaching and Translating Classical Tibetan
- Loneliness
- The Qualities of Good Food
- Where I Needed to Be
- Meet Geshe Ngawang Sonam: Hayagriva Buddhist Centre’s New Resident Teacher
- Stay Low and Go, Go, Go: Fire Safety Training at Kopan Monastery and Nunnery
- Rinpoche’s Decision
- Insight into Emptiness
- Editor’s Choice – Media Reviews
- January
- Mandala for 2011
- January
- The Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition: Looking to Mongolia
- Tibet, Tibet, I Have to Go to Tibet!
- Youth in Refuge
- Lama Yeshe in London, 1975 (Video Recording)
- Hippie Era: Looking for Meaning in Our Lives
- Tsog Adventure
- Transformative Mindfulness and the 16 Guidelines in Canada and North America
- 16 Guidelines at Akshay Charitable School, Bodhgaya, India
- Taking the 16 Guidelines into South African Schools
- 16 To Live By Update
- Educación Universal Update
- Outings and Expeditions with Ready Set Happy
- Three Ways to Help Animals
- Meet Sera Je, the Dog!
- NHS Videos for Carers
- Cittamani Hospice Service’s Annual Memorial
- Mercy Relief to Thai Flood Victims
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama in San Jose, California
- Making Business Work for FPMT
- Bhutan’s Prime Minister is Serious about Happiness
- Resources for “Peaceful Jihad”
- Yoga for Health
- Addiction Workshops at Mahamudra Centre
- Nine Questions About Vegetarianism
- An Interview with Jetsünma Tenzin Palmo
- A Visit for My Mother, A Crash Course for Me
- Lights and Rainbows: My Struggle
- A Love Letter to My Valentine: Let Me Tell You Who Our Cupid Is
- A Young Lass, A Manangi
- An Open Letter To B. Alan Wallace
- Editor’s Choice
- April
- E. Gene Smith Obituaries
- Engaged Buddhism: Compassion in Action
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche in London, 1975 (Video Recording)
- Photo Gallery
- Engaged Buddhism Resource Guide
- Trailers for “Meditations from the Multiplex”
- Raw Food Resource Guide
- The Healing Power of Juice Fasting
- An Interview with Anila Ann McNeil
- Dagri Rinpoche at the FPMTA National Meeting
- An Old Story of Faith and Doubt: Reminiscences of Alan Wallace and Stephen Batchelor
- Editor’s Choice
- July
- Practices for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Long Life
- The Dissatisfied Mind of Desire
- Don't Stop! Go Now!
- ¡No pares! ¡Ve ahora!
- Leading with the Mind of a Servant
- Practices to Control Earthquakes and the Four Elements
- El retiro de la vida
- Protection from Radiation
- Morning Intention and Breath Counting with Children
- Interview with the Authors of the Recently Published Winning Ways
- Buddhism in the Trenches
- Cuando el gurú manifiesta un ataque
- The Hidden Toll of Australia’s 2011 Floods
- His Holiness Spreads Wisdom of Universal Human Values and Religious Harmony
- “Peace Through Inner Peace,” His Holiness Visits Minneapolis
- Hurray!
- Anger Always Hurts Me
- La rabia siempre me hiere
- Move, Breathe and Be Kind
- Working with Addiction
- Гнев всегда причиняет вред Мне
- הכעס תמיד פוגע בי
- Ian Green: Buddha’s Builder
- Big Love Excerpt
- Thinking Like a Thief
- Robert Page’s Art for Liberation Prison Project
- Ethics on My Mind
- Surrendering to Monkeys: Letting Go of the Self
- The Kindness of Lama Yeshe and My Mother
- What Goes Around, Comes Around
- Editor’s Choice
- October
- An Idea to Begin to Repay the Kindness
- Remembering the Kindness of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Courageous People of Tibet
- Remembering the Kindness
- Dalai Lama on The Spirit of Things
- Harry O’Brien Introduces His Holiness to Australian Football
- His Holiness in Melbourne, Australia 2011
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2011 Chenrezig Gompa Talk
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Vajrayana Institute’s Happiness & Its Causes Conference
- Luka Bloom Shares “As I Waved Goodbye” with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- REJOICE! FPMT Offerings to His Holiness in Australia
- Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup
- A Message from Kopan Monastery
- A note on Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup’s passing
- Discovering Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup’s Relics
- Madre, padre, maestro, amigo: La bondad incomparable del querido Khensur Rimpoché Lama Lhundrup Rigsel de Kopan
- Người Mẹ, người Cha, người Thầy, người Bạn: Lòng Nhân Từ Vô Song của Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup Rigsel Cao Quý
- Interview with Lama Lhundrup
- Lama Lhundrup Videos
- A Thank You Puja at Kopan Monastery
- Caring For Lama Lhundrup
- Un père, une mère, un enseignant, un ami : L’incomparable bonté du vénéré Khènsour Rinpoché Lama Lhoundroup Rigsèl de Kopan
- Lama Lhundrup: An Old, Dear Friend
- Memories of Lama Lhundrup
- My Love Affair With Kopan Monastery
- An Aspect of Lama Lhunrup Seen at Kopan
- The Qualities of Lama Lhundrup
- The Kindness of Lama Lhundrup
- Thus I Have Heard: An Offering to the Participants of the First FPMT Translation Conference
- Creating Compassionate Cultures
- Ants Spread Dharma
- New Goats for Animal Liberation Sanctuary
- It Doesn’t Need to Be Either/Or
- Vegan Pumpkin “Cheesecake”
- Teachers Discuss the Future of Buddhism in the West: The 2011 Garrison Institute Conference
- The European Buddhist Union and Engaged Buddhism
- Socially Responsible Investing
- Panchen Losang Chogyen Gelegzentrum Makes a Plan for World Environment Day
- Meher Baba Clearly Told Me in a Dream
- Gelek Sherpa Photo Gallery
- Sarah’s Journey
- A Pilgrim’s progress
- Big Love Excerpt
- FPMT News Around the World Photo Gallery
- Editor’s Choice
- January
- Mandala for 2010
- January
- Back Over the Mountains
- Compassionate Action for Dogs and Donkeys in Dharamsala
- Confidence to Change the World
- Dharma at the Dollar Store
- Editor’s Choice
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- FPMT News Around the World
- How to Meditate
- Snapshots of Buddhism in the West
- The Practice of Motherhood
- The Unspeakable – Spiritual Dryness
- April
- FPMT’s First Holy Object Project
- Holy Objects Are Rare in Prison
- Notable FPMT Holy Objects from Around the World
- The Maitreya Project: Big Love, Universal Love
- Types of Holy Objects
- Why Holy Objects Are Precious and Wish-fulfilling
- Editor’s Thanks
- Nothing to Trust in Appearances
- Who is Maitreya Buddha?
- Story of the Bouddhanath Stupa
- Sacred Sites Around the World
- Holy Objects Resource Guide
- David Zinn’s FPMT Photo Montage
- FPMT News Around the World
- Animal Liberation in Mexico
- Wrestling a Whale with Bodhichitta
- Shamatha in the Indian Buddhist Tradition
- It Really is all About Me (and My Ego)
- Obituaries
- Write for Your Lives
- Power to Hope, Power to Heal
- Editors Choice
- July
- Dying is Better than This Flower
- Like Nectar on Flowers: The Selfless Service of FPMT-Registered Teachers (Geshe Section)
- Like Nectar on Flowers: The Selfless Service of FPMT-Registered Teachers (History Section)
- The Ever-Changing Forms of Buddhism
- An Interview with Khensur Jampa Tegchok
- Meeting Ven. Amy Miller
- FPMT News Around the World
- Still Cooking
- The ‘Roo from Black Saturday
- MAITRI – Where Every Individual Matters
- Welcome to Root Institute!
- Tara Children’s Project
- Editor’s Choice
- FPMT TEACHER TRIVIA ANSWER KEY
- October
- January
- Mandala for 2009
- January
- April
- July
- “The Sink”
- CPMT 2009 Representatives Meet for Six Days at Institut Vajra Yogini, France
- Don’t Just Sit There … Circumambulate!
- FPMT News Around the World
- Geshe Potowa of the 21st Century
- Inner Peace and Happiness during Three-Year Retreat
- No Desire but Plenty of Bliss and Void
- The Passing of the Holy Master Venerable Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen: Sadness, Joy, Inspiration and Blessings.
- October
- A Taste of Liberation
- Building Community: Priorities for FPMT Sangha
- Center History Amendments
- Commentary on the Epithets of the Buddha
- FEATURED MEDIA: Editor’s Choice
- FPMT News Around the World
- Integrating Lam-Rim into Daily Life
- Liberating Horses on Saka Dawa
- Spoggy the Sparrow: A Real Dharma Bird
- The Dharma School Comes Home
- Training for Community Life: An Interview with Sister Jotika
- Uncounted Cost of Samaya
- Mandala for 2008
- February
- Advice from Lama Zopa: A Thousand Benefits
- Aspiration
- Begin Again
- Everything’s Local in the Global Community
- Further Explorations
- Giving Negativity a Body Blow
- Langri Tangpa’s Eight Verses for Training the Mind
- Life in a plaster cast
- Maitreya Project Heart Shrine Relic Tour
- Maitreya Project: Setting the Record Straight
- Making Merit
- Mind Training, The Tibetan Tradition of Mental and Emotional Cultivation: Part II
- Monsoon Meditation
- Society or the Individual
- Tantra Comes from Buddha
- Thanksgiving Report from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- The Tenth Course
- The Works of Geshe Jampa Gyatso at Pomaia
- April
- A Letter from a Student to Lama Zopa
- A Truthful Heart
- A Year in the Life of FPMT
- Art as Dharma
- Berni Kohnen
- Dealing with Feelings
- Emergency Buddhism: Part II
- Essential Life Practices
- Flexible Retreats: How to Retreat from our own Delusions
- Graduation Time!
- Henry Lau
- Lama the Businessman
- Manis by the Millions
- On the Environment and Meditation
- Ready, Set, Go!
- Shifting the Attitude: Embracing Community
- The Evolution of the Virtual Thangka
- The Importance of Lam-rim and the War Against Delusions
- The Tara Institute Healing Meditation Program
- What Is a Root Guru?
- June
- A Nation in the Spotlight
- An Appeal to the World from His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- Beatrice Ribush: Special Tribute from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- Choden Rinpoche Touches Hearts of Prisoners, Officers and Staff in Australia
- Compassion for a Killer
- Conversation without End
- Establishing a Firm Foundation: International Mahayana Institute (IMI)
- Lama Yeshe’s American College “Experewence”
- Leading Chinese Intellectuals Speak Out
- Letter from the Publisher
- Life at Sera Je
- Maitri’s Microcosm
- Obituaries
- Prayers from Kopan
- Robert Thurman on the Situation Inside Tibet
- Summer Days at a Kids’ Camp
- Support His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Tibet
- The Caves of Maratika
- The Dharamsala Experience
- The Perfect Altar
- Where Waves and Water Are One
- Who Am I, Really?
- Why We Love War
- Yangsi Rinpoche on the Need for a Plan
- An Interview with Ven. Professor Samdhong Rinpoche
- August
- 2008 International Sangha Prayers for World Peace
- A Blessing for Marine Life
- About Prayer: A Retreat
- Accentuating the Positive
- And My First Question Is …
- Becoming Maitreya
- Cleaning the Whole Mirror
- FPMT Puja Fund
- Geshe Lobsang Jamyang Reborn
- Long Life Puja for the Dalai Lama: A Student’s Experience
- Mexican Dharma Celebration
- Mouse in the House!
- New Abbot at Nalanda Monasteiy
- Obituaries
- On the Importance of Meditation
- Ordination: Caught Between Two Cultures
- Powerful Ceremonies
- Pujas by the People
- The Abbot: When East Meets West
- The Benefits of Namgyälma Mantra
- The Dharma of Politics: Adventures in Interdependence
- The Monks at Nalanda Monastery in France
- October
- ‘Why Does the Buddha Wear Lipstick?’
- 16 Guidelines for Happy Families
- A Great Adventure for Teens
- A Volunteer’s Experience in Bodhgaya
- Buddha’s Café
- California Mud
- Camp for Teens
- Compassion through Art
- Dharma in My Life
- Dog-tired at a Nyung-nä
- First Encounters
- Glorious Italian Days and Nights
- I’m Really Not There
- It’s Cool to Be Kind
- Kadampa Center’s New Building is Consecrated
- My Root Guru: Lamp on the Path to Enlightenment
- Obituaries
- Peace Begins with You and Me: LKPY Turns One
- Rare and Important Manuscripts Found in Tibet
- Reaching Out to the Young
- Relying on the Guru
- Sitting at School: The Case for Contemplative Education
- The Last Hurrah
- The Reasons for Studying the Four Noble Truths
- Three Turnings of the Wheel of the Dharma
- To Be Truly Free
- Wheel-Turning Day World-Wide Recitation of the King of Glorious Sutras Sublime Golden Light
- Winning Gold
- February
- Mandala for 2007
- February
- A Dharma King Takes Shape: The origins of Buddhist Art
- Contemptible Dreams, Remarkable Rinpoches
- Fur and Feathers and Other Sentient Beings
- How Khedrup Je Became Entrusted with the Tooth-relic
- Lama, the ad-man
- Liberation for our Brother and Sister Animals
- Loving Kindness Photo Contest: First Winner
- More River than Rinpoche
- The case for not eating our friends
- When Tibetans Found Their Voice: Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy from 1200-1600
- April
- “Ask a Lama” Revisited
- 12 Ways to Create Good Karma
- A Last Letter from Lama Yeshe
- A Remarkable Feat by Extraordinary Men: The Western Geshe in Two Acts
- A Room Full of Role Models: The Geshe Conference in Sarnath
- A Young Monk Runs Away: The Humble Beginnings of a Legendary Geshe
- Be Careful What You Wish For …
- Building the Land of Kalachakra
- Ideas to Make Life Better
- Lama the Environmentalist and Art Teacher
- Loving Kindness Photo Contest: Second Winner
- Masters in Our Midst
- Mystic Tibet: An Outer, Inner and Secret Pilgrimage
- Other Titles in Tibetan Buddhism
- Radical Solutions for Transforming Problems into Happiness.
- The Four Subscripts, Continued
- The Master from the New Generation – Geshe Thubten Sherab
- The Rise of the Geshe-ma
- To help oneself – or others? That is the question
- Transforming Desire into Wisdom with Vajrayogini
- Vajrayogini Retreat Explained
- What Does a Geshe Do for a Center?
- What is a Geshe?
- June
- ‘Anyone Can Be a Buddha’
- A Breath of Fresh Air
- A Clear and Knowing Mind
- A Stone Made of Heart
- About Doubt
- Architecture of the Mind
- Clarifying the Status of the “Geshema” Degree
- Garden of Enlightenment
- How to Establish a Daily Meditation Routine
- In Another Person’s Shoes
- Lama Learns to Drive
- Loving Kindness Peaceful Youth: The Beginning
- Loving Kindness Photo Contest: Third Winner
- Molting
- Motherhood as a Path to Realization
- Obituaries
- Subscripts Concluded and Word Order
- The Dharamsala Experience
- The Real Chöd Practice
- The Value of Study
- Vegetarianism: A Healthy Debate
- Venture into the Interior
- Young Tulkus Give Contemporary Advice
- August
- What Exactly Is Merit?
- A Journalist Undone
- A Venture in Real Estate
- An Introduction to Tibetan Prefixes
- Buddhist Monastics Get Together
- Developing Wisdom
- Economics and the Dharma: Coming to Realize That All Profit Is Loss
- Green Tara Rising
- How to Be a Happy Meditator
- Integrating Ngondro into your Daily Meditation
- Kurukulla: A Work in Progress
- Loving Kindness Peaceful Youth
- Obituaries
- Please Recite the Golden Light Sutra for World Peace
- The Baby Minder’s Preliminary and Purification Practice
- The Benefits of Wearing Robes
- The Compassion and Wisdom Knowledge Base
- The Foundation of All Good Qualities
- The Soothing of Madness and Sorrow
- The Way to Meditate: The Importance of Mindfulness
- Tibetan Cooking
- October
- A Water Bowl Marathon
- About Connecting with a Teacher
- Achieving Inner Happiness Through Meditation
- Bhutan’s Velvet Revolution in Reverse
- Dalai Lama Urges Introduction of Bhikshuni Vows into Tibetan Tradition
- Eight Hundred Words on Education
- Getting to Know the Four Schools of Tibetan Buddhism
- Heart Advice of Achos Rinpoche
- Heart to Heart
- How to Garden Without Killing
- How to Let Go
- In Praise of Silence
- Kim’s Lama: Spiritual Quest in Kipling’s Novel
- Lama Yeshe and the Sand Tray
- Nepal Sanctuary for Animals Underway
- Obituaries
- Suffixes and Finding the Root Letter of a Syllable
- Teaching the Language of an Ancient Culture in a Modern World
- The Importance of Human Affection and Love
- The Iron-Bridge Man
- What is Anger?
- Will All the Volunteers Please Stand Up?
- December
- Dalai Lama receives highest honor from the US
- Disappointment and Delight: The eight worldly concerns
- Each Faith Enhances the Other
- Lo-jong Mind training, the Tibetan tradition of mental and emotional cultivation: Part I
- Making friends with money
- Meanings and Meditation
- Nurturing baby bodhisattvas to stop the rot
- Our Relationship to Resources
- Recognizing and supporting the Sangha community
- Thank You and Rejoice!
- February
- Mandala for 2006
- February
- Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- Getting to the Cushion: Temporary Ordination at Gampo Abbey
- Keeping It in the Family
- Kindle Now the Dharma’s Light
- Letting Go of Fear and Trembling Takes Courage
- Maitreya Project on track
- Monsters (Un)incorporated
- Obituaries
- On a Wing and a Prayer
- The Dream: One Thousand Maitreya Statues
- Universal Compassion and Wisdom for Peace
- April
- June
- August
- Altruism versus Co-dependency
- Buddhism in Latin America
- Following the Eightfold Path in the exercise yard
- Found in translation: A compassionate heart
- Journey to Sikkim
- Letter from Bodhgaya: Monastic Economics
- Milarepa: The Movie
- MILAREPA: TIBET’S GREAT MYSTIC
- SERVICE BY ANOTHER NAME …
- Stepping into the Abyss: Experiences on Retreat
- October
- Ask a Lama: Celebrating all the traditions
- Confessions of a Buddhist Environmental Activist
- Dealing with Grief
- Eco-Ethics: Engaging in the Practice of Compassion
- ENGAGED REALISM
- How Prayer Can Help: Reciting the Sutra of Golden Light
- Letter from Bodhgaya: Arboreal antidote to an inconvenient truth
- Peace promoter honored
- Reducing your Ecological Footprint
- The Giving Tree: A voice for the singing river
- THE PRACTICE OF GURU PADMASAMBHAVA THAT SAVES FROM EARTH DANGER
- Vipassana: The Mindfulness-Awareness Meditation
- What Does Al Gore Know that Everyone Should Know?
- Whirlwind Down Under: Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Australia and New Zealand
- Blessing the World’s Waterways
- December
- A Summer in Kenya
- An intensive meditation experience for teenagers Five-day retreat at Land of Medicine Buddha, California, December 27 to January 1
- Building a monastery
- Calling all young photographers. Win prizes!
- Materialism of the Gaps
- Mongolia: Dalai Lama urges shared responsibility
- Of Siberian Cranes and Broken Worlds
- Preliminary Practices by the Zillion
- The Spirit of Christmas: SILENT MIND, HOLY MIND
- Using Meditation to Gain Knowledge of Mental Reality
- Where Are All the Western Geshes?
- February
- Mandala for 2005
- February
- “Universal Education” Dharma for the 21st Century
- According to Je Tsongkhapa
- FPMT Masters Program: The Graduates
- Letter from Bodhgaya: Travels with my father
- Life as a Monk
- New FPMT College Planned
- Rock climbing without arms:
- Study Versus Meditation: Do they complement or compete with your practice?
- Tibetan art unfurled
- Tushita: The Place of Joy
- April
- Buddhism in the Family: Dealing with the “Terrible Twos”
- Letter from Bodhgaya How wonderful it would be if…
- Nam-tok: The hallucinatory bubble
- Science and Buddhism: Measuring Success in Meditation
- Science and Buddhism: Studying Compassion
- The Dharma of Sitting
- Tsunami disaster: Children helping children
- Tsunami disaster: Potowa Center helps the victims
- June
- Albert Einstein and the Dalai Lama
- From News Roundup: Making a difference in the courts of law
- Integrating Tibetan and Western Medicine in the Treatment of Anxiety
- Is Nothing Sacred? The Truth about Emptiness
- Personal experiences in healing rLung
- Spirituality and Work: Antonyms or Synonyms?
- The Mathematical Proof of Emptiness
- The Point Is to Practice
- August
- October
- December
- February
- Mandala for 2004
- Mandala for 2003
- March
- A Celebration of the Feminine
- Celebrating the Feminine in Buddhism
- Creating the Work You Love
- Finding Larger Truths for Peace
- Giving Birth to Healthy Life
- Possibilities for Contemporary Buddhist Living
- Romancing a River
- Speaking to Create Harmony
- Taming Your Wild Elephant-like Mind
- The Attendant Who Pledged Her Life
- The Dharmic Politician
- The Face of Buddha in Mongolia
- The Girlfriend with a Lama
- The Inner Activist
- The Working Woman
- Turning Rage to Love
- When Clothes Make the Nun
- When Does a Stem Cell Become a Human Being?
- When Loneliness Is Your Closest Friend
- You Are Not a Buddhist Missionary!
- June
- September
- Advice for Western Practitioners
- Beginnings: History in the making
- Buddhist Psychology? Buddhism is Psychology
- Conversations with a Nun: Opening the Prison Door
- Reflections on the importance of arousing Bodhicitta
- The challenge: Kids and their ‘stuff’
- The living likeness of Lama Thubten Yeshe
- The more things change …
- The Secret of Happiness
- To debate or not to debate: That is the question
- December
- A Cheerful Face on Death
- A grief observed
- Advice on Long Retreats
- An interview with Yangsi Rinpoche
- History in the Making
- How to Prepare for and Not Be Afraid of Death
- Parenting as a Path
- Science and Buddhism Meet with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- Trust and Mistrust
- Who are we really, and to whom do we pray?
- March
- Mandala for 2002
- March
- An Engaged Military
- An Extraordinary Modern-Day Milarepa: The Life and Death of Geshe Lama Konchog
- Coming to Terms with “God”
- Dealing with Depression
- Embracing Anger
- Good Life, Good Death
- Ground Zero
- Heaven, Earth, and Mankind Luck
- Holy Wars in Buddhism and Islam: The Myth of Shambhala
- Letting Go of Codependency
- Life Among the Ruins
- Mandala for Universal Peace
- Natural Born Buddhist
- Open Letter to a President
- Revenge is Far From Sweet
- Shalom! A Letter from Jerusalem
- Stanger, Enemy, Friend
- The Case of the Dirty Debutante
- Transforming Problems into Happiness
- Unbearable Compassion
- War and Peace in Tibetan Buddhism
- Why Worry?
- June
- A Healthy Relationship
- A Korean Holiday
- A Teacher’s Responsibility
- A Word from Lama
- Art Sets Kids Free
- Capturing a Living Likeness
- Counsels from My Heart
- First Assemble the Ingredients
- First, assemble the ingredients
- Garuda Rising
- Grappling with the Guru Principle
- Hi-Tech Volunteers
- Just Get On With It!
- Mos and Other Conundrums
- Out of the Mouths of Young Monks
- Relationship with the teacher
- Spiritual Authority, Genuine and Counterfeit
- Students Speak
- The guru as Buddha —or like Buddha?
- The Harmony of Retreat
- The Sounds of Silence
- Thinking Like a Thief
- Trials and Joys of a Disciple
- Wake Up Call
- Working with the Western Mind
- Zen Moments of Truth
- September
- A Garden’s Teaching
- A Jewish-Buddhist Encounter
- A Liberating Corner of a Prison
- Advice for Retreat Practice
- An Ecological Challenge
- Bearing Witness
- Bön and Benedictine
- Dharma in the Workplace
- Do Good Bosses Lead – Or Just Manage?
- Eva’s Good Heart Pillows
- Gethsemani: The Conversation Continues
- Inner City Haven
- Love and Freedom
- Making Peace with Our Inner Family
- Meditation in the Workplace
- Misunderstandings
- Non-Gardening in a Rainforest
- Science to Prove Benefits of Compassion
- Spirit in business
- Spirit in Business: an Oxymoron?
- Start the Day Right
- Stupa: The Mind of a Buddha
- Symbols of the Enlightened Mind
- The Beauty and Benefits of Offering Flowers
- The Calvert Community
- The Simple Art of Meditation
- The Twins: Faith and Doubt
- The Way of the Ani Yunwiwa
- Tibetan Must Preserve Their Culture
- Very Young Practitioners
- Why am I doing this?
- Why Am I Doing This?
- Wise Women Healing
- December
- A Light-filled Day for Lama Tsongkhapa
- A Month in Shangri-la
- Bad Boy Miller
- Comfortable with Uncertainty
- Flexibility
- From Lama Zopa’s Letter to His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- Inner and Outer Disarmament
- Pilgrimage to Tibet
- Please, Ma’am!
- Relics Explained by Lamas
- Relics on Tour
- Safe Sex and Healthy Babies
- Stitching a Culture Back Together
- The Bliss of Practice
- The Case of the Talkative Traveler
- The Future of Tibet
- The Habit of War and Suffering
- The Secret Life of Power Places
- Unlearning Hate
- March
- Mandala for 2001
- March
- June
- A sacred trek round Mount Kailash
- Cutting to the Chase
- Dharma teachers: seven years in the making
- Emptiness on My Mind
- Keanu Reeves on the small screen
- Maha Dalai Lama (Great Dalai Lama)
- Mastering the art of ‘masterful coaching’
- The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation
- The Inner Realizations of the Dalai Lama
- The power in the stories we tell ourselves
- What is Dharma?
- Who are you and where can you be found?
- Who is making this decision anyway?
- September
- A Vehicle for Realization
- Band-aids, baby-sitting or real Buddhadharma?
- Dakinis: healers of our gender scars
- Freedom from the ego mind
- Monasticism in the 21st Century
- Monasticism in the 21st Century
- The 12 Deeds of Shakyamuni Buddha
- The benefits of cherishing others
- The Lies Our Minds Tell Us
- The Master’s Voice
- The puzzle of relationship
- Those who teach, learn
- Training the mind while training the body
- December
- Addicted? Who, Me?
- Behave yourself. You are being watched
- Buddhism in Action
- A Fortunate Life
- A Heart for Dying Children
- A Nurse Finds Right Livelihood
- A Teacher Helps Kids ‘Reach for Peace’
- A Thousand Letters
- Aid for AIDS Victims
- Altruism in a Maid’s Uniform
- An Italian in Wonderland
- Behave Yourself. You are Being Watched.
- Bodhisattva in Training
- Care for the Dying in Singapore
- Computers in the Slums
- Freedom Inside Prison
- From Mozart to Mongolia
- Healing the Scars of Sexual Abuse
- I Would Ride 500 Miles – Or More
- Keeping the Balance
- Looking into the Mirror of Death
- Nun Helps Air Force Cadets to Stay Grounded
- Roshi on the Frontlines
- Senior Wisdom
- Soup Kitchens and Ban the Bomb
- The Bean Counter Who Works for Free
- The Freelance Lama: Thubten Dorje Lakha Lama
- The Healing Power of Meditation
- The Intimacy of Dying
- The Toe Tag of Tenderness
- Walk a Mile in My Shoes
- Word Power: A Journo’s Story
- Computers in the Slums
- Dharma for Modern Life
- Interview – Why Buddhism?
- News Roundup
- Nun helps Air Force cadets to stay grounded
- Sharing the benefits of a Christmas feast
- The Attitude Behind Social Service
- The Dharma of Dancing
- The freelance lama
- The Warm Heart
- Trading the Good Life for a Better One
- Vikramashila, Ancient Seat of Tantric Buddhism
- World Peace
- Mandala for 2000
- January
- How a Person Enters into the Mother’s Womb
- Cecilia Berranger, France
- Colin Crosbie, Australia
- Death of a Son
- Ecie Hursthouse, New Zealand
- Geshe Gelek Chodak
- In Mongolia, “It is now physically very hard but easier mentally.”
- Jacie Keeley, United States
- Janet Brooke, United States
- Journey to Realms Beyond Death
- Lama Ösel’s News
- Letter from Ulaanbaatar
- Maria Torres, Spain
- Mary Grace Lentz, United States
- Monks and Nuns of the FPMT: Ven. Yeshe Gyatso
- Naresh and Antonella Mathur, India
- Panchen Otrul Rinpoche’s Fourth Visit to Mongolia
- Peter Kedge, Canada
- Rocio Arreola, Mexico
- Salim Lee, Australia
- The Passing Scene: January-February 2000
- The Reawakening of Buddhadharma in Mongolia
- Vajra Brothers and Sisters Have a Say: Giving Life to a Statue of the Buddha
- March
- A Day in the Life of an FPMT Lama: Geshe Thubten Chonyi
- Attachment: The Biggest Problem on Earth
- Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche Uses Film for Seeing Reality
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s New Millennium Message
- Journey to Realms Beyond Death
- Lama Osel “Eager for the Study of Buddhism”
- Lama Ösel’s News
- Maitreya Project Hosts Twelve Thousand People for Teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Bodhgaya
- My First Meeting with Lama Yeshe
- Other Lamas: His Holiness Jigdal Dagchen Sakya
- Proceeds of Sale of Videos of Australian Documentary Film to Benefit Milarepa Prison Project
- Tha Passing Scene: March-April 2000
- The Beginnings of Lama Yeshe’s Work in the West
- The Biography of a Buddha
- The Blossoming of Blue Lotuses
- The Sign of a Real Lama
- The Unimaginable Qualities of Lama Yeshe’s Body, Speech and Mind
- Thousands “Genuinely Delighted” to Celebrate the New Millennium at the Bodhgaya Stupa
- Vajra Brothers and Sisters Have a Say: Terry Griffith-Ladner
- May
- How a Doctor-Lama Manifests as the Medicine Buddha
- Mental and Physical Illness Can Be Caused by Spirits
- Practicing the Art of Tibetan Buddhist Healing
- Spirit Influence Is the Result of Karma from the Person’s Previous Lives
- Successful Treatment of AIDS, Cancer and other Diseases by Tibetan Medicine
- The Passing Scene: May-June 2000
- Vajra Brothers and Sisters Have a Say: Carleen Gonder
- Ven. Lobsang Rinchen
- July
- September
- A Lama Comes of Age
- A new generation of Tibetan lamas
- Competition or Compassion?
- Competition or Compassion?
- Countering Violence in Colombia
- Give Peace a Dance
- Keeping cultures alive in exile: Tibetan children go to Israel
- Mandalas as Tools for Peace
- MindTrip
- Peace on this planet is in the hands of young people
- PeaceJam
- Six thousand Oregon Teenagers to meet His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- November
- January
- Older Archives
- Mandala for 1999
- January
- March
- 150 People Experience the Joy of Serving
- Advice from Shantideva: “Please Become a Kind Person”
- Australian and New Zealand Geshes Enjoy Themselves in Laid-back Subtropical Queensland
- Education Fund Supports Talent and Creative Initiative
- FPMT European Geshes Meet in London: A Conference with a Difference
- Geshe Jampel Senge
- Helping to Make Things Better
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama Teaches on Shantideva in Bodhgaya
- Home Truths: March-April 1999
- Lama Osel’s News
- Nalanda: A New Building to House Forty Monks
- New Education Services for FPMT Centers
- Stupa of Universal Compassion: Re-creating a Building Designed in the Fifteenth Century to Last for 1,000 Years
- That is My Home, My Home is Up There
- The Lawudo Lama Returns
- The Passing Scene: March-April 1999
- Useful Meeting
- Ven. Thubten Samphel
- May
- A Buddhist Approach to Mental Illness
- Gelek Rinpoche
- Home Truths: May-June 1999
- How to Deal with “Meditator’s Disease”
- Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva
- Lama Ösel’s News
- Sam-Lo Geshe Kelsang
- The Making of a Buddha
- The Passing Scene: May-June 1999
- The Power of the Human Heart: Transforming Asia’s Biggest Prison
- The Practice of Ksitigarbha to Avert Danger and Purify Obstacles
- Ven. Thubten Khadro
- July
- Accompanying Children to Their Death
- Changing Suffering into Happiness
- Changing Suffering into Happiness: Andrew Vahldieck, USA
- Changing Suffering into Happiness: Elea Redel, France
- Changing Suffering into Happiness: Isabel Amorim, Brazil
- Changing Suffering into Happiness: Skye Banning, Australia
- Home Truths: July-August 1999
- Ven. Marcel Bertels
- September
- A Day in the Life of Western Monks at Sera Je
- Advice from the Virtuous Friend, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- Chime Lama
- Fifty People Successfully Complete First Five-year Course of Basic Program in the Netherlands
- Geshe Acharya Thubten Loden
- Home Truths: September-October 1999
- How St. Francis Lost Everything and Found his Way
- Journey to Realms beyond Death
- Lama Ösel’s News
- Receiving the Blessings of Chenrezig Himself
- Reclaiming Life on Death Row
- The Passing Scene: September-October 1999
- Vajra Brothers and Sisters Have a Say: September-October 1999
- November
- Believing in Social Justice Principles
- Feng-shui: Tai-chi for the Environment
- Geshe Doga
- Geshe Yeshe Tobden
- Gomang Khensur Kelsang Thapkey Rinpoche
- Helping Others with a Good Motivation is Dharma Practice
- Home Truths: November-December 1999
- In Praise of Dorje Den, Lama Yeshe’s Dog
- Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche Honored by Mexican Indians
- Lama Ösel’s News
- Lama Yeshe Losal
- The Passing Scene: November-December 1999
- Unashamedly Beautiful Housing for Melbourne’s Elderly Homeless
- Ven. Tenzin Jangsem
- Wintringham Wins World Habitat Award
- Mandala for 1998
- January
- “Surprise and joy”
- Bad and Good Depend on the Individual Person’s Interpretation
- Choosing a Life Without Attachment
- Colors of the Dharma:
- Fulfilling a Lifelong Calling to Heal Leprosy
- Fund-Raising Event in Singapore Attended by 5,500
- Geshe Lobsang Dorje
- Home Truths
- Lama Osel’s News
- Letter to Lama Zopa from the Staff of FPMT International Office
- Maitreya Project Gaining Momentum
- New Director of FPMT International Office
- Putting Compassion into Action
- The Keeper of Lawudo
- The Passing Scene
- Tibetan Monk-Scholar Visits Taiwan to Research the Chinese Bhikshuni Tradition
- Transforming Hardships into Realizations
- When We Study Buddhism We Study Ourselves
- March
- A Blissful Festival of Dharma
- Geshe Tenzin Tenphel
- Home Truths: March-April 1998
- Lama Osel’s News
- Monks Walk through Asia for Inner Peace/World Peace
- On Pilgrimage with Ribur Rinpoche and Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- The Benefits of the Existence of Statues and of Making Statues
- The Blessings of Chenrezig Himself: the Guarantee of Future Success
- The Hermit of the Pyrenees
- The Passing Scene: March-April 1998
- The Purpose of Religion
- Twenty Thousand People Attend Teachings in Bodhgaya by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- Wutaishan’s Natural Wonder, the Sky-Gazing Great Buddha
- May
- Empowering the Homeless Youth of San Francisco
- Everything Comes from the Mind
- Home Truths: May-June 1998
- Khensur Lobsang Thubten Rinpoche
- Lama Ösel’s News
- Looking into the Future
- Loving Oneself
- The Compassion and Vastness of the Minds of the Lamas
- The Passing Scene: May-June 1998
- Using Your Mind Can Be Fun
- July
- Aaron Morrison, 23, American
- Aida Rius, 19, Spanish
- Angela Furio, 18, Spanish
- Arturo, 22, Mexican
- Christopher Kelley, 24, American
- Felicity Keeley, 11, American
- Fong Huey Yee, 18, Singaporean
- Holly, 12, and Greenfield Nguyen, 14, Vietnamese-American
- Home Truths: July-August 1998
- Jasmilhe Uchitsubo, 16, Japanese
- Jesse Tate Wistreich, 20, English
- Josephine Ross, 15, Australian
- Kalu Davis, 15, Australian
- Kim Tate Wistreich, 11, English
- Lama Tenzin Osel Rinpoche, 13, Spanish
- Lama Yeshe Talks to His Monks and Nuns
- Lungtog Rinpoche, 13, Chinese
- Marlon Vassallo, 20, Italian
- Melissa Carlisle, 23, Singaporean
- Moana Strom, 15, American
- Sangha Shouldn’t Pay
- Shannon Kincaid, 21, American
- The Passing Scene: July-August 1998
- Tom Andrews, 15, Australian
- Ven. Lozang Chodzin, 25, New Zealander
- Ven. Tenzin Chhime (Ven. Holly Ansett), 23, Australian
- Ven. Thubten Dagme, 20, American
- September
- January
- Mandala for 1997
- January
- A Celebration of Kindness: The Dalai Lama in New Zealand
- A Tibetan Pilgrimage
- A Vision for the Future
- Building Bridges
- Educating Monks and Nuns
- From Here to Enlightenment: Education Sentient Beings
- Geshe Ngawang Dakpa
- Home Truths: January-February 1997
- How to Attract People to the Dharma Centers
- Implementing the Basic Program of Buddhist Studies
- Lama Osel’s News
- Not All Who Wander Are Lost
- Teaching
- The Passing Scene: January-February 1997
- What Tibetans Do with their Dead
- March
- May
- Geshe Tsulga
- Home Truths: May-June 1997
- Kopan Monastery: A New Era for Kathmandu Center
- Kopan Monastery: Coming Home
- Kopan Monastery: Kopan the Mother
- Kopan Monastery: The Wellspring of FPMT
- Kopan Monastery’s New Gompa: Loved, Lived in and Full of Dharma
- Lama Osel’s News
- Mogchok Rinpoche Arrives at Nalanda
- Relating to Your Path
- Remembering Death
- The Passing Scene: May-June 1997
- Training Tibetan Translators
- July
- Anger
- Attachment: The Biggest Problem on Earth
- Climbing a Mountain with Both Hands
- Facing the Disharmony within Ourselves: Making Dharma Centers Work
- Going Beyond Hope and Fear
- Home Truths: July-August 1997
- Khensur Kangurwa Lobsang Thubten Rinpoche
- Lama Ösel’s News
- Many Ways to Work with the Mind
- Mongolian Renaissance
- The Passing Scene: July-August 1997
- Letter from a Meditator
- September
- A Day in the Life of an FPMT Lama
- Death, Intermediate State and Rebirth
- Give Your Ego the Wisdom Eye
- Home Truths: September-October 1997
- How to Benefit the Dying and the Dead
- Journeying Skillfully from Life to Life
- Looking Forward to Death
- Nine Ways to Help the Dying
- The Passing Scene: September-October 1997
- We Die as We Live
- November
- A Day in the Life of an FPMT Lama
- Beauty is in the “I” of the Beholder
- Buddhism Breaks into Prison
- Finding Freedom: Practicing Dharma in Prison
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the “eternal optimist”
- Home Truths: November-December 1997
- Lama Osel’s News
- Lama Zopa on the Road in America
- Letters from Prison: J.W. Johnson
- Letters from Prison: Jimmy Tribble
- Letters from Prison: Milo Rusimovic
- Letters from Prison: Paul Dewey
- Letters from Prison: Timothy Haremza
- Maitreya Project tackles the engineering challenges involved in building a statue to last for 1000 years
- Ode to John Schwartz
- Prisoners
- Searching for a Way to Leave No One Behind: The Transformation of a Mexican Gangster
- Searching for a Way to Leave No One Behind: The Transformation of a Mexican Gangster
- The Passing Scene: November-December 1997
- Thirty people to start seven-yearFPMT Master’s Program
- Writings from Death Row
- January
- Mandala for 1996
- January
- Reversing the Energy of Addiction
- The Passing Scene: January-February 1996
- A New Generation of Young Lamas
- Geshe Losang Tengye
- Home Truths: January-February 1996
- The Great Stupa of Australia
- The Benefits of Building Stupas
- The Magnificent Legacy of Rabten Kunsang
- He Is My Guru and I Am Going With Him
- Reflections on a Guru/Disciple Relationship
- Lama Osel’s News
- March
- May
- July
- September
- “Seeking joy and freedom from sufferingis the birthright of all beings”
- A Longing to Change
- A Monastery to Last until Maitreya Comes
- Buddhist Monks and Nuns: A Community of White Crows
- Chenrezig Nuns: Harmoniously Growing
- Geshe Tashi Tsering
- Home Truths: September-October 1996
- IMI Communities: Nalanda is Reborn
- Italian Monks and Nuns in ‘Precarious Equilibrium’
- Lama Osel’s News
- Ordination, Who? Me?
- Taiwanese Sangha
- The Benefits of Being Monks and Nuns
- The Passing Scene: September-October 1996
- Tibetan Geshe Offers Money to Help Western Sangha
- Western Monks and Nuns: Taking Care of Our Own Reality
- With Vows, You Don’t Do The Ordinary
- November
- A Day in the Life of an FMPT Lama: Geshe Thubten Dawa
- Beyond Extraordinary: His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Australia
- Dalai Lama Gives to Charity the $750,000 Offered to Him
- Geshe Lhundup Sopa
- Home Truths: November-December 1996
- Lama Osel’s News
- The Compassion Buddha is no other than Your Holiness
- The Making of the Universe
- The Passing Scene: November-December 1996
- January
- Mandala for 1995
- Mandala for 1992
- Mandala for 1990
- April
- Bringing it Home … to the land of Abraham Lincoln and Mickey Mouse
- Creating the Causes: Special Advice on the Guru Shakyamuni Puja from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- FPMT, Not Just for the West
- Is Stability the Goal?
- It Takes Time
- Leprosy in Bodhgaya: A Long Way to Go
- Membership Provides Stability
- On Becoming Vegetarian
- To Wear Pain Like an Ornament
- October
- April
- Mandala for 1989
- April
- As a Monk in the World
- Excerpts from an Interview of Piero Cerri
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama Speaks on the 30th Anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising – March 10, 1989
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Message to the WCRP
- Life in a Residential City Center
- My First Retreat
- Putting into Practice
- Remember the Guru’s Kindness
- The Meaning of Vezak Day
- The Tantric Way in Daily Life
- Transforming Motherhood into the Path
- October
- April
- Mandala for 1988
- April
- A Talk about Nalanda
- An Interview with Tenzin Palmo
- Chronicle of a Special Child
- Focus on Full Ordination for Buddhist Women
- It Isn’t “Out There” Anymore
- Lam-Rim: A Teaching by Geshe Jampa Tegchok
- Now Is the Time When Action is Practice
- Our First and Final Meeting with the Panchen Lama Who Passed Away on January 28, 1989
- Reflections from a New Bhikshuni
- The Twelve Links of Dependent Arising
- Universal Education: On Becoming One
- World Conference on Religion and Peace
- October
- April
- Mandala for 1987
- Mandala for 1984
- Wisdom #2 – 1984
- A Prayer for the Quick Return of Kyabje Ling Rinpoche
- A Prayer for the Quick Return of Tsenshab Serkong Rinpoche
- Extracts from a Mönlam Diary
- How to Let Go, How to Integrate Emptiness in Everyday Life
- Lama Thubten Yeshe, 1935-1984
- Making a Home for Future Nuns
- Nalanda Monastery
- Bodhichitta: The Perfection of Dharma
- They Can Change Their Minds and They Can Become More Harmonious
- We Should Be Very Harmonious and Try to Help Each Other
- Willing to Do Anything to Help
- Lama Was a Great Yogi
- A Prayer for the Kind Father Guru to Return Quickly
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche: One of the Young Lamas Who Is Special
- Our Heart Jewel, Our Wish-granting Gem
- The Activities That Lama Yeshe Performed Are the Activities of All Holy Beings
- Now Here Is a Real Yogi
- The Difference a Single Person Can Make
- Who Simply Breathed Goodness
- The Wind Moaning Down the Valley Is Your Breath
- Getting away from It All
- Teachers
- Journey to Spiti
- Short in Body but Tall in Knowledge
- Kyabje Yongdzin Ling Dorjechang
- Meetings: Opening Our Hearts to Each Other
- Kyabje Song Rinpoche
- Tsenshab Serkong Rinpoche
- Wisdom #2 – 1984
- Mandala for 1983
- Mandala for 1999
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