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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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Use problems as ornaments, seeing them as extremely precious, because they make you achieve enlightenment quickly, by getting you to achieve bodhicitta. Experience these problems on behalf of all sentient beings, giving all happiness to sentient beings. This is the ornament.
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The Hermit of the Pyrenees
Charles Trebaol (Ven. Thubten Kunga) has spent the last four years of his life in retreat. Now residing in a small stone hut in the French Pyrenees, Charles, who is 38 years old, has no intention of changing lifestyle. At first resistant to the idea of an interview, when he finally agreed, he spoke very openly with Nalanda monks Vens. Henri Charpentier, Michel Barret and Viggo Johansen when they went to see the skinny but happy hermit.
Could you say something about your life before you became a monk?
I was a very naughty boy, not interested in studies but liked to play and fight with my friends. When I was 13, I met some Dharma – Lobsang Rampa, you know (laughter)! But some things were interesting, like impermanence. It helped my mind a little bit.
I think when we are small the mind is more open and flexible, so when we hear something we can immediately put it into practice. Now, on the other hand, my concepts are good strong.
After this I had a very black period. I was nearly crazy, in the true meaning of the word. I was working in a psychiatric hospital and I became a little crazy, like taking drugs and alcohol.
Then when I was 22 years old, I went to India. At one point a friend gave me two books about Dharma, and I said, This is what I have been always looking for. I was in Dharamsala at the time and he told me about Kopan. I went to Kopan where I met Lama Zopa and Lama Yeshe, and I thought, Okay, these are holy beings. After that I started to change.
For a few years I was quite sincere. I went to Institut Vajrayogini to work and tried to practice a little. I felt proud to be a follower of Mahayana and proud to have a tiny atom of devotion to the holy lama. Then, due to delusions and due to karma, an object of desire came. Sometimes, when we feel we are good disciples, and object of desire comes and we become disciples of desire – and also slaves to the self-cherishing mind. That’s what I became.
I tried to pray to the holy lama and at least not to bring suffering to others, but at that time I put more effort into the object of desire and less effort to find the lama – I was going the wrong way. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche says that the holy lama is like a mountain of snow and how much blessing we can receive depends on how strong our devotion is. The more we put energy into devotion, the more we can receive the blessing of the lama.
So at that time life became black and without meaning and I brought suffering into the hearts of my vajra brothers and sisters. This was due to desire. Some people say they have experiences of the great bliss of Dharmakaya in their meditation; well, at that time I had an experience in meditation – I had the experience of hell. And if the experience of bliss is not expressible, the terror of hell is the same. It’s not expressible. In the end what we get is only regret at deceiving the lama, the holy lama who gives up mahanirvana to come and help and guide us. To give up one sentient being is to give up all sentient beings, because we have taken bodhisattva vows to help everyone.
After this, life goes on; you do some practice, but there is not so much taste, not so much experience. Due to very strong negative actions towards vajra brothers and sisters and the holy lama, life felt very heavy and black. In 1989, I was in Pomaia at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa for Lama Zopa’s teachings. He said in his teaching that if we live our life just for ourselves it’s like living as a vegetable. So I asked Lama Zopa how to change my life of rotten vegetable, and he said it’s good to become a monk. So I became a monk.
Then I stayed at Nalanda, but still I did not have much taste in Dharma practice. And due to the kindness of other Dharma friends, brothers and sisters, I am able to do this retreat. The conclusion is that I am now less worse than before, and especially I can feel sometimes the inconceivable kindness of the lama.
Wherever he is he knows everything about every one of his children, with his omniscient mind he knows exactly what we need. Like a mother to her beloved child he completely gives himself to us. Anyway, I am repeating what I read from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (laughing). But it touched me a lot, that’s why I repeat it.
If any of this can be useful to one of my brothers or sisters in Dharma then it’s okay, life becomes a little meaningful.
What about your life as a monk before you went into retreat?
I was staying at Nalanda doing my preliminaries. I asked the lama in 1985 to do a long retreat; he said okay, but I had to do the nine preliminaries. At Institut Vajrayogini I didn’t have much time. Anyway, I am not very learned – I took so much drugs and alcohol my mind is completely like a strainer, full of holes! Everything that comes inside goes out again. So I was not so good for study. Also, due to this I was not so good for meditation, no concentration. I worked a little and did my preliminaries.
How is your daily program?
Mainly I am trying to do as Lama Zopa says: three levels of motivation, purification, guru devotion, and little bit of yidam practice. This is what I try to do.
How do you organize it?
I wake up a little bit before 5 o’clock, do my altar, then motivation, devotion and bodhicitta, then again I repeat bodhicitta practice. Then Lama Chöpa with tsog, Dorje Sempa combined with prostrations, then…. Actually, my best time is in the morning when I have breakfast; lunch time is also good.
In the summer and autumn we need to prepare for the winter, so then I do maybe one or two hours of work outside. After this I might read a little bit and do some meditation on emptiness, something like that. After this some yidam practice and then again some prostrations and bodhicitta and then I go to sleep.
How many sessions?
I try to do as much as possible, not like yidam retreat where you do four sessions; I am trying as much as possible throughout the day, mainly concentrating on the three principles of the path.
Do you see your work as an obstacle or aid to your practice?
I think it all depends on motivation. There is a Hindu story about Arjuna the disciple of Krishna, who was a little proud about his good devotion. Krishna told him to go and see his best disciple and sent him to a simple farmer who was working hard all day long. Arjuna asked him: “What do you do?” He answered: “In the morning three times from the depths of my heart I ask the holy guru to give meaning to my life. Then I go outside and work all day long. When I come back at night, three times before sleeping I ask the holy guru to stay and give meaning to my life.”
Arjuna was a bit surprised and asked Krishna about the farmer. Krishna told him to take a bowl full of water and walk around without spilling even one drop. Arjuna tried and he was completely focused on his walking. Krishna asked him: “Did you think about me even once?” Arjuna replied: “Oh no, I forgot.” (Laughter.)
If I have the possibility while I work, I try to remember impermanence or the suffering of sentient beings; if I work outside and see even one suffering sentient being and get out of my self-cherishing mind, then this can become pure Dharma. And if I sit hours and hours in sitting position, thinking I’m the king of yogis (laughter), then this is not really Dharma practice.
Is it easy for you to live this kind of life?
I don’t think the difficulty comes from the thing one is doing, but is more the mess that goes on inside. It’s difficult if you have too many expectations. I mean, if you give some effort to changing yourself, and you are like a spider watching what’s happening in the web (you are waiting for some progress), then this is difficult. Because progress takes time.
So do you have less expectations than before?
I think maybe yes. And this is due to the kindness of the lama. In fact, you are not the one who is doing something. I read some Milarepa yesterday, and he said not to expect any realization quickly, but practice all your life until your last breath. We need perseverance, that’s completely sure. Whatever happens – good or bad, even a total mess in the mind – if you persevere, if you go on, you will definitely get something.
If you have a bad day, do you get less involved in your problems than four years ago?
Now, sometimes when I have a bad day, I say, Thank you, Lama. It’s really a gift, to understand that deep down I am not only this, I am not only this mess. It also brings to mind to do some purification, and also understanding of where I am exactly in the Dharma. And immediately when I say, Thank you, it’s just your blessing, it gives much more space. We always want to control everything, to do everything by ourselves. If we stop doing that, and just give up, and take it as a blessing from the lama it is much more easy.
Do you have many bad days?
(Laughing) Yes! Many more than good ones. But I say that I am stubborn.
When did you start to say thank you for problems?
I think some time ago. I had a hard time when I read the letter from Henri saying that you wanted this interview, because it put me in such a situation. It’s really the last thing that I want, that people read about me, but the lama sent me this. So I thought, Oh, I have to learn something from this.
So it is easier now than four years ago?
It has never been difficult to be in retreat, because I want to be in retreat. The difficulty is seeing that my life is completely useless. Since I started in Dharma I have prayed that I may become useful for others, to make my life a little bit meaningful, but then I see that I am becoming quite old…. We try to do purification and this and that, but the more I do, the more I am aware of the mess inside. So sometimes I feel a little bit discouraged, you know. I think it’s like Milarepa says, we have to practice all the day throughout the life. Because what we have to purify is like a black ocean. When I was doing my prostrations, sometimes I would feel this infinite black ocean.
How strict is your retreat?
Oh, I have to go shopping sometimes, but I try to go as little as possible. The last two months for example, I had to go outside one time. In the summertime it’s a little bit more, I have to go to dentist, hospital, shopping and so on, but in winter from December until April it is strict retreat; I don’t speak, at least as little as possible, but sometimes some people around, some friends in Dharma.
Do you teach sometimes, when you go out?
No, I don’t teach, but sometimes I do Nyung-nays. I was a little bit dyslexic, and I don’t know how to speak well, even to say normal things; to speak Dharma is even worse, so I prefer to shut my mouth.
But you lead Nyung-nays?
Yes, before at Annick’s place (Ganden Choling), in Toulouse and in Paris. People receive so much from it, and I think what is important is to see how the mind changes; I am sure that it will definitely change if we practice. Sure, study is important, but I think more important is to practice as much as possible.
What do you mean by practice?
For me I think what is important is that what we speak about bodhicitta and emptiness becomes our experience. We need some taste of non-duality, some space inside, otherwise there is no way we can understand everything about emptiness, Madhyamika and this and that. We need to experience truly inside, and not only one time. We have to repeat how all others are so kind to us, again, again, again, again, again. We have to feel the kindness of the lama, bodhicitta, renunciation and emptiness. Maybe yes, to study is a way to feel it ourselves, but I feel that practice is more. The thing is to have experience to gain experience of what we talk about.
Can you share some of your experiences?
I have no experience. Sometimes I read in Mandala about people who have such experiences, and I am happy for them, but it is not the case for me. But it doesn’t matter, because I truly believe that Dharma is the perfect way to become useful for oneself and others. Also, sometimes with experiences – I don’t say this because I am frustrated because I haven’t had any … well, maybe I do! – sometimes we can grasp onto them and they become my experiences, and perhaps this can become a danger for your practice.
I say that we have to learn about what life teaches us, every moment, wherever we are, in retreat or not. Also, I feel that beneath the deep darkness of delusion and pain in the mind there is also always light, our inner light of wisdom. And this is only due to the presence of the holy lama.
So do you think that pain and suffering are important for progress?
(Laughing.) I don’t say that we have to have pain, but if pain happens we have to say welcome, and also thank you; to teach me something.
Are you in retreat for life?
I don’t know. Sometimes I dream of going to a cave and living a completely solitary life, but I think the most important thing is that this life becomes useful, and if it is useful to stay in retreat I will try. The problem is that to be really useful to others you have to have this experience…. Before, I see I was doing blah blah, speaking about something I didn’t know, about Dharma. But it didn’t change the mind of people; it doesn’t really help if you don’t have this experience. You really have to be a good example of what you talk about, otherwise people don’t understand. I think for me the purpose of doing retreat is to serve people. Anyway, I want to see Lama soon to ask him what to do with my banana life.
We have to accept that to change the mind takes a long time. And to enjoy what we do in Dharma also takes a long time. Just to be aware for one instant how much people are suffering in the world – I don’t speak about animals, not even a need to, just humans. They have so much potential but use none of it. There is so much suffering, but they have no method to go beyond this suffering. And we have this method, we are so fortunate; we just have to make an effort and enjoy whatever happens, just continue with Dharma-life.
What gives you the most happiness?
This I cannot express, I don’t know how to say….
You mean the lama…?
Yes. Because, the lama is everything, is Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. When we say we have the lama in the heart we also have every sentient being, as well as love and compassion, and we can be aware or relate to divine wisdom and divine nature. I don’t know if divine nature is really a Buddhist term, but I mean something like our ultimate potential. I don’t even know if the word happiness is enough to express….
Also, other sentient beings. I read a sentence, not from the lama but I really like it. It said: “In any situation when you meet anyone, this being offers you the happiness to love him, to love her.” This is incredible. Every person, every insect, offers us each moment the possibility to love them.
It means to go outside of your jail, you know. Suffering for me is the black jail of ignorance and inside is self-cherishing mind. It’s like my heart was crushed, I was feeling like that. My heart is here and self-cherishing is crushing it. And just when you think about others it stops. This is the most suffering, painful thing, the self-cherishing mind, self-grasping, the belief that we are separate from others.
I think it is incredible, for everyone, this ego-trip. We say sometimes, “Oh, this one has a big ego,” but for me ego is like a sickness, not something bad; you are not a bad man because you have a big ego, you are just sick and need to have more love and more compassion. And this for me is really painful, difficult even to be aware of this self-cherishing mind, this strong self-grasping. Just to feel separate from others, this is the basis of all suffering that we experience.
And opposite, what gives you the most suffering?
My self, this is sure, it’s sure. You know, the mess I have sometimes.
I think you have already said it, but still: What do you feel is the essence of Dharma?
It is very vast, but the essence of Dharma I think is compassion and wisdom.
So if you meet some people who don’t know about Dharma, how do you explain to them about compassion and wisdom?
It depends on which position people have. Maybe for them in the beginning it is better to say that the essence of Dharma is to have peace of mind, and for others it is better to say compassion, for some better still to say you are divine Tara or Chenrezig – it depends on each person.
Lama doesn’t always teach the same thing to everyone. He makes sure we know it has something to do with our mind, that everything is in us, and especially that we have this quality of wisdom and compassion. I think many times I read that the purpose of the Dharma is to help sentient beings. I think Buddha came just to help us. Then is takes many ways; he taught many ways: Hinayana, Paramitayana, Tantrayana.
The essence is to go beyond suffering. Because what is incredible, beautiful, is that we have this Buddhahood inside, but just we don’t live it, we forget it and we live for nothing; we life with no great purpose, and just constantly suffer and create the cause for more and more suffering. Buddhadharma is the antidote of all this suffering.
Can you give some advice to other people who want to do retreat, even a short retreat?
My best advice is that I prefer to shut my mouth. People know better than me, surely…. They just have to open up to the presence of the lama, not so much expectations….
How do you deal with desire?
What I do with desire! A bit difficult to stop (all the monks laughing.) I don’t know.
I think the main thing, what I said earlier, is to think of how desire puts you away from Dharma. Desire is something like “I want” and not “I give,” and you feel more and more duality, because you are separate from the object of desire; it’s a source of so much pain and suffering. If this suffering would be useful it would maybe be okay, but it is completely useless. Of course, if you can learn from it, yes, but normally…. Also, the mind is completely hallucinating. What helps in this case is to give up the object of desire to the lama.
So you offer it to the lama?
Yes. When I was having that difficult time years ago, I read a teaching of the lama that he gave in Pomaia about the self-cherishing mind. He said that even for the holy guru the self-cherishing mind is not able to give up the object of desire. And this is the point. If we offer then there is more space inside, and also in front of all Buddhas and bodhisattvas and in front of all sentient beings I say I want to help and not to give harm. Desire only wants happiness for me and forgets about the happiness and suffering of others.
I think this is how I try to work with desire, to offer it to the lama. It also depends what kind of object of desire, because if it’s one piece of chocolate it is not difficult to offer to the lama, but some objects are more difficult. But we need some space; if we are closed in with the object of desire, because the mind is completely hallucinating, if you try to find something wrong about desire, you can’t, can you? – it’s too strong. Also, you have to think about the delusions of infinite sentient beings – then you can get more space.
If your mind is strong enough to say, “I don’t want to fix my attention on this object,” then it is possible, otherwise we are not strong enough. Because for life, life, life, life, life we have always held onto the object of desire – “I want.” Or one can think in the Nyingma way, “Okay, this appears in the sky like a cloud and dissolves in the sky,” but to do this you really have to be trained, not just saying that and think you can do everything. We have to be sincere. Otherwise I think it is better to escape from the object.
This is a little of what I wanted to express with my banana story you know. Maybe better to escape from the object and take refuge at the feet of the holy lama. There is an infinite mass of sentient beings who need your help, you know. We have some responsibility; we receive so much from the guru and the teachings, I don’t know if I give enough answer….
Do you ever feel lonely?
Oh no. Now for more than four years maybe a few times, and even … no, it didn’t really happen.
Whenever you leave your little hut, especially if you leave for more than one day, do you feel that you lose something? Or gain something?
I lose something and I gain something, because we always gain and learn something from others. But the energy of the meditation, the retreat, because it has not yet stabilized in myself, when I go outside and especially when I come back I feel completely exhausted.
My mind is like a flea who takes speed; imagine one flea who takes cocaine on a trampoline – my mind is like that! Can you imagine how it is (laughter)! I found this image some time ago and I thought it was a good image (laughing).
It is very important to have some peace of mind when you go outside. This is difficult (laughter), because all the senses, the energy goes everywhere, especially when you go to town. When you go to a center to do Nyung-nay it’s completely different, but to go to town, to go shopping is completely different. But sometimes it’s quite interesting, you see that you can have some space you know. You see the things happening and say, “Okay, this is coming and going.”
And what do you gain?
Presence, that living beings, just what they offer you…. It’s infinite, you know. We are the expression of the kindness of people, nothing else. And just when you see them, their life; people, suffering – it’s just like they give you everything. They give you the possibility to grow a little bit. Like I said, they give you the happiness to love them. And this is incredible. You go outside of yourself, there is so much peace, like light. Or with animals, insects, especially animals, they have so much suffering. No way to escape the suffering, they have to experience this all their life.
How important is silence?
Oh yes, important. Because sure the mind is more concentrated; and all the energy you put into speaking you can put inside to look at what’s happening in the mind, you are more aware of the stream of thoughts. And also it is a kind of offering of the speech. I think it is important, very important.
Some people would accuse you of escaping the world – first because of being a monk and second because of being in retreat for a long time. What’s your answer to this?
You should ask me your questions by letter, then I can think about it (laughing). This question is important. I receive some money from sponsors, and for people in the world this appears like I am a parasite, not working, making money from people; some people even ask me if I have no shame about it.
I can say that I feel shame when I am not able to love people if they criticize me, I feel shame if I am not able to change self-cherishing mind into cherishing others. I feel shame when I feel proud for one tiny atom of qualities. I feel shame if I am not able to give up the object of desire, for the lama or for sentient beings. And I feel shame if I am not able to give answer to the suffering of others, just to give a tiny drop of blood for one being who just needs this for survival – for this I feel shame.
But I try to give meaning to life, to go beyond this self-grasping, then it’s okay to receive help from others and to dedicate as much as possible with our limitations, because we are still limited. But try honestly and sincerely as much as possible to change this life, then I think the purpose of life is accomplished. This beauty of inner nature, this infinite pure light inside us, if we put all our effort into this, then we go towards true meaning; but if we spend our life chasing after a rainbow, or a soap bubble, like material things, then….
What we have to do is choose what is more meaningful. Yes, it’s difficult because people have this thought, “Okay, you go to a solitary place to escape the world.” But, for example, I know a story about some people who died in town, and their neighbors were not even aware they were dying – so who is really escaping reality? Because reality is to serve others. I don’t say that I do, but if people do retreat for this purpose, I think it is most meaningful. Sure, if we go in retreat to relax, yes, we escape. But you can live in town and escape from your responsibilities too.
So if people ask you, how do you help sentient beings by being in retreat?
Do you mean me personally?
Well, let’s say in general, I mean someone with a pure motivation.
People don’t need only bread, food and clothes and job to live a happy life. We have to try as much as possible to touch inside the hearts of people, to say, “Look at what you are in reality. You are not just this limited being, not a separate being – I want happiness, I want to exist, I want to live – you are much more than this.”
But you have to be clear deep down in your own heart to bring this to others. Also you need skillful means to bring others to their own nature. I think this is one very important purpose that people in retreat can work towards for others, but it’s really a long, long, long and big job. Because I think the worse suffering of sentient beings is not to be aware of their Buddha-nature.
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- 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
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