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Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition
The FPMT is an organization devoted to preserving and spreading Mahayana Buddhism worldwide by creating opportunities to listen, reflect, meditate, practice and actualize the unmistaken teachings of the Buddha and based on that experience spreading the Dharma to sentient beings. We provide integrated education through which people’s minds and hearts can be transformed into their highest potential for the benefit of others, inspired by an attitude of universal responsibility and service. We are committed to creating harmonious environments and helping all beings develop their full potential of infinite wisdom and compassion. Our organization is based on the Buddhist tradition of Lama Tsongkhapa of Tibet as taught to us by our founders Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche.
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Die Stiftung zur Erhaltung der Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) ist eine Organisation, die sich weltweit für die Erhaltung und Verbreitung des Mahayana-Buddhismus einsetzt, indem sie Möglichkeiten schafft, den makellosen Lehren des Buddha zuzuhören, über sie zur reflektieren und zu meditieren und auf der Grundlage dieser Erfahrung das Dharma unter den Lebewesen zu verbreiten.
Wir bieten integrierte Schulungswege an, durch denen der Geist und das Herz der Menschen in ihr höchstes Potential verwandelt werden zum Wohl der anderen – inspiriert durch eine Haltung der universellen Verantwortung und dem Wunsch zu dienen. Wir haben uns verpflichtet, harmonische Umgebungen zu schaffen und allen Wesen zu helfen, ihr volles Potenzial unendlicher Weisheit und grenzenlosen Mitgefühls zu verwirklichen.
Unsere Organisation basiert auf der buddhistischen Tradition von Lama Tsongkhapa von Tibet, so wie sie uns von unseren Gründern Lama Thubten Yeshe und Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche gelehrt wird.
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La Fundación para la preservación de la tradición Mahayana (FPMT) es una organización que se dedica a preservar y difundir el budismo Mahayana en todo el mundo, creando oportunidades para escuchar, reflexionar, meditar, practicar y actualizar las enseñanzas inconfundibles de Buda y en base a esa experiencia difundir el Dharma a los seres.
Proporcionamos una educación integrada a través de la cual las mentes y los corazones de las personas se pueden transformar en su mayor potencial para el beneficio de los demás, inspirados por una actitud de responsabilidad y servicio universales. Estamos comprometidos a crear ambientes armoniosos y ayudar a todos los seres a desarrollar todo su potencial de infinita sabiduría y compasión.
Nuestra organización se basa en la tradición budista de Lama Tsongkhapa del Tíbet como nos lo enseñaron nuestros fundadores Lama Thubten Yeshe y Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
A continuación puede ver una lista de los centros y sus páginas web en su lengua preferida.
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L’organisation de la FPMT a pour vocation la préservation et la diffusion du bouddhisme du mahayana dans le monde entier. Elle offre l’opportunité d’écouter, de réfléchir, de méditer, de pratiquer et de réaliser les enseignements excellents du Bouddha, pour ensuite transmettre le Dharma à tous les êtres. Nous proposons une formation intégrée grâce à laquelle le cœur et l’esprit de chacun peuvent accomplir leur potentiel le plus élevé pour le bien d’autrui, inspirés par le sens du service et une responsabilité universelle. Nous nous engageons à créer un environnement harmonieux et à aider tous les êtres à épanouir leur potentiel illimité de compassion et de sagesse. Notre organisation s’appuie sur la tradition guéloukpa de Lama Tsongkhapa du Tibet, telle qu’elle a été enseignée par nos fondateurs Lama Thoubtèn Yéshé et Lama Zopa Rinpoché.
Visitez le site de notre Editions Mahayana pour les traductions, conseils et nouvelles du Bureau international en français.
Voici une liste de centres et de leurs sites dans votre langue préférée
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L’FPMT è un organizzazione il cui scopo è preservare e diffondere il Buddhismo Mahayana nel mondo, creando occasioni di ascolto, riflessione, meditazione e pratica dei perfetti insegnamenti del Buddha, al fine di attualizzare e diffondere il Dharma fra tutti gli esseri senzienti.
Offriamo un’educazione integrata, che può trasformare la mente e i cuori delle persone nel loro massimo potenziale, per il beneficio di tutti gli esseri, ispirati da un’attitudine di responsabilità universale e di servizio.
Il nostro obiettivo è quello di creare contesti armoniosi e aiutare tutti gli esseri a sviluppare in modo completo le proprie potenzialità di infinita saggezza e compassione.
La nostra organizzazione si basa sulla tradizione buddhista di Lama Tsongkhapa del Tibet, così come ci è stata insegnata dai nostri fondatori Lama Thubten Yeshe e Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Di seguito potete trovare un elenco dei centri e dei loro siti nella lingua da voi prescelta.
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“护持大乘法脉基金会”( 英文简称:FPMT。全名:Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition) 是一个致力于护持和弘扬大乘佛法的国际佛教组织。我们提供听闻,思维,禅修,修行和实证佛陀无误教法的机会,以便让一切众生都能够享受佛法的指引和滋润。
我们全力创造和谐融洽的环境, 为人们提供解行并重的完整佛法教育,以便启发内在的环宇悲心及责任心,并开发内心所蕴藏的巨大潜能 — 无限的智慧与悲心 — 以便利益和服务一切有情。
FPMT的创办人是图腾耶喜喇嘛和喇嘛梭巴仁波切。我们所修习的是由两位上师所教导的,西藏喀巴大师的佛法传承。
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護持大乘法脈基金會”( 英文簡稱:FPMT。全名:Found
ation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition ) 是一個致力於護持和弘揚大乘佛法的國際佛教組織。我們提供聽聞, 思維,禪修,修行和實證佛陀無誤教法的機會,以便讓一切眾生都能 夠享受佛法的指引和滋潤。 我們全力創造和諧融洽的環境,
為人們提供解行並重的完整佛法教育,以便啟發內在的環宇悲心及責 任心,並開發內心所蘊藏的巨大潛能 — 無限的智慧與悲心 – – 以便利益和服務一切有情。 FPMT的創辦人是圖騰耶喜喇嘛和喇嘛梭巴仁波切。
我們所修習的是由兩位上師所教導的,西藏喀巴大師的佛法傳承。 察看道场信息:
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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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FPMT International Office News
August 2012
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Washington, United States, July 2012.
Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.
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- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s News:
- New Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche:
- International Office News:
- News from Education Services
- News from FPMT Charitable Projects: His Holiness’ Lam-rim Commentaries
- News from Mandala Publications
- Friends of FPMT
- For Center, Project and Service Directors, SPCs, Teachers and Board Members:
- FPMT World:
- Rejoice!
- New Online Meditation Program – Vajrapani Institute Needs to Hear from You!
- Opportunities to Offer Service in FPMT
- Impermanence at Work
Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Ven. Roger Kunsang saying mantras for horses, Washington, United States, July 2012.
Photo by Ven. Holly Ansett.
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s News:
Rinpoche is in good health and progressing well.
For updates on Rinpoche’s health, go to Rinpoche’s Health – Updates and Practices for photos, more information and to subscribe to our RSS feed for updates.
New Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche:
In Response to Appreciation after Following Rinpoche’s Advice
The following is an excerpt from Rinpoche’s wonderful response to a letter from a student in which the student explained how much benefit was clearly coming from following Rinpoche’s advice. Rinpoche asked that this letter be shared in the FPMT News. (Enjoy the full version here.)
“Thank you very much. Can you imagine how urgent it is to have a Dharma learning center? If you think of the world situation and how much suffering there is – think of all the problems, famine, disease and torture; the demonstrations, killing and so forth; then all the new diseases that are coming, diseases the hospital cannot help; as well as tsunamis, the danger of fire, water, air and earthquakes.
Sentient beings in the six realms, including oneself, have unbelievable suffering … there is so much suffering due to meeting undesirable objects and so much suffering due to not finding desirable objects. Much of our life goes into trying to find desirable objects, but even when we do find them, we can’t get satisfaction. On the other hand, those who are practicing Dharma and who renounce samsara by understanding the sufferings of samsara – the suffering of pain, the suffering of change and pervasive compounding suffering – even if they are living in a grass hut, just eating tsampa and water, or rice and dahl, have great satisfaction. They are very happy, so happy, more happy than the billionaires and zillionaires and trillionaires who are living their lives with the eight worldly dharmas and self-cherishing thought.
… Welcome to the happiness of future lives. Welcome to ultimate happiness, liberation from samsara. Especially welcome to full enlightenment and to freeing all sentient beings from the oceans of suffering and bringing them to enlightenment.”
Further Advice Regarding Shugden
Rinpoche recently wrote this foreword in English and Tibetan for a book being published only in Tibetan and Mongolian about Shugden (Dolgyal). The book is a compilation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachings on Shugden given between 2000 and 2007. The foreword was meant to just be a few pages, but in the end became longer, and is an incredible teaching.
Find a broad range of advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Rinpoche’s Advice page.Go to the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive for lots more advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
International Office News:
News from FPMT Education Services
We are delighted to announce that a revised version of The Initial Practices of Vajrayogini is now available at the FPMT Foundation Store in hard copy. This 2012 edition has been revised and reformatted with special attention to accuracy and a new user-friendly format for retreat and personal practice. With input from three different translators and FPMT’s complete editorial team, this is our finest edition yet and one that all practitioners of Vajrayogini will be happy to have on hand! Digital versions of the contents of this text will be available for download shortly.
Prayer to the Six-Syllable Great Compassionate One is now available as an eBook. French versions of Amitayus Long Life Sutra are also available online.
Several new resources, including updated pecha scans and two audio recordings of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, have been added to the Sutra for Entering the Great City of Vaishali advice section. Lama Zopa Rinpoche recommends listening to this sutra to help alleviate pain.
We’re very happy to announce that Tom Truty is now FPMT Education Services Director (formerly, FPMT Education Services Coordinator).
News from FPMT Charitable Projects:
His Holiness’ Lam-rim Commentaries
Tremendous and heartfelt thanks to all who participated in offering towards His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachings on the Eighteen Great Lam-rim Commentaries. We are delighted to report that as a result of the kindness of many, we have been able to raise US$350,000!
Due to a request to raise additional funds in order to offer more support to this event, FPMT has committed to raise US$425,000; an additional US$75,000. For more details about this event, please visit Preserving the Lineage Fund’s Latest News.
To learn more about this event, including how to register, please visit the event’s official site.
News from Mandala Publications
Khadro-la at Maitripa College, Portland, Oregon, United States, June 2012.
Photo by Marc Sakamoto.
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Mandala magazine is putting the finishing touches on its next issue, which features a new interview with Khadro-la. Other stories include a profile of Geshe Kelsang Wangmo, the first female geshe; an excerpt from the just released book How to Practice Dharma: Teachings on the Eight Worldly Dharmas by Lama Zopa Rinpoche; and news of events and activities important to the international FPMT community. If you are not already receiving Mandala but would like to, please consider becoming a Friend of FPMT. Sign up by August 26 to receive the next issue.
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For Center, Project and Service Directors,
SPCs, Teachers and Board Members:
(This advice is specifically for those offering service in the roles listed above.)
LRZTP 6 Confirmed!
LRZTP 6 will officially start in two months’ time! So far, 18 students have registered for the course, with 14 of them committed to train as FPMT interpreters, and three as freelancers. With an extremely motivated and enthusiastic group of students from many diverse cultures and languages (UK, USA, Israel, Singapore, Russia, Chile, the Netherlands and Australia), LRZTP 6 promises to provide a rich resource of interpreters for FPMT centers.
Contact director Claire Yeshe Barde for more information and to connect your center with a trainee interpreter now.
Foundation Store Discovering Buddhism Promotion
Give your center’s community a taste of the Dharma! Get a 55% discount on the Discovering Buddhism Series on DVD. This DVD set is designed to be viewed on its own or used as supplementary material for anyone following the Discovering Buddhism program. Each of the thirteen 30-minute segments is introduced by Richard Gere or Keanu Reeves. DVD set is available subtitled in English, French, Spanish or German.
FPMT World:
Rejoice!
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Rinpoche’s Newest Book Available Now
Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive has just published How to Practice Dharma: Teachings on the Eight Worldly Dharmas, the second in its FPMT Lineage Series, a series of lam-rim commentaries by Lama Zopa Rinpoche drawn from his four decades of teaching on the path to enlightenment. It is available on Kindle (other e-reader versions are coming) as well as in print.
In this 250-page book, Rinpoche explains in great detail how attachment to the happiness and comfort of this life is the cause of suffering and how abandoning attachment is the source of all happiness. It’s only US$10, with a 50% discount for FPMT center bookstores.
The first in the series was Heart of the Path. Next up will be books on the perfect human rebirth, and impermanence and death.
Over 24 Million Mani Mantras Recited
At the mani retreat hosted by Rinchen Jangsem Ling, Malaysia during Saka Dawa, retreatants completed 24,840,528 mani mantras and dedicated the merit accumulated for the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Rinpoche and for the success of all the FPMT centers, projects and services around the world.
New Online Meditation Program –
Vajrapani Institute Needs to Hear from You!
Vajrapani Institute is currently exploring interest for an online program to support the meditation practice of students between retreats, teachings, or whenever motivation wanes. In order to best meet this need, they want to hear from you. Please share your thoughts through this 10-minute survey.
When you complete this survey, you are automatically entered to win an US$80 gift voucher to The FPMT Foundation Store. The winner will be chosen on September 15 and announced on Vajrapani’s Facebook page.
Opportunities to Offer Service in FPMT
Please check out these exciting opportunities to offer service in FPMT centers, projects and services around the world!
Impermanence at Work
Atisha Centre, Australia
We welcome new SPC – Nathalie Meriaud
With grateful thanks to outgoing SPC – Liam Chambers
Buddha House, Australia
We welcome new SPC – Bill Gundling
With grateful thanks to outgoing SPC – Lyndy Abrams
Chenrezig Institute, Australia
We welcome new SPC – Michael Gardner
With grateful thanks to outgoing SPC – Nathalie Meriaud
Dharmarakshita Study Group, Mauritius
dharmarakshita@myt.mu
Himalayan Buddhist Meditation Centre, Nepal
Tel: +977 980 325 4704
Thakpa Kachoe Retreat Land, France
Thakpa Kachoe chez Litaud Sylvaine
Villetale
06470 Guillaumes, France
Tse Chen Ling, USA
PO Box 31473
San Francisco, CA 94131
With love,
FPMT International Office
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