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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.
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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International Office News
August 2022
Newly Published Teachings, Talks, and Advice
Support Offered for the Education of Children in India and Nepal
Merit Box Grants Awarded for 2022
Scholarships Available for the Next FPMT Masters Program
New Blogs and Stories from FPMT.org
Publications to Support Your Dharma Study and Practice:
Lama Zopa Rinpoche:
Teachings in Singapore
Lama Zopa Rinpoche just concluded offering very precious teachings from Amitabha Buddhist Centre (ABC), Singapore. Teachings started on August 1 and continued through August 16 and initiations through August 28. We are in the process of releasing videos, transcripts, and summaries of these teachings through August 16 in our Lama Zopa Rinpoche News and Advice blog.
Newly Published Teachings, Talks, and Advice from Rinpoche
- A few hours after his discharge from a hospital in Singapore for a medical procedure, Lama Zopa Rinpoche joined the Amitabha Buddhist Centre (ABC) community in Singapore for their special celebration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 87th birthday on July 6, 2022. Rinpoche offered incredibly powerful and precious words about His Holiness’s qualities, guru devotion, and impermanence.
- “The Foundation of Thought Transformation Is to Understand the Kindness of Sentient Beings,” is a teaching Rinpoche gave on June 26 from Kopan Monastery, Nepal, at the request of Telo Tulku Rinpoche, Ganden Tendar Ling FPMT Buddhist Center, Aryadeva FPMT Study Group, and the Save Tibet Foundation in Russia.
- “The Foundation of Thought Transformation Is to Stop Harming Others,” is a teaching Rinpoche gave on June 25 from Kopan Monastery, Nepal, at the request of Telo Tulku Rinpoche, Ganden Tendar Ling FPMT Buddhist Center, Aryadeva FPMT Study Group, and the Save Tibet Foundation in Russia.
- “Your Main Practice in Life Should Be Cherishing Others,” is a teaching Rinpoche offered to students from China and Malaysia via Zoom on June 13 from Kopan Monastery.
- “The Real Refuge Practice Is Cherishing Sentient Beings,” is a teaching Rinpoche offered to students from China and Malaysia via Zoom on June 12 from Kopan Monastery.
- “Live Your Life to Generate Bodhicitta,” was recorded in December 2017 at Kopan Monastery. By emphasizing that the most important thing in our life should be to generate and increase our bodhicitta. This is how we can best help ourselves and all sentient beings. This is how to achieve happiness.
- Recent episodes of the “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast” include, “The Real Enemy Is Our Self-Cherishing Thought,” and, “From Birth to Death We Believe in the Hallucination Projected by Ignorance.” New episodes are released every other Monday and previously published episodes are available on the Essential Extracts Podcast page as well.
All teachings from Lama Zopa Rinpoche are published regularly, unedited on our full-length teachings podcast shortly after the teaching finishes.
We’re Rejoicing About:
Support Offered for the Education of Children in India and Nepal
The FPMT Social Services Fund offers essential grants which benefit children, the elderly, sick, and very poor primarily in India, Nepal, Tibet, and Mongolia where access to aid is particularly. We wanted to share this recent update on the US$192,445 offered in grants this year to seven free schools in India and Nepal serving nearly 1,000 children. Please read more about these schools and their mission of offering both a modern and Dharma education to those most in need. We invite you to rejoice in this, and to learn how FPMT is helping to break the cycle of poverty and destitution in impoverished areas.
Merit Box Grants Awarded for 2022
Earlier this year, 28 grants were awarded through the Merit Box Fund, providing a total of US$61,875 to FPMT centers, projects, services and study groups. This year included the remaining funds held for special hardship relief for financial difficulties caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Grants supported projects for book publications, holy objects, center repairs, a social service, and more! You can see the full list of 2022 grant recipients here.
This marked the 20th year of grants from the Merit Box Project! We share our gratitude for all of the generosity offered through the Merit Box Fund over the years. Over these two decades, US$1,216,780 has been distributed! While we no longer have physical Merit Boxes available for order, one can still offer support through our online donation form.
Scholarships Available for the Next FPMT Masters Program
We are pleased to announce that scholarships will be available for residential/full-time students of the two FPMT Masters Programs, starting February 2023 at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa in Italy and February 2024 at Nalanda Monastery in France. The FPMT Masters Program is our most advanced education program. Six years of full-time study—combining a comprehensive curriculum with practice, training, service, and month-long retreats—are completed with the integrating experience of a year-long lamrim retreat.
You can learn more about the FPMT Masters Programs being offered at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa in the Tuscany region of Italy, and at Nalanda Monastery in the South of France.
For information about the scholarships, the criteria for eligibility and the application process, please contact FPMT Education Services.
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New Blogs and Stories from FPMT.org
You can keep up on all of our latest blogs, featured stories, community news, and teachings by checking in regularly to the What’s New page on FPMT.org.
Recent highlights include:
- “Acting in the Middle Path,” excerpted from a teaching given by Lama Yeshe at Chenrezig Institute, Australia, in September 1979.
- “Helping Tenzin Phuntsok Rinpoche Prepare for His Rik Chung Debate: Ven Tenzin Gache Shares the Story”
Publications to Support Your Dharma Study and Practice:
Foundation Store Highlights
- 1,000 Offerings to the Victorious One Invincible Savior, Maitreya is an abbreviated offering ritual to Maitreya Buddha arranged by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
- King of Naga Lords is a short practice of the King of Naga Lords, one of the Thirty-Five Buddhas, composed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Reciting the name of the Naga King has the power to purify heavy negative karma and you don’t receive harm from nagas through diseases such as leprosy, arthritis, or cancer.
- Mantra of Akashagarbha for Success is the mantra of the bodhisattva Akashagarbha and has unbelievable benefits and it is especially beneficial when you are going to speak to someone or request something, or when success is particularly important. You can recite the mantra and also wear it.
- The Dharani Called “Possessing the Attributes of All the Buddhas is a Dharani to protect from the fears of aging, sickness, debilitation, and death. Available in English, French, Tibetan, Indonesian, and audio.
- Milarepa’s Hymn: During a Milarepa initiation Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered a profound commentary on Milarepa’s Hymn, an inspiring prayer concluding that the way to really enjoy happiness in this life is by giving up desire. Listen to this hymn.
- Verse to Put at the Base of Paintings and Statues of Milarepa: During an Milarepa initiation, Lama Zopa Rinpoche translated this verse to put at the base of holy objects depicting Milarepa.
- A Very Short Medicine Buddha Practice is a short practice with Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s advice on the benefits of reciting and hearing the Medicine Buddha mantra and the actual practice, including the long and the short mantra of Medicine Buddha.
Minor updates:
- Liberating Animals from the Dangers of Death PDF
- Prayers for the Long Life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Tibet PDF
- Prayer of Auspiciousness from the Mani Kabum PDF
- Prayer to Chenrezig, Compassionate-Eye-Looking One PDF
- The Exalted Zung Called ”Thoroughly Pacifying Hatred” PDF
- King of Prayers PDF
- The Dharani Called ”Possessing the Attributes of All the Buddhas” MP3 Download
- Medicine Buddha: The Wish Fulfilling Jewel PDF
New material in other languages:
For a complete list of FPMT Education Services prayers and practices, please visit our catalogue page. You can also find all new arrivals, updated materials, and translated materials in our Foundation Store (shop.fpmt.org).
Opportunities and Changes within the Organization:
Would you like to spend your days making a meaningful contribution? Have a look at the various meritorious opportunities to offer service providing the opportunity to serve as a volunteer or as paid staff in FPMT centers, projects, and services around the world.
Impermanence at Work
Contact information for the following, and all FPMT centers, projects, and services, can be found in the FPMT Directory.
Karuna Hospice Service, Australia
We welcome new spiritual program coordinator (SPC) – Ven. Tsultrim
With grateful thanks to outgoing SPC – Ven. Chodron
Lawudo Gompa, Nepal
We welcome new director – Geshe Tsultrim Sherab
With grateful thanks to outgoing director – Sangay Sherpa
Ocean of Compassion Buddhist Center, USA
We welcome new director – Stefanie Harvey
With grateful thanks to outgoing director – Kim Winn
Shakyamuni Center, Taiwan
We welcome new director – Ven. Thubten Osel
With grateful thanks to outgoing director – Huang Chun Roo
Tara Institute, Australia
We welcome new director – Kerry Whitlock
With grateful thanks to outgoing director – Damien Busby
Tushita Meditation Centre, Spain
We welcome new director (previously acting co-director) – Albert Gamez
And we welcome new SPC (previously acting co-director) – Marina Brucet
Yeshin Norbu, Sweden
We welcome new director – Carina Thoren
With grateful thanks to outgoing director – Amanda Mindus
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