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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.
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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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December 2010
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For more information as it becomes available please go to Rinpoche’s Schedule. For details of how to register for these events please contact the relevant center directly.
2011January 9 Rinpoche will attend the Delhi Dharma Celebration with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, organized by Tushita Meditation Centre, New Delhi, India
January 30 Rinpoche will attend the public talk to be given by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, organized by Choe Khor Sum Ling, Bangalore, India
February 3 – 13 at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore
5 – 6 Medicine Buddha initiation
8, 10 – 12 Teaching on Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga (continuation from last year)
14 Namgyälma initiationCANCELLED – March Teachings in New Zealand
April 2 – 30 Heruka, Yamantaka, Guhyasamaja and Rinjung Gyatsa initiations and teaching on Bodhicaryavatara in retreat hosted by Atisha Centre, The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion and Thubten Shedrup Ling Monastery, Bendigo, Australia.
May 15 Stupa consecration at De-Tong Ling, Australia
May 20 – 23 Teachings at Vajrayana Institute, Australia
May 27 – June 6 Commentary on Lama Chöpa (continuation from last year) at Potowa Center, Indonesia
June 17 – 26 Teachings at Lawudo Retreat Centre, Nepal
September 1 – 5 Teachings at Tubten Kunga Center, Florida, USA
September 8 Teaching at Kadampa Center, North Carolina, USA
September 10 – 25 Light of the Path retreat, including a long life initiation, North Carolina, USA
November Teaching for part of the one-month course at Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Rinpoche commented that the sign should be “not so small that people can’t read it clearly – you don’t want people to have to spend time and effort to be able to easily read it. Sometimes when centers make signs, they are so small. The explanation which people could use to awaken and to learn a lot is there, but the letters are so small that they don’t read the signs and then don’t learn, so the sign can’t help them to achieve enlightenment.”
Rinpoche advised that the sign should include visual images to make the meaning clearer, such as Rinpoche’s drawing above or photos of mothers with baby animals showing love and affection.
This is Rinpoche’s suggested wording for the sign:
My most precious dear one,
Please don’t hunt!
Because just as you want to be loved by others (every living being) the animals also want to be loved by you, as you are most precious one.
Every one of the deers are extremely precious ones. They don’t want to receive harm from you, as you also don’t want to receive harm.
It is just that the deers are now in animal form and are unable to express themselves through TV, newspaper, and doing demonstrations, so all they can do is run away when they see you harming them.
Please!
To read more advice from Rinpoche about avoiding killing animals, visit Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
Having the continued guidance of the guru depends on the merits of the disciples. We need to create the cause for us to keep meeting with the precious guru in future lives until we attain the highest goal of enlightenment for the benefit of all.
Guru devotion is the glue of the FPMT organization. Our devotion to Rinpoche is best expressed by following his advice, which includes offering service to manage, sustain and develop the centers, projects and services which are under Rinpoche’s spiritual direction.
By following Rinpoche’s advice and also offering long life pujas, FPMT students are accumulating the merits so that our precious guru will stay in the world with us for a long time. Rinpoche also mentions regularly that offering long life pujas is a cause for one’s own long life.
Centers, projects and services can make your annual donation for the long life puja of our holy guru via the secure site linked to from the FPMT Affiliates Area.
Students who would like to donate can do so via our webpage.
The deadline for us to receive your donation if you would like your center/name to be included in the list of donors is December 7.
Life on the Road with Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Excerpted from Ven. Roger Kunsang’s blog Life on the Road with Lama Zopa Rinpoche (posted on November 21, 2010). Ven. Roger’s very entertaining blog enables us all to keep up with Rinpoche’s activities. “Over the past couple of years Rinpoche has been ‘planting’ plastic flowers in the garden of his retreat house in Washington State, USA. Why would Rinpoche plant beautiful plastic flowers in the garden? The answer is very simple: the deer won’t eat them and during the winter when it is very cold and the area gets a lot of snow, there can still be offerings of beautiful flowers to the holy objects. The large stone Medicine Buddha statue in the garden was made and offered in Indonesia. After receiving the statue, Rinpoche spent some time carving a smile on the face and reworking the art of the hair with stone carving equipment. Not an |
Rinpoche at Kachoe Dechen Ling, USA, November 2010. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.
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Currently Rinpoche is doing a short, strict retreat. After, we leave for Nepal [for the Kopan one-month course]. Starting retreat isn’t a simple process for Rinpoche. Apart from the normal things such as making tormas, etc., there is the ‘organization work.’ Rinpoche always makes an effort to clear up some of that first. This time, it took about two weeks: letters from students and then FPMT work, which can be all sorts of things.
The letters never end. There are always so many and this makes it quite difficult to manage. Sometimes Rinpoche dictates letters to Ven. Holly nonstop for up to 13 hours before moving on to other things. Then there are 13 hours of dictation to rewrite and put in reasonable order with the additional details such as organizing pujas with the monasteries in India and Nepal, sending protections, blessed pills, cards, gifts, etc. This can take literally weeks. The action prior to retreat is nonstop around the clock and the range of activities is very interesting and a little overwhelming sometimes – but great if you are keen to practice patience!”
International Office News:
FPMT Sponsors Part of Kalachakra Initiation
We rejoice that, thanks to a kind benefactor, FPMT is sponsoring the venue for one day during His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Kalachakra initiation and teachings in July 2011 in Washington, D.C., USA. |
Rinpoche teaching at Maitripa College, USA, November 2010. Photo by Marc Sakamoto.
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To support this practice we have collected photos from some of these centers and homes, together with information about offering practices from FPMT Education Services, and put them all in one place.
By visualizing these extensive offerings and then mentally offering them, we gain the merit of making extensive generosity, but without needing the time and space required to set out hundreds of water bowls, lights and so on! We hope this will provide a helpful service.
Latest News from the Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund
From Ven. Holly Ansett, FPMT Charitable Projects Manager: In November 2010, FPMT was extremely happy to able to offer US$19,561 for the monthly stipends of the current abbots, past abbots and main teachers of the Lama Tsongkhapa tradition, including the Ganden Tripa. His Holiness the Dalai Lama requested Lama Zopa Rinpoche to establish the Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund and for the last 12 years, FPMT has been offering a small monthly stipend ranging from US$10 to US$31 to the 136 most senior teachers of Sera, Ganden, Drepung, Gyume, Gyuto, Tashi Lhunpo and Rato monasteries. This |
Rinpoche teaching at Maitripa College, USA, November 2010. Photo by Marc Sakamoto.
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FPMT also was able to offer US$7,789 for the annual Gelug examination that was attended by over 567 of the foremost scholars from Sera, Ganden, Drepung, Gyume, Gyuto, Tashi Lhunpo and Rato monasteries. This year, the exam was held at Gaden Lachi Monastery on August 11. This money covered the cost of travel for the monks traveling from Sera Je and Sera Me, as well the cost of offering food and tea to all the 567 monks attending the exam.
Thank you to all the kind benefactors who continue to support the Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund. Please rejoice in this incredible offering that we are able to make which is really preserving the Mahayana teachings worldwide!
Living in the Path: The fourth and last module from 2009, Guru is Buddha, is now live. It covers the heart of the path – seeing the guru as inseparable with Buddha. You don’t want to miss these precious teachings provided as video clips, transcripts, meditation instructions, and mindfulness and service exercises.
Basic Program: Mind and Cognition Part Two, Minds and Mental Factors is an introduction to Buddhist psychology, identifying the mental factors that constitute the basis of our daily experience and defining the various positive and negative emotions as well as the cognitive states relevant to practice of a liberative path. The teachings by Ven. George Churinoff at Land of Medicine Buddha are based on Kachen Yeshe Gyaltsen’s A Necklace for Those of Clear Awareness Clearly Revealing the Modes of Minds and Mental Factors.
The enrollment keys for all of the above courses are available as a benefit of Friends of FPMT at certain levels or can be purchased individually in the Foundation Store. Please also see the Online Learning Center User Guide for a complete list of all the free online courses which are available.
Discovering Buddhism: Please send Merry any DB Retreat dates you have scheduled for 2011.
“Although the direct provision of anti-leprosy drugs was taken over by the state health services eight years ago, a number of activities remained unattended. Thus, MAITRI was entrusted with working in the district of Gaya and providing assistance in the identification of new leprosy cases, the prevention of the occurrence of deformities in leprosy patients (or hansenians), the care of disabled patients both in the field and at its hospital, and the dissemination of awareness about the disease and its treatment.
It is important to stress that leprosy has not been eliminated and the number of infectious cases has been in the upswing for the past four years. This is why the work of an organization like MAITRI is more vital than ever.
On World Leprosy Day (next year on January 30), MAITRI spreads awareness among the population of Gaya District. We also celebrate the selfless work done by thousands of workers in India and around the world. Events are organized all over the world to raise funds to support the eradication of the stigma attached to the disease and to give material and psychological relief to those with the disease.
MAITRI requests other FPMT centers, projects and services to help raise awareness in their communities on World Leprosy Day about leprosy, be they Buddhist or not, and to appeal to their generosity to help de-stigmatize the disease and encourage others to treat those with leprosy with dignity and compassion.
I invite all of you to visit MAITRI’s website, now available in English, Italian, French and Spanish, and to get in touch with me for any further clarification and/or information you may require on the subject and any other issue.”
Centers Help Thai Flood Victims
Both Losang Dragpa Centre, Malaysia and Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore, put out calls to students to help support victims of the recent floods in Thailand – and students responded magnificently. Suzie Tan of LDC’s 16 To Live By reported:“At short notice, LDC’s youth program,16 To Live By, went on a mercy mission to deliver help to the flood victims in |
Two FPMT centers quickly responded to the needs to Thai flood victims
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Tan Hup Cheng, director of ABC, added:
“ABC recently raised S$18,000 (US$14,000) in a few days to buy 3,000 blankets, food and water for distribution to 3,000 Thai flood victims. This was done through Ms. Irene Ong, a Singaporean living in Bangkok. Khen Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup went out to bless the homeless and hungry villages while he was there.
The generosity of the benefactors in donating the blankets and food for the cold and hungry villages really made a deep imprint in their minds. The smile of relief in their faces as they received the precious goods was enough to make all the effort worthwhile.”
Both wanted to thank all the generous benefactors and members who kindly donated to make this mercy relief operation such a success.
The View from Thakpa Kachoe Retreat Land
Daniel Mestre and Sylvaine Litaud are developing an FPMT retreat facility high in the mountains above Marseilles, France. The development of the retreat facility is supported by growing organic lavender – what a delightful combination! |
Sylvaine Litaud picking lavender
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Please check out these and other exciting opportunities to offer service in FPMT centers, projects and services around the world!
Hospice of Mother Tara, Australia
New co-SPCs – Glynis Jeffery, Fran Rowley and Jane Tayler
With grateful thanks to outgoing SPC – Debbie Francis
Kadam Sharawa Institute, Australia
New SPC – Jane Sheers
With grateful thanks to outgoing SPC – Janette Robinson
Langri Tangpa Centre, Australia
New director – Jaimee Treloar
With grateful thanks to outgoing director – Richard Taylor
Jamyang Buddhist Centre, UK
Acting director till May 2011, when Sally Barraud returns – John Bonell
Shedrup Ling, Mongolia
New director – Marta Bolorerdene
With grateful thanks to outgoing director – Khatanbatar Choidogsuren
With love,
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