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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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International Office News
December 2023
Warmest wishes to you from all of us at FPMT International Office. May 2024 usher in a new year full of peace and compassion for yourself and others. We send our heartfelt thanks to each of you supporting the FPMT mission as students, staff, benefactors, and friends.
We rejoice in the great beneficial efforts of the entire FPMT community, this year and in all years to come.
May all the holy wishes of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lama Thubten Yeshe, and Lama Zopa Rinpoche be fulfilled perfectly immediately.
We dedicate all merits created, including merits of the three-time buddhas and sentient beings, to the swift return of our precious guru,
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche.
May all sentient beings have happiness and the causes of happiness.
May all sentient beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering.
May all sentient beings never be separated from the happiness that knows no suffering.
May all sentient beings abide in equanimity, free of attachment and hatred for those held close and distant.
Teachings and News About Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Commemoration of Rinpoche’s Birthday, December 3
New Photo Gallery: January-April 2023
The Merit of Offering to the Guru
An Explanation of the Shunyata Mantra and a Meditation on Emptiness
From the FPMT Inc. Board of Directors
International Mahayana Institute is 50!
FPMT East South East Asia Regional Meeting
Rejoicing in FPMT’s Charitable Projects
Opportunities and Resources for Your Study and Practice
Heart Sutra Retreat Offered at Kopan Monastery
Newly Available and Revised Materials
Opportunities and Changes within the Organization
Give Where Most Needed Year-end Campaign
Teachings and News About Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Commemoration of Rinpoche’s Birthday, December 3
On December 3 we observed the birth date of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and FPMT International Office sponsored Heruka Lama Chopa and recitation of Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri at Kopan Monastery. Additionally, Khenrinpoche Geshe Chonyi and Kopan Lama Gyupas recited the Guhyasamaja Root Tantra in front of Rinpoche’s holy body. FPMT centers and individual students around the world, as well as other groups and communities including Sagarmatha Secondary School in Chailsa, Nepal also engaged in these and other auspicious practices in observation of Rinpoche’s date of birth.
New Photo Gallery: January-April 2023
Since 2001 we have been publishing photo galleries of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teaching tours and travels around the world. We have now completed a gallery of Rinpoche’s final months among us. We believe students will be deeply touched by this moving album which shows Rinpoche’s compassionate, beneficial, and often humorous and playful activities until the time of his passing. View the gallery.
Swift Return Prayers
We are happy to share that the English translations for the swift return prayers composed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other distinguished lamas with whom Rinpoche had a connection in this lifetime, including Khenzur Jhado Rinpoche, Rangjung Neljorma Khandro Tseringma, and Lelung Rinpoche, have now been updated and are available at the Foundation Store. The PDF file is available for a quick one-click download.
The Merit of Offering to the Guru
In a short and intimate teaching from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, which was recorded over lunch at Maitreya Instituut, the Netherlands, in July 2015, Rinpoche explains the incredible merit that is collected by offering to the guru. Watch the video.
Lama Yeshe’s Wisdom
An Explanation of the Shunyata Mantra and a Meditation on Emptiness
Universal Love is a collection of Lama Yeshe’s teachings on the yoga method of Maitreya, which he taught at Maitreya Institute, Holland, in 1981. Also included are some introductory lectures on Buddhism from Lama’s 1975 teachings in the USA.
In Appendix 1 of this collection, “An Explanation of the Shunyata Mantra and a Meditation on Emptiness” Lama Yeshe discusses the mantra OM SVABHAVA SHUDDHO SARVA DHARMA SVABHAVA SHUDDHO HAM and provides a powerful meditation on emptiness. Read this teaching.
From the FPMT Inc. Board of Directors
November/December Update
We recently shared a update from the FPMT Inc. Board of Directors outlining details about the planned 2024 Geshe Conference and the 2025 CPMT meeting, participation in Regional and National meetings, and expression of their great appreciation to Claire Isitt for her years of dedication as Center Services Director. Please read the full update.
What We’re Rejoicing About
International Mahayana Institute is 50!
We congratulate the International Mahayana Institute (IMI) on its 50 years of existence helping FPMT Sangha! The IMI is an FPMT project, established to serve the community of FPMT students who are living in the monk’s or nun’s ordination vows. With much rejoicing, please read a recent inspiring report from IMI Director Ven. Tendar as well as details about an online celebration taking place today, December 15.
FPMT East South East Asia Regional Meeting
Selina Foong, our FPMT ESEA regional coordinator, organized a fruitful regional meeting last month with eighteen participants and four FPMT Inc. Board members – every FPMT entity in the region was represented! Selina sent us this screenshot showing the meeting in progress!
Rejoicing in FPMT’s Charitable Projects
We invite you to rejoice in recent updates on the activities in 2023 of two of FPMT’s Charitable Projects.
The Supporting the Ordained Sangha Fund offers comprehensive support to nunneries, monasteries, and individual monks and nuns across the globe and this year has contributed a total of US$330,468 toward various projects aimed at benefiting sangha. Please read about twelve grants that were offered in support of Sangha in India, Nepal, and Mongolia.
And we are delighted to share that through the Animal Liberation Fund we were able to offer US$18,821 to support remarkable initiatives serving animals in a variety of ways, not just by saving them from untimely death and caring for them for the rest of their lives, but also by blessing them with mantras, prayers, and holy objects in order to create merit and purify negative karma. Please read about how these grants were utilized this year.
Opportunities and Resources for Your Study and Practice
Heart Sutra Retreat Offered at Kopan Monastery
Save the date: From April 15-20, 2024, Kopan Monastery is hosting a Heart Sutra Retreat. This retreat will be led by by Khenrinpoche Geshe Chonyi, abbot of Kopan; and participants will be guided to meditate on the meaning of the Heart Sutra by Ven. Steve Carlier, a long-time student of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and many other important teachers in the Gelug tradition.
This retreat will follow a commemoration, on April 13, 2024, of one year since Rinpoche showed the aspect of passing away. In July 2022 Rinpoche expressed his wish to lead a Heart Sutra Retreat, so this is quite significant that this retreat is being offered within the FPMT organization, as it was one of Rinpoche’s wishes. Please read more details about this very precious retreat event.
Newly Available and Revised Materials
In April 2022, Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered a Milarepa initiation and teachings to a small group of senior Kopan monks, senior Khachoe Ghakyil Ling nuns, Western sangha, and some lay students. On that occasion, Rinpoche translated the Verse to Put at the Base of Paintings and Statues of Milarepa by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye. We are delighted to share the card which Rinpoche designed and wanted displayed next to any Milarepa statue, or thangka.
For FPMT affiliates, we’ve added the sign for you to download, print, and display – to the section Rinpoche’s Advice for the Center Altar and Gompa in the Affiliates Area, specifically under Further Recommendations.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advised to display this quote card, “Making Offerings to the Actual Buddha and to a Buddha Image Are the Same,” with statues or images of Buddha.
A Tea Offering Prayer: The Incomparable Guide was composed by His Holiness the Second Dalai Lama, Gendun Gyatso (1486–1576), a distinguished scholar, poet and mystic, and translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. This concise, evocative prayer, which invites the principal deities and gurus of the vast and profound lineages, and in particular, Lama Tsongkhapa-Manjusri, as the guests of the offering, is underlined by a meditative engagement with divine pride and the nature of ultimate reality.
We are happy to share an updated version of The Innermost Essence of the Arya Manjushri Tantra.
Opportunities and Changes within the Organization
Give Where Most Needed Year-end Campaign
As the year comes to an end, we’re inviting support to the FPMT Give Where Most Needed Fund – a way to support the Foundation’s work and any projects or activities in need that fulfill our mission. An offering of any amount makes a real impact as we welcome a new fiscal year ahead. With big thanks and rejoicing to all those who have kindly given to the fund in the past!
Changes in the FPMT Organization
Atisha Centre, Australia
We welcome Ven Chodak and Jan Stewart as new co-directors
With grateful thanks to outgoing director, Ven Dondrub
Detong Ling Retreat Centre, Australia
We welcome Patrick Moran as new director
With grateful thanks to outgoing director, Rebecca Geisler
FPMT International Office
We welcome Francois Lecointre as new director of Center Services
With grateful thanks to outgoing director, Claire Isitt
Nalanda Monastery, France
We welcome Ven. Sherab as new director
With grateful thanks to outgoing director, Ven Tharchin
Sera IMI House, India
We welcome Ven. Gache as new director
With grateful thanks to outgoing director, Ven Namjong
Opportunities to Offer Service
Read about the amazing benefits and importance of offering service in the FPMT organization, and have a look below at these meritorious opportunities to offer service as paid staff or as a volunteer in FPMT centers, projects, and services around the world.
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