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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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When Lord Buddha spoke about suffering, he wasn’t referring simply to superficial problems like illness and injury, but to the fact that the dissatisfied nature of the mind itself is suffering.
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The Foundation Store is FPMT’s online shop and features a vast selection of Buddhist study and practice materials written or recommended by our lineage gurus. These items include homestudy programs, prayers and practices in PDF or eBook format, materials for children, and other resources to support practitioners.
Items displayed in the shop are made available for Dharma practice and educational purposes, and never for the purpose of profiting from their sale. Please read FPMT Foundation Store Policy Regarding Dharma Items for more information.
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International Office News
July 2022
Celebrate Chokhor Duchen and International Sangha Day on August 1
Offering Support to the Most Vulnerable Among Us
First Pilot of the Online Foundation Service Seminar
Publications to Support Your Dharma Study and Practice
Opportunities and Changes within the Organization:
Lama Zopa Rinpoche:
Continued Prayers
Due to a small medical procedure Lama Zopa Rinpoche had in Singapore last week—which Rinpoche is recovering from very nicely—Khandro Kunga Bhuma advised prayers and practices to be done for Rinpoche’s health at this time. We are delighted to share an update on totals of practices completed by individuals and centers, dedicated strongly for Rinpoche’s good health, long life, and fulfilment of all wishes. Please rejoice that:
- More than 60,328 living beings were saved from death
- 2,934,089 Tara Mantras were recited
- 265,046 Tara Praises were offered
- 1,184,097 Vajrasattva Mantras were recited
- 12,230 Recitations of Guru Rinpoche prayers (Sampa Lhundrupma and Barchey Lamsel) were completed
Plus many, many more meritorious practices were completed and dedicated to Rinpoche’s good health and long life. We rejoice strongly!
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Recent Activities
Please rejoice with a roundup of the auspicious and beneficial activities in which Rinpoche has been engaging recently, as well as a new photo album.
Teachings and Advice from Rinpoche
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave four teachings to students attending Kopan Monastery’s 2022 Vajrasattva retreat: an introductory teaching on March 30 and three subsequent teachings on April 26–28, 2022. You can find all the videos and a combined transcript on our page “Teachings for 2022 Vajrasattva Retreatants at Kopan Monastery.”
- “The Real Refuge is Your Wisdom Realizing Ultimate Nature,” is a recent teaching Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave over Zoom about Buddhist refuge for the graduation ceremony of the first cohort of Human Spirit, an Israel-based Buddhist-psychoanalytic training program.
- “Having Taken Refuge, What to Abandon and What to Practice” is a recent teaching Rinpoche offered via Zoom to students in China and Malaysia.
- Recent episodes of the “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast” include, “Any Activity Can be a Mindfulness Meditation on Emptiness,” “The Real Meaning of Practicing Dharma is to Renounce this Life,” and “Disrespecting the Virtuous Friend Brings Eons of Suffering, Devotion to the Virtuous Friend Brings Enlightenment.” New episodes are released every other Monday and previously published episodes are available on the Essential Extracts Podcast page as well.
We’re Rejoicing About:
Celebrate Chokhor Duchen and International Sangha Day on August 1
Chokhor Duchen, one of the four annual holy days of Guru Shakyamuni Buddha, takes place this year on August 1. Chokhor Duchen is also the day on which the FPMT organization celebrates International Sangha Day! International Sangha Day provides an opportunity for monastic and lay communities to come together in recognition of their interdependence and celebrate the ways in which they mutually rely on each other’s practice of the Dharma. We have compiled resources for your practice and opportunities to support the Sangha on this merit multiplying day
Offering Support to the Most Vulnerable Among Us
FPMT Charitable Projects exist to benefit others as extensively as possible. Last year, US$3,798,254 was offered in grants to many worthy initiatives around the world. Please join us in rejoicing in recent grants offered in support to elderly Tibetans living in homes in India and Nepal, as well as grants given to projects supporting animals.
- For the seventh consecutive year, the FPMT Social Services Fund has continued to offer essential support to 320 elderly Tibetans living in nine homes throughout India and in Nepal. US$184,000 has been offered this year. You can read more about the homes and elders we support.
- Among the many animal liberations happening around the organization, as advised by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, we are also so happy to be offering US$22,000 to three beneficial animal-centered projects this year. Please read more about these projects and the incredible work they are doing.
First Pilot of the Online Foundation Service Seminar
Gilda Urbina and Martha Portillo recently facilitated the first Online Foundation Service Seminar (OFSS), from their homes in Mexico. Gilda commented, “The seminar was very enriching, despite the fact that we did it online, the warmth of participants and the family feeling was felt in an important way. We had a lot of learning.” A participant added, “It was a very rewarding and different experience; I learned things I took for granted. Thanks!”
We rejoice and hope that this new format will be a very beneficial addition to our range of resources and support for those serving, or wishing to serve, in the FPMT organization.
Lhagsam Now an FPMT Center!
Lhagsam, located in Switzerland, has successfully affiliated with FPMT Inc. and made the transition from FPMT study group/probationary center into an affiliated center, with Theres Tschanz as the new center’s first director, and Lars Lolk as its first spiritual program coordinator!
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Publications to Support Your Dharma Study and Practice
Foundation Store Highlights
- The All-Encompassing Yoga Mind Meditation is a meditation practice on the two types of bodhicitta. This is a practice His Holiness the Dalai Lama does daily and urges students to do likewise.
- Sur Ritual: A Method to Make Meaningful the Freedoms and Richnesses that are Difficult to Find and are Acquired Only Once is a new practice compiled by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to help centers clear obstacles and create merit by making charity to the sentient beings of the six realms.
- Request to the Supreme Compassionate One is a powerful and inspiring prayer of request to Chenrezig translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. The Chenrezig mantra is very powerful and can purify any heavy negative karma.
- Staircase to Potala Pure Land Guru Yoga, A Practice of Avalokiteshvara is a short Chenrezig guru yoga practice composed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Centering on the inseparability of Chenrezig and our own guru, it includes “The Seven-Limb Prayer” and the Chenrezig mantra recitation.
- The Advice of Jangchub O explains concisely what a practitioner should put effort into. Jangchub O, famed for inviting the great Lama Atisha to re-establish the Dharma in Tibet, emphasizes abandoning self-cherishing and cultivating wisdom.
- Spontaneously Accomplishing Desired Aims: An Abbreviated Way to Perform the Meditation-Recitation of Eleven-Faced Chenrezig is a short practice of Eleven-Faced Chenrezig composed by the Thirteenth Dalai Lama.
- A Brief Long Life Prayer for His Holiness the Dalai Lama – MP3 Download contains a brief long life prayer for His Holiness the Dalai Lama chanted by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Kopan Monastery’s Lama Gyupas, and FPMT registered teacher, Ven. Steve Carlier.
Updated Materials:
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 materials in translation in our Foundation Store (shop.fpmt.org).
Opportunities and Changes within the Organization:
Opportunities to Offer Service in the FPMT 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. Newly Added: Land of Calm Abiding, US, is looking for a director.
Impermanence at Work
Contact information for the following, and all FPMT centers, projects, and services, can be found in the FPMT Directory.
Gendun Drupba, Canada, has reverted from being an FPMT center into a probationary center (study group).
FPMT New Zealand National Office
We welcome new national coordinator – Bengu Fetzer
With grateful thanks to outgoing national coordinator – Ven. Thubten Khadro
Thubten Kunga Center, US
We welcome new spiritual program coordinator – Jack Nadelman
With grateful thanks to outgoing SPC – Patti Hansen
Dharmarakshita, the FPMT study group (probationary center) in Mauritius, has closed.
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*powered by Google TranslateTranslation of pages on fpmt.org is performed by Google Translate, a third party service which FPMT has no control over. The service provides automated computer translations that are only an approximation of the websites' original content. The translations should not be considered exact and only used as a rough guide.Practice with the bodhisattva attitude every day. People can’t see your mind; what people see is a manifestation of your attitude in your actions of body and speech. So pay attention to your attitude all the time. Guard it as if you are the police, or like a parent cares for a child, like a bodyguard, or as if you are the guru and your mind is your disciple.