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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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If you help others with sincere motivation and sincere concern, that will bring you more fortune, more friends, more smiles, and more success. If you forget about others’ rights and neglect others’ welfare, ultimately you will be very lonely.
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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
June 2019
Lama Zopa Rinpoche, France, May 2019. Photograph by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.
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Ethical Policy in More Languages
The Foundation Store is Going Digital-Only!
Taste of the Foundation Service Seminar
Registration for the Kopan One-Month Lamrim Course
LRZTP Goes from Strength to Strength
Lama Zopa Rinpoche blessing dogs at Nalanda Monastery, France, May 2019. Photograph by Nicolas Balthazar.
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche News:
Schedule
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s next scheduled teaching will be June 28-30, hosted by Ganden Center, Riga, Latvia.
Cancelled: Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s ongoing transmissions of Most Secret Hayagriva, which were scheduled at Sera Je Monastic University, India this November. These teachings have been cancelled by the organizing committee as Jhado Rinpoche had been scheduled to give similar transmissions a few weeks later.
Recordings of Rinpoche’s recent teachings are always available at Rinpoche Available Now.
Advice
Living with Bodhichitta is the Happiest Life
Lama Zopa Rinpoche enjoying a park in Madrid, Spain, April 2019. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche taught on how everything we receive, even the motivation of bodhichitta, comes through the kindness of other sentient beings.
“What makes life most beneficial to numberless sentient beings, the happiest life, is bodhichitta, living life with bodhichitta—the happiest life, no regret now and no regret in the future. It’s the happiest life…” Read in full …
Retreat at Institut Vajra Yogini with Lama Zopa Rinpoche Brings FPMT ‘Family’ Together
Varjayogini Retreat participants in front of the Kadampa stupa at Insitut Vajra Yogini, France, May 2019
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The five-week Vajrayogini Retreat led by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Institut Vajra Yogini in the south of France has finished. The family feeling was experienced by FPMT students from around the world who attended the retreat—many of them students of Rinpoche for more than thirty years. Read more about this retreat and the “amazing, amazing, amazing” final week …
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International Office News
Ethical Policy in More Languages
We’re delighted to add translations of the FPMT Ethical Policy in French, Italian, and Spanish with our big thanks to the translators.
New FPMT Inc. Board Members
The FPMT Board (the board of FPMT, Inc.) is delighted to welcome three new board directors. Chair of the board, Andrew Haynes, commented:
“The board has been searching for new members for a while. In particular we wanted to have people with long term knowledge of the FPMT organization, who also had professional skills and good knowledge of US non-profit organizations.”
Read more about the new, and existing, board members.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche, France, May 2019. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.
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The Foundation Store is Going Digital-Only!
The Foundation Store will transition to only distributing digital files. This means that physical Dharma and meditation supplies—such as thangkas, prayer wheels, statues, malas, ritual items, incense, khatas, etc.—will no longer be available after current stock is depleted. If you think you will need books and meditation supplies from the Foundation Store, please submit your order now while supplies last.
For those who love print books, some core educational practice materials are already available by print-on-demand through Amazon, which are printed and shipped locally within each Amazon territory. More materials will be made available by print-on-demand soon!
New from Mandala Publications
Maitreya Instituut Loenen, the Netherlands, hosted an interfaith retreat at the end of 2018 that sought to transcend the usual interfaith dialogue model. Over the course of a four-day retreat focused on compassion, students from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and the Sufi tradition shared prayers, mantras, meditations, and music, and traded quotations from 13th-century Sufi poet Rumi and 8th-century Buddhist scholar Shantideva. Maarten de Vries, assistant director of Maitreya Instituut Loenen, describes the special event in the online story, ”Maitreya Instituut’s Interfaith Retreat Creates a Community Experience Focused on Compassion.”
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Supporting Elderly Tibetans
In recent years, due to the kindness of benefactors, our Social Services Fund has been able to offer support to elderly homes in India caring for Tibetans of advanced age who have no access to other means of support. Offering these grants to elderly homes is one way to help repay the kindness and bravery of the Tibetan people. There are many Tibetan elders in the exile community who have either been rendered destitute or whose families are not capable of taking care of them due to dire circumstances. In 2019 we were very happy to offer grants totaling US$287,085.23 to five homes that directly benefit 370 elders. Read more …
For Center, Project and Service Directors, SPCs, Board Members, Registered Teachers and Coordinators:
(This advice is specifically for those offering service in these roles.)
Policy Update
As you will have read via the CPMT e-group, the policy regarding Copyright and Ownership of the Teachings for Resident Geshes and Teachers has been updated.
Taste of the Foundation Service Seminar
Group photo, courtesy of Ianzhina Bartanova.
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We’re delighted to share with you that Wendy Ridley, a senior Foundation Service Seminar facilitator, recently facilitated a fruitful Taste of the Foundation Service Seminar at Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The Taste was designed by FPMT Service Seminar coordinator, Amy Cayton, to introduce and help people understand the benefit of an FPMT immersion training via the Foundation Service Seminar retreat. The Taste worked well, as center director, Ianzhina Bartanova, told us:
“I am very delighted to report about the Taste. There were 21 participants including two potential board members, the director of the FPMT center in Darkhan, and fourteen GDNSL employees. I think the Taste gave very good imprints, and planted the seeds for a full five days Foundation Service Seminar retreat.”
FPMT World:
Thank you and Farewell
Two long-time FPMT students passed away in June. Both will be missed by their FPMT and own family.
Bob Jacobson worked for FPMT International Office while it was located in Taos, New Mexico, USA; and for many years he was the director of the FPMT center in Missoula, USA: Osel Shen Phen Ling.
Peter Baker was the founder, director for many years, and benefactor of the FPMT center in Vermont, USA: Milarepa Center.
Registration for the Kopan One-Month Lamrim Course
Registration for the famous one-month lamrim course at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, opens on August 13th! This course is a core FPMT program. This year, the course starts on November 17th. In addition to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Ven. Robina Courtin will be the main teacher.
LRZTP Goes from Strength to Strength
The FPMT interpreter and Tibetan training program, the Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program, is always developing! Read about progress on LRZTP 8, and the brief Tibetan language intensive LRZTP offered in Dharamsala, India.
Opportunities to Offer Service in the FPMT Organization
Would you like to spend your days in a very meaningful way? Take a look at the regularly updated meritorious opportunities to offer service as a volunteer or as paid staff in FPMT centers, projects, and services around the world. Newly added: Jamyang Buddhist Center of Leeds, UK is looking for a spiritual program coordinator, and a house manager.
Impermanence at Work
Contact information for the following, and all, FPMT centers, projects, and services can be found in the FPMT Directory.
Centro Muni Gyana, Italy
We welcome new director – Marco Farina
With grateful thanks to outgoing director – Lucia Geraci
Centro Studi Cenresig, Italy
We welcome new spiritual program coordinator (SPC) – Laura Molinazzi
With grateful thanks to outgoing SPC – Andrea Fuser
Chokyi Gyaltsen Center, Malaysia
We welcome new director – Eam Lee Lim
With grateful thanks to outgoing director – Daniel Yeoh
We welcome new spiritual program coordinator (SPC) – Seok Lee Chong
Jamyang Buddhist Center, London, UK
We welcome new resident geshe, Geshe Tenzin Namdak
Nagarjuna Center, Granada, Spain
We welcome new spiritual program coordinator (SPC) – Charo Tutau
With grateful thanks to outgoing SPC – Manuel Merino
Nagarjuna Center, Madrid, Spain
We welcome new director – Fernando Fernandez
With grateful thanks to outgoing director – Daniel Bardran
UK National Coordinator
We welcome new coordinator – Ven. Barbara Shannon
With grateful thanks to outgoing coordinator – Jay Simpson
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