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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.

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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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      • 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.

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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:Foundation 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。

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October 2015

Lama Zopa Rinpoche offering a mandala during tsog, Centro Shiwa Lha, Brazil, September 2015.

Photo Ven. Roger Kunsang.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s News:

Annual Long Life Puja

News, Activities and Advice

Rinpoche’s Schedule

International Office News:

News from Education Services

Next Foundation Service Seminar

New Charitable Project Grants Supporting the Dalai Lama

Friends of FPMT Support the Mandala – and Receive Mandala!

Free Merit Boxes Ready to Be Shared

For Center, Project and Service Directors, SPCs, Board Members, Registered Teachers and Coordinators:

Work at the Center Is So Important and Beneficial

More about the Five Pillars of Service

Foundation Store News: Large 21 Taras Thangkas

FPMT World:

Rejoice:

New FPMT Study Groups!

LRZTP 7 Has Begun!

Thank you from IMI

Opportunities to Offer Service in FPMT

Impermanence at Work


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translated into your native language by using our convenient translation facility located on the right-hand side of the page. French and Spanish speakers will find the FPMT International Office News translated each month in the “Bienvenue” and “Bienvenidos” tabs on the FPMT homepage!


Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching forcefully during the retreat hosted by FPMT Mexico, Guadalajara, September 2015.

Picture taken from Rinpoche Available Now video.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s News:

Annual Long Life Puja

The official annual long life puja offered on behalf of FPMT centers, projects, services and students to our most kind and immeasurably precious spiritual director – Lama Zopa Rinpoche – source of our inspiration and guidance, will be offered at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, on December 2, during the one-month November course.

FPMT centers, projects and services can make their annual donation via the secure site listed under Further Resources in the FPMT Affiliates Area.

Individuals can donate here.

If you would like your or your center’s name to be included in the list of donors, please make your offering by November 30.

News, Activities and Advice

Highlights from our blogs on FPMT.org:

World Peace and the Golden Light Sutra

Lama Zopa Rinpoche giving a public teaching organized by Centro Shiwa Lha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 2015.

Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

“Anybody who wants peace in the world should read the Golden Light Sutra,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches. “This is a very important practice to stop violence and wars in the world. The Golden Light Sutra is one of the most beneficial ways to bring peace. This is something that everyone can do, no matter how busy you are, even if you can read one page a day, or a few lines and in this way continually read the Golden Light Sutra.” Read more …

Don’t Get Angry at the Stick

Lama Zopa Rinpoche doing prayers at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City, USA, September 2015.

Photo by Ven. Lobsang Sherab.

“Actually, there’s no outside enemy. There’s a reason why people give harm to us, get angry with us or criticize us. There’s a reason, there’s a cause for that, and that cause is our mind ….” Read more …

Blessing Sentient Beings in the Ocean

Lama Zopa Rinpoche with students from Centro Shiwa Lha blessing the ocean and all the creatures in it, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 2015.

Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

As Lama Zopa Rinpoche travels around the globe, he regularly finds time in this busy schedule to go to beaches, piers and even ferry boats to bless the ocean and all the sentient beings living in it. One time in California, Rinpoche and a large group of students were asked to leave a wharf where they were blessing the beings using a special Namgyälma mantra boards because they didn’t have the required permission. The next day, Rinpoche wrote a letter. Read more …

Keep up to date with Lama Zopa Rinpoche News. Find a wide range of advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Rinpoche’s Advice page. Go to the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive for lots more advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Ven. Roger Kunsang being greeted by Neyl Soares, director of Centro Shiwa Lha, Brazil, September 2015. “Rinpoche is here. Unbelievable!” Neyl said.

Rinpoche’s Schedule

Full details

November/December: Teachings during the one-month lam-rim course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal

December 2 – Long life puja offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery

2016
Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore
February 27 –
Teaching on and bestowal of refuge
February 28 – 1,000 Offerings to Maitreya puja
March 2 – 6 – Yamantaka initiation
March 9 – 11 – Vajrayogini initiation
March 13 – Long life puja

Chokyi Gyaltsen Center, Malaysia
March 19 – 20 –
Teachings on the Three Principles of the Path
March 25 – 27 – Most Secret Hayagriva initiation

Losang Dragpa Centre, Malaysia
April 1 – 3 –
Cittamani Tara initiation
April 6 – White Tara long life initiation

Rinchen Jangsem Ling, Malaysia
April 9 – 11 –
Great Medicine Buddha initiation
April 12 – 19 – Medicine Buddha retreat

Cham Tse Ling, Hong Kong
April 28 – 30 –
Teaching on Daily Meditation
May 1 – Vajrapani/Hayagriva/Garuda jenang

August 14 – 28, 2016: Light of the Path retreat, Kadampa Center, USA

Please contact the hosts directly with any questions. Subscribe to our FPMT news blog to get updates as soon as they are announced.

Rinpoche Available Now – Enjoy livestreams of many of the teachings above and recordings of Rinpoche’s most recent teachings!


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News from Education Services

Programs:

New and revised modules for Living in the Path Online! This program is unique among FPMT education programs in that it is taught exclusively by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Living in the Path Online is undergoing extensive revision to make it easier to access and digest. New modules are also being developed based on Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s more recent teachings. Read about Living in the Path Online and determine if this program is right for your study and practice at this time.

Materials:

  • New mantras available for download! Students can download these freely for their personal use. Recently added are His Holiness the Dalai Lama Name Mantras, Lama Tsongkhapa Name Mantra, and Lama Zopa Rinpoche Name Mantra.
  • Two new translations from Lama Zopa Rinpoche are now available! “Song of the Four Mindfulnesses: Instructions for Meditation on the View of Emptiness, Causing a Rain of Siddhis to Fall” by the Seventh Dalai Lama and “Requesting Prayer to Padmasambhava” by Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa. You can read more about these two translations.

Next Foundation Service Seminar

For the first time, the Foundation Service Seminar (FSS) will be offered at Maitripa College in Portland, Oregon, USA in a two-part training beginning October 30- November 1, 2015. For more information and to register.

New Charitable Project Grants Supporting the Dalai Lama

A grant was offered for a new debate courtyard at Sera Mey Monastery

One of FPMT’s main priorities is to support and offer service to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. One of the ways we are able to support His Holiness is by helping the monasteries where Tibetan Buddhism is studied extensively.

Three substantial grants were recently offered to the monks of Sera Mey, Sera Je and Ganden, many of who are Tibetans and refugees, in addition to being disciples of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. We invite you to read more about and rejoice in these FPMT Charitable Projects grants:

  • Grant Offered to Sera Mey Monastery for Debate Courtyard
  • Sera Je Food Fund Distributes Food to Monks Over Summer Break
  • Support Given to Ganden Samlo Khangtsen at Ganden Monastery

Friends of FPMT Support the Mandala – and Receive Mandala!

The collective generosity of our Friends supporters serves our worldwide mandala by supporting FPMT International Office activities. Friends of FPMT get the redesigned Mandala magazine and new Mandala ebooks as lovely benefits in addition to a host of other ebooks, PDFs, and free online classes! Learn more.

Free Merit Boxes Ready to Be Shared

We have lots of Merit Boxes at International Office that we want to share freely with everyone! Request one for your home and join the International Merit Box Project in its 15th year of benefiting FPMT communities.

Sign up to receive daily posts of all FPMT news blogs via email.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Geshe Kunkhen, resident geshe of Centro Yamantaka, Colombia, September 2015.

Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang.

For Center, Project and Service Directors, SPCs, Board Members, Registered Teachers and Coordinators:

This advice is specifically for those offering service in the roles listed above.

Work at the Center Is So Important and Beneficial

Rinpoche’s words to a director retiring after some years of service is helpful for all of us offering service in the organization:

“Thank you for your letter. I understand you have tried very, very, very, very, very hard. I appreciate very much all your help with the center for such a long time. This work is very, very important: giving people the opportunity to meet Dharma and to practice Dharma – this is so important, so helpful, so beneficial you can’t imagine – or maybe you can! It’s important to understand how beneficial your work and the work of others there at the center is – and how important it is. Amazing, amazing, amazing! Please rejoice in all you have and others have done – it’s so worthwhile.”

Find this and more inspiration from Rinpoche and Lama for those offering service in the FPMT Affiliates Area.

More about the Five Pillars of Service

European regional coordinator Rafa Ferrer invited presentations on FPMT’s Five Pillars of Service during the European Regional Meeting in July 2015. Rafa commented:

“Each of the presentations were really good. Generating income was probably the star. People saw the work already being done, and it became clear that the real good motivation behind any business is that your Dharma program is not hindered by the need to adapt due to financial concerns.”

The audio of the presentations is up for you in the Five Pillars section of the FPMT Affiliates Area.

Foundation Store News: Large 21 Taras Thangkas

JUST ARRIVED! Beautiful large thangkas of the 21 Taras painted for the Foundation Store by some of the best artists in Kathmandu, Nepal. Receive a special discount when you invite this holy object into your FPMT center, project or service for your students and supporters to enjoy today!


FPMT World:

Rejoice:

New FPMT Study Groups!

We warmly welcome:
Lama Tsongkhapa Study Group (probationary center), Kachkanar, Russia
Jamyang Salisbury Study Group (probationary center), Salisbury, UK
Namdrol Ling Study Group (probationary center), Miami, FL, USA

LRZTP 7 Has Begun!

LRZTP 7 students, Dharamsala, India, October 2015.

Photo courtesy of LRZTP.

LRZTP 7 started the year with 14 students (two more will come later)! Of these, nine are committed to work as trainee interpreters in FPMT centers once they complete the two years of study and practice in Dharamsala, India.

Thank You from IMI

IMI Sangha at the retreat with Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Mexico, September 2015.

Photo by Drolkar McCallum.

IMI would like to thank the sponsors who make it possible for us to support Sangha to participate in retreats with Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Special thanks to the FPMT centers, projects and services which have made their annual donation to the Lama Yeshe Sangha Fund.

Opportunities to Offer Service in FPMT

Please check out the regularly updated meritorious opportunities to offer service as a volunteer or as paid staff in FPMT centers, projects and services around the world.

Milarepa Center, USA needs a facilities and land manager, and an HTML-savvy volunteer; Mahamudra Centre, New Zealand needs a center manager.

Impermanence at Work

Our prayers go out to Jose Moya, who died on October 10, and his family. Jose was SPC of Nagarjuna Barcelona.

Dharmakaya Center, USA
6165 Ridgeview Court #G, Reno, NV 89519

Gyalwa Gyatso (Ocean of Compassion) Buddhist Center, USA
We welcome new director – Margaret Kim
With grateful thanks to previous director – John Boley

Kadampa Center, USA
We welcome new co-SPCs – Donna Seese and Tony Allen
With grateful thanks to previous SPC – Sarah Brooks

Nagarjuna Barcelona, Spain
We welcome new SPC – Nuria Sala
Our prayers go out to Jose Moya, who died on October 10, and his family. Jose was SPC of Nagarjuna Barcelona.

Nagarjuna C.E.T. Granada, Spain
We welcome new resident teacher – Ven. Fabio Poza

Nalanda Monastery, France
We welcome new SPC – Ven. Lekshe
With grateful thanks to previous SPC – Ven. Tendar


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