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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.

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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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  • Rinpoche’s Schedule
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche is happy while teaching at Amitabha Buddhist Center, Singapore.

Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang

 

Rinpoche’s 2008 Schedule

To find more information as it becomes available, and for details of how to contact the center and book for these events, please go to Rinpoche’s Schedule.

March 13 – 15 Teachings at Choe Khor Sum Ling, Bangalore, India

    • March – Mahayana Buddhist Association, Hong Kong

      • 21 – Medicine Buddha jenang

      • 23 – Animal Liberation
    • April – Mexico

      • 4 – Public talk in Guadalajara

      • 5 – 14 Lam-rim retreat with Guru Shakyamuni Buddha guru yoga

      • 12 – 13 Medicine Buddha initiation

      • 18 – Public talk, Mexico City

    • May – Centro Shiwa Lha, Brazil

      • 17 – 19 Retreat

      • 21 – 22 Great Medicine Buddha initiation

    • May – Centro Yamantaka, Colombia

      • 27 – 28 Lam-rim teaching

      • 29 – Talk on Making Life Meaningful

      • 31 – June 1 Great Chenrezig initiation

June 6 – 8 Mahamudra teachings and Medicine Buddha initiation, Crestone, Colorado, USA

June 17 – 22 Retreat with Rinpoche in Australia, hosted by Kunsang Yeshe Center

Sept 23 – 30 Teachings at Do Ngak Sung Juk Centre, Japan

Dec – Teaching at November Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal

2009
April 26 – May 2: CPMT, and long life puja for Rinpoche, Institut Vajra Yogini, France

    • May 5 – June 5th Twenty One Tara and Yamantaka Retreat with Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Institut Vajra Yogini, France
      • 6 – 12 Twenty One Tara retreat

      • 13 – 15 Yamantaka initiation

    • 16 – June 5 Yamantaka retreat with commentary
 

Lama Zopa Rinpoche surprised the staff at Root Institute in Bodhgaya, India with a 6.00am puja at the stupa followed by a walk around through the old ruins with Dagri Rinpoche (left) and Khandroma.

Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang

New Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Wheel of Sharp Weapons while Driving
A very practical advice from Rinpoche about how to respond to difficult situations while driving – or anytime:

“This is one example, and you must think similarly in daily life with anything that annoys you, which disturbs you suddenly. Think like this about something with which it’s difficult to practice patience, like when anger suddenly arises.” Read the full advice »

Hardships as Ornaments
A lovely story written for us by Ven Holly Ansett:
In Nov 2007, Geshe Jampa Thegchog gave a talk which Rinpoche attended on difficulties when one’s mind is weak and how we should have courage when problems arise. Geshe-la advised that we should think that the problems and difficulties are ornaments, as we bear hardships to wear heavy ornaments because they beautify us.

An example of this is piercing the body – we are able to endure the pain of the piercing in order to look beautiful. So in the same way we need to have patience, and no matter how many hardships we have, we should bear them for sentient beings.

Then Rinpoche told a story about one homeless man that he recently met in New York. The homeless man lived on the streets and had a very worn umbrella to protect him from the elements. Rinpoche passed him each day when Rinpoche went to the local park to do water offering practice for the pretas. Rinpoche asked a nun in New York to give him her big umbrella, as the homeless man needed it much more than her. Then one day Rinpoche stopped and asked the homeless man what was the most difficult thing for him. He replied “endurance”. Rinpoche immediately put his hands together in the mudra of prostration and said that this is a great answer, a great teaching.

Rinpoche went on to say that in samsara difficulties will always arise because the cause has been created, so we need to take the hardships as ornaments and to have courage and endurance.

 

New FPMT Study Group and One Closed Group

Bringing the total number of FPMT centers, study groups, projects and services worldwide to 150.

Thakpa Kachoe Retreat Land

    • Le Florence B1

    • 118 Rue St Jean Du Desert

    • Marseille 13012, France

    • Tel: (33)(612) 91 89 49

    • Fax: (33)(491) 8819 15

    • danielmestre@magiconline.fr

    • www.thakpakachoe.com

    Co-Coordinators Daniel Mestre and Sylvaine Litaud

Closed FPMT Group
Sadly, Liberation for our Brother and Sister Animals (which was based in Australia) is closed. With grateful thanks to all whose time, energy and donations enabled the group to benefit beings.

 

International Office News

Wisdom Culture

Every organization has its own distinctive culture. Around the world, in FPMT Dharma centers and projects, in its policies and educational programs, that culture is infused with the wisdom and compassion of our founder, Lama Thubten Yeshe and our spiritual director, Lama Zopa Rinpoche. See the key points of the FPMT Wisdom Culture!

New FPMT Abbot

Nalanda Monastery, France – Geshe Jamphel, Abbot
Nalanda’s director, Ven. Tendar writes:
“Yesterday morning we had the enthronement of our new abbot; the monks who had been to India during the past months got the practice, Tharchin has translated it, and they had a talk with one Rinpoche who gave all the necessary instructions for our specific situation. Once Geshe-la accepted also to do this official ritual, he added some instructions. It was very nice.”

Institut Vajra Yogini, France – Geshe Tenzin Loden, resident geshe

Resident Geshes and Teachers Get Mandala Magazine

We are delighted to announce that all resident geshes and teachers in FPMT centers will be receiving a complimentary copy of FPMT’s Mandala magazine – we hope you enjoy it!

All FPMT centers, projects and services receive a complimentary copy of Mandala.

If you have any problems receiving the magazine, please contact Sandra.

We would love to receive brief biographies of your resident geshe and teacher!

Mandala

The April-May 2008 issue is due off the presses on March 7 so look out for a fabulous issue with new teachings from Rinpoche, and the beginning of regular contributions by Ven. Losang Monlam, recently-appointed director of the International Mahayana Institute (IMI – the Sangha community’s “union”, if you like! )

We are still looking for leads for stories about the bodhisattvas among us – people you know who exemplify all that is good about being on the Path. We fondly remember

Lama Zopa Rinpoche relaxes with the latest issue of Mandala magazine.

Photo by Tim van der Haegen

Henry Lau, who recently passed away, for his support of Mandala by encouraging friends to subscribe. And if you think you are too busy to ever go on retreat – Lorne Ladner tells how it is possible to retreat from our own delusions, at home: planning your sessions; meditating before work; it’s all achievable.

Rejoice In Practicing Generosity!

Early last year, as part of its mission to serve the Dharma, the Foundation Store created the opportunity to Practice Generosity as a component of the checkout process. This activity has been very successful! It has generated almost $50,000 for a variety of different FPMT charitable projects and accounts for 10% of the store’s revenue. The Sera Je Food Fund was the leading recipient with a total of $20,596. Other funds that received support included the Education Program, Mongolia FPMT, the FPMT Puja Fund, and the Lama Yeshe Sangha Fund. We would like to thank everyone who participated in Practice Generosity for 2007 and encourage this generous activity for 2008! Please take the time and join us in rejoicing these inspiring acts of selfless generosity! All income from Dharma items is very carefully used by us – see how here.

Merit Box Update

Many Merit Box participants and FPMT centers took advantage of the increased merit on Losar and the Day of Miracles to donate substantially to the Merit Box Project. It was inspiring to see the generous donations made over this period!

March 31st is the deadline for submitting donations for the 2007 Merit Box Distribution. This is the first time that centers with Merit Box coordinators have been offered the opportunity to apply for Merit Box grants. Nine different centers have requested support for 14 different worthy projects. We are hoping this number will grow in future years. Following March 31st, the donations and completed grant applications will be given to Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Rinpoche will review the applications and determine how the funds will be distributed.

Thank you again to all Merit Box participants for the generous Losar donations. Everyone, please take time to rejoice in all the generous donations made for 2007. If you have any questions, please contact Chuck.

Education Materials

We are celebrating the near completion of two new translations! The draft version of the Golden Light Sutra in Mongolian is now up on the website. The Swedish translation of the Sanghata Sutra is being reviewed and finalized and will soon be available for download.

After a long wait, the Stages of the Path Basic Program homestudy package is ready and will soon be available on the Foundation Store. Based on the transcript of teachings offered by Geshe Jampa Gyatso for the Basic Program held at Istituto Lama Tsong Khapa (ILTK), and with guided lam-rim meditations and prayers and practices in audio format, this package provides the context for all other BP Homestudy subjects.

Education Programs

More Basic Program news from France. Nalanda just had a flying start with its 5 year residential BP in three languages, taught by their semi-resident geshe and new abbot, Geshe Jamphel. Their second teacher, Ven. Fedor Stracke, who taught a first term of BP last summer in Kopan, also teaches BP at Aryatara Institut in Munich and is thereby offering a German BP homestudy option as well. Meanwhile, the BP is available on-line in Italian and in Czech, both also for five years – from ILTK together with Dompipa Study Group in the Czech Republic. Chenrezig Institute continues to offer BP homestudy alongside its residential program. In Spain, Ven. Nerea started teaching the BP in Oseling this February, and Madrid also will be starting. Together with Valencia, Barcelona and Granada, these developments make our Spanish programs a lot stronger and gives a real boost to the development of materials.

The Masters Program started again at ILTK in January, courageously taken on by the new MP teacher, Geshe Tenzin Tenphel. The program has seventy residential and even more on-line students, both in Italian and in English, and each has their own qualified tutors. The on-line program uses the interactive on-line learning program Moodle, complete with audio, video, lots of course materials including mind-maps and forums in these languages. All seem to be enjoying so far!!

 

FPMT Snippets

A rendering of the hospital under construction.
Update on the
Amdo Eye Center

Rejoice! FPMT just sent $50,000 to the Amdo Eye Center in Xining, Tibet! Under the auspices of FPMT, Amdo Eye Center is building a hospital to provide high quality cataract surgery and eye care to all, especially those from under-privileged backgrounds. Construction

on the first two floors of the hospital is done, and work on the building continues.

Geshe Sopa Rinpoche requested Lama Zopa Rinpoche to undertake this project, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama is extremely supportive of it as well. The Tanoto Foundation and many other kind benefactors have made this project possible. For more information on all the amazing projects that FPMT supports around the world, visit Charitable Projects.

Recitations for Ecie Hursthouse
Again, MANY thanks to all the centers and study groups who have been reciting the Diamond Cutter sutra at Rinpoche’s request for Ecie Hursthouse. For updates about Ecie’s condition, check out her husband’s blog.

 

IMI Organizational
Planning Retreat

In February, the Bay Area FPMT centers hosted 20 monks and nuns attending the International Mahayana Institute (IMI) Organizational Planning Retreat. Representatives from the FPMT monastic communities and regions of the world were invited to participate in a four-day conference organized by Ven. Losang Monlam, director of IMI.

Khensur Rinpoche Jampa Tegchok who is teaching at Land of Medicine Buddha, met with the delegates to offer some advice, “You all have some experience, there

Participants of the IMI Organizational Planning Retreat.

are a lot of elders here. You know what is necessary. I am happy to see many elders. You are the ones we gave the transmission [to] after we have arrived from Tibet. We need to see the benefit of having communities, established Sangha. You see the value of that.”

The conference drew on the experience and skills of the delegates to creatively assess and strategize how IMI could best serve its community of monks and nuns. A report presenting the collective work of the group will be prepared and shared with the larger IMI and FPMT community.

 

Connecting Our Dharma Practice with Our Life in the World

Where is Away?
Last year I joined a network of people who have committed, as volunteers, to presenting a one-day workshop in as many places as possible. This workshop introduces the current environmental and social problems, the underlying reasons for those problems, and some ideas for cutting through these mental blockages and implementing a way of life that collectively can bring about a socially just, environmentally sustainable, and spiritually fulfilling human presence in this world. The title of the workshop is ‘Change the Dream’, meaning that the ‘dream’ or ‘story’ that we tell ourselves and each other about who we are and how we relate to each other and the wider ecosystem, is what influences our individual and collective behaviour – and this is what creates the everyday reality in which we live.

So – if we want to change our current situation – or from compassion, we want to change the situation of those less fortunate than ourselves, we need to change our individual and collective dream, or story. We need to deeply question our unquestioned assumptions (which by definition, is not easy to do!)

One of the film-clips in the workshop stays in my mind; Julia Butterfly Hill, (an American conservationist who saved a giant redwood from being felled by living high in its branches for over a year), asks the question – ‘Where is ‘Away? When someone says they are going to throw something ‘away’ – where is that on a finite planet?’

There is no ‘away’. For most of us, our garbage gets collected and we forget about it – we don’t think about how it gets dumped somewhere that happens to be where other people live – usually poorer people, with less choice and ability to move elsewhere – or even shipped off to developing countries where people have even less choice. Whatever toxins leach out of the garbage affect people living nearby, but eventually those effects spread and affect everyone. (Methane contributing to global warming is just one of the many effects that are global) It is like a very visible and immediate form of karma being played out in front of our eyes, even as we continue to contribute to the process.

And like so many other issues – once we ‘change the dream’ and see the deep connectedness of ourselves and all other beings, both human and non-human, it simply becomes second nature to think about where our garbage will end up, and to try reducing it to an absolute minimum in order to avoid inflicting it and its attendant consequences on those less fortunate than ourselves – and ultimately, saving ourselves from those consequences as well.

To explore these and other ideas, join www.buddhistecologylink.org
lots of love, Elaine xx
Shen Phen Thubten Choeling, Study Group for Socially and Ecologically Engaged Buddhism

 

Opportunities to Offer Service in FPMT

Keep checking https://fpmt.org/jobs.html for interesting opportunities to offer service in FPMT centers around the world.

New Opportunities include Mahamudra Center in New Zealand is looking for a manager; the Jade Buddha Relic Tour is looking for a tour coordinator.

 

Impermanence at Work – Center Details Changes

NB: center details are always most up to date in the directory on the FPMT website, https://fpmt.org/centers/

Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom, UK
Tel: (44) (207) 820 9010
Fax: (44) (207) 820 8605

Jamyang Buddhist Centre, UK
New director – Sally Barraud
With grateful thanks to outgoing director – Diana Carroll

Kalachakra Centre, France
info@centre-kalachakra.net

Nagarjuna Mumbai, India
(Mailing address)
Brightlands C.H.S. Phase 1
Row House 2, Behind Bldg C-2
Yashasvi Nagar, Balkum
Thane (W)400 608

Tara Institute, Australia
www.tarainstitute.org.au
admin@tarainstitute.org.au

 

With love,
FPMT International Office

 

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