FPMT’s Charitable Projects include beneficial initiatives such as: offering food to ordained Sangha; providing scholarships to study Buddhist philosophy; offering to the main teachers of the Lama Tsongkhapa tradition and sponsoring annual debates; offering grants for social services such as to old age homes, schools, hospitals and monastic institutions; providing comprehensive Dharma programs; translating Dharma texts; sponsoring holy objects: statues, stupas and prayer wheels, and saving animals. These projects are an integral part of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions and are essential to FPMT’s objective of building a more compassionate world from the inside out.
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Offering support to our kind lamas in any way possible is the root of the path to enlightenment and creates the cause for all the realizations. This fund supports the lamas’ activities and offerings toward long life pujas. more…
Offering support to our kind lamas in any way possible is the root of the path to enlightenment and creates the cause for all the realizations. This fund supports the activities needed for the swift return of our incomparable kind Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche and the education and needs of the future incarnation. More…
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund enables Rinpoche’s compassionate service to others to flourish. All the offerings from the fund are used toward the creation of holy objects around the world; sponsoring young tulkus, high lamas and Sangha in India, Nepal, Tibet and the West; supporting FPMT centers, projects and services; sponsoring Dharma retreats and events; funding animal liberations, and much more. more…
The Long Life Puja Fund offers annual long life pujas to our immeasurably precious teachers: His Holiness the Dalai Lama and our Spiritual Director, Lama Zopa Rinpoche. The long life puja purifies the relationship between teacher and disciple, and creates the karmic cause for the teacher to remain among us. more…
The Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund provides support to ordained Sangha (monks and nuns) as well as monasteries and nunneries. Funds are used to provide support for food, accommodation, education, health care and retreat needs for Sangha. more…
The Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund preserves the unbroken Tsongkhapa lineage, and cultivates the foremost scholars of tomorrow. The fund provides a monthly stipend for the abbots and senior teachers of Sera, Drepung, Ganden, Rato and Tashi Lhunpo monasteries, and Gyume and Gyuto tantric colleges. The fund also enables hundreds of monks to attend the annual Gelugpa exam and monks and nuns to attend the annual winter debate in India and Nepal. more…
The Animal Liberation Fund supports ongoing animal liberations which includes offering extensive prayers dedicated to the long life of others. Supporting animal liberations creates the cause for long life for the animals, for oneself, and for those to whom the prayers are dedicated. more…
The Holy Objects Fund contributes to the creation of holy objects for world peace. The fund offers grants to contribute to the building of holy objects such as stupas, statues, prayer wheels, and large thangkas. more…
Everyone has an incredible opportunity to be part of this offering of one thousand statues of Buddha to His Holiness for the long life of His Holiness. Learn more…
A magnificent Stupa of Complete Victory is being built for Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery, this stupa will be 42 ft high (12.8 meters). We are currently in the planning stage of this project. Learn more…
The Stupa Fund provides the resources needed for building 100,000 stupas around the world in order to create the cause for world peace. This is one of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for FPMT. more…
The Prayer Wheel Fund is dedicated to providing the resources needed for the creation of 100,000 prayer wheels around the world as a way to increase compassion and cultivate world peace. This is one of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for FPMT. more…
The Padmasambhava Project for Peace is dedicated to fulfilling Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s goal of building many large statues of Padmasambhava around the world in order to create the cause for peace for all beings. more…
One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions is to build 1,000 statues of Maitreya Buddha around the world. Within this Vast Vision of Rinpoche are the two Maitreya Projects, which were established to build magnificent Maitreya statues in Bodhgaya and Kushinagar, India. more…
The Puja Fund sponsors extensive prayers and practices dedicated for the benefit of all beings, including every donor who contributes to this fund. The pujas and practices are for healing, success and the removal of obstacles. They are offered by up to 10,000 ordained Sangha on the most powerful days when merit is magnified. In addition, monthly offerings of gold, saffron, brocade, robes, and umbrellas are offered to some of the holiest statues and stupas in India, Nepal, and Tibet. more…
The Prajnaparamita Project provides the material resources needed to write out the Prajnaparamita Sutra in pure gold. This is one of the main ways to create the causes needed to build the Maitreya Buddha statue in India, according to Lama Zopa Rinpoche. This fund is also used for sponsoring the writing out the Sanghata and Diamond Cutter Sutras in pure gold and silver. more…
The Practice and Retreat Fund provides grants and sponsorships for students engaged in retreats such as 108 nyung nä retreats, 100 million mani retreats, recitations of sutras and long term retreat. Grants are also given to develop retreat centers. more…
This fund supports Dharma study and contributes to the development of Buddhist education programs and the preservation of the Dharma through the publication of Dharma practice materials and translations. more…
Qualified teachers and practitioners are essential to the successful transmission of the Dharma. The Education Fund provides the funding to create FPMT’s range of comprehensive education programs, meeting the needs centers and students all over the world. more…
As the Dharma takes root in the West, clear and accurate translations of the classic texts are essential. The FPMT Translation Fund supports this critical work with translation from the original Tibetan into English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Mongolian, and other languages. Sponsoring translations of Dharma texts is a highly acclaimed method for accumulating positive energy or merit. more…
If you would like more information on any of these charitable projects, or if you have questions not answered by our online material and resources, please feel free to contact the Charitable Project Coordinator, with any additional questions.