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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.
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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: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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Social Services Fund News
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Tibetan Settlement Community Hall in Hunsur, South India, Completed
Earlier this year we reported that a grant had been offered to Rabagayling Tibetan Settlement in South India for the building of a new community hall to be used by 2,710 refugees.
Please rejoice that that construction on this building has been completed and members of the settlement will begin 100 million mani retreats there soon.
The new building will serve this Tibetan community for years to come and will be used for holding retreats as well as official functions, workshops, and training in Tibetan language and culture, which is critical for the preservation of the Tibetan heritage.
This settlement also has an elder care home. The Social Services Fund provides a grant for three nourishing meals daily for the twenty elderly Tibetan residents and four staff. Funding for 2016 was recently sent and the wish is to be able to offer this support each year.
If you are inspired by grants such as this, you are welcome to contribute to the Social Service Fund and help ensure that work like this can continue.
- Tagged: social services, tibetan refugees, tibetan settlement
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Dog Shelter in Malaysia Caring for over 1,000 Destitute Dogs
While in Malaysia recently Lama Zopa Rinpoche heard about a dog shelter, Auntie Mee Fah’s Dogs’ Shelter, which is caring for over 1,000 at-risk dogs with food and shelter. Rinpoche very much wanted to visit the shelter to bless the animals, but falling short on time, students from Losang Dragpa Center (LDC) visited on Rinpoche’s behalf, blessing the dogs with mantras and also putting up Namgyälma mantras in every dog cage.
Rinpoche also committed to offer six month’s worth of food for the dogs. When hearing this, LDC took on the responsibility to try to raise as much of this offering as they could, to support Rinpoche’s generous gesture. LDC was able to quickly raise US$7,824 and Rinpoche offered the remaining US$1,800 needed for the dogs’ food.
These dogs are homeless animals with no one to care for them. It is clear how happy they are to have their basic needs met at this shelter, and are now given the chance to make a connection with the Dharma!
In a letter to the the students of LDC, in response to them raising the majority of money needed for the six months of food for the dogs, Rinpoche said, “Thank you very, very much — a billion, zillion, trillion times, to all the students and all the friends, especially for your inspiration. Please give everyone my billion, zillion, trillion, (on and on) thanks for the support to the dogs and to the lady (running the shelter).”
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered the following quote from Buddha to the shelter management:
Any sentient being, who during the period of my teachings,
Makes charity well (even if the material is the size of a hair) for 80,000 eons
There will be great result of great enjoyment.
No pain, no disease, and enjoyment of happiness
Like that, one will be enriched with the desirable things.
At the end you can actually achieve the result, the peerless cessation and completion (enlightenment).
After hearing that there is the great result — who wouldn’t want to collect merit?
Please rejoice in this offering of food for six months for these precious animals and in LDC’s generous effort to raise the majority of this offering, all in support of Rinpoche’s wish to benefit these dogs.
You are welcome to offer any amount to the Animal Liberation Fund so that offerings such as this can continue.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has given extensive advice on how to benefit animals.
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Supporting Elderly Tibetan Refugees in India
Due to the kindness of a generous benefactor, FPMT has been able to invest more resources into taking care of the elderly Tibetans living in India, many of whom fled Tibet starting in 1959.
In 1950 His Holiness assumed full political leadership of Tibet after the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) invasion of the eastern province of Kham. While the Chinese believe that Tibet has been part of China since the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), Tibetans have maintained an independent identity and systems of governance separate from China for over a millennium. The Tibetan government which was in place when the PLA invaded, was founded in 1642 by the Great Fifth Dalai Lama.
On March 10, 1959, Tibetans in Lhasa believed His Holiness to be in danger of capture by the Chinese military. In response, people in Lhasa rose up against the Chinese, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of civilian Tibetans and the destruction of the Sera, Ganden and Drepung Monasteries. Within days of the uprising, His Holiness secretly left Lhasa and escaped to the safety of India and about 80,000 Tibetans followed. Over the past fifty years, approximately 150,000 Tibetans have found refuge in India. Of the early refugees still living, all are elderly and some without care and support from family, due to having fled Tibet and their families.
Over the last six months FPMT Charitable Projects has assessed the needs of older Tibetan refugees and found four residential facilities in need of support. To date, a total of US$135,996 has been offered in grants to help these homes carry out their work.
Jampaling Elder’s Home, Dharamsala
Jampaling Elder’s Home, situated in Dharamshala, is about 15 minutes walking distance from the main temple of His Holiness the Dalai Lama with many prayer wheels lining the way. The resident elders are able to attend all the teachings of His Holiness at the main temple. This home was set up to look after the elders who are scattered in different Tibetan settlement without appropriate facilities and also for destitute ex-army members without any family. It also houses elderly who are unable to earn a living due to old age and who have no one to rely on. This facility provides food, shelter and medical services to residents.
156 residents (30 of whom are ordained) and 13 staff members reside in this home. The facility was offered a US$19,887 grant to hire an additional caretaker, make repairs to the facility, build a recreation/community room, accommodate special dietary needs, and provide pocket money for residents.
Lugsung Samdupling Home for the Aged and Disabled in Bylakuppe
A US$40,927 grant was offered to this facility that is home to 46 people. This grant will cover the shortfall of the home’s operating expenses and provide resources for a new waste management initiative.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche visited this home and spent time with the elderly residents who are living in extremely modest conditions, many with health issues due to the advanced age.
Mundgod Home for the Elderly and Disabled
A US$15,043 grant was offered to this home made up of 103 people. This facility will use the funds to meet the expenses of its operating budget. This home serves the elderly who have no family or who have children who are also destitute and unable to provide any support to them. One kitchen and three cooks provide food for all of the residents.
One block of this facility has residents who are in need of round-the-clock care due to mental and physical deterioration. This facility was in dire need of funds as many donors have suspended support in recent years due to, according to the home’s management, “the financial crisis in world economy.”
Hunsur Old Aged Home, Gurupura
A US$60,139 grant was offered to this 20-resident home. The grant will be used for the cost of running this facility, particularly the costs of food, and the construction of five additional rooms.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche visited this home and was able to bless the community living there as well as assess the accommodations and need for support.
Without such homes, many elderly first-wave Tibetan refugees have very little prospect of accommodation or support as many are without families of their own. Offering support in this way is one way that FPMT can help repay the kindness and bravery of the Tibetan people. Lama Zopa Rinpoche avows the profound importance of His Holiness, the Dharma Kings, Shantarakshita, Padmasambhava and the Tibetan people in general. He has said that, because of them, the “sun of Tibetan Buddhism has now risen in the West.”
We’re eager to provide similar support to Tibetan refugees in Nepal. We’ve already started the process of assessing their needs.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has encouraged us not to only address residents’ physical needs, but also their spiritual ones. With this in mind, we’ve already started to determine where and when we’ll be able to construct holy objects such as stupas and prayer wheels.
FPMT Charitable Projects is honored to support the homes of the eldest and destitute Tibetan refugees. You can show your support by making a donation to the Social Services Fund.
FPMT is committed to assisting Tibetan communities in need. You can read about recent support to a Tibetan settlement for refugees in South India including a grant toward a new community center and food for an elderly home.
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Rebuilding Efforts Continue at Lawudo Retreat Centre
The Lawudo Retreat Centre, situated high in the Himalayan mountains of eastern Nepal, holds particular significance for FPMT. Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the reincarnation of the Lawudo Lama, Lama Kunzang Yeshe, who lived and practiced in Lawudo until his passing at age 81. The Lawudo Retreat Centre was built over several years and completed in 1972 under direction from Lama Zopa Rinpoche. The gompa was built so that young monks in the area could receive a good education with favorable conditions. Since that time, Rinpoche’s mother (who passed away in 1991), sister Anila Ngawang Samten, and brother Sangay Sherpa have cared for the Lawudo Lawudo Retreat Centre and welcomed pilgrims, retreatants and locals to this extremely blessed and remote place.
The property suffered damage from the earthquake and subsequent aftershocks which struck in April 2015 and renovations were needed quickly so that those living in Lawudo would have protection from the monsoon season. Fortunately, the Nepal Earthquake Support Fund was able to quickly offer US$50,000 to begin the rebuilding process. From that grant, approximately 90% of the work was completed but a few major projects remained unfinished due to lack of funds. The remaining work was estimated to cost US$36,000 and included renovation to the west side of the main gompa, rebuilding of two houses, and the renovation of a third.
Due to a US$20,000 donation from benefactors in Singapore and a US$16,000 grant from the Nepal Earthquake Support Fund, hopefully this essential work can now be completed.
Sangay Sherpa, Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s brother, is the director of the center and is overseeing the repairs and rebuilding and submitting progress reports and updates.
Help is still needed for renovation and repairs throughout Nepal as the region does not yet have its basic infrastructure back to normal. Your donations to the Nepal Earthquake Support Fund will allow for more grants to be distributed as needed. To date, an incredible US$835,719.77 has been distributed from this fund. All areas which have received support are monitored to make sure that the resources are being properly utilized and that ongoing needs are accounted for.
It is a high priority for FPMT to continue to offer direct support in this way to the people of Nepal. Tremendous thanks to all who have contributed to these efforts and please rejoice that rebuilding from this substantial damage is underway.
All are invited to donate to the Nepal Earthquake Support Fund.
https://fpmt.org/support/socialservices/
You can learn more about Lawudo Gompa and the history of Lawudo.
http://www.lawudo.com/About
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Grant Offered to Rolwaling Sangag Choling Monastery to Rebuild Gompa
Thanks to the kindness of a generous benefactor who provided a grant, the Social Services Fund was able to recently offer US$173,599 to Rolwaling Sangag Choling Monastery for the rebuilding of their gompa. Rolwaling Monastery is the main monastery in Rolwaling, located in Nepal along the Tibetan border, and is a precious site of cultural and religious heritage for the area. This monastery is particularly precious to FPMT as Lama Zopa Rinpoche attended this monastery between the ages of 7-12. Supporting this monastery is one way to help repay the monastery’s kindness for looking after and offering education to Rinpoche as a child. There are currently fifteen young monks studying at this monastery.
Rolwaling Sangag Choling is a community-centered monastery and its history spans about nine generations. It is the only monastery in the entire community of Sherpa Buddhists. The current gompa is approximately 150 years old and is richly painted with many holy statues and scripture. This gompa is the sole place in the area where daily prayers, offerings, pujas, retreats, Buddhist teachings, death and dying services, and community events for lay students and ordained Sangha (which can serve up to 300 people at once) are offered. The gompa was already not in good condition (having not been renovated since 1957) but the 2015 earthquake nearly destroyed what was there. For many in the local community, this gompa is more important than their own homes. It was reported that when assistance was offered to locals to help rebuild their houses following the earthquake, many locals became very emotional, saying things like, “Please help us save the gompa, we don’t mind staying in open spaces or living in caves, but we can’t see our gompa in ruins.” Restoring the gompa is extremely important to this community.
During the reconstruction, all the relics and historically important materials will be reused so that the gompa can receive this important update without losing its original identity.
Kopan monk Geshe Jinpa is from Rolwaling and will be responsible for making sure the renovations are done well and will be responsible for overseeing the financial side of this project.
Please rejoice in this offering made possible by this generous grant. The rebuilding of this gompa helps preserve the local culture and reestablish the monastery as a place for Buddhist practice and community. Additionally, as this monastery helped to care for and educate Lama Zopa Rinpoche as a child, this grant helps repay the kindness of our precious spiritual director.
The Social Services Fund also offered a grant to the monastery school to help with a youth hostel and repairs following the earthquake.
If you would like to support the Social Services Fund and help ensure grants such as this can continue, you can read more about the charitable projects this fund supports, or donate any amount to the fund itself.
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Food Offered to Ngari Institute in Ladakh, India
For the fourth year, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, through the Social Services Fund, has offered food every day of the year to the school children and staff of Ngari Institute in Ladakh, India. This year, 46 school children, 16 teachers and eight young monks will benefit from this offering. The cost is US$20,526.39.
Supporting those in need (such as children, the elderly, poor, and sick) is one of the main priorities of Social Services Fund and Lama Zopa Rinpoche has also indicated that in addition to offering for material needs, we must help in the ultimate way as well by offering Dharma education or creating holy objects as this creates the cause to change the karma and bring real lasting benefit.
Ngari Institute is located in the Himalayan Kingdom of Ladakh in a small village called Saboo. The campus is spread over 20 hectares of deserted land. The main aim of this school is to empower and enrich the poor and needy remote-area students by imparting a combined learning of both modern scientific knowledge and ancient Buddhist wisdom. It was founded by the Ladakh alumni of Sera Je Monastery in South India. In 2007 Geshe Tsewang Dorje was invited to take full responsibility for this project.
In 2010 Geshe Tsewang Dorje appointed a group to find children who would otherwise miss educational opportunities, especially orphans and extremely poor children in the remote area, which runs between Tibet and Ladakh. These children will now be able to receive a modern education as well as learn about Tibetan Buddhism and their own culture.
The Institute sent this very thoughtful thank you message in response to this year’s donation, “Thank you very much for all the continued support for food for Ngari Institute in 2016. We would like to particularly thank Lama Zopa Rinpoche and all the FPMT supporters. Our director, Geshe Tsewang, has gone to holy Buddhist places to offer long life prayers for our supporters and for their own wishes to be fulfilled, particularly His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and all the great masters and regular supporters.”
Thanks to all who donate to the Social Services Fund enabling the offering of important grants such as this. If you would like to contribute to the offering of grants such as this, you are welcome to donate any amount you can.
The Social Services Fund has sponsored the food for Ngari Institute for the fourth year in a row and hopes to be able to continue long into the future. If you are inspired by grants such as this, you are welcome to contribute to the Social Service Fund and help ensure that work like this can continue.
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Community Hall in Tibetan Settlement of 2,710 Refugees
In July we reported that a US$116,848 grant from the Social Services Fund had been offered to Rabagayling Tibetan Settlement in South India for the building of a new community hall that will benefit the 2,710 refugees there. We are pleased to report that work on this hall is underway.
In December 2015, during His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachings in Gyurme Tantric College in Hunsur, Lama Zopa Rinpoche visited the construction site and offered prayers to bless the building.
Rinpoche also visited an elderly home that was close by and gave a talk. Many of the elders there will be using the community hall for prayers and practices. Rinpoche told them that even though they don’t have much, they have the Dharma and are so blessed due to reciting OM MANI PADME HUM every day. Rinpoche then explained some of the benefits of this mantra.
Rinpoche has said that “by reciting OM MANI PADME HUM you collect more merit than the number of drops of water in the ocean, than the number of snowflakes in a snowfall, than the number of drops of water in rainfalls, more merit than the number of grains of sand in the Pacific Ocean, and if you do it with bodhichitta, then it creates the cause of happiness up to enlightenment. Then you are able to bring all sentient beings to enlightenment by purifying the negative karma and collecting more than skies of merit.”
Rinpoche blessed all the residents of the home with his new blessing wheel that contains 2,040,000 mantras including Stainless Lotus Pinnacle. Rinpoche explained that when one is blessed with this holy object on the head, it purifies 2,040,000,000 eons of negative karma.
Rinpoche continually reminds us that in addition to offering help for basic needs such as food, shelter, and medical care, we must also remember to help others in an ultimate way – to purify negative karma and create the cause for happiness up to enlightenment. Rinpoche is hoping in the future that there will be holy objects close to the elder care home so that the residents can create merit. Rinpoche also hopes for some teachers to visit the home and give Dharma talks and lead prayers.
Please rejoice! This new hall will serve this Tibetan community for years to come and will be used for holding 100 million mani retreats as well as official functions, workshops, and training in Tibetan language and culture, which is critical for the preservation of the Tibetan heritage.
The Social Services Fund sponsored all the food for the residents in 2015 and hopes to be able to continue in 2016. If you are inspired by grants such as this, you are welcome to contribute to the Social Service Fund and help ensure that work like this can continue.
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79,000 Sentient Beings Liberated in 2015 in California and Washington
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has requested the Sangha at his residences in California and Washington state to offer the practice of animal liberation every week dedicated to anyone who is sick or having life obstacles. Additionally, Sangha in California offer a weekly blessing of all sentient beings in the ocean by submerging large Namgyälma mantra boards into the water.
Extensive prayers are made for the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Rinpoche and all our kind teachers, the Sangha, and anyone who is sick and requesting prayers.
Supporting all sentient beings in any way possible is why FPMT was established. Benefiting animals directly is one of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the organization. The Animal Liberation Fund helps carry forth this work.
In 2015, approximately 79,000 sentient beings were liberated. This is something wonderful to rejoice in, and something anyone can make offerings toward, especially if you are sick or would like to offer on behalf of someone else who is sick.
The FPMT Foundation Store offers a teachings and practices from Lama Zopa Rinpoche about how to benefit animals, including the animal liberation practice, in booklet and PDF formats.
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Yeshe Norbu Onlus Ongoing Support to Post-Earthquake Nepal
Yeshe Norbu Onlus is an Italian FPMT non-profit association which supports important projects benefiting Tibetan refugees and children. Since the earthquake in Nepal last April, Yeshe Norbu has offered a tremendous amount of emergency aid to assist those in need in Nepal. Please rejoice in this incredible work which has benefited
From April 2015 through the end of 2015, Yeshe Norbu Onlus:
* Distributed of 154,324 pounds of food as well as tents and medicine
* Built 129 temporary structures
* Rebuilt 29 homes
* Provided doctors to remote areas
* Rebuilt the classrooms of the Mount Everest School at Kopan Monastery
You are welcome to support this work directly to ensure that Yeshe Norbu Onlus can continue to offer essential support where it is most needed.
www.adozionitibet.it/it/cosa-puoi-fare/terremoto-nepal
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Following the earthquake of April, 2015, the conditions at Tashi Chime Gatsal Nunnery (also known as Bigu Nunnery), located in a remote area of Nepal, were such that the nuns living there had to evacuate and take up temporary shelter in Kathmandu. The earthquake destroyed all of the buildings at the nunnery and there was no safe housing for the seventy-five nuns. Additionally, there was no accessible health care facility or place for the nuns to study as all roads were blocked due earthquake destruction.
The Nepal Earthquake Support Fund was recently able to offer US$5,875 to the nuns, to help with food and health care needs while they are in their temporary shelter in Khatmandu.
These nuns have been offering two 100 million mani retreats every year, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has been supporting this through the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund; the sponsorship of 100 million mani retreats is one of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the FPMT organization. The nuns are still engaged in this retreat while in Kathmandu, 200 million mani mantra recitations are nearly finished.
You can learn more about the Nepal Earthquake Support Fund and the support it has offered following the Nepal earthquake, the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund, or about the 100 million mani retreats that the nuns of Tashi Chime Gatsal Nunnery have offered in alignment with Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Vision for FPMT.
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Rebuilding Lawudo After the Earthquake
As reported in July, the Lawudo Retreat Centre, in eastern Nepal, was damaged by the earthquake and aftershocks the area experienced in April 2015. The Nepal Earthquake Support Fund offered US$50,000 toward the renovation needed due the kindness of many donors who contributed generously to this fund.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s brother, Sangay Sherpa, who is the director of the retreat center, recently reported that the renovation work is now 90% completed. The remaining work will have to wait until next year due to needing more funds and materials and also because of difficulties due to the winter season. Sangay organized the renovation of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s home in Thame, Lawudo’s library, all of the retreat houses and the dining hall. Renovation work on the monastery is also underway.
Please rejoice that so much of this work has been completed! Thanks to all donors of the Nepal Earthquake Support Fund and to Sangay for overseeing these projects and ensuring quality in the rebuilding.
All are welcome to donate to the Nepal Earthquake Support Fund.
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You can learn more about Lawudo Gompa and the history of Lawudo.
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The Social Services Fund recently offered a grant to Rabgayling Tibetan Settlement’s elderly home in south India. One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for FPMT is to offer ongoing social services to the elderly. This grant will be used toward the cost of offering food to all twenty residents for 2015. Earlier this year, the Social Services Fund also supported this settlement with a grant to help build their new community hall.
This settlement has a total population of 4,000 people including 380 children. The elderly home’s mission is to provide care to helpless and destitute aging people including those who are neglected by their family and don’t receive the proper care due to poverty. The home strives to provide its residents support in the following areas: food and clothes; health care services; mental, social and spiritual development. Sustainability of the home is a concern for the settlement, so regular, reliable funding is needed to be able to continue offering these services.
Please rejoice in this offering of food to all twenty elderly residents of the Rabgayling Tibetan Settlement.
The Social Services Fund has been established to support Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the FPMT organization, by offering benefit to others primarily India, Nepal, Tibet and Mongolia to help children, elderly, sick and the very poor by offering grants for schools, hospices, health clinics, soup kitchens, elderly homes, orphanages and much more.
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