The
Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT)
The Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT)
is an organization devoted to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist
tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation, and community
service. 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. 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 Tsong Khapa
of Tibet as taught to us by our founder Lama Thubten Yeshe and spiritual
director Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
This contains detailed information about the Maitreya Project, including information of the background, the purpose, the extensive benefits, and the up-to-date news of the project. This page also provides a convenient means for those who would like to support the project by making donations.
Kopan
Monastery
Kopan is the site of a thriving monastery of 300 Nepali and Tibetan monks
as well as a place of study for the 150 nuns of the nearby Khachoe Ghakyi
Ling Nunnery, and a spiritual oasis for hundreds of visitors yearly from
around the world. And it is the wellspring of the FPMT, a network of some
hundreds centres and activities world-wide, themselves expressions of
the Buddha activity of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. It was
to this hill that these lamas first came with their first Western students
in 1969. Lama Zopa Rinpoche, a founder, gave his first public teachings
at Kopan in 1971 to a group of twelve Westerners. This intensive one-month
introduction to Buddhism became the model for the meditation courses now
held throughout the year at Kopan.
Other
FPMT centresMore
links to teachings
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