Practices for Rinpoche's Health and Long Life

Please do these practices as much as possible so that we can continue to have Lama Zopa Rinpoche with us for as long as possible.

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Sera Je Food Fund Videos

June 2012: We are delighted to present you with new videos which help illustrate the many benefits of this project.

“A Brief Introduction to the Sera Je Food Fund” is a short introduction and overview of the project.

“The Making of Food” is 23-minute video providing a virtual tour of how the food is prepared for all 2,600 monks at Sera Je Monastery.

All Sera Je Food Fund videos can be found on our new video page on the Sera Je Food Fund web page.

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A 90-minute documentary

Synopsis

In 2002, a group of exceptional people from around the world signed up to explore the country that is home of the Dalai Lamas. But this was no common tourist trek. Guided by the renowned Tibetan Buddhist master Lama Zopa Rinpoche, the pilgrims found themselves engaged in a rare and powerful experience – one in which the realms of great yogis and saints were revealed and personal transformation beckoned closer each day on the trail.

This intense journey takes one directly into the culture of Tibet and its arresting, spiritually-rich landscape in a way that is not often seen.

The pilgrimage was led by the Tibetan master Lama Zopa Rinpoche, who was a native of Nepal and moved to Tibet to study Tibetan Buddhism as a child. Along with many other monks, he was forced to leave Tibet in 1959. He and his teacher, Lama Yeshe, founded the Kopan Monastery in the Katmandu Valley.  Later they developed the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, currently one of the leading Tibetan Buddhist foundations in the world with over 140 centers located in 31 countries.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche approached the pilgrimage as something much more than a normal excursion:

		Normally when people go on pilgrimage, they are just like tourists; maybe they take some pictures, and that’s it. They don’t use the places to collect merit or to meditate or to get some benefit for their minds. If it’s just like sightseeing, then it won’t be of that much benefit.

With a profound well of knowledge and direct understanding of the qualities of the holy Buddhist objects and their sacred locations in Tibet, Lama Zopa was able to transform the trip into a spiritual pilgrimage of merit and benefit for the pilgrims involved, as well as for the viewers of the documentary. Lama Zopa expertly supported the conditions for transformative personal experience by leading the pilgrims to many extraordinary locations so precious to the spiritual heritage of Tibet.

These sights included the meditation caves of great masters such as Pabongka Rinpoche, Lama Tsongkhapa, and Milarepa. Other sacred sites included Ganden Monastery and the famous sacred residence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Potala Palace in Lhasa.  

At each site, Lama Zopa Rinpoche performed Buddhist ceremonies, bringing the sacred sites and the holy images alive in the moment. This dramatic experience is beautifully translated to the viewer through the eye of the camera and captured in thoughtfully-edited interviews with the participants.

Mandala Magazine (see Reviews) described the impact of this documentary on the viewer in the following statement:

		Mystic Tibet vividly captures the grandeur and mystery of this life-changing journey. One feels intimately a part of the experience, seeing these holy objects that seem to live and breathe, enduring the hardships and receiving the blessings right along with the pilgrims.

A pilgrimage such as this is extremely rare, as it is very difficult to gain access to Tibet and its holy sights under the current political regime. The knowledge and wisdom of a spiritual master such as Lama Zopa Rinpoche only magnifies the rarity and power of such a precious experience.

As one pilgrim stated,

		A pilgrimage with Rinpoche is not sightseeing. It’s like heart-seeing.

In Mystic Tibet, the viewer can share this experience directly with the hearty pilgrims of this transformative documentary.

Buddhism Media

FPMT is happy to present a variety of interactive media for exploration into Tibetan Buddhist teachings, our organization, and the dharma.

	Audio Teachings FPMT Audio broadcasts an ongoing series of Tibetan Buddhist teachings presented by our teachers that are available for download.
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	Foundation Store Purchase downloadable Buddhist prayers and practices as well as ritual items like malas, mandalas, water bowls, and much more.
	Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive (LYWA) The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive (LYWA) is the Archive of the FPMT for the collected works of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Kyabje Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche. Their teachings have been recorded and transcribed, and much is available to read now.
	Mandala Magazine Mandala offers authentic Buddhist teachings from a lineage of masters which traces back to the great Lama Tsongkhapa, and through him, to Shakyamuni Buddha. Mandala is also a contemporary read, with a clear and practical approach to the challenges of the 21st century. Mandala is a benefit of the Friends of FPMT program.
	Mystic Tibet An Outer, Inner and Secret Pilgrimage Follow fifty pilgrims as they travel to the high Tibetan plateau for the spiritual adventure of a lifetime. In 2002, ordinary people from around the globe and all walks of life were drawn to this mystical land of enlightenment. Guided by the renowned Tibetan Buddhist master Lama Zopa Rinpoche, this was no common tourist trek, but a rare and powerful experience in which the invisible world of great yogis and saints was magically revealed.
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	Photo Galleries Enjoy browsing our extensive FPMT photo galleries including: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lama Thubten Yeshe, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and Osel. View photos by album, or use our tools to search for specific people or subjects.
	Publications Publications from the FPMT include those published by FPMT Education Services, Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, Wisdom Publications, and a variety of international publishers.
	Resources Find volunteer and job opportunities in FPMT. Join our mailing lists. Consult the Tibetan lunar calendar for various activities and favorable days. Find Buddhist wallpapers and screensavers. Download plugins necessary to view our videos and buddhist teachings. Obtain mantras, prayers, and sutras on microfilm for the use of FPMT centers and projects.
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	Streaming Videos Learn more about FPMT projects, Buddhist teachings, and the History of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition. Preview our popular 13 part video series Discovering Buddhism, introduced by Richard Gere and Keanu Reeves. FPMT Videos Lama Zopa Rinpoche Videos Tenzin Ösel Hita Videos FPMT YouTube Channel Live Webcast Discovering Buddhism Videos Living in the Path Videos Online Learning Center Video Teachings
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FPMT's Charitable Projects

FPMT’s Charitable Projects include ambitious initiatives to build 100,000 prayer wheels, stupas, and statues; to providing education scholarships; to granting stipends to all the main teachers and abbots of the Lama Tsongkhapa tradition; to offering nutritious meals to thousands of monks studying at Sera Je Monastery; to building hospitals in Tibet; to translating Dharma texts into many languages; plus many more. These projects are essential to FPMT’s objective of building a more compassionate world from the inside out and critical to our mission of transmitting Mahayana Buddhist teachings and values worldwide. The FPMT Charitable Projects are managed by FPMT International Office.

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FPMT Education

	FPMT is unbelievably fortunate that we have many qualified teachers who are not only scholars but are living in practice. If you look, then you can understand how fortunate we are having the opportunity to study. With our Dharma knowledge and practice we can give the light of Dharma to others, in their heart. I think that’s the best service to sentient beings, the best service to the world.
–Lama Zopa Rinpoche (read the full advice from Rinpoche)

There is an abundance of ways to study at FPMT centers or with FPMTs homestudy programs. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced practitioner, if you are wondering about the next step to take on your spiritual journey, please refer to the FPMT Education Progams page.

Education is the very heart of FPMT. Through comprehensive study programs, practice materials, training programs, and scholarships, FPMT Education nourishes the development of compassion, wisdom, kindness, and true happiness in individuals of all ages.

	Study FPMT offers a vast range of Buddhist study programs available in FPMT centers and as homestudy or correspondence courses. From introductory courses to the highest philosophical texts, FPMT provides everything needed to learn, practice, and fully realize the Buddha’s teachings.
	Practice FPMT publishes Buddhist prayer books, sadhanas, retreat materials, and practice texts from the Gelugpa tradition, many with commentary by Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. DVDs and CDs of prayers, commentaries, and teachings inspire and inform students’ practice. Our practice materials are available from The Foundation Store. A Collection of Prayers and Practices Commonly Used Essential Buddhist Prayers, an FPMT Prayer Book and other FPMT practice material updates » Holy Objects: Resources, Information and Articles Materials available list
	Training FPMT Training Programs provide support and training to students offering service within FPMT centers and projects.
	Translations As the Dharma takes root in the West, clear translations of Buddhist texts, prayers, and teachings are crucial. FPMT works with translators around the world to translate Tibetan texts into English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, and many other languages.
	Offer Your Support FPMT Education has established three distinct funds, enabling you to offer support to our critical work.
	Youth FPMT provides Dharma practice materials, support, children’s classes and camps, and a whole secular organization just for youth and young adults!
	Secular Universal Wisdom Educationdevelops Lama Yeshe’s goal of “a new kind of education for the world.” It aims to empower children, youth and adults to make a positive difference in the world through developing their innate capacity to be kind and wise, and to live in a way that will bring peace and wellbeing to themselves and the people around them. Loving Kindness Peaceful Youth embraces the education, training, and support of young people with the principles of loving kindness, which results in peaceful youth.

To learn more about supporting FPMT Education, follow the links above to the Translation and Scholarship Funds, or see the Practice Generosity section of the Foundation Store.

FPMT Education Services works closely with the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, the official archive of the teachings of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

	Without understanding how your inner nature evolves, how can you possibly discover eternal happiness? Where is eternal happiness? It's not in the sky or in the jungle; you won't find it in the air or under the ground. Everlasting happiness is within you, within your psyche, your consciousness, your mind. That's why it's important that you investigate the nature of your own mind.
–Lama Thubten Yeshe

FPMT Centers, Projects and Services

	Each center which teaches how to develop compassion step-by-step makes a contribution to world peace every day.
–Lama Zopa Rinpoche

All FPMT centers, projects and services welcome students, visitors and enquiries. Select centers offer Retreat Facilities. Some focus on Community Services. FPMT Monasteries and Nunneries provide opportunities to train as a monk or nun. FPMT publishers make the Dharma available in different languages.

There are 161 centers, projects and services in 36 countries worldwide which are under the spiritual direction of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and the FPMT.

More information about what it means to be an FPMT center, project, service or study group »

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