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)

	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.
	Training FPMT Training Programs provide support and training to students offering service within FPMT centers and projects.
	Translating 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.
	Support The FPMT Education Scholarship Fund supports talented and creative work of exceptional merit that promotes the goals and long-term vision of FPMT education.
	Secular The Foundation for Compassion and Wisdom (FDCW) develops Lama Yeshe’s goal of ‘a new kind of education for the world.’ It introduces and sustains Essential Education to help individuals develop the capacity for kindness and wisdom, regardless of culture, race, religion, gender, etc. 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 Department 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