Merit Box Project
Practicing generosity, rejoicing in meritHelping to actualize Lama Zopa Rinpoche's projects
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Over the years, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has personally performed most of the fundraising for his various projects. By opening our hearts to generosity and contributing just a small amount each day or week to the Merit Box, we can really assist Rinpoche in actualizing his aims of helping all sentient beings.
Some of the projects that benefit from contributions collected through the Merit Box include: the Sera Je Food Fund, the Lama Tsong Khapa Teachers' Fund, the Permanent Pujas Fund, the International Mahayana Institute and the Lama Yeshe Sangha Fund, the Lam Rim Chen Mo (Mandarin translation) Fund, Land of Calm Abiding (Shiné Land) Fund, the Mani Wheel Fund, the Stupa and Tsa Tsa Fund, the Maitreya Project, FPMT Mongolia, the Animal Liberation Sanctuary, and the Education Scholarship Fund. Click here for more details on these projects.
Since the projects inception in 2001, thousands of Merit Boxes have been distributed by FPMT centers and sent individually to practitioners around the world.
Each person who chooses to participate in the Merit Box Project is sent a beautiful donation box to place on their altar. Included with the box is a prayer book containing the visualization, motivation, dedication, and prayer to use as we practice generosity with the Merit Box. Participants can include the yoga of generosity in their daily practice by placing a money offering into the box, while at the same time carrying out the suggested prayers and visualizations.
For those of you who would like to participate, you may order your own Merit Box kit though the Foundation Store or click below to use the virtual Merit Box. You may come back to this site many times and accumulate an enormous amount of merit and at the same time make a contribution towards helping all of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's projects.
If you have a Merit Box and would like to use your credit card to send through to Rinpoche the cash offerings that have accumulated in your box, please click the virtual Merit Box below. For a complete list of options for sending in your offerings, see our Collection Information page. For additional information about this project, please email us.