Merit Box Distribution 2005

The Merit Box is a wonderful tool - it helps us develop our practice of generosity and it helps Lama Zopa Rinpoche to fund valuable projects, thereby helping to fulfill Rinpoche's amazing vision - so it is a great cause for rejoicing on many levels!

The Merit Box collection for 2005 was a great success. We now have participants working through sixty centers around the world.

Our goal this year is to involve many more FPMT centers and study groups in this exciting project.

Thank you so much to all of you who participated and to the Merit Box Coordinators who have worked so hard to make this a success.

Recent quote:

	The merit box is an easy simple way to benefit so many of Rinpoche's projects. It's something that everyone can do, because let's face it we all have a little spare change!
–Michelle Stewart, Director, Tse Chen Ling

Your Generosity Distributed

	When we practice generosity, we are applying the exact antidote to attachment.
–Lama Zopa Rinpoche

The amount collected for 2005 from Merit Boxes around the world amounted to US$68,000.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is very pleased and has now distributed the entire amount to the following projects and centers:

Essential Education $10,000
Pilgrimage to Tibet "Pilgrim Mind" video $ 6,000
Land of Calm Abiding (our long retreat center in the USA)* $ 5,000
Adele Hulse, Lama Yeshe Biography $ 5,000
FPMT Education Dept: Meditating on the Lam Rim $15,000
100,000 Stupa Project, Land of Medicine Buddha, USA $ 1,000
Shedrup Ling Monastery, Australia $ 1,000
Maitri Leprosy Project, Bodhgaya for education $ 1,000
Teacher Education in Kopan $ 1,000
FPMT Center Services - Design and Translation $ 3,000
Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archives $ 3,000
Support for the Reincarnation of Geshe Sengye $ 2,000
Lama Tsongkhapa Statue, Shakyamuni Center, Taiwan $ 5,000
Statues at Nalanda Monastery, France $ 5,000
Chenrezig Institute Basic Program $ 5,000

PLEASE REJOICE STRONGLY

For additional information, please contact us at The Merit Box Project

Please note that we have a new depository account and a new address in Portland, Oregon, USA.

*Explanations for this project and of other projects can be found at http://www.fpmt.org/projects/