Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition

Lama Yeshe teaching at Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre

The Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition is an international, non-profit organization, founded in 1975 by Lama Thubten Yeshe (1935-84), a Tibetan Buddhist monk. The Foundation is 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 Tsongkhapa of Tibet as taught to us by our founder Lama Thubten Yeshe and spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

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	If you neglect to protect your mind, you can neither close the door to suffering nor open the door to happiness.
–Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

	I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.
–His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

Every living being has the potential to be free from suffering and to develop limitless love and compassion for others. Working to help human beings fulfill this potential are the FPMT meditation, retreat and study centers, monasteries, publishing houses, businesses and students. The FPMT strives to follow the example and inspiration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in his compassionate service to humanity.

FPMT students try to serve others throughout the world with kindness and wisdom. We are a rapidly growing non-profit organization participating in many aspects of the world community. Some of the projects which are affiliated with FPMT are:

Monasteries and nunneries in 6 countries
Liberation Prison Project
Leprosy Clinics
Polio Clinics
Health and Nutrition Clinics
Meditation Centers in 36 Countries
Hospices
Building the world's largest statue: a 500ft/152m statue of Maitreya, the future Buddha, by the Maitreya Project in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India
Publishing houses
Essential Education Schools

FPMT a Documentary

This Documentary is a Work in Progress that explores the history and future of FPMT and the Mahayana Tradition.