LAMA ATISHA AND THE LAM RIM

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Mandala Magazine all Updates   Lama Atisha and the Lam-rim Oct 07, 2014 12:38 pm Lama Zopa Rinpoche during the public talk at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, Bendigo, Australia, September 20, 2014. Photo by Kunchok Gyaltsen. When Lama Atisha went to Tibet, he was told about all the problems there, Lama Zopa Rinpoche recounted during the public teaching at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion on September 20, 2014. “Then Lama Atisha wrote a text integrating all Buddha’s teachings into a few pages,” Rinpoche said. “It is called Lamp of the Path to Enlightenment. The text was sent to India to be checked. The pandits were so surprised. At that time if a text had mistakes, they would tie it on the tail of a dog and it would be taken around the city. At that time they did like that, but they were so surprised that Lama Atisha had integrated all Buddha’s teachings in the three pages of the Lamp of the Path to Enlightenment, the graduated path to enlightenment — the name started from this text — so graduated path of lower capable being, graduated path of middle capable being, and graduated path of higher capable being. So all the Buddha’s teachings are in those three, embodied in the lam-rim, the graduated path to enlightenment. “The graduated path of lower capable being, oh, that one is to not harm others, that instruction goes: do not harm others. Then the graduated path of middle capable being, oh, that teaching is also to not harm others, mainly it is to not harm others. Now the teaching of graduated path of higher capable being is to benefit others. So lam-rim, what Lama Atisha wrote, all the Buddha’s teachings comes down to not harming others and benefiting others. The right view of Buddhism is dependent arising and the action is to not harm others. That is included in Lama Atisha’s teachings, everything is included there: to not harm others and to benefit others.” You can watch a video of this teaching on FPMT’s Livestream page. Quote taken from the transcript by Ven. Joan Nicell of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s public talk at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, Bendigo, Australia, September 20, 2014. Lightly edited by Mandala. More information, photos and updates about FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche can be found on Rinpoche’s webpage. If you’d like to receive news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche via email, sign up to Lama Zopa Rinpoche News.

Click here to view this email in your browser. FPMT International Office News April 2013 If you received this from someone else, or unformatted, visit our subscribe page to receive this newsletter directly. You can have this translated into your preferred language by using our convenient translation facility located on the right-hand side of the page. Lama Zopa Rinpoche lights a large butter lamp in Kopan Monastery Gompa, after arriving from the airport at 11:45 p.m. Rinpoche did three long prostrations and then offered khatas to the main statues, including the Lama Yeshe statue, Nepal, March 2013. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang. Lama Zopa Rinpoche's News: New Advice: Dharma is Needed for the Happiness of Sentient Beings Rinpoche's Schedule International Office News: Education Services News: ItalianBasic Program Online Success! FPMT Charitable Projects: Offering to the 2,600 Monks of Sera Je Monastery News from Mandala Publications Friends of FPMT For Center, Project and Service Directors, SPCs, Teachers and Board Members: Feedback about Advice Regarding Spiritual Teachers Foundation Store Offer: 40% Off Discovering Buddhism DVDs! FPMT World: Rejoice! Tushita Delhi Celebrates Dharma with His Holiness the Dalai Lama Jade Buddha Benefits Many in Penang Opportunities to Offer Service in FPMT Impermanence at Work Lama Zopa Rinpoche's News: New Advice: Dharma is Needed for the Happiness of Sentient Beings Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave the following advice to Ven. Thubten Dondrub, whois resident teacher at Buddha House, Australia and videoed the talk, while waiting for a flight to Hong Kong at Kuala Lumpur Airport in Malaysia. An excerpt follows – please read the full advice here. "Good morning, good afternoon, maybe good night! Thank you very much; thank you so much for your prayers for me, for sentient beings, for Buddha, from where all sentient beings receive their happiness. For sentient beings to have not only temporary happiness – when we say 'happiness,' should not think only temporary happiness, only samsara happiness – don't think [that] – we must think ultimate happiness, liberation from samsara forever, then peerless happiness – full enlightenment. So when I recite the long version of the Six Session [Guru Yoga], instead of happiness I say 'enlightenment,' full enlightenment, the cause of enlightenment. I change that [word because] it helps my mind to think of highest happiness, true happiness. Just to say 'happiness' normally means temporary happiness, makes one think of temporary happiness. And we have had temporary happiness numberless times from beginningless rebirths. Why we have the center is to have happiness for sentient beings – to increase, to develop happiness for sentient beings." Find a full range of advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Rinpoche's Advice page.Go to the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive for lots more advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Lama Zopa Rinpoche meets the directors, spiritual program coordinators and board members of the FPMT centers and service in Malaysia, March 2013. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang. Rinpoche's Schedule Please contact the hosts directly for any questions regarding the event. Subscribe to our RSS feed on Rinpoche's Schedule to receive updates automatically as soon as they are available! 2013 May 3 – Presiding at the opening ceremony for Khensur Lama Lhundrup's stupa, Kopan Monastery, Nepal August1 – 30 100 Million Mani Retreat, FPMT Mongolia November/December– Teaching during the one-month course (Nov. 9 – Dec. 9), Kopan Monastery, Nepal: Rinpoche's teaching dates to be confirmed 2014 May 11 – 25 Light of the Path retreat, Kadampa Center, USA Late 2014 Retreat with Rinpoche and CPMT meeting, The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, Maiden Gully, Australia International Office News: Education Services News: Italian Basic ProgramOnline Success! The Italian-language Basic Program Online offered by Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa (ILTK) in Italy had its first-ever final exam this March. All 10 participating students passed – a huge achievement for all involved! Kind thanks to Basic Program Online tutor Vania Tesser, who provided students with the care, support and inspiration needed to get this far, and many other staff at ILTK who contributed over the course of five years. This is an FPMT milestone: previously we had no homestudy students completing a Basic Program and final exam in any language other than English. Congratulations to all! FPMT Charitable Projects: Offering to the 2,600 Monks of Sera Je Monastery Have you ever wondered how to offer food to the 2,600 monks studying at Sera Je Monastery? Learn more and see what an offering of this magnitude looks like. News from Mandala Publications Lama Zopa Rinpoche relaxes and enjoys the gardens after walking back from dinner after teaching in Hong Kong, March 2013. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang. Keep current with the worldwide FPMT mandala by reading Mandalaonline! Our daily blog shares news and updates from Lama Zopa Rinpoche and the more than 160 FPMT centers, projects and services around the world as well as timeless stories from the Mandalaarchive. Recent features include new posts from Ven. Roger to his popular blog "Life on the Road with Lama Zopa Rinpoche;" a story from the Mandala archive about Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche's extraordinary journey to Antarctica in 2006 to bless the world's waterways; plus exclusive interviews and stories from the latest issue of Mandala and much more. Friends of FPMT Become a Friend of FPMT and stay connected to all the FPMT has to offer including the FPMT Online Learning Center, Mandala Publications and many complimentary resources offered at the free FPMT Membership level. For Center, Project and Service Directors, SPCs, Teachers and Board Members: (This advice is specifically for those offering service in the roles listed above.) Feedback about Advice Regarding Spiritual Teachers Lama Zopa Rinpoche having dinner at his brother Sangay Sherpa's house (Sangay is director of Lawudo Retreat Centre) and eating thor, made from a deep-rooted wildflower in the Himalayas, for the first time since he was a child, Nepal, April 2013. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang. Some years ago due to popular request we made available a short informative document on how to relate to the spiritual teacher,written by Ven. René Feusi. Our wish was that this would help students at all FPMT centers, and most particularly new students, by answering so many of the frequently asked and essential questions on how to properly relate to a spiritual teacher, ensuring that students coming to your center would be well informed and protected from mistakes. We asked you to please display this very informative booklet publically for all to see. Now we would like to know if you have been finding this booklet helpful. Please let Tom and Claire know, together with any other related feedback. Thank you! Foundation Store Offer: 40% Off Discovering Buddhism DVDs! Get 40% off our most popular and wonderful Discovering Buddhism series on DVD. Available with subtitles in English, French, Spanish, and German. For those centers who order more than 30 copies, no matter where and how far you are, the Foundation Store will offer free shipping on top of the 40% discount! These special bulk orders should be addressed to Diana Ospina. FPMT World: Rejoice! Tushita Delhi Celebrates Dharma with His Holiness the Dalai Lama His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Dr. Renuka Singh (director of Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre) at Tushita's 20th Delhi Dharma Celebration, India, March 2013. Photo courtesy of Ven. Kabir Saxena. Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre in Delhi has now hosted 20 Dharma Celebrations with His Holiness the Dalai Lama! The 20th Delhi Dharma Celebration, co-hosted with Tibet House, felt especially meaningful, reports Ven. Kabir Saxena, SPC at Tushita: "Approximately 4,000 people attended the event on March 9, which was held in front of a beautiful Buddha statue that was sponsored by His Holiness and offered as a gift to the Indian people two decades ago in gratitude for the gift of Dharma. This year there were about 70 volunteers from Ladakh, and there were also volunteers from Jawahar Lal Nehru University where Tushita director Dr. Renuka Singh teaches. So this means that young people are being exposed to His Holiness and the 'Three Principal Aspects of the Path to Enlightenment,' which was the topic for the afternoon. Photos from the event show a very energetic and beaming His Holiness and a focused audience who sat through a hot afternoon with rapt attention." Jade Buddha Benefits Many in Penang Daniel Yeoh, director of Chokyi Gyaltsen Center in Penang, Malaysia, reports: "We have benefitted so many people in Penang on just the first two days of the Jade Buddha for Universal Peace [tour], including 1,500 school kids who came in batches of buses. I estimated about 8 to 10 thousand people visiting the Jade Buddha on the second day." Opportunities to Offer Service in FPMT We have resident teacher opportunities at Ganden Yiga Chözin, Pokhara, Nepal and Tong-nyi Nying-Je Ling, Copenhagen, Denmark. Land of Calm Abiding, USA is looking for a director. Nalanda Monastery, France is looking for a qualified Tibetan-English interpreter for Basic Program; while Root Institute, India needs a school manager, a physiotherapist, and nurses. Please check out these and other exciting opportunities to offer service as a volunteer or as paid staff in FPMT centers, projects and services around the world! Impermanence at Work Ganden Buddhist Meditation Centre, Latvia We welcome new co-SPCs – Alona Kononovica and Oskars Mickevics With grateful thanks to outgoing SPC – Rita Veilande Gendun Drubpa Centre, Canada We welcome new resident teacher – Ven. Tenzin Chogkyi Hayagriva Centre, Australia We welcome new SPC – Jude Carter With grateful thanks to outgoing SPC – Susan di Bona Longku Center, Switzerland We welcome new SPC – Regula Burri With grateful thanks to outgoing SPC – Anastasia Perov Nagarjuna C.E.T. Barcelona, Spain We welcome new SPC – José Moya With grateful thanks to outgoing SPC – Dolores Banti Pamtingpa Center, USA Tel: +1 (509) 486 1021 We welcome new director – Kim Jacobs With grateful thanks to outgoing director – Julia Sanderson Thubten Kunkyab Study Group, Mexico Dr. Martínez del Río 201-15, Col. Doctores Del. Cuauhtémoc, CP 06720, Mexico City Tel: +52 (55) 6545 1882 Vajrapani Institute, USA Tel: +1 (800) 531 4001 With love, FPMT International Office

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Last week we wrote to you about the Friends of FPMT program and highlighted the FPMT Online Learning Center as a featured benefit. We are happy to report that we have already welcomed 45 new Friends, 9% toward our goal of 500 by the end of year.

This week, we focus on Mandala Publications, an exclusive benefit of the Friends of FPMT program at the Basic Friendship level and higher. For twenty-four years, Mandala has served as an official publication of FPMT, bringing the community teachings, feature stories, and worldwide FPMT news.

Mandala’s mission is to help connect and inspire FPMT’s international community of students, teachers, and friends through its magazine; and on mandalamagazine.org through multi-media features, an extensive archive of past articles, and blogs such as Ven. Roger Kunsang’s Life on the Road with Lama Zopa Rinpoche, an entertaining chronicle of Ven. Roger’s travels and adventures with Rinpoche.

 

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Friends of FPMT

Dear Tso Pema,

Last week we wrote to you about the Friends of FPMT program and highlighted the FPMT Online Learning Center. We are happy to report that we have welcomed 41 new Friends this past week.

This week, we focus on Mandala Publications, an exclusive benefit of the Friends of FPMT program at the Basic Friendship level and higher. For twenty-two years, Mandala has served as the official publication of FPMT, bringing the international community relevant teachings, feature stories, and worldwide FPMT news.

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Friends of FPMT

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Year after year, friends like you help FPMT enrich the lives of others. We are writing you today because your support is vital for the long-term success of the organization. We think you’ll be interested in the Friends of FPMT program because it is an easy (and very beneficial!) way to show your support and stay connected to all that FPMT has to offer. Over the next few weeks we will highlight some of the benefits of the program to help you decide which Friends level is right for you.

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algo sobre Osel Hita

Osel vuelve por sorpresa a la FPMT

Posted on Junio 09, 2010 by SanghaVirtual.org

Osel, abajo en el centro.

Osel Hita dejó a todos con la boca abierta presentándose en el Instituto Vajrapani para el “Gran Día del Amor” para la consagración de la nueva estupa de Lama Yeshe y en conmemoración de la vida del lama. Fue una ocasión muy especial, que convocó a un gran número de alumnos veteranos de la FPMT.

Osel asistió a los tres días que duró la reunión directiva de la FPMT en Portland (Oregón, EEUU) donde volvió a estar en contacto con la organización. Lama Zopa Rinpoché y los demás miembros de la junta estuvieron encantados con su aparición, y le invitaron con gran entusiasmo a volver pronto. Por su parte, Osel dijo que volvería si encontraba tiempo.

Osel saluda a los presentes.

En una entrevista para la revista Mandala, Osel ha hablado de su reencuentro con la Fundación: “Cumplí 25 años hace no mucho, así que ya es hora de devolver la ayuda que me han ofrecido. Es hora de devolverles esa amabilidad. Siento que ha llegado el momento de involucrarme más con la organización. Quiero aprender más sobre todo porque no he estado muy al tanto durante los últimos años. Eso llevará tiempo. La gente me está empezando a aceptar por quién soy, y eso ha facilitado las cosas”.

La entrevista completa de Osel con Carina Rumrill está disponible en el número de Julio-Septiembre de 2010 de la revista Mandala, que se publica hoy, 9 de junio.

[Muchas gracias Karma Chöeky por informar]