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What is the FPMT?
How did it get started?

An International Organization
 

Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition MandalaThe 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.

The FPMT provides 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. The FPMT is committed to creating harmonious environments and helping all beings develop their full potential of infinite wisdom and compassion. The organization is based on the Buddhist tradition of Lama Tsongkhapa of Tibet as taught by founder Lama Thubten Yeshe and spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

Vajrapani Institute is a member of the FPMT, which has a number of projects including:

  • Monasteries and nunneries in 6 countries

  • Prison Outreach 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

  • Secular (or “Essential Education”) schools

For more information visit the FPMT Website.

 

The Vision of Lama Yeshe


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Speaking about the purpose of the FPMT, Lama Yeshe said:

 

“I think we are clean clear as to our aim – we want to lead sentient beings to higher education. We are an organization that gives people the chance to receive higher education.

We offer people what we have: the combined knowledge of Buddha's teachings and the modern way of life. Our purpose is to share our experiences of this.

We know that people are dissatisfied with worldly life, with the education system and everything else; it is in the nature of our dualistic minds to be dissatisfied. So what we are trying to do is to help people discover their own totality and thus perfect satisfaction.”

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