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Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition

Index Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition

The Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) was founded in 1975 by Lamas Thubten Yeshe and Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, who began teaching Buddhism to Western students in Nepal. [1]

121 relations: Aṅgulimāla, Abhisamayalankara, Ajahn Brahm, Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Anguttara Nikaya, Ayya Khema, Bendōwa, Bhikkhu Analayo, Bodhicitta, Bodhisattva vow, Bon Yeon, Buddhism and sexual orientation, Buddhism in France, Buddhism in Italy, Buddhism in the United Kingdom, Buddhism in the United States, Buddhism in the West, Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, Daigo (Shōbōgenzō), Depa Norbu, Dharma centre, Dinty W. Moore, Divyavadana, Dorje Shugden controversy, E. Gene Smith, Elizabeth Peabody, Ethan Nichtern, Ezra Bayda, First Unitarian Church of Chicago, Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, Freda Bedi, Gelug, Genjōkōan, Geshe Lhundrup Rigsel, Golden Light Sutra, Hakuin Ekaku, Hardcore Zen, Henepola Gunaratana, Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, James Ishmael Ford, Je Tsongkhapa, Kadam (Tibetan Buddhism), Kalachakra stupa, Katukurunde Nyanananda Thera, Kōbun Chino Otogawa, Kōdō Sawaki, Kelsang Gyatso, Kharnang Monastery, Kopan Monastery, Kumbum Monastery, ..., Kwan Um School of Zen, Kyabje Rinpoche, Ledi Sayadaw, Lhundub Sopa, Lillian Too, List of English-language book publishing companies, List of Pali Canon anthologies, List of Tibetan writers, Lojong, Longchenpa, Losang Thonden, Mahasi Sayadaw, Maitreya Project, Maitripa College, Manjushri Institute, Mark Epstein, Merit (Buddhism), Minnesota Zen Center, Nalanda Monastery (France), Nanamoli Bhikkhu, Neotantra, New Kadampa Tradition, New religious movement, Nichidatsu Fujii, Nick Ribush, Nyanaponika Thera, Ocean of Definitive Meaning, Outline of Buddhism, Parliament of the World's Religions, Paul Haller, Pāli Canon, Publishers Group West, Rangtong-Shentong, Rempo Niwa Zenji, Robert Baker Aitken, Robina Courtin, Rujing, Satipatthana Sutta, Sera Monastery, Shaila Catherine, Shanti Stupa, Pokhara, Sherry Chayat, Soenghyang, Somapura Mahavihara, Soyen Shaku, Steve Hagen, Tara (Buddhism), Tara Institute, Tashi Tsering (Jamyang Buddhist Centre), Tenzin Ösel Hita, Tenzin Zopa, Thame, Nepal, The Dharma of Star Wars, The World of Tibetan Buddhism, Thubten Gyatso (Australian monk), Thubten Shedrup Ling, Thubten Yeshe, Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, Thupten Jinpa, Timeline of Buddhism, Trijang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, Tubten Kunga Center, Universalism, Vajra, Vipassanā, Wild yak, Women in Buddhism, Zazen, Zong Rinpoche, Zopa (disambiguation), 14th Dalai Lama. Expand index (71 more) »

Aṅgulimāla

Aṅgulimāla (Pāli language; lit. 'finger necklace'; sometimes also spelled in italic or Aṅgulimālya) is an important figure in Buddhism, particularly within the Theravāda tradition.

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Abhisamayalankara

The "Ornament of/for Realization", abbreviated AA, is one of five Sanskrit-language Mahayana sutras which, according to Tibetan tradition, Maitreya revealed to Asaṅga in northwest India circa the 4th century AD.

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Ajahn Brahm

Phra Visuddhisamvarathera, known as Ajahn Brahmavamso, or simply Ajahn Brahm (born Peter Betts on 7 August 1951), is a British-Australian Theravada Buddhist monk.

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Amitabha Buddhist Centre

Amitabha Buddhist Centre is a Buddhist institution in Geylang, Singapore.

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Anguttara Nikaya

The Anguttara Nikaya (literally "Increased by One Collection," also translated "Gradual Collection" or "Numerical Discourses") is a Buddhist scripture, the fourth of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that comprise the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism.

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Ayya Khema

Ayya Khema (August 25, 1923 – November 2, 1997) was a Buddhist teacher and was very active in providing opportunities for women to practice Buddhism, founding several centers around the world.

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Bendōwa

, meaning Discourse on the Practice of the Way or Dialogue on the Way of Commitment, sometimes also translated as Negotiating the Way, On the Endeavor of the Way, or A Talk about Pursuing the Truth, is an influential essay written by Dōgen, the founder of Zen Buddhism's Sōtō school in Japan.

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Bhikkhu Analayo

Bhikkhu Anālayo is a bhikkhu (Buddhist monk), scholar and meditation teacher.

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Bodhicitta

In Buddhism, bodhicitta, "enlightenment-mind", is the mind that strives toward awakening, empathy, and compassion for the benefit of all sentient beings.

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Bodhisattva vow

The Bodhisattva vow is the vow taken by Mahayana Buddhists to liberate all sentient beings.

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Bon Yeon

Soensanim Bon Yeon is the dharma name and title of Jane McLaughlin-Dobisz.

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Buddhism and sexual orientation

The relationship between Buddhism and sexual orientation varies by tradition and teacher.

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Buddhism in France

Buddhism is the fourth largest religion in France, after Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.

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Buddhism in Italy

Buddhism in Italy is the third most spread religion, next to Christianity and Islam.

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Buddhism in the United Kingdom

Buddhism in the United Kingdom has a small but growing number of supporters which, according to a Buddhist organisation, is mainly because of the result of conversion.

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Buddhism in the United States

Buddhism, once thought of as a mysterious religion from the East, has now become very popular in the West, and is one of the largest religions in the United States.

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Buddhism in the West

Buddhism in the West broadly encompasses the knowledge and practice of Buddhism outside Asia in Europe, the Americas, Australia and New Zealand.

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Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche

Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche (छोकी निमा रिम्पोचे, alternatively in English spelled: Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche) (b. 1951) is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher and meditation master.

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Daigo (Shōbōgenzō)

Daigo, also known in English translation as Great Realization, is a book of the Shōbōgenzō by the 13th century Sōtō Zen monk Eihei Dōgen.

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Depa Norbu

Norbu (Wylie: nor bu), with the later title of Depa (sde pa) and also known as Nangso Norbu (nang so nor bu), was a Tibetan government official born in the Central Tibetan province of Ü around the end of the 16th century.

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Dharma centre

A Dharma centre is a non-monastic Buddhist centre in a community.

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Dinty W. Moore

Dinty W. Moore (born August 11, 1955) is an American essayist and writer of both fiction and non-fiction books.

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Divyavadana

The Divyāvadāna or "Divine narratives" is a Sanskrit anthology of Buddhist tales, many originating in Mūlasarvāstivādin vinaya texts.

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Dorje Shugden controversy

The Dorje Shugden controversy is a controversy over Dorje Shugden, also known as Dolgyal, who some consider to be one of several protectors of the Gelug school, the school of Tibetan Buddhism to which the Dalai Lamas belong.

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E. Gene Smith

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Elizabeth Peabody

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (May 16, 1804 – January 3, 1894) was an American educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States.

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Ethan Nichtern

Ethan Nichtern is a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition, and the author of The Road Home: A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path (Farrar, Straus and Giroux - North Point, 2015).

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Ezra Bayda

Ezra Bayda is an American figure in Zen.

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First Unitarian Church of Chicago

The First Unitarian Church of Chicago is a Unitarian Universalist ("UU") church in Chicago, Illinois.

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Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition

The Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) was founded in 1975 by Lamas Thubten Yeshe and Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, who began teaching Buddhism to Western students in Nepal.

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Freda Bedi

Freda Bedi (sometimes spelled Frida Bedi, also named Sister Palmo, or Gelongma Karma Kechog Palmo) (5 February 1911 – 26 March 1977) was a British woman who was the first Western woman to take ordination in Tibetan Buddhism, which occurred in 1972.

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Gelug

The Gelug (Wylie: dGe-Lugs-Pa) is the newest of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Genjōkōan

Genjōkōan (現成公按) sometimes translated as Actualizing the Fundamental Point is an influential essay written by Dōgen, the founder of Zen Buddhism's Sōtō school in Japan.

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Geshe Lhundrup Rigsel

Geshe Lhundrup Rigsel (sometimes called Lama Lhundrup) was abbot of Kopan Monastery in Nepal.

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Golden Light Sutra

The Golden Light Sutra or (IAST: Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtrendrarājaḥ), also known by the Old Uygur title Altun Yaruq, is a Buddhist text of the Mahayana branch of Buddhism.

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Hakuin Ekaku

was one of the most influential figures in Japanese Zen Buddhism.

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Hardcore Zen

Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, & the Truth about Reality is a book written by Brad Warner, an author and ordained Zen priest.

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Henepola Gunaratana

Bhante Henepola Gunaratana is a Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist monk.

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Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa

The Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa (ILTK) in Pomaia, a village in Tuscany, in Italy (40 km south of Pisa) is a branch of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), an international network of Gelugpa dharma centers.

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James Ishmael Ford

James Ishmael Ford (Zeno Myoun, Roshi) is an American Zen Buddhist priest and Unitarian Universalist minister.

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Je Tsongkhapa

Zongkapa Lobsang Zhaba, or Tsongkhapa ("The man from Tsongkha", 1357–1419), usually taken to mean "the Man from Onion Valley", born in Amdo, was a famous teacher of Tibetan Buddhism whose activities led to the formation of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Kadam (Tibetan Buddhism)

The Kadam school of Tibetan Buddhism was founded by Dromtön (1005–1064), a Tibetan lay master and the foremost disciple of the great Bengali master Atiśa (982-1054).

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Kalachakra stupa

In Buddhism, a Kalachakra stupa is a stupa whose symbolism is not connected to events in the Buddha's life, but instead to the symbolism of the Kalachakra Tantra, created to protect against negative energies.

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Katukurunde Nyanananda Thera

Most Ven.

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Kōbun Chino Otogawa

(February 1, 1938 – July 26, 2002) was a Sōtō Zen priest.

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Kōdō Sawaki

was a prominent Japanese Sōtō Zen teacher of the 20th century.

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Kelsang Gyatso

Kelsang Gyatso (b. 1931) is a Buddhist monk, meditation teacher, scholar, and author.

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Kharnang Monastery

Kharnang monastery is a Buddhist monastery situated at a close distance to the northwest of Lhobasha village which is to the east and at 4-hours drive by horse to the city of Karze (Garzê) in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan, China, located in the historical Tibetan region of Kham.

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Kopan Monastery

Kopan Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery near Boudhanath, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal.

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Kumbum Monastery

Kumbum Monastery (THL Kumbum Jampa Ling), also called Ta'er Temple, is a Tibetan gompa in Huangzhong County, Xining, Qinghai, China.

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Kwan Um School of Zen

The Kwan Um School of Zen (관음선종회) (KUSZ) is an international school of zen centers and groups founded in 1983 by Seungsahn.

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Kyabje Rinpoche

Kyabje Khensur Kangurwa Lobsang Thubten Rinpoche (25 December 1925 – 22 January 2014), was a Buddhist monk, Abbot of Sera Jey Monastery, and the founder of Tibetan Buddhist Institute (Adelaide).

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Ledi Sayadaw

Ledi Sayadaw U Ñanadhaja (လယ်တီဆရာတော် ဦးဉာဏဓဇ,; 1 December 1846 – 27 June 1923) was an influential Theravada Buddhist monk.

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Lhundub Sopa

Lhundub Sopa (born Tsang, Tibet, 1923 - died Deer Park Buddhist Center, Oregon, Wisconsin, August 28, 2014) was a Tibetan monk.

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Lillian Too

Lillian Too is an author, television personality and feng shui practitioner from Malaysia.

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List of English-language book publishing companies

This is a list of English-language book publishers.

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List of Pali Canon anthologies

This list covers English-language anthologies essentially confined to the Pali Canon and including material from at least two pitakas.

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List of Tibetan writers

This is a chronological list of important Tibetan writers.

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Lojong

Lojong (Tib. བློ་སྦྱོང་) is a mind training practice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition based on a set of aphorisms formulated in Tibet in the 12th century by Chekawa Yeshe Dorje.

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Longchenpa

Longchen Rabjampa, Drimé Özer (Wylie: klong chen rab 'byams pa dri med 'od zer), commonly abbreviated to Longchenpa (1308–1364), was a major teacher in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Losang Thonden

Losang Thonden former Tibetan government official, calligraphy and language scholar, author, and Hollywood actor.

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Mahasi Sayadaw

Mahasi Sayadaw U Sobhana (မဟာစည်ဆရာတော် ဦးသောဘန,; 29 July 1904 – 14 August 1982) was a Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk and meditation master who had a significant impact on the teaching of Vipassana (Insight) meditation in the West and throughout Asia.

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Maitreya Project

The Maitreya Project is an international organisation, operating since 1990, which intends to construct statues of Maitreya Buddha in India and perhaps elsewhere.

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Maitripa College

Maitripa College, founded in 2005 as Maitripa Institute, is a Tibetan Buddhist college located in Portland, Oregon.

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Manjushri Institute

Manjushri Institute was a large Buddhist college situated at Conishead Priory in England from 1976 until its dissolution in 1991.

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Mark Epstein

Mark Epstein (born 1953) is an American author and psychotherapist, integrating both Buddha's and Sigmund Freud's approaches to trauma, who writes about their interplay.

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Merit (Buddhism)

Merit (puṇya, puñña) is a concept considered fundamental to Buddhist ethics.

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Minnesota Zen Center

Minnesota Zen Meditation Center was formed when the founding head teacher, Dainin Katagiri, (1928-1990) was invited to come from California in 1972 to teach a small but growing group of Minneapolis students interested in the dharma.

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Nalanda Monastery (France)

Nalanda Monastery (Fr: le monastère Nalanda, f. 1981) is the first Western monastery of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), an international network of Gelugpa dharma centers.

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Nanamoli Bhikkhu

Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu (born Osbert John S. Moore, June 25, 1905 – March 8, 1960) was a British Theravada Buddhist monk and translator of Pali literature.

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Neotantra

Neotantra, navatantra (Sanskrit: नव, nava 'new') or tantric sex, is the modern, western variation of tantra often associated with new religious movements.

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New Kadampa Tradition

The New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT—IKBU) is a global Buddhist new religious movement founded by Kelsang Gyatso in England in 1991.

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New religious movement

A new religious movement (NRM), also known as a new religion or an alternative spirituality, is a religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and which occupies a peripheral place within its society's dominant religious culture.

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Nichidatsu Fujii

was a Japanese Buddhist monk, and founder of the Nipponzan-Myōhōji order of Buddhism.

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Nick Ribush

Nicholas Ribush was one of the first Westerners to be ordained as a monk in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

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Nyanaponika Thera

Nyanaponika Thera or Nyanaponika Mahathera (July 21, 1901 – 19 October 1994) was a German-born Sri-Lanka-ordained Theravada monk, co-founder of the Buddhist Publication Society, contemporary author of numerous seminal Theravada books, and teacher of contemporary Western Buddhist leaders such as Bhikkhu Bodhi.

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Ocean of Definitive Meaning

Ocean of Definitive Meaning: A Teaching for the Mountain Hermit, written in the first half of the 14th century, is considered the magnum opus of Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (1292–1361).

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Outline of Buddhism

Buddhism (Pali/बौद्ध धर्म Buddha Dharma) is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha, "the awakened one".

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Parliament of the World's Religions

There have been several meetings referred to as a Parliament of the World's Religions, the first being the World's Parliament of Religions of 1893, which was an attempt to create a global dialogue of faiths.

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Paul Haller

Ryushin Paul Haller, a Soto Zen roshi, is a former Abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center—a position he held from 2003 until February 2012.

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Pāli Canon

The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language.

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Publishers Group West

Publishers Group West (PGW) is a book distributor founded in 1976 in Berkeley, California, which distributes to bookstores in the U.S. and internationally.

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Rangtong-Shentong

Rangtong and shentong are two distinctive views on emptiness (sunyata) and the two truths doctrine within Tibetan Buddhism.

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Rempo Niwa Zenji

Zuigaku Rempo Niwa Zenji (1905–1993) was a Japanese Zen master.

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Robert Baker Aitken

Robert Baker Dairyu Chotan Aitken Rōshi (June 19, 1917 – August 5, 2010) was a Zen teacher in the Harada-Yasutani lineage.

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Robina Courtin

Robina Courtin (born Melbourne, Australia, 20 December 1944) is a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Buddhist Gelugpa tradition and lineage of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

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Rujing

Tiāntóng Rújìng (天童如淨; Japanese: Tendō Nyōjo) was a Caodong Buddhist monk living in Qìngdé Temple (慶徳寺; Japanese: Keitoku-ji) on Tiāntóng Mountain (天童山; Japanese: Tendouzan) in Yinzhou District, Ningbo.

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Satipatthana Sutta

The Satipatṭhāna Sutta (MN 10: The Discourse on the Establishing of Mindfulness) and the Mahāsatipatṭhāna Sutta (DN 22: The Great Discourse on the Establishing of Mindfulness) are two of the most important and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism, acting as the foundation for mindfulness meditational practice.

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Sera Monastery

Sera Monastery ("Wild Roses Monastery") is one of the "great three" Gelug university monasteries of Tibet, located north of Lhasa and about north of the Jokhang.

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Shaila Catherine

Shaila Catherine is an American Buddhist meditation teacher and author in the Theravādan tradition, known for her expertise in insight meditation (vipassanā) and jhāna practices.

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Shanti Stupa, Pokhara

Pokhara Shanti Stupa is a Buddhist pagoda-style monument on Ananda Hill of the former Pumdi Bhumdi Village Development Committee, in the district of Kaski, Nepal (now a part of the city of Pokhara).

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Sherry Chayat

Shinge-shitsu Roko Sherry Chayat (born 1943) is the current abbot of the Zen Studies Society, based at the International Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji monastery, outside Livingston Manor, NY, and at the New York Zendo Shobo-Ji on the Upper east Side of Manhattan.

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Soenghyang

Soeng Hyang Soen Sa Nim (성향선사, born April 15, 1948) is a Zen Master and the Guiding Teacher of the international Kwan Um School of Zen, and successor to the late Seung Sahn Soen Sa Nim.

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Somapura Mahavihara

Somapura Mahavihara (সোমপুর মহাবিহার Shompur Môhabihar) in Paharpur, Badalgachhi Upazila, Naogaon District, Bangladesh is among the best known Buddhist viharas in the Indian Subcontinent and is one of the most important archaeological sites in the country.

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Soyen Shaku

Soyen Shaku (釈 宗演, January 10, 1860 – October 29, 1919; written in modern Japanese Sōen Shaku or Kōgaku Sōen Shaku) was the first Zen Buddhist master to teach in the United States.

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Steve Hagen

Stephen Tokan "Steve" Hagen, Rōshi, (born 1945) is the founder and head teacher of the Dharma Field Zen Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and a Dharma heir of Dainin Katagiri-roshi.

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Tara (Buddhism)

Tara (तारा,; Tib. སྒྲོལ་མ, Dölma) or Ārya Tārā, also known as Jetsun Dölma (Tibetan language: rje btsun sgrol ma) in Tibetan Buddhism, is an important figure in Buddhism.

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Tara Institute

Tara Institute is a Tibetan Buddhist center located in the suburb of East Brighton in Melbourne which provides Buddhist teachings throughout the year.

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Tashi Tsering (Jamyang Buddhist Centre)

Tashi Tsering (born 1958) has been the resident Tibetan Buddhist teacher at Jamyang Buddhist Centre, London, since 1994.

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Tenzin Ösel Hita

Tenzin Ösel Hita (born 12 February 1985 in Bubión, Granada, Spain) is a Tibetan Buddhist ''tulku'' and an aspiring filmmaker from Spain.

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Tenzin Zopa

Geshe Tenzin Zopa (born 1975) is a Nepalese Tibetan Buddhist monk of the Mahayana tradition.

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Thame, Nepal

Thame and its neighbouring Thameteng (upper Thame) are small Sherpa villages in Namche VDC of the Solukhumbu District in Nepal.

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The Dharma of Star Wars

The Dharma of Star Wars is a book by Matthew Bortolin.

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The World of Tibetan Buddhism

The World of Tibetan Buddhism is a 1995 book translated and edited by Geshe Thupten Jinpa, the Dalai Lama, in which he offers a clear and penetrating overview of Tibetan Buddhist practice from the Four Noble Truths to Highest Yoga Tantra.

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Thubten Gyatso (Australian monk)

Thubten Gyatso (born Adrian Feldmann) is an Australian monk and was ordained by Lama Thubten Yeshe in the 1970s and was one of the first Westerners to become a monk in the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Thubten Shedrup Ling

Thubten Shedrup Ling is the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Australia.

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Thubten Yeshe

Thubten Yeshe (1935–1984) was a Tibetan lama who, while exiled in Nepal, co-founded Kopan Monastery (1969) and the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (1975).

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Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

Thubten Zopa Rinpoche (1946 Thami, Nepal as Dawa Chötar) is a Nepali lama from Khumbu, the entryway to Mount Everest.

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Thupten Jinpa

Thupten Jinpa Langri (b. 1958) has been the principal English translator to the Dalai Lama since 1985.

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Timeline of Buddhism

The purpose of this timeline is to give a detailed account of Buddhism from the birth of Gautama Buddha to the present.

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Trijang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso

The Third Trijang Rinpoche, Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (1901–1981) was a Gelug Lama and a direct disciple of Pabongkhapa Déchen Nyingpo.

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Tubten Kunga Center

Thubten Kunga Ling Center (TKC), is a Buddhist Center in Deerfield Beach, Florida.

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Universalism

Universalism is a theological and philosophical concept that some ideas have universal application or applicability.

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Vajra

Vajra is a Sanskrit word meaning both thunderbolt and diamond.

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Vipassanā

Vipassanā (Pāli) or vipaśyanā (विपश्यन) in the Buddhist tradition means insight into the true nature of reality.

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Wild yak

The wild yak (Bos mutus) is a large wild bovid native to the Himalayas.

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Women in Buddhism

Women in Buddhism is a topic that can be approached from varied perspectives including those of theology, history, anthropology and feminism.

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Zazen

Zazen (literally "seated meditation"; 座禅;, pronounced) is a meditative discipline that is typically the primary practice of the Zen Buddhist tradition.

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Zong Rinpoche

Zong Rinpoche (1905-1984 AD) was a Gelug Lama and disciple of the third Trijang Rinpoche, junior tutor of the 14th Dalai Lama.

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Zopa (disambiguation)

ZOPA or Zopa may refer to.

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14th Dalai Lama

The 14th Dalai Lama (religious name: Tenzin Gyatso, shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso; born Lhamo Thondup, 6 July 1935) is the current Dalai Lama.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_the_Preservation_of_the_Mahayana_Tradition

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