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A Message from our Spiritual Director • Our Five-Year Plan 2003-2007
The Membership Program: Preserving the FPMT Lineage
Benefits of Membership • Why an exclusive Members' area?
Other Membership Payment Options • Our Members
A Message from our Spiritual Director
Dharma books plant the seed of the path to enlightenment in the mind of the reader. That imprint ripens, realizations come, and liberation is attained. Books open the wisdom eye; you can understand death and the nature of mind; they teach you how to develop compassion; they bring world peace.
The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive publishes authentic Dharma books. When you read and practice them, you can understand karma, how everything comes from the mind, that the external cause is not the only one. This can lead you to a happy death and a happy rebirth.
Book sponsors offer all the above benefits to others and cause them to open their minds. Each person transformed brings peace into the world. It becomes an extremely practical thing.
Sponsoring books is for people who like to spread Dharma. If you organize a meditation course, only a few people get to hear the teachings, whereas if you publish a book, you can help thousands more. Books reach every corner of the earth.
Until you change your mind, no matter how well-off you are, you still make mistakes in your actions. To stop your own suffering, you have to stop creating negative actions; to stop creating negative actions, you have to eradicate your negative mind. Books teach you how to do that.
An additional benefit of Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive books is that they are offered free of charge and thereby reach many people who might not otherwise have a chance to contact the Dharma. Also, when you contribute to or distribute Archive books, you create the charity of Dharma, the highest form of giving. Moreover, when you donate money to the Archive, you accomplish material charity; and since the Dharma teachings in these books show readers how to protect themselves from suffering, you also accomplish the charity of saving others from fear. Thus, by the one action, supporting the Archive, you achieve all three forms of generosity. If, on top of that, you give with bodhicitta—the determination to attain buddhahood for the sake of all sentient beings—your donation becomes the cause of enlightenment.
Therefore, I would be grateful if you could make a general donation to or become a member of the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive. Thank you so much.
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Preserving the FPMT lineage: Our Five Year Plan
In 2003 we launched our membership plan in Singapore and are now bringing to the rest of the world. What we’re trying to do is raise $600,000—which seems to be an impossibly large amount of money. But what we need to do is to employ more editors so that we can tackle in a properly organized way the huge volume of teachings by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche that currently sit, unchecked and unedited, in our vast collection of transcripts dating back more than three decades.
You can read the five-year plan of what we’d like to do, but basically, we need at least six editors working more or less full time for five years to prepare for publication all of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s lam-rim teachings and Lama Yeshe’s tantric commentaries. Of course, there’s more in the Archive than that, but once those teachings have been attended to we can deal with the rest.
You can also read an interview with Director Nick Ribush that was published in Snow Lion Magazine which talks about our current plans.
We'd like to invite you to become a Member with a pledge of at least US$1,000. We hope that you’ll be so inspired by our five-year plan that you’ll not only consider doing this yourself but you’ll also try to find friends to join as well. As you can see, at $1,000 each, we need 600 members to reach our goal.
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The main benefit is that you’ll be playing a key role in bringing the essential teachings of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche to tens—perhaps hundreds—of thousands of people all over the world. During the last millennium, many lam-rim texts were written in Tibet, all based on Atisha’s Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment. In our tradition, the most important extensive lam-rim texts are Lama Tsong Khapa’s Lam-rim Chen-mo and Pabongka Rinpoche’s Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand. Now we have a chance to make a highly significant addition to the genre by working together to prepare and publish the many lam-rim commentaries he has given since 1971 at Kopan and many other FPMT centers all over the world. As the thousands of us who have benefited from Rinpoche’s teachings will attest, they are extremely effective and totally relevant to the world today. Bringing them out in print will be one of the greatest contributions to peace and happiness in the world ever made.
You’ll also be helping us make available Lama Yeshe’s tantric commentaries. Several have already been published—Introduction to Tantra, The Tantric Path of Purification, The Bliss of Inner Fire and Becoming the Compassion Buddha—his Manjushri commentary is almost ready to go and, as you will see in the attached brochure, many more await preparation.
More direct and tangible benefits for you personally will be:
- A free copy of each free book published by LYWA in the future.
- A free copy of each Lama Yeshe or Lama Zopa book edited by the Archive and published by Wisdom Publications in the future.
- A one-year subscription to Mandala magazine.
- One year of monthly pujas done by the Kopan monks and nuns: choose from Medicine Buddha, Tara, Guru Puja and King of Prayers. Also, you may specify to whom you would like the pujas dedicated. To find out more information about these pujas click here.
- Access to an exclusive members-only section of our Web site containing special, unpublished teachings unavailable to others.
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We hope you will be able to join. Thank you so much. Use our on-line donations pages to remit your membership subscription and your preferences for pujas. If you cannot manage $1,000 all at once, we offer you the option of donating $250 a quarter over the next year or monthly payments of $100, $50, or $30. To sign up for automatic debits, simply contact us with your credit card information and tell us how you would like to subscribe. Or, you may make your payments each month online, or send a check with your membership donation(s) to LYWA, PO Box 356, Weston, MA 02493 USA.
Of course, we don’t need 600 members to start. In fact, we already have four editors working part-time on Lama Yeshe’s and Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings. As we receive more funds we will be able to add more editors and give more time to this project.
We have launched our Membership drive wordwide with an appeal in Singapore and a mailing to all our benefactors in November 2003. Our thanks to those who have already joined as members. Click here to see the list of current members.
Please email our director Dr. Nicholas Ribush if you have any questions about our membership plan. Thank you so much.
Why do we have an exclusive Members' area?
One Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive supporter wrote asking about why we have created an exclusive Members' Area, where only those who give a certain amount of money can gain access. They wrote:
“I feel queasy about there being a premium for people who give a certain total within a certain period of time. If I understand correctly, there are two levels of benefactor and those with more money and/or fewer other commitments will have access to certain Dharma materials and everybody else will be shut out.
“To me, creating an upper level despises the smaller gifts of the less well-to-do (smaller only in denomination, certainly not in spirit) and I'd be literally scared to do that. I mean I think no good can come of it, any according of status or privilege on the basis of wealth being some manifestation of what is traditionally called 'grinding down the face of the poor.' Since we are only typing and not face-to-face I may seem edgy and confrontational and truly that's not how I feel. I'm just trying to discuss the philosophy of what is happening. Maybe sometimes we have to decide whether we believe in karma or in the principles of fundraising in the U.S.?”
Director Nick Ribush replied:
“The thing is this...we need to find $600,000 so that we can hire at least 5 editors for 5 years to make the teachings we have in the Archive available to everybody. The way we're trying to do this (and remember, I have been raising money for Dharma projects for more than 30 years, so have a bit of experience with what works and what doesn't—see my article on fund raising for more details) is to institute a membership plan where people who contribute $1,000 get certain benefits, one of which is access to a restricted area of our Web site containing certain works in progress. What the members get there are mainly the transcripts that are in the process of being edited because of the money they have offered...it's like a sneak preview. Eventually, everything in the temporarily restricted area will be in the public domain, so in the long term, nothing is being kept from anybody. Like you, I live in the real world, and sometimes people need to be enticed to part with $1,000. If they didn't, I'd just put the word out and tomorrow I'd have $600,000. If indeed there is a better way, tell me and I'll do it, no problem.
“In the meantime, we are putting more and more free teachings on the main part of the Web site, we have just printed 15,000 copies of The Peaceful Stillness of the Silent Mind, 10,000 copies of Virtue and Reality are on press, 15,000 copies of our free Anthology will soon be available, and people who have signed up for our free monthly e-letter get another free teaching every month.”
Please email our director Dr. Nicholas Ribush if you have any questions about our membership plan. Thank you so much.
Our Members
As of December 1, 2007. Note that this list does not contain the names of our Benefactors, who are listed here. Our list now totals nearly 450 members!
We are so grateful to all our members everywhere who make the work of the Archive possible. Through the merit of having contributed to the spread of the Buddhist teachings for the sake of all sentient beings, may our members and their families and friends have long and healthy lives, all happiness, and may all their Dharma wishes be instantly fulfilled.
FPMT Center Members
Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore
Aryatara Institut, Germany
Buddha House, Australia
Centro Terra di Unificazione Ewam, Italy
Cham-Tse-Ling, China
Chandrakirti Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Centre, New Zealand
Hayagriva Buddhist Centre, Australia
Hospice of Mother Tara, Australia
Institut Vajra Yogini, France
Kunsang Yeshe Centre
Kurukulla Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies, USA
Maitreya Instituut Emst, The Netherlands
Maitri Charitable Trust
O Sel Ling Centro de Retiros, Spain
Tara Institute, Australia
Tushita Meditation Centre, Dharamsala, India
Vajrapani Institute, USA
Individual Members
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