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PDF: 25 YEARS SINCE LAMA’S PASSING

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Universal Values and Morality

Twenty-five years ago, Lama Thubten Yeshe, a unique Tibetan lama committed to transmitting Mahayana Buddhism to his growing number of Western students, passed away in California. Over fifteen fruitful years of working with Westerners (beginning in the late 1960s in India and Nepal) Lama Yeshe, (“Lama” to his students), established thirty centres and twenty projects in thirteen countries. He named his burgeoning organization the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT). Currently spiritually directed by Lama Yeshe’s heart disciple, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, FPMT has approximately 150 centres, projects and services in over thirty countries – extending far beyond the Western scope...

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