Membership Package

FPMT is proud to offer the Foundation Membership package, designed to provide valuable benefits for donors at all levels of support. No matter which level you choose, every dollar is critical to the maintenance of FPMT programs, to the commitment we've made to charitable projects worldwide, and to our ability to grow and be of increasing benefit to the world.

Membership Levels

A membership term is for one year. All membership levels of $30 or more include a subscription to Mandala magazine, access to the new online Mandala eZine and a discount for all purchases made through the Foundation Store.

$30 Year Golden Fish
	Free Mandala magazine subscription Special Mandala eZine Foundation Store Discount - 5% off on all purchases

$60 Year/$5 Month Right Turning Conch
	Free Mandala magazine subscription Special Mandala eZine Foundation Store Discount - 10% off on all purchases

$108 Year/$9 Month Precious Umbrella
	The above, plus Free Mystic Tibet DVD

$240 Year/$20 Month Dharma Wheel
	The above, plus Free How to Meditate on Emptiness MP3 Access to selected courses 2009 Online Learning Center (courses to be announced)

$360 Year/$30 Month Endless Knot
	The above, plus Free Discovering Buddhism DVD Set Full access to our 2009 Online Learning Center Light of the Path Program (date to be announced)

$600 Year/$50 Month Lotus Flower
	The above, plus Please allow us to honor you in Mandala and on the FPMT website

$1008 Year/$84 Month Treasure Vase
	Founding Patrons are critical to establishing the membership program and helping to make manifest the vision of FPMT and its Spiritual Director, Lama Zopa Rinpoche. The above, plus Yearly Patron Puja

$5000 Year and beyond Victory Banner
	Publishing Patrons are instrumental to keeping the Dharma alive through helping the publishing efforts of FPMT, a precious opportunity which brings great merit.   The above, plus Special Honoree

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Contact us!

FPMT International Office
1632 SE 11th Avenue
Portland, OR 97214-4702
USA

Office Telephone: (503) 808-1588
Toll free (US only): 866-808-3302
Fax: (503) 808-1589

Email: Membership

What is Foundation Membership?

The Buddha taught that every living being has the potential to be free from suffering and to develop limitless love and compassion. For more than thirty years, the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) has provided Dharma education which transforms people's minds into their highest potential, teaching people how to understand and integrate the teachings of Buddhism into their heart. The heart of FPMT reaches out across thirty-three countries, preserving and transmitting the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and its values toward the happiness of all beings.

As a Foundation Member, you will belong to an international community of students, supporting a vibrant network of over 150 Dharma centers, monasteries, nunneries, social service projects, hospices, health care clinics, publishing houses, and initiatives to create holy objects, translate rare texts and preserve the pure teachings of the Buddha in the Lama TsongKhapa tradition.

As Buddhism has spread internationally, an accurate presentation of the tradition by qualified teachers in whom students can place their trust is critical. FPMT follows the guidance of His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, a peerless representative of the Buddhist teachings in a troubled world. FPMT's founder Lama Thubten Yeshe was a master of the tradition whose teachings still resonate powerfully. FPMT's Spiritual Director, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, is respected internationally as a lama of rare ability who has truly realized what it means to live for others.

Your membership supports the Foundation in its vast global Dharma and social service activities according to the guidance of these amazing teachers.

Elements of the Buddha's Mahayana tradition are at risk of degenerating and fading away.  Our work preserves what the Buddha taught according to the tradition of Lama Tsong Khapa, upholding the rich array of Buddhist practices which FPMT has inherited from its teachers.

As a Foundation Member, you will assist FPMT in its work to keep the entire teachings of the Buddha pure in its entirety, protecting authentic Buddhist teachings in the Je Tsongkhapa lineage.  FPMT educational programs distill and transmit the entire Mahayana Buddhist canon, and are taught by the most qualified lamas and geshes of our time.

In the early years, FPMT was a tightly-knit family of a handful of students looking for answers and two ground-breaking lamas who had profound answers to give. It grew as students decided to bring back what they had learned to their local communities, and FPMT centers began springing up around the world. We are now an international community of over 150 centers, retreat centers, publishing houses, monasteries, and social service projects, and we are still a family: