My Very Dear Geshes, Sangha, Teachers, Center Directors and Staff, Students, Benefactors and Friends:Shantideva said, “Merely thinking of benefiting others is considered much more beneficial than making offerings to all the buddhas.” So what need is

My very dear most precious, wish-fulfilling,dearest benefactors, students, staff of the FPMT organization, friends and everybody,

My dear students and staff of the FPMT International Office, whose minds are sincere, enriched by incomparable devotion and samaya, dedicated to the good heart benefiting others,

My very dear Elizabeth Rinpoche,How are you? I think Delhi Tushita is the best place on earth for only you.

I wish you greetings. I am very happy with all the efforts that you are both making by spreading the Buddhadharma.

The FPMT is a Dharma organization, not a factory; therefore, it should help people, help the students. It’s not a Coca-Cola or chocolate factory.

The most important thing, the heart thing, for the FPMT, however many billions of projects it has, is to do what pleases most His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

The purpose of life is to benefit sentient beings, free them from suffering, and bring them to enlightenment. This is the real meaning of life, the purpose of surviving each hour, minute, and second with this human body.

The logo is not just a design of your company, or something to identify with—thinking in this way has no meaning, and it is very uninteresting, boring.The Tibetan government and lamas understand that the logo has great meaning and significance.

The logo should have a lotus with many petals, like the type a Buddha statue sits on. There should be big piles of jewels. On top of that is a sutra text. There is sunlight all around.