MandalaMagazine.org
Title
Mandala a Tibetan Buddhist Journal
Description
About Mandala
Mandala is published by the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), an international organization founded more than thirty years ago by two Tibetan lamas, Thubten Yeshe (1935-1984) and Thubten Zopa Rinpoche.
The word Mandala is Sanskrit for the purified universe or, more simply, a circle or connection. From its early beginnings as a newsmagazine for FPMT members, Mandala has grown over the years to reach a much wider audience, focusing on the general reader and newcomers to Tibetan Buddhism. The core of its existence, however, as the voice of a cohesive international community continues. Its members are an ever-widening circle, connecting with each other and the wider world.
Mandala contains real stories of Tibetan Buddhist life in the West and in the East. It shows how the Mahayana tradition of Buddhism relates to the confusing and complex world we live in; how people all over the world are discovering the value of a Buddhist point of view - people who have ordinary jobs, live with disability, write books, teach in Mongolia, wear robes of monks and nuns while they earn a living in the modern world, and even spend their entire adult lives in retreat.
