Editing New Kadampa Tradition (section)

===1978–85: Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition===
In 1978, Publications for Wisdom Culture moved to the Manjushri Institute. On 24 August, at a formal meeting, the directors changed the name of the Yeshe Foundation, which Lama Yeshe said he did not like, to the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT).<ref name=Beginings>[https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2008/12/WinterManjushri.pdf "Winter at Manjushri"], ''Mandala'', January–March 2009, FPMT Publications, pp. 64–66</ref>

The same year, Kelsang Gyatso also established the Madhyamaka Centre in [[York]] under his own spiritual direction.<ref name="problems">{{harvnb|Kay|2004|pp=61,62,63,64}}{{pb}}{{harvnb|Blomfield|2022}}</ref> While the FPMT aimed to embrace all lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, Kelsang Gyatso believed in a more exclusivist teaching, creating conflict between the FPMT's leadership and Geshe Gyatso, which was deepened by the creation of a new centre distinct from the FPMT.{{sfn|Blomfield|2022}} Subsequently, Lama Yeshe sent a letter to Kelsang Gyatso asking him to step down as resident teacher at the Manjushri Institute.<ref name="problems" /><ref name=ReachingOut>[https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2009/07/ReachingOutAHistory.pdf "Reaching Out"], ''Mandala'', July–September 2009, pp. 29–30</ref>

Around this time, Peter Kedge, the principal officer of FPMT, also left the Manjushri Institute to manage FPMT's business projects in Hong Kong.<ref name="problems"/> In 1979, Lama Yeshe asked Geshe Jampa Tekchok to teach a twelve-year Geshe Studies Programme at the Manjushri Institute, modelled on the program of studies for the traditional [[geshe]] degree.<ref>{{harvnb|Kay|2004|pp=53,77, 232}}</ref><ref name="history"/>

By 1981, the management committee of Manjushri Institute was made up principally of Kelsang Gyatso's closest students, also known as "the Priory group".<ref name="problems"/><ref name="BIMW">Daniel Cozort, ''The Making of Western Lama in "Buddhism in the Modern World'', {{ISBN|0-19-514698-0}}, page 226</ref> This group, which had initially been left to its own devices, gradually became dissatisfied with the increasingly centralised nature of the FPMT.<ref name="problems"/><ref name="Waterhouse 1997 165"/> According to Kay, Lama Yeshe tried at different times to reassert his authority over the institute, but his attempts were unsuccessful.<ref name=p63>{{harvnb|Kay|2004|p=3}}</ref>

After disputes between the FPMT management and the residents of the Manjushri Institute escalated, the FPMT managers asked the Dalai Lama's Office to send mediators to help solve the problem.<ref name="problems"/><ref name=ReachingOut/> In October 1985, four new trustees were appointed to the Manjushri Institute: two chosen by FPMT and two by the Manjushri Institute. A new constitution was formulated as a result.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>