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FPMT International Office
The Stupa Fund
Building 100,000 stupas around the world for purification and world peace
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche established
the Stupa Fund in 1992 . The aim of
the Fund is to provide the
resources for the building of
100,000 stupas around the world,
each a minimum size of 12 feet
high.
Stupas are found in all Buddhist
countries and are the archetypal
symbol of the enlightened mind.
Even just seeing a stupa plants the
seed of enlightenment and peace
in the minds of all who see them,
human or animal, Buddhist or nonBuddhist.
Stupa at Kachoe Dechen Ling, California USA
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The stupa represents Buddha's holy
mind, Dharmakaya, and each part of
the stupa shows the path to
enlightenment.
Building or contributing to the
building of a stupa is a powerful
means of purifying negative karma
and obscurations and of accumulating
extensive merit.
In this way you can have realizations
of the path to enlightenment and be
able to do perfect work to liberate
suffering beings, who equal the sky,
leading them to the peerless
happiness of enlightenment. This is
the ultimate goal of our life.
Stupa in the snow in Iceland
– Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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Benefits of Stupas
Inside each stupa are mantras and relics of holy
beings that create incredible purification, merit,
and blessings, such as the powerful four
Dharmakaya relic mantras.
If you put the four Dharmakaya relic mantras
inside a stupa it creates the same merit as
having built 100,000 stupas and having made
offerings to all the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.
Stupas are an antidote to war, famine, and
disease and are also extremely powerful for
health and healing. If you are facing death the
best thing to do is circumambulate a stupa.
Kalachakra stupa at Kurukulla Center, USA
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By building a stupa or statue, without words
you are continually liberating so many
sentient beings every day and anybody who
sees, touches, remembers, talks or dreams
about the stupa - it plants the seed of
enlightenment and they are purified.
When the wind touches a stupa, the wind
becomes blessed and then wherever it goes
and whoever it touches is liberated from the
lower realms, by purifying their negative
karma. When the rain falls on the stupa, that
running water liberates any being it touches,
all the worms in the ground etc., from the
lower realms. It is similar with dust.
Monks taking the annual Gelugpa Exam in 2009
The Great Thousand Buddha relic stupa at Kopan
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One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's heart projects
is the building of prayer wheels and other
holy objects around the world.
Rinpoche has inspired the construction of
many large stupas including:
The Great Thousand Buddha Relic Stupa
at Kopan Monastery in Nepal
The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion
being built in Australia
The Kalachakra Stupa in the USA
The Kadampa stupa in France
And many other stupas in Nepal, Spain, Italy,
France, the United States, Canada, Iceland,
Tibet, Australia, and New Zealand.
Kadampa Stupa at Institut Vajra Yogini, France
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After Lama Yeshe passed away, Lama Zopa Rinpoche
requested a number of centers to build stupas for
Lama Yeshe:
In actuality Shakyamuni Buddha,
He revealed the instructions to gain
enlightenment in one lifetime.
The incomparable holder of the Dharma,
leader of all migratory beings of this time of
degeneration, who destroyed all the wrong
conceptions.
By the joy of the wisdom of bliss and
voidness.
Please grant the transcendental bliss and
voidness
Monks during the annual winter debate
Lama Yeshe stupa at Vajrapani Institute, USA
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The Stupa Fund also supports the
making of three small Kadampa
stupas every day that are filled and
blessed by the Sangha at Lama
Zopa Rinpoche's home in
California. These stupas are
dedicated for all students and
friends who have passed away.
Mitukpa, Medicine Buddha, Long
Life Buddhas and Padmasambhava
tsa tsas are made daily and
dedicated for any student who is
sick and for the success of all FPMT
centers, services and projects.
Stupa with light offerings at night, Kachoe Dechen Ling, USA
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The inconceivable merit of building stupas is not
limited to the person who physically builds it; those
who support the project financially, materially, or
through rejoicing all receive equal benefit!
For more information, photos,
video and regular updates:
www.fpmt.org/projects/stupa
Or please email
[email protected]
Stupa at Dorje Chang Institute, New Zealand
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