Happy New Year 2011

Greeting and Happy New Year to all Tsum project Benefactors and friends.


Tsum himalaya monks and nuns wishes everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011. May the coming year be most meaningful and all your virtue wishes be actualized instantly.

With lots of prayers and best wishes.
Committee of Tsum project

Happy Sakadawa and Vesak 2010

Tashi Delek,

Tibetan Sakadawa "Vesak" ... the morning of May 27 starts with Tsum Rachen Nunnery and Mu Monastery sanghas going into many sets of very strict Compassionate Buddha Chenrezig Nyung Na (fasting) retreat.

This great, secret and powerful retreat will be dedicated for all beings to be free from all samsaric sufferings and especially to the recent earthquake in Qinghai - Yushu victims who have passed on and those suffering, to have instant liberation from all sufferings and gain enlightenment.

This retreat is also dedicated to repay the kindness of all the Gurus, namely His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Khenrinpoche Geshe Lundrup Rigsel, Dagri Rinpoche, Tenzin Phuntsok Rinpoche, Drukpa Rinpoche, all my kind teachers and all the beings whose lives are beneficial to the world’s peace and happiness. May they have a very long and healthy life and all their holy wishes be fulfilled instantly.

This list goes on for the purpose of repaying the kindness of all the Tsum benefactors, supporters and volunteers to also have a long, long, long, healthy, happy, successful, meaningful life and for all their wishes to be fulfilled immediately. Dedication of this great and powerful retreat for the purpose of purifying of pass karma and accumulation of extensive merits is also extended to all their family members who are ill and in severe pain, free from all samsaric karma and gain liberation/enlightenment instantly within this life time. Names of these people are not mentioned here due to respect for their privacy but their names are read out daily in the monastery and all retreats.

I also like to dedicate this great retreat to establish and actualize the Chenrezig 100,000 Nyung Na retreat temple building project which started 2months ago, to actualize without any obstacles and may it be accomplished according to the holy vision of our kind gurus, to bring immense of benefit to the preservation of Buddha Dharma, peace and happiness for all beings in the world.

For your information, this is going to be an on-going and life time dedication during annual retreats in Rachen Nunnery and Mu Monastery in Tsum.

Lastly, I wish all of you a happy and meaningful Sakadawa and Vesak 2010.

Director of Tsum Project

Dear all compassionate, most kind and generous Tsum benefactors and supporters,

Tashi Delek and Happy happy Tibetan New Year (Losar),

On behalf of all Tsum Rachen Nunnery and Mu Monastery Sanghas, our most respected Guru Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Khen Rinpoche and all Guru’s including myself, all our prayers and appreciation are always with all benefactors, supporters and selfless volunteers. Here we wish

you all most happy, healthy, successful and meaningful 2010. Our prayers and best wishes are always with you. Whatever pujas prayers and virtuous actions we do in Tsum Rachen Nunnery and Mu Monastery we will dedicate to you to have a healthy, happy, compassionate, harmonious and prosperous coming new year.

During the 15 miraculous and merit multiplying Buddha's day, we will be accumulating many great prayers and these merits will be dedicated to you all.

With lots of prayers,

Geshe Zopa

Director of Tsum Himalayan Project Nepal

Wesak 2009 Message

Dear all compassionate, most kind and generous Tsum benefactors and supporters,

Myself, all Tsum Rachen Nunnery and Mu Monastery Sanghas, our most respected Guru Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Khen Rinpoche and all Guru’s prayers and appreciation are always with all benefactors, supporters and selfless volunteers.

1. The Tsum Project started since 2003 and up to now due to Guru’s blessings and the endless support from all benefactors and selfless volunteers, we have are now able to offer three meals to over 200 over sanghas everyday, free medication to all Tsum villagers, free languages and spiritual education to all sanghas and children.

We have completed building a proper kitchen where we can cook for over 1000 people during our annual Om Mani Padmi Hum and Guru Padmasambhava retreat, public teaching, public retreats and events. Other completed facilities include a health care centre, over 100 sanghas room in Rachen Nunnery for the nuns, guest rooms, rooms for Resident Geshes, Lamas, teachers, doctors and volunteers and all other facilities.

By the end of this year, we hope to complete certain phase in Mu Monastery for the monks and for the purpose of social service to accommodate the local people.

No words can express my joy and happiness. I’m just Happy! Happy! Rejoice! Rejoice! And these accomplishments are all due to every individual’s help and support. Once again, numberless thanks and our prayers are always with all benefactors, supporters and volunteers.

2. At this moment, we have one new phase which is going to kick start soon. It is the building of Chenrezig 100,000 Nyung Nya Temple in Rachen Nunnery where we target to house at least 1000 retreaters.

Once we have sufficient funds we will start this project which I hope will be very soon so that the Nyung Nya retreat can quickly take place. It is in our vision to be able to accumulate 100,000 Nyung Nya in this life time and it will be done in Tsum Himalaya at Rachen Nunnery.

So I like to ask everyone to come together to help actualize this marvelous “One in the world” project. This is for the benefits of world peace and towards happiness of numberless beings and for sure for the benefits of enlightenment of all beings and to serve and please all Gurus and Buddhas, and especially to serve the Compassionate Buddha Chenrezig, our Guru Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Khenrinpoche.

3. This year Rachen Nunnery and Mu Monastery is organizing a few months of Nyung Nya retreat for Wesak / Sakadawa Month, then followed by millions and millions of Compassionate Buddha's six syllable mantra and Guru Padmasambhava 's mantras recitation. Our sanghas and retreats will dedicate all these merits accumulated to all Tsum benefactors, supporters, volunteers for their good health, long life, prosperity, most happy and a most meaningful life.

For those who are new to this project and wish to send in list of names for dedication, may forward them to me at tztzopa@yahoo.com. Our service is not extended only to benefit the Tsum Villagers but to reach to all the numberless peoples and numberless beings in this world.

If you wish to know more about Tsum project please to go http://www.fpmt.org/projects/tsum/

For those living in Taiwan, you may contact our Tsum project coordinator Mrs Sue Sue Chen at sue781@yahoo.com.tw.

Happy Wesak Day!!!
Director of Tsum Project Geshe Tenzin Zopa

2009 Chinese New Year and Losar Greetings

To all my dearest most respected enlightened gurus and sanghas, dharma brothers and sisters, all the compassionate and kind sponsors and supporters of TSUM Himalaya Sangha project,

We all TSUM Sanghas, staff and all the villagers would like to wish everyone all the happiness filled with abundance and prosperity plus an enlightening both Chinese and Tibetan new year.

I have arranged 1 million recitation of the Compassionate Buddha’s mantra practice, millions of recitation of Guru Rinpoche mantra and 8 sets of Nyung Nay retreats by all sanghas and lay people from Tsum Village everyday and in each session these prayers are dedicated to all the sponsors and supporter’s good health, long life, prosperity and enlightenment. This is our way of showing appreciation for your kind support all these years.

For your information, I have done an observation and the above practice comes out most beneficial to benefactors and supporter of TSUM. All past years, we continue to do pujas and prayers for all.

If you have any one you like to include in our daily prayers and dedication, please email me at tztzopa@yahoo.com.

In the meantime, I like to inform everyone that the past 6 years of TSUM Project have been very successful, well managed and has brought great benefit to the TSUM villagers in particularly over 100 sanghas is equipped with proper education with qualified teachers, better living conditions, food, medication and qualified doctors.

Spiritual Gurus like Geshe Tenzin Chogley came along the way we all wished and I can say that we have saved the pure dharma practice in that village. We have restored and establish unbelievable education practices and living conditions which were very much needed by the sanghas and villagers. All these can only happen because of you benefactors and supporters who have been so kind, compassionate and generous.

I have many visions and with the blessings of my Gurus Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Khen Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup to actualize new gompas (prayer halls), many holy object shrines, proper facilities for Nyung Nay retreats and other retreats where millions of various mantras are recited and dedicated for world peace, long life of gurus and especially for benefactors and supporters.

My vision is to build a gompa where we can host at least one thousand people. We are in the process of architectural drawing, marking the land and sourcing suppliers. My other visions are to actualize a huge image of 1,000 arm Compassionate Buddha, build 100 huge stupas and restoring one amazing unique prayer wheel which has the history of self turning by the dakini angels when there are no human beings. All these wonderful meritorious projects are benefiting to world project and these visions can only be actualized by the kindness and generosity of benefactors coming together.

I pray that every single moment karma ripens and every single moment we come together to actualize this vision which has the great power to bring peace and happiness in the world and all being.

Anybody who is also inspired with this vision and would like to participate in this meritorious charity project to email me at tztzopa@yahoo.com.

Thank you.

Geshe Zopa, Tsum Sanghas and Staffs.

Update On May 19th, 2008

Dear most kind, compassionate, most generous sponsors, volunteers and those who directly or indirectly support the progress of Tsum project.

On behalf of the Tsum sanghas and the villagers, I would like to wish everyone a happy, meritorious and meaningful Wesak 2008. The people here in both Tsum Nunnery and Monastery which consist of hundreds of sanghas and lay people are doing the extensive 8 sets of Nyung Nay, the Compassionate Buddha’s retreat and at the same time we have the privilege to invite the founder who are also the master of the 2 monasteries to Tsum to host teachings, initiations, advise, blessing, long life pujas, recitation of millions of Padmasambhava mantra and Om Mani Padme Hum. We dedicate them specially to all the goodness of compassionate benefactors, volunteers, friends and specially for the long and healthy life of all the gurus such as His Holiness Dalai Lama, Kyabe Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Khen Rinpoche, Phuntsok Rinpoche, Drupa Rinpoche..etc. Not forgetting to also dedicate in particularly to all the Myanmar cyclone and China earthquake victims and for world peace.

I am pleased to update everyone that we have already resume the constructions of rooms, schools and living facilities in Mu Monastery in TSUM after the few months of winter season. I very much hope the minor construction will be accomplished within this year and also wish and plan for these few major projects to come along and once the karma ripened I will inform all of you via this blog. I have full faith that all of you will again come together to actualize these marvelous benefiting projects. Thank you so much.