The Tsum Project

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Khen Rinpoche visits Tsum Village in 2006

Pictures taken by Geshe Tenzin Zopa

Sunday, January 25, 2009

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.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Wesak in Malaysia, Singapore and Himalaya (TSUM)

This year Wesak was extremely meaningful. I had the opportunity to take 8 Mahayana Precept and various practices with the inspiration of so many people. At the same time I got the chance to travel to Amithabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore to attend Khen Rinpoche’s teachings joined by the large group from Malaysia to attend his long life puja which is very important practice for long and healthy life of both gurus as well as students.

The long life pujas was very well organized much to the delight of everyone. Although the journey from Kuala Lumpur to

Singapore

is quite long, everyone felt the trip was extremely fulfilling.

By the great merit of everyone in the group, we also had the opportunity to visit the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple in China Town, Singapore. We were all greeted by Benny who’s one of the temple key personnel. He took us on a tour of the whole place including viewing the relics of the Buddhas, Tathagatas and holy beings. By viewing, these relics enable them to establish great connections with the holy beings. We were also fortunate to meet the Abbot of the temple. Everyone was very inspired and amazed with the size and how the temple was built.

Immediately after the long life puja, the Malaysian group had a private audience with Khen Rinpoche. With the permission of Khen Rinpoche and Ven Lhundup, we had the opportunity to view and receive great blessing of all the holy relics of the Great Mahasiddha Geshela Lama Konchog. This exhibition granted the opportunity to thousands of people in Singapore during the few days of Wesak hosted and organized by Amitabha Buddhist Centre. The director and members of both centres expressed great gratitude and rejoice in the great success of the exhibition. Through this exhibit, many people were introduced not only to Amitabha Buddhist Centre but in particularly to dharma and connection to the Buddha’s emanation body (the relics).

These holy relics were also placed for viewing and blessing in Thekchen Choeling Centre for one day.

By now, the holy relics have returned to Relic Shrine in Kopan Monastery. There are still a lot of invitation of hosting of relics to various parts of the world mainly Ladak in Himalaya, Taiwan as well as Australia. I would say all this depends on the sincerity and the merit of the people receiving the blessings.

So it is indeed really rejoicing and I hope that all the people from the different parts of the world had the most meaningful Wesak by accumulating extensive merits and purifying numerous obstacles.

On top of all that, one of the greatest satisfaction I had this Wesak is the opportunity to organize 1 million recitation of Guru Padmasambhava mantra and 1 million Compassionate Buddha mantra as well as many sets of the Compassionate Buddha Nyung Nya especially focussing on the practice of taking the 8 Mahayana Precept. These are conducted not only by sanghas but by the lay people of Tsum in Rachen Nunnery and Mu Monastery led by the founder Drukpa Rinpoche and the respected Geshe Tenzin Choklek. These practices are dedicated especially to the victim of the Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar and Earthquake in Sichuan, China and for whatever present and future natural and manmade disasters in the world to be completely purified caused by negative karma.

May whoever sees this message, able to accumulate great amount of merits by rejoicing on this practices and immediately dedicate the merits accumulated for the same purpose. This will definitely benefit the victims.

Many thanks also goes out to all the sincere, humble and dedicated lifelong practitioners monks and nuns in Rachen Nunnery and Mu Monastery in Tsum and specially heartfelt thanks to Rinpoche and Geshela. Of course the root cause is all due to the kindness of our root guru Kyabje Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, Khen Rinpoche and the late Geshela Lama Konchog.

Long Life Puja in ABC - Tsog Offering