The Stupa Fund

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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
  non-Buddhist.

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.
• Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Stupa in the snow in Iceland
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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
• holly_at_fpmt.org

Stupa at Dorje Chang Institute, New Zealand