Lama Yeshe Cremation Stupa Project

11/17/2011

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02/06/2011

Thank you for being friends of the 'Lama Yeshe Cremation Stupa Project'! The project is now completed and so we'll soon be shutting this page down. Follow us now on our Vajrapani page!

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01/01/2011

Happy New Year and Big Love for 2011! from the Vajrapani staff.

12/16/2010

Yangsi Rinpoche at Lama Yeshe's Cremation Stupa. November 2010

12/16/2010

Two years in the making, we give you Vajrapani's new website!

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08/28/2010

Breathtaking artwork worthy of Lama Yeshe's radiance

It’s been three months since Lama Yeshe’s Cremation Stupa was consecrated. You may remember, to be ready for the day, Tom W. and his crew performed a pretty formidable last minute sprint. It was an inspiring tour de force, indicative of a devotion so strong it knows no obstacles too great. The stup...

06/02/2010

The greater the bliss, the harder the landing? Well, it's been almost a month now since the consecration of the stupa. We're back in balance and back in business :)

05/04/2010

4 days left before Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Yangsi Rinpoche, many other special guests and a couple hundred students will be brought together again thanks to the kindness of Lama.

Here we were at 10am this morning. Ed and the concrete-boys danced around the korwa in their thick rubber boots laying down the concrete. In four days Lama Zopa Rinpoche will be setting his feet on the ...

04/26/2010

How Lama hooked an angel from New York City two years ago

Friends, our entry today has been contributed by Jennifer Kim, our project manager of Big Love Day (the stupa’s consecration ceremony on May 8), Vajrapani’s office manager of two years, and personal friend of many. We leave you with the story of a Big Love-angel.

04/21/2010

If you haven't seen this yet, check this out - a blog penned by Venerable Roger recounting life on the road with Lama Zopa Rinpoche - organized by Mandala Magazine. The word awesome comes to mind...

As soon as Lama Zopa Rinpoche saw the wooden carving of the Namgyälma mantra given to him by Fred Cheong and other students from Singapore, he began to prostrate. The mantra board will help Rinpoche to bless the world’s oceans.

04/16/2010

So here we are, today is Thursday 15th April. 10pm. Two hours left to file tax returns. And 24 days left to finish 4 stupas. Well, not quite 24. Count 6 days of weekends, plus 4 days of rain scheduled next week, that’s actually 14 working days. ...

04/02/2010

The man that brought Lama's body back to Vajrapani on the back of a white pick up truck...

Adele Hulse, the author of Lama’s upcoming biography ‘Big Love‘, recently sent me an account of Lama’s cremation. It tells the story of Tom in his white pick up truck driving Lama’s body in a casket half way across California. ...

03/29/2010

"Lama Yeshe's death certificate stated his occupation as ‘Buddhist monk’ and the number of years in such employment as ‘life’. His employer was listed as ‘Mahayana Buddhism’ in the industry of ‘Religion’." (from Big Love by Adele Hulse)

03/24/2010

What's on our mind? 6 1/2 weeks to go until May 8. We're on a serious countdown. Four stupas still need to be erected.

03/18/2010

2 million Dharmakaya relic mantras, more precious than the relics of the Buddha's body itself are to be sponsored. EVERYONE has an opportunity to take part in this. Read on...

One of the most remarkable features of the Lama Yeshe Cremation site Stupa Project is that all four stupas will contain the most powerful relics of all, Dharmakaya Relic Mantras. At Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s instruction the stupas will be filled exclusively with the Four Dharmakaya Relic Mantras. ...

03/18/2010

That's it. It's official! May 8 is the official date for consecration by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

Meet Tom and Yeshe, the wild crew who took on the challenge to have the entire project completed in a mere 7 weeks!

Rejoice with us at this most fabulous news! It’s now confirmed. Lama Zopa Rinpoche, in His immeasurable kindness, has accepted our invitation to consecrate the stupas on May 8. Rinpoche asked Geshe Dakpa, astrologer and resident teacher at Tse Chen Ling in San Francisco, to check the date. ...

03/12/2010

It's been a grand couple of days at Vajrapani's Ridge...

The last two days have been a whirlwind of blessings and joy. On Tuesday Choden Rinpoche joined us in the Gompa to consecrate the stupa items. Before he did his set of prayers, he gave us the White Dzambhala mantra

02/26/2010

Choden Rinpoche consecrating first stage of stupa project at Vajrapani Institute on March 9th - ALL INVITED to this most auspicious event. Read on...

Thanks to the generous participation of many of you around the world, our fundraising efforts have steadily been yielding and as a result the construction is progressing well too! The foundations for all four stupas are now all in place. ...