Shakyamuni Buddha statues offered to His Holiness the Dalai Lama on behalf of the entire FPMT family.

Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche expressed in His Vast Visions the wish for the FPMT organization to build many holy objects everywhere, as many as possible. In this way, countless beings can easily purify their negative karma and create vast merit, bringing them closer to realizations on the path to liberation and enlightenment.

The Holy Objects Fund continues to fulfill Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s wish by supporting the creation of holy objects worldwide – for the success of the FPMT organization and for the benefit of all beings. In 2025, the Holy Objects Fund and other funds within FPMT that are dedicated to creating holy objects such as Stupa Fund, Prayer Wheel Fund and Offering Buddha Statues Fund, granted US$70,677 toward the creation and restoration of holy objects, helping bring Rinpoche’s compassionate vast vision to life across the globe. Please continue to read about some of these precious holy objects. 

Ama Chhoyoling Monastery | Nagarjuna FPMT Centre | Nalanda Monastery | Tse Chen Ling | Karma Thegsum Tashi Gomang | Shakyamuni Buddha Statues | Naropa Center Tahiti | Stupa of Complete Victory |
Pokhara Guru Rinpoche Project | Mani Lhakhang | Thank you!

Amidst the peaceful hills of Khajilung, Sindhupalchok, Nepal, the Ama Chhoyoling Monastery (Gumba) has emerged as a symbol of devotion and community spirit. For many years, local villagers gathered for teachings and pujas in open fields and private homes. As the community’s spiritual aspirations grew, so too did the vision for a permanent home where the Dharma could flourish.

Ama Chhoyoling Gumba.

With generous support from the local community and the kind sponsorship of Mingyur Rinpoche, who offered holy statues, the monastery’s main structure was brought to life. Dharma teachings are already being shared within its walls, filling the space with practice and blessings, even as some important elements remain unfinished.

To complete the monastery’s spiritual and aesthetic vision, the community sought support for vital finishing touches such as painting the building and deity images on the entrance wall, creating victory banners for the four directions, installing the Eight Auspicious Symbols, designing a Dharmachakra with two deers, and building a cabinet for storing holy texts.

As a way to show support, Ama Chhoyoling Monastery has received a grant from the Holy Objects Fund to complete the Gumba. This contribution marks a major step forward in completing the monastery and enriching the spiritual lives of the local sangha.

One of the Taras at Nagarjuna FPMT Centre Alicante.

In 2022, Nagarjuna FPMT Centre in Alicante, Spain, inaugurated its new premises, marking a significant milestone in its long-standing commitment to Dharma activities since 1996. Following this transition, the center also started spiritual advice given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to ensure success and harmony at the new location. These efforts have included fire pujas, a Feng Shui study by Mr. Tan Hup Cheng with corresponding structural adjustments, extensive recitations, and ritual offerings.

Now, the center is focused on completing the final piece of Rinpoche’s advice: installing the Twenty-One Taras on the altar. The statues will be sourced from Nepal, filled and blessed there, and placed on a specially designed base to meet the high standards.

In 2025, the Holy Objects Fund has offered a grant toward the Twenty-One Taras project.

In a deeply moving continuation of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s advice, the Sangha at Nalanda Monastery in France has taken on a profound daily practice: the creation of holy objects dedicated to those who have passed away and those facing illness or life obstacles. This tradition, once carried out by sangha at Rinpoche’s house in California, has now been lovingly passed to Nalanda, where it flourishes with renewed devotion.

Eight Medicine Buddhas tsa-tsa mold at Nalanda Monastery.

Each day, the Sangha crafts three small stupas, each filled with a roll of the Four Dharmakaya Relic Mantras. As the mantras are placed inside, prayers are offered for individuals who have passed away, invoking blessings that they may never be born in the lower realms, be liberated from samsara, and swiftly attain enlightenment.

Stupas made at Nalanda Monastery.

In addition to the stupas, three long life tsa-tsas and thirteen Mitrugpa tsa-tsas are made daily, dedicated to those who are sick or facing life obstacles. These tsa-tsas are created with heartfelt prayers for immediate recovery, liberation, and enlightenment.

On special days of the Tibetan calendar, the practice expands: on the eighth day, three Eight Medicine Buddhas tsa-tsas are made, and on the thirtieth, a Padmasambhava tsa-tsa is created. 

The Stupa Fund plays a vital role in sustaining this practice, covering the material expenses for the making of these tsa-tsas. 

Tse Chen Ling Center, meaning “Land of Great Compassion” in Tibetan, is a vibrant urban Dharma center located in San Francisco. Named by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the center has long served as a sanctuary for meditation, study, and spiritual practice. In 2025, the center embarked on a new auspicious project: the installation of a backyard stupa.

Tse Chen Ling Center members with Geshe Ngawang Dakpa.

This initiative was inspired by the advice of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, who recommended the stupa for the center. The placement and size were further guided by Geshe Ngawang Dakpa, Tse Chen Ling’s resident teacher emeritus. The project involves constructing a concrete base for a one-meter tall stupa, creating a circumambulation path for students, and installing lighting – requiring electrical work due to the lack of outdoor power sources.

The stupa is being procured from Nepal through Kopan Monastery, ensuring its authenticity and spiritual integrity. The goal is to create a space where students and visitors can engage in merit-generating practices and deepen their connection to the Dharma.

To support this effort, the Stupa Fund contributed a grant toward the project.

Relocated Padmasambhava Stupa

The Karma Thegsum Tashi Gomang is leading a restoration project for one of North America’s oldest stupas – the Padmasambhava Stupa, originally built in 1981 and recently relocated to a serene meadow in Crestone, Colorado. Surrounded by the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the new site offers a tranquil setting for spiritual reflection and practice.

The stupa, which was inspired by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche and consecrated by Sogyal Rinpoche, had become crowded by nearby development. After years of consultation with senior lamas and Khenpos, the committee made the bold decision to move the 20,000 pound stupa to a more auspicious location. The relocation was completed in October 2024, and the focus has now shifted to restoring the stupa’s structure and surroundings.

Work commenced again in late spring beginning with the granite being placed as a capstone on the concrete base. The granite was procured and fabricated in Albuquerque, NM and transported to Crestone. Most recently, after some repair, the stupa received a new white stucco coat. The completion of this work magnifies its beauty and presence on the new site. It “stands out like a beacon” as one recent visitor stated.

The restoration includes re-stuccoing the stupa, repairing the concrete platform and korwa path, adding river rock and capstone to the foundation, and enhancing the site with landscaping, prayer flags, and offering racks.

In support of this endeavor, the Stupa Fund made a contribution, recognizing the project’s alignment with the FPMT mission and its potential to benefit countless beings.

On the auspicious occasion of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday on July 6, 2025, the FPMT family came together to make a heartfelt offering on behalf of the entire organization. With deep devotion and prayers for His Holiness’s long life, one hundred Shakyamuni Buddha statues – carefully crafted in Nepal, gold-gilded, filled with mantras, consecrated at Gyudmed Tantric Monastery in Dharamsala, and painted with care – were offered to His Holiness. The creation and transport of these statues was made through the Offering Buddha Statues Fund for this purpose.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama receiving a Shakyamuni Buddha statue on behalf of the FPMT organization and praying for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s incarnation.
Photo courtesy of the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

On July 5th, five representatives of FPMT – Ven. Roger Kunsang, Ven. Topgye, Ven. Elisabeth Drukier, Ven. Kunphen, and Frances Howland – had the great fortune to join the long life puja offered in Dharamsala by the Kashag of the Central Tibetan Administration. Within the puja procession, 13 of the statues were offered, including three that Ven. Roger was able to personally place in the hands of His Holiness. The remaining 87 statues were offered directly to His Holiness’s private office earlier that day.

These offerings, made on behalf of every FPMT center, project, service, student, volunteer, and benefactor, are an expression of gratitude and prayers for His Holiness’s continued guidance in this and all future lifetimes. With great rejoicing, we share that after the puja, we received precious photos of His Holiness receiving one of the statues, along with the message that His Holiness is making prayers for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s incarnation.

May these offerings create the causes for His Holiness to live long, remain stable, and continue to benefit the world, and for the swift return of our precious guru, Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche! Following on from Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s wishes we will continue to offer one hundred Buddha statues each year to His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

In a heartfelt initiative aligned with the mission of the FPMT, Naropa Center in Tahiti has been entrusted with a unique spiritual project: the construction of a prayer wheel over water in Tahiti. This vision was personally entrusted by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, recognizing the presence of numerous nagas in Tahiti and French Polynesia and the profound spiritual benefits such a holy object could offer.

Rendering of the prayer wheel in Tahiti.

The prayer wheel, filled with millions of mantras, is designed to touch the water through its axis, radiating blessings across the Pacific Ocean and beyond. In 2025, the Prayer Wheel Fund offered a grant toward this initiative.

In October 2023, the FPMT announced the construction of the Stupa of Complete Victory, a 42-foot (12.8-meter) high monument dedicated to the swift return of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche. This stupa, advised by H.E. Zong Rinpoche, symbolizes the Buddha’s victory over the mara of death and is being built on the northeast side of the Stupa Garden at Kopan, facing midway between Swayambhunath and Boudhanath stupas.

The project includes a ground-level structure covering 180 square feet (16.7 square meter) and a semi-basement level of 715 square feet (66.4 square meter), which will house two retreat rooms. The design integrates a circumambulation path around the stupas of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Geshe Lama Konchog, and Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundup, creating a holy space for purification and merit-making.

Extensive pujas were performed in October 2023 to bless the land and seek permission from local spirits. Excavation began in December, followed by the completion of the building up to the second story by May 2024. In October 2024, the stupa reached the precious vase section, and in November, nine large treasure vases filled with consecrated substances and texts were placed inside the throne. In February 2025, monks carefully wrapped and placed sacred texts and the life tree, inscribed with the Four Dharmakaya Relic Mantras, inside the stupa.

Stupa of Complete Victory at Kopan Monastery, September 2025. Photo by Tenzin Tsultrim.

The estimated cost for the entire project is US$935,890, covering the civil works, new gompa, retreat rooms stupa, landscaping, ornamentation, and the construction of 32 smaller stupas that will surround the main stupa.

As of now, the decorative work on the Stupa of Complete Victory is actively underway. Simultaneously, the process of building the 32 smaller stupas that will encircle the main stupa has begun. These stupas are being crafted in marble in India, and once completed, they will be installed around the central stupa, further enriching the holy environment and offering additional opportunities for circumambulation and merit-making.

The Padmasambhava Project for Peace, inspired by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, is dedicated to building large statues of Guru Rinpoche worldwide. To date, twenty-seven statues have been completed, each a symbol of hope, healing, and unity while also preserving traditional craftsmanship and supporting local communities.

Pokhara Guru Rinpoche Project’s rendering.

In Nepal, the Pokhara Guru Rinpoche Project entered a new phase in 2025 with the construction of Block A, the first residential wing for retreatants, resident Sangha, and visiting practitioners. The site will eventually include a fifteen-meter statue of Guru Rinpoche, meditation and prayer halls, a mantra wall, and green spaces blending with the Annapurna landscape. Block A is expected to be completed by the end of 2028, marking a significant milestone in this meaningful project. Please do visit their website to keep updated on this amazing project and to support directly.

In October 2022, while on retreat at Gyudmed Monastery, Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche was approached by residents of Village A in Hunsur with a humble request: to help them build a prayer wheel. A few days after this meeting, Rinpoche had an auspicious dream, which led him to envision a much larger and more meaningful structure than originally proposed.

Construction of the Mani Lhakhang in Village A, Hunsur.

Based on this dream, Rinpoche expressed His wish to sponsor a significantly larger prayer wheel, giving it the name: “Wish Fulfilling Jewels Prayer Wheel Which Swiftly Liberate from Samsara and Achieve Enlightenment.” The new prayer wheel will contain over 30 billion mani mantras, making it a powerful source of purification and merit for all who engage with it.

This project is being sponsored by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund.  In 2023, the Fund granted US$64,127 toward the building of the new prayer wheel. Due to space limitations in the original location, the village community sought a new site. A local family offered a 50 ft x 50 ft (15,24m x 15,24m) plot from their agricultural land. Although the land was not zoned for construction, the community successfully obtained the necessary permits after a lengthy approval process. They have begun the construction and have invited Ven. Lhundup Tsondue, who has experience in similar projects, to assist. The community is also exploring other newly built prayer wheels in the region to gather ideas and ensure the new structure meets the highest standards. Despite delays, the spirit of the project remains strong. The village continues to pray for Rinpoche’s swift return and is committed to fulfilling His wishes with sincerity and devotion.

Rendering of the temple that will be built at Lawudo.

The Zangdog Palri Project at Lawudo, Nepal, remains a deeply inspiring and long-term vision initiated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. This monumental undertaking aims to build a three-dimensional representation of Guru Rinpoche’s Pure Land, known as Zangdog Palri, or the Glorious Copper-Colored Mountain.

Following Rinpoche’s advice, the first step before building Zangdog Palri was the establishment of a 7-foot (2.1-meter) Kalachakra statue at Lawudo. This is essential for accumulating merit and removing obstacles for the project. The statue is currently in Lawudo Gompa, having been transported to Lawudo by helicopter.

A local consulting firm has prepared a comprehensive budget for the project, estimating the total cost for the whole Zangdog Palri temple – including civil works, cement, art, and thangka paintings – at approximately US$760,000.

In 2025 a lot of preparation work has been happening, such as moving of the prayer wheel that is beside the library at Lawudo to behind the Gompa, and building material is being collected and slowly brought up to Lawudo, which is huge task, as it all has to be carried up. This project remains close to the heart of many, especially Rinpoche’s sister, Anila Nawang Samten, who wants very much to fulfill all the wishes Rinpoche had for Lawudo. Please rejoice as the vision of creating Guru Rinpoche’s Pure Land in the Himalayas is alive and progressing, step by step.

Thank you!

This is truly something to rejoice in: every single day, new holy objects are created, prayers are offered, and merit is generated, keeping alive the legacy of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche! Through these projects, the FPMT community continues to fulfill Rinpoche’s wishes and offer immeasurable benefit to all sentient beings!

Thank you to all the donors who make it possible and please continue to support the creation of holy objects in anyway possible, whether it is at your local Dharma center or any of the funds at FPMT created for Holy Objects.

To help ensure our support to the creation of holy objects around the world, we invite you to offer a donation of any amount to the Holy Objects Fund.