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The monks of Zigar Thupten Shedrupling Institute .
The Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund is now offering support to the sixty-two monks of Zigar Thupten Shedrupling Institute, a Kagyu monastery located in Darjeeling, India.
The monastery sent a letter of thanks and praise to Lama Zopa Rinpoche:
Today on this special day of Sutra and Tantra
To you who is illuminator of nonsectarian Buddha’s teaching: Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche, for a long time you have generated the holy wish for the teachings of the Buddha and for migratory beings. It has now ripened into fruition, due to the conjunction with noble dependent arising of karma and prayers. By providing livelihood conditions to the Sangha who are engaged in the three activities of study, contemplation, and meditation practice on the teachings of the Buddha.
In the Araya land of Darjeeling’s Thubten Shedub Ling Institution for higher study, we are indebted to the incredible kindness of your holy deeds, and this cooperative condition. Today on the third month of the 15th day of the Tibetan calendar, we have started the needed facilities and food offering to the Sangha. Currently there are 62 Sangha residents who are part of Shedra study discipline, likewise there are one to two new admissions each month.
On behalf of all who are part of the team of Dzigar Shedra monastery’s well-wishers, in and outside, and all the lamas, tulkus, monks, nuns, and the public — We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. To you, Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche, and the FPMT organization, staff, and followers under your guidance:
May all your holy wishes for the scriptural and realized teachings of the Buddha, which is the source of all help and happiness, be spread widely and remain for a long time in this universe.
May all the holy beings who practice and preserve the teachings have long lives and may all their holy wishes be fulfilled as they wish. Especially Rinpoche, may you live long and may all your holy activities and deeds spread extensively. Today at the Shedar we offer incense offering through the ritual of Tashi Rekong (Fulfilling Wishes of Auspiciousness) and make heartfelt requests to The Three Supreme Ones and the Three Roots. May all come true as requested.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, the source of all the help and happiness
With willpower of tolerance to lift up very high
You are empowered with extraordinary thought and bodhichitta
Glorifying the nonsectarian teachings
May you live long.
This year, the grant for food was US$14,432. Lama Zopa Rinpoche, through the Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund, has pledged US$200,000 for this monastery. About offering food to Sangha, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has said:
The ultimate point is that this offering also benefits all the six-realm sentient beings. Any practice that the Sangha do in the monastery, they do for all the six-realm sentient beings, to benefit them. Every sadhana or practice starts with the motivation for “mother sentient beings,” which means all the six-realm sentient beings.
Every dollar offered – even just one dollar, even the smallest amount of money offered – has all these benefits. And the benefits go to all sentient beings: every mosquito, every fish, every pitiful chicken that is taken by a truck to be killed, every sentient being in numberless universes receives these benefits.
Please rejoice in this ongoing offering of support to the monks of Zigar Thupten Shedrupling Institute.
If you want to help Sangha, please learn more about the Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund and the ways it supports monasteries and nunneries around the world.