Building stupas helps develop so much peace and happiness for numberless sentient beings. As a result, wars, disease, and desire will all be pacified. Instead of feeling hopeless, people will gain courage.

—Lama Zopa Rinpoche

To date, 55 stupas, a minimum of one story high (10 feet/3 meters), have been completed or are in progress, at FPMT centers and by FPMT students, toward this goal of 100,000 stupas around the world. Please see the worldwide list below.

Northern & Central America

Kalachakra Stupa at Kurukulla Center, Massachusetts USA

• 3m/10ft – Kadampa Stupa at Kachoe Dechen Ling, California, USA
• 2m/6ft – Lama Yeshe Cremation Stupa at Vajrapani Institute, California, USA
• 5m/16ft – Lama Yeshe’s Enlightenment Stupa at Vajrapani Institute, California, USA
• 2m/6ft – Kadampa Stupa at Land of Medicine Buddha, California, USA
• Mahabodhi Stupa, at Land of Medicine Buddha, California, USA
• 4.5m/15ft – Kalachakra Stupa at Kurukulla Center, Massachusetts, USA
• 5.5 m/18ft – Kadampa Stupa at Kadampa Center, North Carolina, USA 
• 4.2m/14ft – Auspicious Stupa of Many Doors at Milarepa Center, Vermont, USA
• 4.9m/16ft – Enlightenment Stupa at Pamtingpa Center, Tonasket, Washington, USA
• 2.7m/9ft – Enlightenment Stupa at Gendun Drubpa, Canada
• 4.9m/16ft – Enlightenment Stupa, Vancouver Island, Canada

South America

• 6m/20ft – Turning of the Dharma Stupa, Mexico
• Kalachakra Stupa for World Peace at Serlingpa Retreat Center, Mexico
• 3m/10ft – Descent from Tushita Stupa, containing 15 relics, in all I think, many of 26 different mantras including the Four Dharmakaya Relic mantras. Cozumel, Mexico.

Europe

• Kadampa Stupa built for Lama Yeshe and International Year of Tibet (1991) at Institut Vajra Yogini, France
• 4m/13ft – Enlightenment Stupa at Nalanda Monastery, France
• Descent from Tushita Stupa at Kopavogur, Iceland
• 1 Enlightenment Stupa built for Lama Yeshe, Geshe Rabten, Geshe Yeshe Tobden, and Gomo Tulku, at ILTK, Italy
• 1 Reconciliation Stupa built for Lama Yeshe, Geshe Rabten, Geshe Yeshe Tobden, and Gomo Tulku, at ILTK, Italy
• Kadampa Stupa at Kushi Ling Retreat Centre, Italy
• Lama Yeshe Enlightenment Stupa at Jamyang Buddhist Centre, London, UK (Built in 1988, contains, Lama Yeshe’s bone relic, and was consecrated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche)
• Kadampa Stupa at Centro Nagarjuna Valencia, Spain
• Kadampa Stupa with Geshe Thubten Tsering’s ashes at Centro Nagarjuna Valencia, Spain
• Enlightenment Stupa built for Lama Yeshe at Osel Ling, Spain
• Eight stupas at Centro Muni Gyana, Palermo, Italy.

Pacific Region

• 50m/164ft – The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, Atisha Center, Victoria, Australia, in progress
• 9m/29.5ft – Enlightenment Stupa at De Tong Ling Retreat Centre, Kangaroo Island, Australia
• 3.6m/12ft – Stupa at Kunsang Yeshe Retreat Centre, New South Wales, Australia
• Victory Stupa at Vajrayana Institute, New South Wales, Australia
• Garden of Enlightenment Stupa at Chenrezig Institute, Queensland, Australia
• Victory Stupa at Chenrezig Institute, Queensland, Australia
• Auspicious Stupa with Many Doors at Dorje Chang Institute, Auckland, New Zealand
• 5.2m/17ft – Long Life Stupa at Chandrakirti Buddhist Meditation Centre, Nelson, New Zealand
• Enlightenment Stupa at Mahamudra Center, New Zealand

Asia

• Enlightenment Stupa built for Lama Yeshe at Tushita Meditation Centre, Dharamsala, India
• Auspicious Stupa of Many Doors built for Geshe Rabten at Tushita Meditation Centre, Dharamsala, India
• Parinirvana Stupa built for Geshe Wongdu at Tushita Meditation Centre, Dharamsala, India
• 1m/3ft – Stupa at IMI House in Sera Je Monastery, India
• 6.4m/21ft – Kadampa Stupa (8 smaller stupas) at Root Institute in progress
• 6m/20ft – Enlightenment Stupa built for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s mother, located between Lawudo and Namche Bazaar in a village called Samshing, Nepal
• 3m/10ft – Stupa for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s mother’s incarnation, Nawang Zhimay, located below Lawudo in a village called Teshok
• Eight Stupas at Kopan Monastery, Nepal
• 10.7m/35ft – Geshe Lama Konchog’s Dharmachakra Stupa at Kopan Monastery, Nepal
• Thousand Buddha Relics Stupa for Geshe Lama Konchog’s relics, a row of 8 stupas and a golden stupa for Lama Yeshe’s relics, at Kopan Monastery, Nepal
• 7.6m/25ft – Lama Lhundrup’s Stupa, Kopan Monastery, Nepal
• Lama Lhundrup’s Stupa at Kopan Nunnery
• Lama Yeshe’s Stupa at Kopan Monastery, Nepal
• 3m/9.8ft – Enlightenment Stupa in Boudhanath, Nepal at one student’s house
• Namgyalma Stupa, Losang Drakpa Center, Malaysia
• Victory Stupa at Golden Light Sutra Center, Mongolia
• Enlightenment Stupa at Shakyamuni Buddhist Center, Taiwan
• 6m/20ft – Geshe Sengye’s stupa in Tibet
• 5.5/18ft – Enlightenment Stupa, Taplejung District, Nepal (built by Losang Namgyal Rinpoche)
• 5.5/18ft – Enlightenment Stupa, Okhaldunga District, Nepal (built by Losang Namgyal Rinpoche)
• 6.4/21ft – Enlightenment Stupa, Lalitpure District, Nepal (built by Losang Namgyal Rinpoche)
• 5.5m/18ft – Stupa, Okhaldunga District, Nepal (built by Losang Namgyal Rinpoche)
• 5.5m/18ft – Nirvana Stupa, Rasuwa District, Nepal (built by Losang Namgyal Rinpoche)
• 5.5/18ft – Pepung Stupa (Lotus Stupa), Nuwakot District, Nepal (built by Losang Namgyal Rinpoche)
• 5.5m/18ft – Stupa in Rasuwa District, Nepal (built by Losang Namgyal Rinpoche)
• 7.5m/24.5ft – Stupa in Rinchen Jansem Ling, Malaysia. 

Offerings Made to Build Stupas

•  32m/105ft – Chogyey Trichen Rinpoche’s Stupa (with a 16.5m/54ft diameter dome), Nepal, US$7,700 offered.

Further Resources

• FPMT’s Holy Objects Resources Page

Offer Your Support

The Stupa Fund provides the resources needed for building 100,000 stupas around the world. This is part of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for FPMT.

Please enjoy this photo gallery of stupas at FPMT centers around the world, inspired by Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Vision to build 100,000 stupas. Some of the stupas pictured have received sponsorship from the FPMT Stupa Fund.

“The reason why I’d like to build as many as possible is because in the texts it says: If you do prayers as a group, then it is a hundred times more powerful than doing it alone in the room…If we do it as the whole organization, as a project, then if everybody offers $10 or $5 or even smaller thinking that you are contributing to building a stupa, then in this way it becomes everyone’s project. In this way the karma is very powerful if we do it with many people, all together.

—Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Prayer Wheels Completed/In Progress

 To date, approximately 13 large prayer wheels and many smaller prayer wheels have been built. Please rejoice!

H.E. Ling Rinpoche after the consecration for the prayer wheel at Vajrapani Institute, USA, June 2024.

Northern & Central America

• Prayer wheel containing over 170 billion mantras as well as many sets of texts, Land of Medicine Buddha, CA, USA
• Prayer wheel containing 12 billion mantras, Land of Medicine Buddha, CA, USA
• Pagoda prayer wheel containing 64 billion mantras, Land of Medicine Buddha, CA, USA
• Prayer wheel at Vajrapani Institute, CA, USA.

Europe

•  1.7m x 3m/5.56ft x 9.94ft – Prayer wheel containing 24,660,651,040 mantras on paper and more on microfilm, Maitreya Institute, The Netherlands
• 2.5m x 2m/8.2ft x 6.5ft – Prayer wheel containing millions of mani mantras, and other mantras advised by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, as well as a set of the Kangyur and the collection of Lama Tsongkhapa’s writings, Kushi Ling Retreat Center, Italy.
• 2.5m x 1.2m/8.2ft x 3.9ft – Prayer wheel containing 108 billion MANI mantras. Institut Vajra Yogini, France.
• Large prayer wheel and prayer wheel house at Osel Ling Retreat Center, Spain. 

Pacific Region

• Prayer wheel containing 111 billion OM MANI PADME HUM mantras, over 500 Buddhist texts (2 Kangyur, 1 Tengyur, 2 Je Sungbum and others), as well as 5 million other prayers and mantras including Guru Rinpoche prayer and mantra, Five Powerful Deities Purifying Mantras and Vajrasattva and Medicine Buddha mantras as advised by Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, at Dorje Chang Institute, New Zealand. 
• Prayer wheel at Chenrezig Institute, Australia
• 3m x 2.1m/10ft x 7ft – Prayer wheel containing over ten billion mantras at Chandrakirti Meditation Center, New Zealand. 
• Large prayer wheel at Mahamudra Centre, New Zealand. 
• 1.8m x 1.8m/5.9ft x 5.9ft – Prayer wheel containing approximately 250,000,000 mantras including copies of the Dharmakaya Relic Mantras; also inside the wheel is the complete set of kangyur and half of the tengyur, at Thubten Shedrup Ling Monastery, Australia. 

Asia

• Large prayer wheel and surrounding smaller wheels – the large prayer wheels contains 100,000,000 OM MANI PADME HUM mantras and nearly 400,000 are included in the smaller prayer wheels, at Dickey Larsoe Tibetan Settlement, a Tibetan settlement in Bylakuppe, South India.
• Gigantic prayer wheel containing the Kangyur, one set of Lama Tsongkhapa’s teachings, Sutra of Long Life; Chenrezig longest mantra, Kurukulla mantra, Padmasambhava mantra; five powerful deity mantras, at Root Institute, Bodhgaya, India. 
• Prayer wheel at Lawudo Gompa, Nepal
• Prayer wheel at Kopan Monastery, Nepal
• 4.3m/14ft – Prayer wheel with over 100 million mantras, built by Losang Namgyal Rinpoche, at Hetauda, Makwanpure District, Nepal 
• IN PROGRESS: 4.8m x 3.6m/15ft x 12ft. Rinchen Jansem Ling, Malaysia. 

Prayer Wheels inspired by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

• 32 – 0.3m/1ft – Prayer wheels surrounding the Ksitigharba Statue at Land of Medicine Buddha, CA, USA.
• 10 – 14 inch x 10 inch prayer wheels, Milarepa Center, VT, USA
• 22 – 0.6m x 0.5m/2ft x 1.5ft – Prayer wheels, containing about 12,000,000 mantras in each wheel, Garden of Enlightenment, Australia.
• 10 prayer wheels (10 more ordered from Nepal) 0.5m x 0.3m/1.5ft x 1ft at the Garden of Enlightenment, Australia.
• 200 – 0.6m x 0.3m/2ft x 1ft – Prayer wheels mounted directly onto the walls of The Great Stupa, Australia. In progress.
• 7 – 0.6m x 0.58m/2.1ft x 1.9ft – Prayer wheels at Hayagriva Buddhist Centre, Australia.
• 1.2m x 0.3m/4ft x 1ft – Prayer wheel filled with microfilm at Nagarjuna Valencia Center, Spain
• 1.5m x 1m/5ft x 3.5ft – Universal Peace Wheel houses billions of traditional mantras and thousands of handwritten peace statements in Elko, Nevada.

Further Resources

• FPMT’s Holy Objects Resources Page

Offer Your Support

The Prayer Wheel Fund provides the resources needed for building 100,000 prayer wheels around the world. This is part of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for FPMT.

Please enjoy this photo gallery of prayer wheels sponsored by the Prayer Wheel Fund.

Also, please enjoy this short video below by Land of Medicine Buddha, “Turning the Great Prayer Wheel”

Maitreya Buddha is the embodiment of each buddha’s loving kindness, and the symbol of all the bodhisattvas’ loving kindness for all sentient beings.

—Lama Zopa Rinpoche

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  100 life-sized statues from Maitreya Project (26 have been offered to FPMT centers by Lama Zopa Rinpoche)

• Two 24-foot (7.3 m) statues from Maitreya Project (one is at Land of Medicine Buddha in California, the other is on Maitreya Project land in Kushinagar)
• Two-story statue built in a Monastery in Asia
• One-story statue built in a Nunnery in Asia

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Make a tax-deductible donation to the Holy Objects Fund below:

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Please enjoy this gallery of Maitreya statues at FPMT centers.

Padmasambhava has said that when he no longer abides in Tibet, that his statues will become like lights that dispel the darkness of ignorance. Lama Zopa Rinpoche has compiled the many benefits of building and making offerings to Padmasambhava statues such as The Benefits of Building Padmasambhava Statues and Benefits of Guru Padmasambhava Statues

Statues Completed So Far

To date, 27 statues have been completed with support from the Padmasambhava Project for Peace Fund:

Padmasambhava statue and stupa with reflections on a very still pond at De-Tong Ling retreat center in Australia. Photo by George Manos.

• Large statue at a Sakya Monastery in Asia
• Large statue at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion near Bendigo, Australia
• Life-sized statue at Milarepa Center in Vermont, USA
• (11 total) One 13.5 ft (4.1 m) statue, three other large statues, and statues of the seven aspects of Guru Rinpoche in Lawudo, Nepal
• (9 total) 70 ft (21.3 m) statue with two consorts, each 25 ft; also includes Eight Aspects of Padmasambhava, each over 6 ft (2 m) high in Asia
• 7 ft (2.1 m) statue at Chandrakirti Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Centre, New Zealand
• 9 ft (2.7 m) statue at De-Tong Ling Retreat Centre on Kangaroo Island, Australia
• 3 ft (1 m) statue in Nepal which will go inside a large stupa in India
• 6.5 ft (2 m) statue in Spain at Osel Ling, Spain.

Statue Project in Pokhara

The Project Guru Rinpoche, is currently being undertaken in the beautiful locations of Pokhara, Nepal.

The comprehensive cost of this remarkable project encompasses both land procurement expenses and the construction of a grand monument. The price of acquiring the land amounts to US$2,000,000 while the construction work itself totals US$993,217.84. Situated alongside the esteemed Annapurna Cable Car, the Guru Rinpoche statue, to be erected in Pokhara, will seamlessly blend with the surrounding natural landscape, creating a serene and captivating environment.

Covering a total site area of 3226.38 sq.m (34,728.46 sq.ft), the project includes various features such as a meditation hall capable of accommodating 100 individuals, additional rooms and a prayer hall, a mantra wall, vast green areas, and a magnificent 15-meter-tall statue that gracefully rises 1556.47 meters above sea level. The estimated cost for the statue itself is approximately US$298,625.54.

Following the successful acquisition of the land, the endeavor to secure water for the Pokhara Project commenced on July 24, 2023 following soil testing performed on July 7, 2023. By August 10, 2023 a reliable water source was successfully secured for the Pokhara Project.

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Make a tax-deductible donation to the Padmasambhava Project for Peace:

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Please enjoy this short photo gallery of completed Padmasambhava statues.

You may think that a statue or thangka is just a statue or thangka, but it is the transcendental wisdom of dharmakaya, which understands and directly sees absolute truth, as well as conventional truth.

—Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Large Thangkas and Festivals Around the World

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  Amitabha Buddha thangka at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore.

  In 2011-2014 Lama Zopa Rinpoche, through the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund, commissioned a 55 ft x 40 ft high stitched appliquéd thangka of Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava). More info on this project….
• Chenrezig Institute, Australia, large 1,000-Arm Chenrezig thangka is displayed at the Festival of Tibet each year and seen by over 5,000 people and is the backdrop to political discussions, meditations, concerts, and dharma talks.
• Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Italy, has a large Maitreya thangka which they show during Buddha multiplying days (weather permitting) and during any great occasions at the center.
• Medicine Buddha Festival Day with large thangka (24 ft), Land of Medicine Buddha, CA, USA. Painted by Peter Iseli.
• Ksitigarbha Festival Day with large thangka (9.5 ft), Land of Medicine Buddha, CA, USA.
• Vajrasattva and consort thangka (11.5 ft), Land of Medicine Buddha, CA, USA. Painted by Peter Iseli. 
• Pamtingpa Center, Washington, USA, has a large Tara thangka to which they offer 21 Tara dance.
• Losang Dragpa Centre (LDC), Malaysia. LDC unveiled a large Medicine Buddha thangka as part of their 1,000 Offerings Event, with Khenrinpoche Geshe Chonyi presiding. This thangka will be featured in an annual festival and offerings event.
• 21 Tara thangka at Institute Vajrayogini, France, 14 meters (46 ft) high and 9 meters (30 feet) wide.
• 35 Buddha thangka, Kopan Monastery, Nepal painted by Peter Iseli. Several smaller copies of Peter’s are also used for display at Kopan. 
• Amitabha Buddha in his pure land accompanied by the eight great bodhisattvas (50 feet x 31 feet), sewn entirely by hand by Tibetan artists in south India. Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore.
• 21 Tara thangka, Tara Institute, Melbourne, Australia. Painted by Peter Iseli. 

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Please enjoy a photo gallery of many of these large thangkas being created around the world.