Offering Buddha Statues to His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Lama Zopa Rinpoche expressed the wish that he wanted FPMT to continue offering Buddha statues to His Holiness the Dalai Lama periodically, so we want to fulfill this request and will continue to offer statues at different auspicious occasions.

Two thousand statues offered

Incredibly, we have now been able to offer two thousand statues of Shakyamuni Buddha to His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

In 2023 during the long life puja that FPMT offered to His Holiness the Dalai Lama one thousand Buddha statues were offered and in 2019 Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered one thousand Buddha statues to His Holiness.

Each of these two thousand statues of Shakyamuni Buddha were created in Nepal, carefully gilded in gold, filled with mantras, faces painted, and consecrated. Thank you to everyone who made these offerings possible.

Creating and offering Buddha statues is extremely auspicious and they are also a very useful offering to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, as His Holiness gives these Buddha statues to people who visit him.

“The heart thing, the most important thing, is to do what pleases His Holiness the Dalai Lama, no matter how many other billions of things we do. That’s the key, the heart.” – Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Offer towards a statue

As Lama Zopa Rinpoche expressed a desire to continue offering Buddha statues to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, we would like to extend an invitation so everyone can participate in this meaningful offering.

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“Limitless Skies of Merit”

By making any offering to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, you are making offerings to all the buddhas and numberless bodhisattvas. This generates limitless skies of merit—every day and every second.

By maintaining this close connection with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, all of our future lives will be like the sun shining. We will always be in the company of buddhas and achieve the highest realizations. This becomes the cause to achieve greater accomplishments and offer more extensive benefit to sentient beings in this and future lives.

These holy objects also help other sentient beings easily purify negative karma and create the causes for happiness and extensive merit, which brings them to enlightenment quickly by realizing the path up to enlightenment. The moment holy objects, such as statues of Buddha, are completed they become a field of merit for sentient beings. They become only a cause for others to achieve happiness.

For more information about this project, please contact: Charitable Projects Coordinator.

The One Thousand Buddhas to His Holiness the Dalai Lama fund is a sub-fund of the Holy Objects Fund, a project of FPMT Inc., and is administered by FPMT International Office located in Portland, Oregon, United States. All donations made to this fund are tax-deductible within the United States in accordance with IRS Code article 501(c)(3) to the extent allowed by law.