In the Buddhist tradition, objects become “holy” when they contain the presence of a buddha’s holy body, holy speech or holy mind. There are several ways in which to engage with holy objects. You can make offerings to, prostrate toward,…
FPMT News Around the World Lama Zopa Rinpoche, spiritual director of FPMT, offered 26 life-size statues of Maitreya Buddha to FPMT centers, services and projects. In just one month, many centers have already received their Maitreya statue. Mandala is celebrating…
January-February 2000 By Andy Weber German artist Andy Weber, who lives in England, started studying Tibetan art in 1975, mainly with the great Thargye-la in Boudhanath, Nepal. “I want you to teach painting!” Lama Yeshe exhorted him at Kopan in…
July-September 2011 YOUR COMMUNITY This interview is an extension of “ Ian Green: Buddha’s Builder, ” an interview with Ian Green from the July-September 2011 issue of Mandala located on page 46. Ian Green, a long-time student of both Lama…
HOLY OBJECTS Holy objects, because of their ability to awaken the positive potential in everyone, are certainly precious and wish-fulfilling. This page, a supplement to the April-June 2010 issue of Mandala, is designed to point you in the direction of…
HOLY OBJECTS Manifestations of the capacity of human potential, sacred sites around the world attract millions of pilgrims. Many of these great monuments took decades, even hundreds of years to complete and all of them used the greatest artists, architects…
HOLY OBJECTS By Lama Zopa Rinpoche The story about the Bouddha Stupa is important, and it is incredibly inspiring. Hearing it, you will really understand the benefits of circumambulating it, cleaning it, and sweeping it the whole day and night.…
HOLY OBJECTS December 2002-February 2003 By Helen Chang The Heart Shrine Relic Tour [is] an exhibition of more than 1,000 relics from twenty great Buddhist masters, including Shakyamuni Buddha himself, which is touring the world over the next several years…