Stupa of Great Awakening
The Stupa of Great Awakening and the Temple Gardens of Sacred Arts is a world peace humanitarian project slated for construction at Trinlay Khachöd Ling, Bodhivastu’s Meditation Retreat and Healing Sanctuary in Big Indian, NY.
Project Updates
Why build a Stupa?
“A Stupa is a stream of divine positive energy, humanity’s highest quantum potential generated by its building and by relating to it in its environment. It is built with each contribution, each investment of individuals and every ounce of purest intention offered by everyone who cares about this earth and all the beings who live on it.”
— Lama Rangbar Nyimai Özer
Construction of Stupas generate vast merit for both individuals and collectives largely because engaging with Stupas is one of the most powerful ways for us to become aware of our interdependence and actualization of our highest potential.
A properly constructed stupa based on sacred geometry and consecrated with mandalas and holy relics, not only has the power to completely transform the lives of individuals who connect with it, but greatly improves circumstances for an entire country, its relations with other countries and then the world.
By constructing this Stupa Monument of Great Awakening, people from all over can come into contact with and be inspired by the blessing energy, form, intention, and activity stream of the project.
Letters from major Buddhist teachers endorsing the Stupa Project
The Need for Peace
We live in a time of great challenge and great opportunity. We are rapidly destroying our environment and both natural and man-made calamities are everywhere. Warfare, mental afflictions, poverty, and environmental exploitation affect everyone without bias.
Collective consequences are now becoming clearly evident to everyone on the planet. As a result, the time is most ripe for an unprecedented collective shift in awareness on our planet.
The time has arrived when we can finally awaken to the full understanding and implications of our interdependence and act on it.
Since religious differences have been cited by many as a cause of strife in this world, this project aims to use every opportunity to illuminate the commonalities between belief systems while extolling their individual beauties and contributions to humankind's search for higher spiritual truths.
By this, we can finally live in a world founded on principles of wisdom and compassion. Through the activity of constructing the Stupa of Great Awakening, we are generating a critical mass of like-minded awake individuals while establishing well-being, peace and prosperity.
Our projects help us learn to cherish our neighbors, and live an awakened life to its fullest. This project offers a common ground for all, an accomplishment for the benefit of all beings that we can all be a part of. A lasting beacon of interdependence and wisdom for all future generations.
Planned Facilities
Center for Mind Sciences
Living Buddhist lineages must assure two main things; assure that lineages are not diluted or teachings distorted in any way and secondly to make sure they are current and applicable to the conditions and needs of the time we live in. In order for individuals to transform themselves, proper context and adequate circumstances are needed for receiving instruction and actual practice. Efforts must also be made to translate Buddhist understanding into modern terminology and to perform scenarios which illustrate and prove the benefits of meditation in scientific terms. This spiritual academy will perform all these functions and more.
Community Center
A centralized Community center is being designed that will offer community residence dorm rooms, a community kitchen, dining, bathrooms and a small shrine room which will face the proposed stupa.
Natural Outdoor Event Amphitheater and Exercise Pavilion
An outdoor amphitheater structure is planned that would accommodate 100-300 people for music, dance, or theater events. This exercise building will facilitate movement teachings and practices of various body movement systems. These are deemed essential for individual and community health.
Wellness Center
An indigenous and alternative practices treatment center will be a facility of the highest quality which enables the project to preserve and make use of valuable ancient methods of treatment.
International Teahouse
In almost all seasons a lakeside teahouse will provide a major draw, offering refreshment, enjoyment and sustainability of the monument and gardens.
Community Art Studios
This will provide space for several art mediums to be used such as a ceramics and casting.
Prophecy
The prophecy to construct this stupa originally descended from the Nyingmapa protective deity Tseui Marpo. This prophecy arose several years ago for the purpose of curtailing several impending challenges that we are currently all very well aware of including environmental catastrophes, world idealogical clashes, as well as to generally boost the merit level and therefore prosperity of this nation and the entire world.
Learn more about prophecies in general concerning the upcoming years:
Your Participation and Contribution
There are so many ways to join in the opportunity to support the stupa. But truth be told, your substantial financial support is very much needed to make it materialize. Any amount will help you join into the blessing stream by the law of cause and effect from this meritorious project for peace.
You can also make your donation recurring monthly so that it fits your flow or even dedicate the donation in honor or memory of someone you wish to benefit. With your support, we are sure we will succeed.
There are many ways to participate.
Aside from monetary support, volunteer support on site is also just as necessary to actualize the completion of all our projects.
We thank you for your contribution.