"Since all-pervasive compassion is just an attitude away, even just seeing a stupa such as this, made with the completely pure motivation to totally relieve all beings from suffering, can go a long way to planting the seeds, germinating, and bringing to fruition the actualization of enlightenment in our own beings within this very lifetime."

There are literally hundreds of Buddhist texts and commentaries listing the immeasurable and inconceivable benefits of building circumambulating, sitting near, gazing at, praying, making offerings and prostrating to, praising, cleaning and maintaining, stupas. Many of these texts refer to their wish-fulfilling natures as well as their ability to relieve suffering of all kinds while granting the accomplishment of ordinary powers and the extraordinary accomplishment of enlightenment.

Throughout Asia, Stupas present themselves as places of worship, where people come to generate the causes for enlightenment via actions they perform around and related to the stupa. The presence of a stupa affords us many opportunities to accumulate much needed merit and wisdom energy.

Watch a video with Kyabje Trulshig Rinpoche on The Meaning and Benefits of Stupas

To access a text written by His Holiness Chadräl Sangye Dorje called: A Brief Description of the Benefits of Erecting a Stupa and of Circumambulating, Paying Homage, Making Offerings and Addressing Prayers to it. Explained by Chadräl Sangye Dorje, please click here

Stupas are spiritually engineered repositories of enlightened and compassionate energy that bring immense prosperity to the places in which they are constructed. The benefits of building Stupas are only recently becoming known in the Western world. Tibetan and other Asian people have banded together from differing traditions to build these monuments on various scales, such as the Rocky Mountain Stupa in Colorado and Odiyan Stupa in California. Many of these are supported predominantly by one or a few "jin Daks" (lords of generosity); however, the stupa we are proposing will be the result of a coordinated effort by countless beings around the globe, regardless of their faith, country, or ethnicity.