This era is called an age of degeneration on a global scale,
sickness, famine, war and conflict continue to intensify, while
individually our well-being and contentment diminish. In a
well-known prayer of supplication, Padmasambhava is called the
"Precious, supreme protector in these degenerate times." Through
the strength of his loving kindness, paintings, statues and other
images of this "supreme protector" are a source of calm and harmony
wherever they are placed. By participating in their construction,
individuals directly bring global benefit as well as making a
personal connection to these blessings.
Khenpo Namdrol Rinpoche's address at the opening of the temple
of Zandog Palri in Mysore, India
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To directly counter the prevailing negativity in the current
age, in 2002 the Venerable Khenpo Namdrol Rinpoche, head of the
Palyul Retreat Center in Nepal, initiated a project to create
numerous statues of Padmasambhava. Her Majesty the Queen Mother of
Bhutan, Ashi Kesang Choden Wangchuck, helped Khenpo Rinpoche plant
the first seed by assisting in the process of building a master
copy of a Padmasambhava statue in the traditional likeness of the
"Lotus Born." The model was first made with clay, which proved to
be too brittle and had to be reworked in brass for durability. When
the model was finally completed and a mold was taken from it,
however, casts from this mold produced identical, richly detailed,
thirteen-foot tall brass statues weighing 1,100 kilograms
apiece.
Letter from Her Majesty the Queen Mother of Bhutan, Ashi Kesang
Choden
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Seven of these exquisite statues have been finished: one has
been sent to Nepal; one to California, America; four to India:
Sikkim, Bodhgaya, Manali and Namdroling Monastery in Mysore each
received one; and the most recent was given to one of the eight
locations or LINGS established by Longchenpa in Bhutan which was in
ruins, and under reconstruction at present. Through Ven. Khenpo
Namdrol's Padmasambhava Global Project for World Peace, statues are
constantly being cast from the original mold and are intended for
further distribution in Europe, Asia and around the globe.
In 2004, His Holiness the Dalai Lama determined to build 100,000
Padmasambhava statues of all sizes to be spread around the world as
a blessing.The Global Project for World Peace has made a similar
determination to continuously create duplicates from this great
mold, with the goal of placing 25 statues throughout the world
specifically to deter negativity and spread blessings of compassion
and wisdom.
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Khenpo Namdrol's aspiration to dispel negativity is being
realized by the placement of the powerful Guru Rinpoche statues
throughout the world. Through Khenpo's kindness and with his
blessings of the Padmasambhava Global Project for World Peace,
statues are constantly being cast from the original mold and are
intended for further distribution around the globe.
Pharping, Nepal
The first Guru Rinpoche statue made from the original mold
resides at NgaYab Pema Od Ling, Padmasambhava Temple, Pharping
(Yangleshod), Sheshnarayan-3, Kathmandu, Nepal.
View photos of Khenpo Namdrol Rinpoche, His precious Teachers, His
retreat center and the Padmasambhava statue.
Sikkim, India
The second statue was placed in Yugsam, the sacred holy place of
Guru Padmasambhava, at Yangthang Rinpoches monestary there.
Alameda, California
The third Guru Rinpoche statue resides at Orgyen Dorje Den,
Pacific Region Yeshe Nyingpo Center; 2244 Santa Clara Ave, Alameda,
CA, USA
View photos of the statue in the Orgyen Dorje Den temple.
Mysore, India
The fourth Padmasambhava statue blesses the Namdroling, Ngagyur
Nyingma Nunnery, Bylakupee, Mysore, Karnataka, India.
Himachal Pradesh, India
The fifth statue has been placed at Hango (Khunu), Kinnour
District, H.P. India.
Bodh Gaya, India
The sixth statue resides at the Temple of Nyingma Monlam Chenmo
International Foundation, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India.
Bhutan
The seventh Guru Rinpoche statue is placed at Nyelung Dechak
Ling, one of the eighth greatest places of Longchen Rabjampa
(Longchenpa), near Gangteng Monastery, Bhutan.
Bhutan
The eighth statue has been installed in Paro, Bhutan.
Khenpo Namdrol, founder of the Padmasambhava Global Project for
World Peace, was born in 1953 at Dege to Tsedrung and Choetso. At
the age of seven, in 1959, he fled Tibet and reached Bylakuppe,
South India. In 1968, he did Bum-Nga (the five hundred thousand
accumulations of the preliminary practice). From Nyoshul Khenpo, a
great Dzogchen Master, he received the teachings of the
Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas), Vishestava (Praise in
Distinction to Buddha), and Mipham RinpocheÕs Tong Thun Sengei
Ngaro (Notes on Tathagarbha entitled Roar of the Lion).
Khenpo Khedrub taught him the Mipham's Commentary to
Abhidharmakosha, Commentary to Madyamakalankara, Condensed Tenet
Concepts from the Treasury of Wish Fulfilling Gem, and Mipham
Rinpoche's Notes on Chandrakirti's Madhyamakavatara.
He also received the teachings on Mipham Rinpoche's Notes on
Nagarjuna's Mulaprajna and other Madhyamika treatises. Later, he
went to Sikkim for five years, where he received various teachings
on Prajnaparamita, Madhyamika, Pramana and other sutra teachings
from Khenpo Tsondrue. He also received Tantra teachings including
Longchenpa's Trilogy of Self-Liberation and Key to the Treasure - a
general commentary to Guhyagarbha Tantra.
At 25, according to the wishes of His Holiness Penor
Rinpoche, along with Khenpo Tsondrue, he returned to Namdroling
Monastery. In 1978, since the establishment of Ngagyur Nyingma
Institute, he has been a key person in administering and teaching
at the institute. In 1983, His Holiness Penor Rinpoche conferred
the degree of a Khenpo on him.
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The results of Guru Padmasambhava's activities include the
attainment of liberation by his 25 disciples and 80 other
disciples who attained rainbow body. In addition, three million
disciples achieved stability in tantric generation stage practice,
one hundred thousand disciples showed signs of accomplishment,
ninety thousand disciples achieved the uncontaminated Illusory
Body, and eighty million disciples had some attainment. Having
accomplished these great activities, knowing his personal beings to
be tamed on Earth were exhausted, he departed for the Southwestern
universe of the magical cannibals, to help the beings there and to
protect Earth from their harm.
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