Lama Wangdor has spent more than 30 years meditating in the
caves first used by Padmasambava, above Lotus Lake. Several years
ago he began the project of constructing a massive Padmasambhava
statue and center in the hills overlooking Tso Pema. The kind
donations of many people within the Dharma community have allowed
this construction project to make much progress, even though it
will take years to complete. The statue's foundation alone has
taken three years to construct. Among other benefits, the statue
project has provided steady construction work for many people
living in the Rewalsar area, as well as master artists from Nepal
and Bhutan
Few people realize that very, very little of the work on the
statue is performed with heavy machinery. The statue itself is made
of cement layered by hand over a skeleton of iron rebar. Stones for
walls are cut by hand. Scaffolding is constructed from trunks of
bamboo. The largest machine on site has been a cement mixer;
materials such as cement and stones are ported onto the work site
by laborers and packhorses. Bhutanese sculptors work the finer
details into the cement while it is still wet
A team of painters from Nepal came next, covering the statue in
primer before applying final colors. While sprayers were used for
larger parts of the statue, smaller areas were delicately filled in
with brushes. Now the construction team is hard at work on the
inside rooms and outlying buildings of the complex. A whole new
batch of medicine pills and dzong have been made for the statues
planned for the building's interior. Meanwhile, local Tibetans have
been hard at work printing prayer flags to be hung later
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Wangdor Rimpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist monk and teacher (lama).
Through decades of solitary meditation, retreats and practices he
has achieved the state which Buddhists call realization and is
respected worldwide as a venerable teacher and a master of "Direct
Mind Perception" (Dzogchen) Meditation. Lama Wangdor has a profound
commitment to making Buddhist philosophy and teachings accessible
to everyone with a sincere interest. He has taught and given
empowerments in Asia, Europe and the United States over the past
two decades.
He has spent more than 30 years meditating in the caves first
used by the Tibetan saint, Padmasambava, above Lotus Lake (Tsol
Pema) in the Himachal Pradesh region of Northern India. In solitary
retreat during the early years, he was eventually joined over time
by more than 50 cave-dwelling yogis and yoginis who look to him for
guidance and support. Beginning in the 1970s, he constructed a
monastery near the lake as well as a retreat center on the
mountain, available to practitioners of all lineages and
nationalities, projects which have taken nearly 20 years to
complete.
Wangdor Rimpoche holds both Nyingma and Kagyu Dzogchen/Chagchen
lineages and is considered a Rime teacher. He teaches from heart
texts on Dzogchen, the maha-ati and mahamudra yogas which he has
received in lineage from Nambla Janchub Dorje, Kunu Rimpoche and
Scholars Chonchok Sumon Khenpo of Trungpa Rimpoche's line; Tucksie
Rimpoche and Pumdong Key Rimpoche.
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