The Bodhivastu Stupa will be of unprecedented importance,
helping to ensure peace and prosperity by quelling the myriad
sufferings of our modern times. Stupas both large and small yield
incalculable merit energy.
Stupas both large and small yield incalculable merit energy. For
this reason, many wisdom representatives from foreign countries
have constructed stupas in America.
They are commonly constructed in Thailand, Burma, Sri Lanka, Nepal,
China, and Tibet, because it is a Buddhist custom. According to
Buddhist thought, stupas increase wisdom, compassion, enlightened
activity, and energy, thereby decreasing the likelihood of
misfortunes such as famine, wars, or damage from floods,
earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes.
The Bodhivastu Stupa will be of unprecedented importance, helping
to ensure peace and prosperity by quelling the myriad sufferings of
our modern times. The meaning of Bodhivastu:
Bodhi: Altruistic, compassionate, enlightened mind; perfect
knowledge or wisdom by which a human becomes a Buddha (an awakened
being); the extinction of greed, hatred, and delusion.
Vastu: The auspicious design and building of objects and
environments in harmony with physical and metaphysical forces. The
seat, realm, or place of an abiding substance, essence, or worthy
object.
Bodhivastu: The Auspicious Manifestation of Perfected Compassionate
Awakening
Bodhivastu will have the power to herald in a new era of ultimate
wisdom, peace, and brother- and sisterhood. Bodhivastu will be
constructed on consecrated ground with a pure motivation of
inclusiveness. It will be made with perfect proportions and contain
sacred consecrations, universal prayers, and several major Buddhist
relic troves of past saints, extending back to Kashyapa
Buddha.
The blessing waves that emanate from the sacred relics of great
beings of peace, those who have passed beyond confusion, have the
power to pervade all realms when properly enshrined in such an
enlightened architecture. By our pure intention, these blessing
waves will reach out throughout the world, anchoring our pure
intention for peace and prosperity for all.
The goal is to make Bodhivastu of a similar size to Borobudur Stupa
in Indonesia (over one hundred yards on each side) and bigger than
Bodhanath Stupa in Nepal.
The visions of the construction of Bodhivastu arose simultaneously
in the minds of two close Lama friends, Lama Rangbar Nyimai Ozer
(Yugyal Tulku) of the United States and Lama Tsampa Laykyi of
Bhutan. Although the idea seemed almost impossible in scale,
various meditative signs arose naturally while considering what
could be done to help save the only planet we have come to know as
ours.
These two Lamas have already erected a 65-meter prayer flag on
Prophecy Mountain (Nagarjuna's mountain in Kathmandu, Nepal) to
usher in and form an auspicious mark for Lama Rangbar's trip to the
United States to commence the Bodhivastu project.
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