New Centers and Projects

• Golden Light Sutra: To be read five times by the monks from Tsawa Khangtsen, at Sera Je Monastery in south India.
• Pacifying fire puja: The Kopan Lama Gyupas need to do this three times.
• Chanting the Names of Manjushri (Jampel Tsenjö):  Students should read this together seven times at the site of the new center.  
   

Rinpoche checked and advised the following:

• Verses for the Eight Noble Auspicious Ones: To be recited regularly until there is success. [In these verses, homage is paid to the Three Jewels, eight sugatas, the eight great bodhisattvas, the eight offering goddesses, and the eight worldly guardians.]
• Holy Name Mantra That Fulfills Wishes: Recite one mala regularly. [See FPMT Essential Prayer Book, 2021 edn.]
• White Mahakala puja: Geshe-la to do this.
• Diamond Cutter Sutra: To be recited three times by center students and whoever can do the recitations at the center.

My most dear Catherine,
Thank you for all your efforts and great benefit to sentient beings. You are benefiting them in many ways, not only with what we think of as peace and happiness now, but much deeper, for them to have peace and happiness even after death, in their future lives, and liberation and enlightenment. Our aim is to benefit beings in many different ways.

Sincerely serving others also makes our lives meaningful, through causing happiness for others. Our goal is not just to stop their worries and give them peace now and nothing for the next life. Our aim is especially to cause happiness in future lives and ultimate happiness: liberation and enlightenment. There are many skilful ways to achieve this aim. Even if the people themselves don’t accept reincarnation, it is still our responsibility, and not only that, we have this great opportunity to help, having received this perfect human rebirth, met the holy Dharma, which is most rare, and met the virtuous friend, who is also most rare.

Regarding your question, according to my observation, it is better to borrow from the people you mention, and run the hospice for twenty or thirty years. The main thing is that we can run the hospice how we like, so that the people can greatly benefit, using many ideas from Buddhism to help people.

In the long run we cannot say even whether we would be able to run the hospice ourselves. Also, it looks difficult to raise the money ourselves at this time. I am very happy that you are doing this project.

With much love and prayers...

I myself will always practice cherishing all sentient beings as more precious than a wish-granting jewel, with the thought of achieving sublime success from them.

As long as space exists and transmigratory beings exist, I will abide and eliminate all the sufferings of transmigratory beings.

In the hearts of those sentient beings who have not generated the precious holy mind of enlightenment, may it be generated; that which has been generated, may it increase.

Arya Sanghata Sutra: Print the sutra seven times and read it six times. You need to create extensive merits in order to buy and in order for them to sell.

Read the White Umbrella Deity prayer once and recite Lion-face Dakini prayer many more times.

Protector prayers—Recite the usual ones, particularly Kalarupa.

Perform the Incense puja three times. There is a particular one from the Nyingma tradition Riwo Sangcho. It involves paying karmic debts to sentient beings to eliminate obstacles and for success. It is a very short incense puja that is powerful.

Also, dedicate the merits for the Maitreya project to receive funding and be completed, and then for all the other projects to be completed with no obstacles. Dedicate all the offerings and services to monasteries such as Sera, Ganden, and Drepung, of the Lama Tsongkhapa tradition, and Tashi Lhunpo, the two tantric colleges, and other monasteries. Also, dedicate the merits for the FPMT to build monasteries and various holy objects in different parts of the world, which is the quickest way to purify sentient beings, allow them to collect extensive merits, and bring them to enlightenment. Dedicate the merits to offering social services in different parts of the world, to being able to help centers who have financial difficulties, and for other centers to be most beneficial to sentient beings, cause them to generate faith in Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha and actualize bodhicitta in their hearts, to particularly spread Lama Tsongkhapa’s teachings in their hearts, and to bring them to enlightenment as quickly as possible.

Then, particularly, ask for prayers for your wishes to succeed, for the benefactors’ and the international office benefactor’s wishes to succeed, and for all her business to be completed as quickly as possible, as well as for others who requested to have prayers for their success.

Finally, dedicate so that your center is able to acquire the property without any obstacle, financially, and also from the people's side—that they immediately and very happily respond.