Dear one,Thank you for your email. I am still doing prayers for the person who died at the center. I am sending you a special protection to wear and you should also recite this sutra and mantra every day.

Dear George,One way you can look at the situation is to think that the center just cannot exist without these difficulties.

My very dear Jim, Thank you very much for completing the stupa. The prayer wheels are also a very good idea. All these activities continuously benefit sentient beings and bring them to enlightenment, so I thank you very, very much.

Rinpoche gave the following advice to a center that was about to start major renovations.

Dear Geshe-la and Sangha, who are looking for virtue and liberation, who are learning Dharma to help yourself and others, dear Laura and all my dear Dharma brothers and sisters,

All my dear brothers and sisters,

My very dear precious and kind brothers, sisters, benefactors and students,

My Very Dear Geshes, Sangha, Teachers, Center Directors and Staff, Students, Benefactors and Friends:Shantideva said, “Merely thinking of benefiting others is considered much more beneficial than making offerings to all the buddhas.” So what need is

My very dear most precious, wish-fulfilling,dearest benefactors, students, staff of the FPMT organization, friends and everybody,

My dear students and staff of the FPMT International Office, whose minds are sincere, enriched by incomparable devotion and samaya, dedicated to the good heart benefiting others,