Support for Rebuilding a Nunnery in Nepal

To the assembly of disciples of Kyabje Sendak Rinpoche, who have attained the state of great enlightenment by actualizing great compassion like the sky for beings who have to experience unbearable suffering if they die bound by the two obscurations from beginningless lives.

I was told by my lama, Tinley Dorje, the abbot of Zigar Monastery in Tso Pema, to offer financial support for the residence of the lama and disciples of Sendak Rinpoche [who founded the monastery and passed away in 2005]. The nunnery was badly damaged by the earthquake, and we are transferring the money in two loads as you have instructed. Please kindly accept the money which I am offering, in total US$185,000.

I don’t have much to say, but in short, I want to request all the monks and nuns who are disciples of Kyabje Sendak Rinpoche to practice according to what Rinpoche has advised. In order to attain enlightenment, practice in the root of the path, guru devotion, by developing the faith of seeing Kyabje Sendak Rinpoche as the embodiment of the Three Supreme Jewels. With that single-pointed devotion, the actual action based on living in harmony and pure morality, practice according to Rinpoche’s teachings and thus get enlightened joyously without having any fear now, at the time of death and in all future times, and place all sentient beings, who have been our mother since beginningless lives and guided us with great kindness, into the state of enlightenment.

With respect from me, named Thupten Zopa, on December 30, 2017

[As reported in the FPMT news blog, Shri Sengedrak Ngedhon Samten Choeling Retreat Center, a Kagyü nunnery, was badly damaged in the 2015 earthquake that devastated Nepal and surrounding areas. This nunnery, located on the border of Nepal and Tibet (on the Nepal side), is under the guidance of Zigar Monastery Abbot Tinley Dorje who was one of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachers and had been offering Rinpoche precious oral transmissions in Tso Pema, India. In 2017 Tinley Dorje requested that Lama Zopa Rinpoche support the rebuilding of this nunnery. The nuns had been living in temporary shelter in modest conditions. Following the earthquake, construction was needed for thirty-five retreat houses, one main prayer hall, a retreat house for the abbot, and five standard toilets. Read about the completion of the project here.]