
Creating a National Centre in Sydney is an important step in firmly establishing Rigpa as a vehicle for the transmission of the full range of Tibetan Buddhist teachings, including Dzogpachenpo - the highest teachings in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition - to the modern world.
We have now completed the renovation of the entire building. Our current goal is to maintain the building, including painting and repairs as well as repay $90,000 in loans from our community used for the purchase and renovation of the building. Your donations are gratefully received and if you make your donation with the noble intention of bodhicitta you will create great virtue or merit for yourself and those to whom you dedicate the merit.
Lama Yeshe, the founder of the FPMT community, in his advice to his sangha on building temples and monestaries said:
"Buddha said in the Mindfulness Sutra: Whoever has built the support [statue] and supporting [temple] well and arranged a place for the needs of the Sangha will always have more and more happiness and virtue. The virtue can never be wasted or lost, even for millions of eons. One who has built the holy body of Buddha (statue), the holy speech of Buddha (scripture), the holy mind of Buddha (stupa), the kungarawa (temple or shelf for Dharma texts), and establishes the monastery (Sangha), gains very extensive merit, which is never lost and always increases."
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