Earth Sanctuary: A Nature Reserve, Meditation Parkland and Sculpture Garden

Celia, Earth Sanctuary’s caretaker, needs help painting some Tsa Tsa’s that are going to go into the Earth Sanctuary stupa.  Refreshments will be served.

This will 1:00 to  3:00 pm on Sunday, July 18 at Celia’s house near Earth Sanctuary. Email Celia at celia@earthsanctuary.org if you can come and to get directions to her house.

There are enormous spiritual benefits to helping with a stupa.  Please come if you can!  Tsa Tsa’s are easy to paint – We have a lot of them and really need help.

The blessing ceremony for the Earth Sanctuary stupa got front page coverage in our local South Whidbey Record news paper. Thank you H.H. Jigdal Dagchen Sakya and all the lamas and monks who participated in the beautiful and inspiring ceremony, as well as all who helped in some way. We circumambulated the future stupa yesterday and it feels like the stupa is already there.

On Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 10:00 am, a blessing ceremony for a Tibetan Buddhist stupa to built at Earth Sanctuary (www.earthsanctuary.org) will be performed by His Holiness Jigdal Dagchen Sakya, the Head Lama of Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism (www.sakya.org) in Seattle, WA.   H.H. J.D. Sakya will be assisted by H.E. Dagmo Kusho Sakya, H.E. Kathog Rigzin Chenpo Rinpoche, Tulku Yeshi, Khenpo Jampa, Venerable Lama Tashi, and Lama Migmar.

The Earth Sanctuary stupa will be located off Emil Road in the new Earth Sanctuary arboretum.  A stupa is a holy and sacred space that blesses the land and plants the seed for enlightenment.  The main purpose of building a stupa is to help create happiness and peace in the world.