Letter to all our dharma friends
We hereby thank all those who contributed to the building and filling of the eight stupas, which now contain the relics of our Lord of Refuge, the Very Venerable Bokar Tulku Rinpoche.
My gratitude is addressed to:
- V.V. Gyaltsap Rinpoche, for having blessed our stupa project;
- V.V. Yangsi Kalu Rinpoche, who blessed our project and personally invited V.V. Myngyur Rinpoche to come and consecrate the stupas and to the latter, who offered us his precious teachings on the filling of stupas while we were in New Mexico (USA);
- V.V. Kempo Donnyo Rinpoche, for having offered me the relics and consecrated Chenrezig statues in Mirik, West Bengal (India);
- V.V. Lama Karma Chodrak, who, upon hearing about our stupa construction while in Mirik (India), promptly offered his contribution and received us in the New Mexico Center;
- V. Lama Sherab, assistant to V.V. Bokar Tulku Rinpoche for many years, who offered us a book with all the information necessary for the building and filling of the stupas, as well as precious advice on how to act during the entire construction process;
- V. Lama Tupten Geleg, from the Mirik monastery (India), who also shared his knowledge on stupas with us;
- Lamas Sonam and Adela, from Kagyu Dag Shang in Spain, who, together with Lama Drubgyu, offered us teachings on how to work on the tsokchins, their filling and how to place the mandalas inside the stupas;
- V. V. Kempo Osel Gyurme, a direct disciple of V.V. Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche, who, during its 45-day retreat at Jardim do Dharma, wrote all the mantras on the eight tsokchins, offered us invaluable teachings regarding the mantras to be inserted in specific parts of same, and also offered us some rare relics containing substances from the very Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche and other enlightened lamas of the Nyngma tradition;
- Lama Yontem, our dear friend, who traveled from France to consecrate the land on which the stupas are built;
- Jardim do Dharma’s students and friends, among which: Eduardo João and Úrsula Redher, Clodoaldo and Marcelo Redher Claus Grasel, Sonia, Roberto, Ademir and all the family of our beloved student Ricardo Ferreira da Silva, Andréia Moreno, Caio B. D’Amore, Cynthia Marcucci, Alice Hayashibara, Irene Cassas, Ana Lúcia Hermman, Jefferson Iitako Duarte, Joaquim Vasconcellos, José Luiz Castro Jr., José Carlos Vitorazo, Kelly Cristina and family, Lady Myazato, Lídia Souza Leite, Marina Nunes, Marcela Baffi, Maria Laura Fogaça Zei, Maristela Leal Casati and family, Maria Odila Monteiro da Silva, Michele Hisadomi, Oswaldo Maurício Varella, Patrícia Napolitano, Fred Borges and Pollyana Capocci, Ricardo Bertolani, Ricardo Vilas Boas (from Gráfica São Gabriel), Rosângela and Jean Negri and sons, Sandra Gasque, Sônia M. Anaga, Soraia F. Souza, Teófilo V. Aucalla and Zenaide, Thiago Martins, Vânia B.Santos and Walter R. Cirillo Jr.; Reinaldo Vilhena, Heloísa Paternostro and family, Cíntia de Oliveira, Cristina Toledo, Lys Assunção and Lúcia Sasaki;
- and we would also like to thank all of you who have somehow helped us during this divine undertaking.
With our hands in prayer in the holy Dharma,
Karma Zopa Norbu (Roque Severino) and Sangye Drolma (Angela Soci)
Founders
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