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Khensur Rinpoche Consecrates The New Shakyamuni Buddha Statue

Khensur Rinpoche Consecrates The New Shakyamuni Buddha Statue
This is the culmination of the hard work of so many …

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A lot of people had been making rolls for 27 mantras for months.
Here is a group working away during Memorial Day weekend
during the FOSA retreat.
"Many of the inmates I correspond with - people who have very little - sent things dear to them to offer to the Buddha statue." - Venerable Chodron. The mantra rolls are out on the table, together with relics and other objects people had donated to put inside the statue. The Buddha face is covered because it has not yet been filled and consecrated.


Sunday evening, people set up for the next day's activities of filling the abbey's large Buddha statue and smaller statues that belonged to others.

The abbey's thangkas hung out to be blessed.
A multi-colored string went from one painting
to another and back to Khensur Rinpoche.
Friends had donated the large Buddha
statue and all of these tangkas to the abbey.

Kensur Rinpoche looking over the things to be put inside the statue.

Nerea, Rebecca, Jan, and Ordel fill
a medium size Buddha statue.

Everyone pitches in to fill the Buddha
Shakyamuni (see detail on next page)
and all the statues are filled with
loving care.

Dave and Helen Ann sealing the bottom
of an Amitabha statue.

Behind the masks are Ruth and Dan resting.
Everyone is wearing masks to avoid
coughing or sneezing on the holy objects.

Khensur Rinpoche Geshe Wangdak takes a break.

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