Build the Stupa in a Public Place

Build the Stupa in a Public Place

Date of Advice:
January 2015
Date Posted:
October 2022

A student wanted to build a stupa and asked Rinpoche about a location. Rinpoche advised it should be well-made and beautified and built in a public place where it can benefit many sentient beings.

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you for your kind emails, I am very sorry for the delay.

I checked and the stupas can be in a public place where people can see them and go around them, then it causes everyone to achieve enlightenment, to become free from the oceans of samsaric sufferings.

If stupas are well-made and beautified as much as possible, they can go in public places where they will benefit sentient beings, then it plants the seed of enlightenment for anyone who sees or goes around the stupa—it benefits everyone, even the insects. It has unbelievable, unbelievable benefits.

As you have read in my advice, if the stupas have the secret relic mantra, even if there is just one inside, then anybody who goes around the stupa, that purifies the heavy negative karma to be born in the eight major hot hells. This karma gets totally purified. This is most unbelievable and it makes it so easy to be reborn in the pure land when we die.

Besides that, it causes us to achieve enlightenment and so many things. It is unbelievable. It causes sentient beings to be free from the lower realms, so the benefits are unbelievable, unbelievable—whether animals or people, it doesn’t matter, it can be beneficial for so many beings.

Thank you very, very much, a billion, zillion times, for making these stupas for the benefit of sentient beings.

With much love and prayers