The Dynamic Space of the Elements team led by Migmar Tsering recently delivered their latest work, the Stupa with Eight Sides མཆོད་རྟེན་ཟུར་བརྒྱད་མ་, to the Global Gar in Tenerife. The eight-sided stupa represents the heart shrines of the bodhisattvas residing in the ten directions.
On Friday, February 28, Losar, the first day of the new Wood Snake year, the Stupa was placed on a specially made plinth just below the Gönpa with a short ceremony in the presence of many practitioners from around the world who were present at the Gar.
This miniature stupa is part of the Changchub Dorje Stupa project based on a terma of the same master to place 108 different Stupas around the globe in order to harmonize conflicts and avert natural disasters. The project was initiated by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu in 2012-2013 when he asked one of Changchub Dorje’s grandsons to begin creating technical drawings of each of the stupas, based on the Master’s terma. Although the original collected works of Changchub Dorje (sungbum) were destroyed during the cultural revolution, fortunately a copy remained and the designs are based on that. The Dynamic Space of the Elements is trying to take the project forward.
By placing this Stupa at Dzamling Gar, the intention is to create unification and eliminate obstacles as it contains a great number of mantras to eliminate and control negative energies.
The Stupa has been placed in an auspicious place according to Tibetan geomancy, west of the Gönpa and just below it, in a niche in the garden, protected by plants and trees. The Stupa is well sealed so that its precious contents are well protected but to keep it beautiful a protective glass case will be created to protect it.
Although this Stupa is small, it contains everything that a large brick stupa would contain such as mantras, relics and so on. And, in fact, there is more attention to filling it because everything has to be very precise.
For practical reasons and in order to avoid any possible problems with the customs, the Stupa was brought to Dzamling Gar empty and the many precious objects to fill it were brought separately and finally the Stupa was authenticated.
Some of the authenticated objects contained within the Stupa include tsha tsha made with many different types of relics from various famous masters as well as precious medicinal substances, thousands of mantras such as those of the 25 Spaces of Samantabhadra, the Song of the Vajra, the Tantra of the Single Son of the Doctrine of the Golden Letters, the Mantras of Kilaya, of Simhamukha, of Guru Dragphur, and others that are specific to this Gar such as མི་ཁ་དགྲ་བཟློག་, སྲི་བཟློག་, ཐམས་ཅད, ་མཐུན་པའི་བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྨོན་ལམ་མཆོད་རྟེན་རང་གི་གཟུངས་, Mikha Dra Dog, Sri Dog, Thamcad Thunpai Trashis Monlam Chorten Rang gi Zungs.
In addition, the Stupa contains the Eight Auspicious Symbols, the Eight Auspicious Substances, the Seven Precious Royal Emblems, Double crossed vajras, the powder of six different medicinal substances, 25 substances comprised of five sets of five substances which include five medicines, five kinds of grain, five valuable things, either precious gems or metals, five aromatics, five essences and so on.
Up to the present time, the Dynamic Space has allotted the following Stupas from the project to the following Gars, Lings and places:
The Stupa of the Heart has just been placed at Dzamling Gar, Canary Islands;
Paldenling in Poland has already placed the Stupa of Fire to eliminate negativities;
The Stupa of Peace has been placed in the house of practitioners in Germany;
Another Stupa is being prepared to go to Germany where it will probably be placed in the autumn;
Yeselling in Austria has already placed a Stupa of Peace at the Ling;
The Stupa of the Earth is being prepared for Majorca and will be placed there later this year;Once the financial goal has been reached the Stupa of Jewels will be placed at Merigar, Italy.
In order to continue the project, financing is urgently needed to cover the costs of creating and filling the next eight Stupas. In particular, the Dynamic Space would like to be able to place Stupas around the Baltic and nearby, in an attempt to pacify the tensions and negativities in the area.
Please consider donating to the Changchub Dorje Stupa Project to bring peace and harmony to our planet: https://108-stupa.dynamicelements.org/en
