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2009-08-21

Dagger

By Khenpo Rigzin Wangchuk on 2009-08-21, 01:44:00 AM

Once it was down there in >?xml:namespace prefix =" ""st1" /?< Mysore, a time while Chene Lhendup Rimpoche and his root master H.E Geshe Pema Thinley were receiving teachings from H.H Dzogchen Polo Khen Rimpoche. There in Mysore H.H Penlop Khen Rimpoche reveals that Chene Lhendup Rimpoche was the reincarnation of a great Tibetan Yogi Nubchen Sangye Yeshi, one of the 25 disciples of Guru Rimpoche. H.H Penlop Khen Rimpoche insisted and said that,” Do you have all the belongings that you inherit?” Chene Lhendup in turn said “I don’t know all my possession but I have got a White Horse, Dorji and Drilbu (vajara and hand bell), one old small hand drum, carpet and other religious stuffs” received from Tibet. H.H Penlop Khen Rimpoche in dimmed mood said, “You haven’t got one important ritual belonging, but with difficulties you will soon have it with you.”

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The fortune was with Chene Lhendup Rimpoche. It was during the break time while H.E Geshe Pema Thinley and his follower Chene Lhendup set walk for refreshing, they came through a paired of dagger displayed for sale. To their astonishment, they saw the paired dagger fighting each other with dreadful sound of Thunder and heavy rain from the clear sky. So immediately with the symbol of thunder and rain in the clear sky, Geshe Pema Thinley knew that it has great link and importance in his life. Then without second thought, he bought the paired dagger (phurba) with huge amount of Tibetan coins.

After wards, Geshe Pema Thinley and Chene Lhendup went to H.H Penlop Khen Rimpoche, explained the symbolic happenings, and even requested to explain them back. H.H Penlop Khen Rimpoche was happy indeed and revealed the dagger (phurba) was the property of Chene Lhendup’s incarnation. Moreover, it belongs to Chene Lhendup. H.H Penlop Khen Rimpoche even passed an order to Geshe PemaThinley to return, If not it could bring with various misfortunes. H.H Penlop Khen Rimpoche said that it was the good fortune of Chene Lhendup and perhaps the protector deity Mahakala believes that Chene Lhendup could benefit all sentient beings and brought the relics just close too.

However, there were several times, when Geshe Pema Thinley underwent numerous torments and even led him to madness extend for his reluctant to give back. However, Chene Lhendup never received Dagger (phurba) back.

It was then back in Bhutan, Geshe Pema Thinley never quenches the thirst of receiving Buddhist teaching. He again planned to go to Tibet. However, during those days, financing were big deal. Geshe Pema Thinley borrowed some amount that could reach him to Tibet from Umdze Jamgyang. Anyway, he could not repay the whole money but later Geshe Pema Thinley gave away his Dagger without the knowledge of Chene Lhendup. Unlike before then Chene Lhendup though that the dagger has been lost for lifetime.

Nevertheless, fortunes never dried up with Chene Lhendup. Once again, a man (Umdze Jamgyang) with his belonging came closer to him. Umdze Jamgyang came to Orgyen Chholing monastery (Chene lhendup’s monastery) as a sculpture to build the Vajakilaya statue. Umdze Jamgyang back in home lost numerous lives and suffered a lot. Though Umdze never thought of the Dagger (phurba) that brought them with undeserving sufferings, he then requested Chene Lhendup Rimpoche for divination. The divination ruled out that Umdze posses the foul property, he could not believe and again asked for second time divination. The answer was same that he posses foul property. Umdze Jamgyang is asked to return the thing to its owner.

On proper interactive investigation, Umdze found, the dagger (phurba) was the

Main cause of his suffering and he knew that the dagger belongs to Chene

Lhendup. He did not look behind and sacrifice marking the good occasion and

Return the dagger (phurba) back. No sooner, as the dagger came back to Chene

Lhendup, peace prevails everywhere and misfortunes end in the life of Umdze

Jamgyang.Geshe Pema Thinley could not withstand the empowerment of

This important relics (dagger) for misact of creating own virtues. He took the final

Breathe peacefully.

Nevertheless, Geshe Pema Thinley was a root great master of Chene Lhendup.

Retreat Centre

By Khenpo Rigzin Wangchuk on 2009-08-21, 01:42:00 AM

Chene Lhendrup Rimpoche has long held plans to build a retreat centre. The centre will be constructed in an isolated area four hours walk from Orgyen Choling Monastery, at Lingtang. The retreat centre will be called Orgyen Kunzang Shedrup Choling. The practices of the Longchen and Pema Lingpa lineage will be lead by Rimpoche in the traditional three year, three month, three day retreat. Currently there is no retreat centre in the vicinity, therefore all monks must leave their monastery and teacher and go to another district.

To complete this retreat centre is the final wish of Chene Lhendrup Rimpoche and has also been requested by H.E Gangtey Tulku Rimpoche. The centre will be organized and supervised by Khenpo Rigzin Wangchuk.

The construction of the retreat centre will cost US$23,000. Your generosity will contribute to the

sustaining of the Dharma realization.

NAKHAR LHAKHANG RENOVATION

By Khenpo Rigzin Wangchuk on 2009-08-21, 01:39:00 AM

Nakhar, under Zhemgang Dzongkhag is a rural community village with 70 households, approximately 2000 population density. The village has never been introduced to urban facilities of light and road links. People live on subsistence farming and people there share common health and educational services with neighboring village Tsheldang.>?xml:namespace prefix =" ""o" ns =" ""urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /?<

Nakhar was religiously sound since 13^th century while laws and order were not even into existence. The time with no king and country, the victim lower people became the slave and the powerful people enjoy the luxury living. One of those was the Nakhar Dung, the leader of his region.

Behind those huge bars, Nakhar Dung was a religious minded leader. It is believed that the founder of Nakhar Lhakhang was Nakhar Dung during 13^th century though the true date of building was never known to anyone.

Basically Nakhar Dung was from one of the son of King Trisong Detsen lineage from Bumthang, Tamshing. He was a great follower of Peling tradition lineage; he brought and spread Peling tradition in Nakhar.

It is one of the oldest existing Lhakhang that has come through many generations as a blessing in disguise to people in Nakhar. The Lhakhang is a medium sized Bhutanese traditional structured house. It has Buddha and Guru Statues and gold painted Buddhist scriptures (SERGHI LEGBUM) and many more important relics.

The Lhakhang went through numerous external renovations. Today with time Nakhar Lhakhang grew old and couldn’t withstand further. It is saddening to go by and have a glance inside. Lhakhang is under worse condition with every Thangka painting wiped out. No guarantee it could exist after two or more decades if things goes unchanged.

Basically what I intend here is come forward and lets us render our valuable help to bring up renovation activities in Nakhar Lhakhang. Even your small contribution is going to make a vast difference and creates own virtues in future. The expanses include both inner and outer wall renovation and painting, purchasing basic rituals items and many more.

To revive Buddhist teaching in this rural area, it is essential to improve the wellbeing of the Lhakhang. Do seize this opportunity to become a supporter and gain enormous merits for others’ sake.

Countless thanks for your generosity and kindness from entire fraternity of Orgyen Choeling Monastery. We all will pray for your long life and success everyday.

MAY THE BLESSINGS OF THE THREE JEWELS ALWAYS BE WITH YOU.

Stupa Project

By Khenpo Rigzin Wangchuk on 2009-08-21, 01:37:00 AM

A stupa is an architectural rendering of enlightened mind and symbolizes the different qualities of Buddhahood. Its shape represents the Buddha crowned and seated in meditation posture on a lion throne. The Tibetan for stupa is chorten (support for offerings). Every part of a stupa has specific significance and within it are scriptures and relics in defined positions, each equally alive with symbolic meaning.

In many Buddhist traditions, stupas are a place of pilgrimage and provide support for the practice of prostrations, offerings and circumambulations. They contain precious relics and scriptures and, especially when they are properly placed in important geographical points, have intrinsic power and invoke peace. A stupa is consecrated, not as a structure, but as a living enlightened presence, and therefore brings blessings not only to its location, but also to the world.

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Chene Lhundrup Rimpoche was a great luminary of Tibetan Buddhism. One of his principle teachers, Polop Khen Rimpoche (1898-1967), prophesied and encouraged him to spread world peace through Stupa building all over the Country.

As a symbol of his wish to fulfill his teacher’s prophecy, Chene Lhundrup Rimpoche himself traveled throughout many places and built more than thirty stupas all over Bhutan as of now. The vision of Chene lhendup could not met without a stupa in his own Monastery. Financial constraint was the only key factor that kept him behind so long. Now with the help of Khenpo Rigzin Wanghcuk ( the newly appointed khenpo in Orgyen Chholing Monastery, Rimpoche and khenpo Rigzin Wangchuk are in the process and plans of coming up with the Parinirvana Stupa for his last wish to fulfill his root teacher and all mother sentient beings near the main temple in Tsheldang, Bhutan. The stupa is particularly good for overcoming the obstacles for all one to nine moles according to Chinese and Tibetan astrology.

As Late H.H Polop Khen Rimpoche he wrote, “Within the stupa, the blessings of the teacher remain unchanging. The Buddha said whoever sees the sight of it, feels the breeze near it will be liberated by its touch, and hears the tinkling of the small bells around it, would be liberated by the sound. Having seen a stupa, by reflecting in one’s experience of it, one is liberated by recollection. May these stupas become a supreme object of offering, liberating whoever sees, touches and remember”.

There are eight different types of stupas that have been built according to Lord Buddha activities.

1. The Lotus Blossom Stupa at Lumbini,Nepal.

2. The Enlightenment Stupa at Bodhgaya,India.

3. The Stupa Of Turning Wheel Of Dharma at Varanasi,India.

4. The Stupa of the Descent From a Heavenly Realm at Shankasya,India.

5. The Great Miracle Stupa at Sravasti, India.

6. The Stupa of Reuniting the Sangha at Rajagriha, India.

7. All-Victorious Stupa at Vaishali, India.

8. The Parinirvana Stupa at Kushinagar, India.

The construction of this the Parinirvana stupa in Orgyen Choeling Monastery is a spiritual task dedicated to world peace. It measures 25 feet high and 12-feet width. The stupa will be made with hand-placed stone blocks with concrete from outside. Stone carvings adorn the bumpa vase in the center. Rimpoche himself, a specialist in stupa making, and the entire members of Orgyen Chholing Monastery and khenpo Rigzin Wangchuk have every spiritual Material in store….

The stupa will house two mandalas engraved on steel, highly detailed banners, offering bowls, lamps, and conch shells (all made by the Bhutanese Art School), eighteen auspicious vase filled with statues of the relevant deities along with precious ingredients, 800 tsa tsa (small porcelain images) and each 100 nos. of Budhha and guru’s images and zungs (millions of mantras inscribed on rolled paper anointed with saffron and precious herbs). Each of the stupas will have a sokshing (life tree) in the center with gold-lettered mantras from top to bottom. The stupa will be consecrated once they are finished.

The presence of a stupa contributes to the welfare and happiness of all beings, creates auspicious circumstances and subjugates negative forces. Making offerings to help build one brings boundless benefits, for many lives to come, for one's self and others. So the total budget of the construction sums to almost more than S 1ing $15,000. Therefore every donation and contribution, how small counts in bringing up the Nirvana Stupa in Orgyen Choeling.

Monastery History

By Khenpo Rigzin Wangchuk on 2009-08-21, 01:35:00 AM

Monastery History

Orgyen Chholing Monastery is located on the mountain between two native villages Tsheldang and Nakhar under Zhemgang Dzongkhag. The Monastery has been in place since early 1920s preserving and propagating the lord Buddha’s teaching. Despite the isolation of monastery from modern means of living and road networks, people live in peace and harmony with dharma in every man’s heart.

Initially late Drupchoe Dorji the father of the founder of the monastery has started and blessed the sites with small retreat house in place. Though Drupchoe Dorji couldn’t upgrade from small retreat house, it was then in Mysore while the founder of the monastery Chene Lhendup Rimpoche was attending the teaching from His Holiness Polo Khen Rimpoche .

There in Mysore His Holiness Polo Khen Rimpoche directed and prophesized Chene Lhendup that there is a special elephant sleeping shaped mountain surrounded by male on right and female dragon shaped mountains on left. Building monastery in the center would benefit all sentient beings and create enormous pleasant situation for dharma preservation in future.

In 1940s, H. E Khechen Dazar Rimpoche from Tibet visited the place and blessed it. Later in his visit there were so many unbelievable signals like rainbow rising on the hill of Monastery. He then said that it was the blessing and secret place of Bayu Lama Shakaya Ozer who had the rainbow body and other yogis during the 18^th century. Later many great masters like Thuktse Rimpoche, Gyshe Pema Thinley and others great teacher had been here to have retreat. H.H Polo Khen Rimpoche and Khenpo Dazar Rimpoche had predicted the place for the quality to accomplish the retreat and to preserve the Buddha Dharma.

With the great intent of Lord Buddha and all great masters, Chene Lhendup Rimpoche realized the importance of the presence of monastery and the order of Sangha to preserve and propagate the holy dharma to benefits the beings around.

Consequently with great perseverance and with the support from his followers and people from those two villages, he started the work in 1970 and progressively came up with small temple.

Later in 90s Chene Lhendup Rimpoche offered the monastery to His Holiness Gangtey Tulku (lineage holder of Pema Lingpa in Bhutan). It was then from that moment immense development and changes took place. Besides tending to everyday running of the monastery he has been the central supporter for coming up of new temple. Today H.H Gangtey Trulku is supper adviser for all Pema Lingpa tradition in Bhutan.

Today Orgyen Chholing Monastery has one old and a new temple supporting 36 monks with one Khenpo and two teachers. The great terton Pema Lingpa, (hidden treasure revealer from Bhutan) tradition has been the main root practices since beginning. The monastery also practices Longchen Nyingthicg of Longchenpa tradition. These two are the main practice in the Kheng region in the central Bhutan.

Khenpo Rigzin Wangchuk has a Buddhist Doctorate degree on Buddhism studies.

After his Semtokha Buddhist High School graduation in Bhutan, he went to study advance Buddhist Philosophy in Shechen Buddhist College in Nepal. There he spent more than thirteen years in studies. Then from 1996, he served as Chorpen (reviser teacher) for five years. In 2000 he graduated the master degree in Buddhist Philosophy and went India to establish the Buddhist Higher studies in OKC Monastery. He was appointed as abbot or Khenpo at OKC Monastery and later he also received Khenpo title from His Holiness Penor Rimpoche when he was studying western studies in West. Today Khenpo Rigxin Wangchuk take every responsibility of creating a good learning home and bringing changes in the life of rural Orgyen Choeling Monastery with H.H Gangtey Tulku and Chene Lhendup Rimpoche as main abbot.

BACKGROUND

The monastery is strategically located in a heart of two villages benefiting almost 150 households. Since the Buddha’s time, the sangha –ordained nuns and monks have traditionally been the ones to preserve the teachings for the future generations.

Today Orgyen Chholing Monastery has one old and a recently built temples housing 36 monks. Though the monastery holds good number of students studying, the monastery has been under threat of living accommodation and basic amenities like classroom, toilet and catering facilities, proper clothing and food, retreat centre, and room for the teachers.

Quite simple, the present scenario and situation do not accommodate all and provide a pleasant situation for Dharma propagation and preservation. Therefore your generosity seeks the ground.

STUPA BUILDING

Stupa, the wondrous mind of buddha, and by building a stupa become a powerful tool to purify any negative karma sins and obscurations. Visiting, viewing and its presence has a great sense of tranquility, peacefulness serenity, and harmony pervading every visitors coming by.

WHAT WE PLAN TO DO????

A step towards peace and comfort ability: Building a class room for students to sustain the dharma is building class rooms for students and a quarter to teachers. Numbers of toilets and a kitchen to cater 36 students are the immediate task to be worked out. Food and clothing is next action that could be fulfilled. Then comes, building retreat center for those old aged student and constructing of standing stupa nearby the monastery.

According to Buddha’s teaching, by supporting or sponsoring the building of temples and monastery, you will gather tremendous vast merits quickly and plant the seed of your liberation in the future. So we appeal to all to donate no matter what kind and how small the amount of your donation is for this noble cause.

Every one who longs for peace can help. Your generous offerings and prayers will build a home for the Buddha’s Sangha at Orgyen Choeling Monastery.

So, if you think you can donate and add a drop of water to an ocean…..

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