Guest guest Posted August 21, 2001 Report Share Posted August 21, 2001 ********************** Here's something we can visit when the group meets in Denver. Glo Messages Messages Help Reply | Forward | View Source | Unwrap Lines Message 154 of 154 | Previous | Next [ Up Thread ] Message Index Msg # "Chen Hsiongcai" <hsiongcai@h...> Tue Aug 21, 2001 1:05 pm Buddhist stupa rises in the Rockies [ Dhamma Times ] - Bringing you the latest Buddhist News on the information highway - http://www.DhammaTimes Buddhist stupa rises in the Rockies The India Times News Network 20th August 2001 WASHINGTON -- The contrast, and the moment it has become stark, couldn’t be more striking. While the bigotry-filled Taliban, wreckers of the Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan, continue to hold the world hostage to their whims, a 108-foot tall Buddhist stupa, the largest in the western world, has just arisen in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya, whose 10-day consecration concluded this weekend amid chanting and prayers by hundreds of Buddhist monks and followers, is being described as "a symbol of Buddhism's migration and development in the West". Arguably the most plural society in the world after India, the United States is now home to a variety of religions that has led to a feverish construction of temples, mosques and other places of worship across the country. But Buddhism has a relatively small and elite following – many Hollywood celebrities among them - and there are only a few small stupas around compared to the scores of grand temples and mosques across America. In fact, most Americans are unaware that Buddhism was born in India. Many believe it originated further east – China or Japan. The Dharmakaya stupa is almost entirely the product of American converts to Buddhism. It's principle architect is Bob King, a general contractor in Boulder who gave up his business 14 years ago and moved to a camper in the mountains to build the temple for free. Located 8500 feet above sea level, the inside of the stupa is dominated by an 18-foot seated Buddha finished in gold leaf. The floors are polished granite, lapis, marble and onyx. Built according to the Tibetan tradition, it is replete with typical Buddhist icons and symbols including vividly painted mandalas. It also has several modern features including temperature control for its three meditation rooms and specially mixed concrete intended to keep it intact through 1,000 Rocky Mountain winters. The stupa alone is estimated to have cost $ 2.7 million, part of a $ 40 million project that will see a full-fledged Buddhist pilgrimage center come up over the next few years. The center is dedicated to Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a Tibetan exile who brought Buddhist teachings to the West long before the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual and temporal leader, achieved his celebrity status. Before his death at 47 in 1987, Trungpa Rinpoche, who fled Tibet for India to escape Chinese repression before migrating to the West, wrote a dozen books expounding Buddhism to westerners. He also founded the Naropa University in Boulder and the Rocky Mountain Shambhala Center, on whose grounds the new stupa stands. In a glowing account of the consecration, Colorado’s premier paper The Denver Post said, "There are hardly adjectives for the 108-foot-high temple that rises from a mountain clearing at the Buddhist retreat, 5 miles south of Red Feather Lakes. It is eye-popping -gilded and embellished with stunning color." DhammaTimes/message/154 Attachment: (application/octet-stream) landhamm-s-n.jpg [not stored] Attachment: (application/octet-stream) stupa_bg.jpg [not stored] Attachment: (image/gif) Blank Bkgrd.gif [not stored] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 21, 2001 Report Share Posted August 21, 2001 Oh my gosh, Gloria! I used to live right down the road from this stupa! Bob King showed us around while it was being built (I guess that was in 1999). I had my baby in my arms then and her eyes were SO big in awe and wonder. I remember seeing several people painting the teensiest details on the inside way up high on ladders. It was so very silent and it was obviously the painters' joy to be doing it. The very very top part was still on the ground (beside our car) and it was just enormous. Bob invited us to stay for lunch there at the retreat center and I remember being very surprised that these "spiritual folks" were eating pork chops! (I've unlearned a lot since then Nice people. It's a nice 2 1/2 hour drive from Denver, and if you go early enough in the summer, there still might be some snow on the top of Long's Peak that you can see from the highway. [if you go to Boulder which has an enormous and very fun-loving spiritual community...the "hub" for all the western world's travelling satsangers (hee hee, that sounds so funny, like a circus , you can take the backroads along the foothills up to the stupa. It's much nicer than the highway directly from Denver] That little part of the world is very dear to me, can you tell? I would be thrilled to give anyone more details if they wanted any...just an excuse to "go back there," even in my mind. Love, Kheyala - Gloria Lee HS Tuesday, August 21, 2001 11:37 AM New Buddhist Temple ********************** Here's something we can visit when the group meets in Denver. Glo Messages Messages Help Reply | Forward | View Source | Unwrap Lines Message 154 of 154 | Previous | Next [ Up Thread ] Message Index Msg # "Chen Hsiongcai" <hsiongcai@h...> Tue Aug 21, 2001 1:05 pm Buddhist stupa rises in the Rockies [ Dhamma Times ] - Bringing you the latest Buddhist News on the information highway - http://www.DhammaTimes Buddhist stupa rises in the Rockies The India Times News Network 20th August 2001 WASHINGTON -- The contrast, and the moment it has become stark, couldn’t be more striking. While the bigotry-filled Taliban, wreckers of the Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan, continue to hold the world hostage to their whims, a 108-foot tall Buddhist stupa, the largest in the western world, has just arisen in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya, whose 10-day consecration concluded this weekend amid chanting and prayers by hundreds of Buddhist monks and followers, is being described as "a symbol of Buddhism's migration and development in the West". Arguably the most plural society in the world after India, the United States is now home to a variety of religions that has led to a feverish construction of temples, mosques and other places of worship across the country. But Buddhism has a relatively small and elite following – many Hollywood celebrities among them - and there are only a few small stupas around compared to the scores of grand temples and mosques across America. In fact, most Americans are unaware that Buddhism was born in India. Many believe it originated further east – China or Japan. The Dharmakaya stupa is almost entirely the product of American converts to Buddhism. It's principle architect is Bob King, a general contractor in Boulder who gave up his business 14 years ago and moved to a camper in the mountains to build the temple for free. Located 8500 feet above sea level, the inside of the stupa is dominated by an 18-foot seated Buddha finished in gold leaf. The floors are polished granite, lapis, marble and onyx. Built according to the Tibetan tradition, it is replete with typical Buddhist icons and symbols including vividly painted mandalas. It also has several modern features including temperature control for its three meditation rooms and specially mixed concrete intended to keep it intact through 1,000 Rocky Mountain winters. The stupa alone is estimated to have cost $ 2.7 million, part of a $ 40 million project that will see a full-fledged Buddhist pilgrimage center come up over the next few years. The center is dedicated to Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a Tibetan exile who brought Buddhist teachings to the West long before the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual and temporal leader, achieved his celebrity status. Before his death at 47 in 1987, Trungpa Rinpoche, who fled Tibet for India to escape Chinese repression before migrating to the West, wrote a dozen books expounding Buddhism to westerners. He also founded the Naropa University in Boulder and the Rocky Mountain Shambhala Center, on whose grounds the new stupa stands. In a glowing account of the consecration, Colorado’s premier paper The Denver Post said, "There are hardly adjectives for the 108-foot-high temple that rises from a mountain clearing at the Buddhist retreat, 5 miles south of Red Feather Lakes. It is eye-popping -gilded and embellished with stunning color." DhammaTimes/message/154/join All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to a.Your use of is subject to the Attachment: (image/gif) Blank Bkgrd.gif [not stored] Attachment: (image/jpeg) landhamm-s-n.jpg [not stored] Attachment: (image/jpeg) stupa_bg.jpg [not stored] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 21, 2001 Report Share Posted August 21, 2001 Oh my gosh, Gloria! I used to live right down the road from this stupa! Bob King showed us around while it was being built (I guess that was in 1999). I had my baby in my arms then and her eyes were SO big in awe and wonder. I remember seeing several people painting the teensiest details on the inside way up high on ladders. It was so very silent and it was obviously the painters' joy to be doing it. The very very top part was still on the ground (beside our car) and it was just enormous. Bob invited us to stay for lunch there at the retreat center and I remember being very surprised that these "spiritual folks" were eating pork chops! (I've unlearned a lot since then Nice people. It's a nice 2 1/2 hour drive from Denver, and if you go early enough in the summer, there still might be some snow on the top of Long's Peak that you can see from the highway. [if you go to Boulder which has an enormous and very fun-loving spiritual community...the "hub" for all the western world's travelling satsangers (hee hee, that sounds so funny, like a circus , you can take the backroads along the foothills up to the stupa. It's much nicer than the highway directly from Denver] That little part of the world is very dear to me, can you tell? I would be thrilled to give anyone more details if they wanted any...just an excuse to "go back there," even in my mind. Love, Kheyala - Gloria Lee HS Tuesday, August 21, 2001 11:37 AM New Buddhist Temple ********************** Here's something we can visit when the group meets in Denver. Glo Messages Messages Help Reply | Forward | View Source | Unwrap Lines Message 154 of 154 | Previous | Next [ Up Thread ] Message Index Msg # "Chen Hsiongcai" <hsiongcai@h...> Tue Aug 21, 2001 1:05 pm Buddhist stupa rises in the Rockies [ Dhamma Times ] - Bringing you the latest Buddhist News on the information highway - http://www.DhammaTimes Buddhist stupa rises in the Rockies The India Times News Network 20th August 2001 WASHINGTON -- The contrast, and the moment it has become stark, couldn’t be more striking. While the bigotry-filled Taliban, wreckers of the Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan, continue to hold the world hostage to their whims, a 108-foot tall Buddhist stupa, the largest in the western world, has just arisen in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya, whose 10-day consecration concluded this weekend amid chanting and prayers by hundreds of Buddhist monks and followers, is being described as "a symbol of Buddhism's migration and development in the West". Arguably the most plural society in the world after India, the United States is now home to a variety of religions that has led to a feverish construction of temples, mosques and other places of worship across the country. But Buddhism has a relatively small and elite following – many Hollywood celebrities among them - and there are only a few small stupas around compared to the scores of grand temples and mosques across America. In fact, most Americans are unaware that Buddhism was born in India. Many believe it originated further east – China or Japan. The Dharmakaya stupa is almost entirely the product of American converts to Buddhism. It's principle architect is Bob King, a general contractor in Boulder who gave up his business 14 years ago and moved to a camper in the mountains to build the temple for free. Located 8500 feet above sea level, the inside of the stupa is dominated by an 18-foot seated Buddha finished in gold leaf. The floors are polished granite, lapis, marble and onyx. Built according to the Tibetan tradition, it is replete with typical Buddhist icons and symbols including vividly painted mandalas. It also has several modern features including temperature control for its three meditation rooms and specially mixed concrete intended to keep it intact through 1,000 Rocky Mountain winters. The stupa alone is estimated to have cost $ 2.7 million, part of a $ 40 million project that will see a full-fledged Buddhist pilgrimage center come up over the next few years. The center is dedicated to Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a Tibetan exile who brought Buddhist teachings to the West long before the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual and temporal leader, achieved his celebrity status. Before his death at 47 in 1987, Trungpa Rinpoche, who fled Tibet for India to escape Chinese repression before migrating to the West, wrote a dozen books expounding Buddhism to westerners. He also founded the Naropa University in Boulder and the Rocky Mountain Shambhala Center, on whose grounds the new stupa stands. In a glowing account of the consecration, Colorado’s premier paper The Denver Post said, "There are hardly adjectives for the 108-foot-high temple that rises from a mountain clearing at the Buddhist retreat, 5 miles south of Red Feather Lakes. It is eye-popping -gilded and embellished with stunning color." DhammaTimes/message/154/join All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to a.Your use of is subject to the Attachment: (image/gif) Blank Bkgrd.gif [not stored] Attachment: (image/jpeg) landhamm-s-n.jpg [not stored] Attachment: (image/jpeg) stupa_bg.jpg [not stored] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 21, 2001 Report Share Posted August 21, 2001 Whoever posted this news item, thanks! Kheyala, I think your baby is blessed to have a mother like you! I think I'll visit this temple soon. I had a wonderful time visiting the giant Buddha on Lantau Island, Hong Kong, and the ancient Kamakura Buddha in Japan. There are replicas of them on my altar.... Love to all, --Greg >I used to live right down the road from this stupa! > >Bob King showed us around while it was being built (I guess that was in 1999). I had my baby in my arms then and her eyes were SO big in awe and wonder. I remember seeing several people painting the teensiest details on the inside way up high on ladders. It was so very silent and it was obviously the painters' joy to be doing it. The very very top part was still on the ground (beside our car) and it was just enormous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 21, 2001 Report Share Posted August 21, 2001 , "Gloria Lee" <glee@i...> wrote: > Blank********************** > Here's something we can visit when the group meets in Denver. > Glo > stark, couldn't be more striking. While the bigotry-filled Taliban, wreckers of the Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan, continue to hold the world hostage to their whims, a 108-foot tall Buddhist stupa, the largest in the western world, has just arisen in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Namaste Glo, I like the shika, shikara, or steeple, representing the rising prayers of the devotees. The whole thing is a bhakti effort and message. The stupa being the egg of cosmic eternity. The whole temple meaning a whole spiritual story. Great Stuff......ONS.......Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 21, 2001 Report Share Posted August 21, 2001 Dear Kheyala, Wow, great story! I've been to Denver a couple times, because my husband has a grown daughter there and 3 grandchildren. We are going again late September. I definitely plan to go see this new temple. It looks awesome. Greg would probably call me a nightstand Buddhist, tho I swear that tacky glow-in-the dark Buddha was a gift. So do tell more. Did you live there long? Were you part of this satsang community? I have a friend from here (60 miles from Wash DC) who moved to Boulder to be a part of that scene. How far away are you from there now? We are also going to Santa Fe first and then driving up to Denver. I'd love to meet anyone from list is out there. Love, Gloria - Kheyala Tuesday, August 21, 2001 5:30 PM Re: New Buddhist Temple Oh my gosh, Gloria! I used to live right down the road from this stupa! Bob King showed us around while it was being built (I guess that was in 1999). I had my baby in my arms then and her eyes were SO big in awe and wonder. I remember seeing several people painting the teensiest details on the inside way up high on ladders. It was so very silent and it was obviously the painters' joy to be doing it. The very very top part was still on the ground (beside our car) and it was just enormous. Bob invited us to stay for lunch there at the retreat center and I remember being very surprised that these "spiritual folks" were eating pork chops! (I've unlearned a lot since then Nice people. It's a nice 2 1/2 hour drive from Denver, and if you go early enough in the summer, there still might be some snow on the top of Long's Peak that you can see from the highway. [if you go to Boulder which has an enormous and very fun-loving spiritual community...the "hub" for all the western world's travelling satsangers (hee hee, that sounds so funny, like a circus , you can take the backroads along the foothills up to the stupa. It's much nicer than the highway directly from Denver] That little part of the world is very dear to me, can you tell? I would be thrilled to give anyone more details if they wanted any...just an excuse to "go back there," even in my mind. Love, Kheyala Attachment: (image/gif) Blank Bkgrd.gif [not stored] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 22, 2001 Report Share Posted August 22, 2001 - Gloria Lee Tuesday, August 21, 2001 6:03 PM Re: New Buddhist Temple Dear Kheyala, Wow, great story! I've been to Denver a couple times, because my husband has a grown daughter there and 3 grandchildren. We are going again late September. What a nice time of year to go. The aspens will be twinkling gold in the high country. I definitely plan to go see this new temple. It looks awesome. Greg would probably call me a nightstand Buddhist, tho I swear that tacky glow-in-the dark Buddha was a gift. So do tell more. Did you live there long? Were you part of this satsang community? I lived in and around and throughout Boulder for about 6 years. Yes, I was involved in the satsang community for most of that time. I was never really that social although I was absolutely passionate about satsang. So I saw several teachers and met lots of folks while volunteering and ended up having many roommates throughout the years and met many of their satsang friends. I have a friend from here (60 miles from Wash DC) who moved to Boulder to be a part of that scene. That would be like moving to another country. The energy is totally different. It really is an amazing scene. And it is such a beautiful place to live...one of the neatest cities in the country, I think. I may know your friend if s/he has been there at the earliest, '95. How far away are you from there now? Oh, a couple days' drive. I live in the Sierra Foothills now, in CA. We are also going to Santa Fe first and then driving up to Denver. That's a real easy drive, straight up I-25. It takes a little less than 6 hours. Parts of Santa Fe are real neat too. Very serene. Red sand, turkey vultures and prickly pear. Don't forget to eat lots of green chillies! I'd love to meet anyone from list is out there. Love, Gloria It sounds like a wonderful trip, Glo. Love, Kheyala Attachment: (image/gif) Blank Bkgrd.gif [not stored] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 22, 2001 Report Share Posted August 22, 2001 Dear Greg, > I had a wonderful time visiting the giant Buddha on Lantau Island, Hong Kong Same here, did you notice the relic of the Buddha below the statue, in the large vitrine in the hall with the large paintings of his life? If you did, do you know anything more about it, other than that it is a relic? Love, Wim --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.268 / Virus Database: 140 - Release 8/7/2001 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 22, 2001 Report Share Posted August 22, 2001 Hi Wim, Yes, I saw the relic. It was donated to Po Lin Monastery on Lantau by a Theravadin temple, in Sri Lanka I think they said. I think it was said to be three tiny bone slivers from Gautama's foot. They had them under a magnifying glass with a large lens, so that the spectators could see it without going too close to the display case. There were guards and railings and ropes to control the flow of visitors past that point. After that part of the tour, I went down to explore the temples. I had vegetarian lunch. I met and talked to several wonderful Buddhist youths who were spreading the dharma by giving away books. (We struck up a friendship, and they met me several times during my stay in Hong Kong, showed me many Buddhist things there.) After lunch in the temple complex, I bought three huge joss sticks (almost 1/2-inch thick) and offered them in one of the enormous burners. Later on, I went to a wild part of the monastery complex and dug up a bit of soil. Brought it back to New York, dried it out, and mixed it with the sand of my incense burner. I had a very memorable time! Love, --Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 22, 2001 Report Share Posted August 22, 2001 Hi Glo and Kheyala, I'm still having trouble reading posts in html - they run all together. >I live in the Sierra Foothills now, in CA. Who is this? Glo??? I thought you lived out near Harsha. Love, Dharma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 7, 2001 Report Share Posted September 7, 2001 , "Gloria Lee" <glee@i...> wrote: > Blank********************** > Here's something we can visit when the group meets in Denver. > Glo Dearest Gloria, I would love to be included in on the retreat to Denver. I can find a way to do this, and I do so long to meet these friends here at Harsha's. Satsangh is always so joyful for everyone included. The last time I was in Denver was in 1975 on a lay-over from the East Coast. There was a thunder and lightening storm, and they kept de- icing, de-icing, endless de-icing. When we finally left, I was so inwardly withdrawn that it took the massive explosions of lightning around the plane to snap me out of it. It was very beautiful, more beautiful than it was frightening. I look forward to visiting Denver once again. With Love, Mazie > > > Messages Messages Help > > Reply | Forward | View Source | Unwrap Lines > > Message 154 of 154 | Previous | Next [ Up Thread ] Message Index Msg # > > "Chen Hsiongcai" <hsiongcai@h...> > Tue Aug 21, 2001 1:05 pm > Buddhist stupa rises in the Rockies > > > > > [ Dhamma Times ] > - Bringing you the latest Buddhist News on the information highway - > http://www.DhammaTimes > -- > > Buddhist stupa rises in the Rockies > The India Times News Network 20th August 2001 > WASHINGTON -- The contrast, and the moment it has become stark, couldn't be more striking. While the bigotry-filled Taliban, wreckers of the Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan, continue to hold the world hostage to their whims, a 108-foot tall Buddhist stupa, the largest in the western world, has just arisen in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. > > The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya, whose 10-day consecration concluded this weekend amid chanting and prayers by hundreds of Buddhist monks and followers, is being described as "a symbol of Buddhism's migration and development in the West". > > Arguably the most plural society in the world after India, the United States is now home to a variety of religions that has led to a feverish construction of temples, mosques and other places of worship across the country. > > But Buddhism has a relatively small and elite following – many Hollywood celebrities among them - and there are only a few small stupas around compared to the scores of grand temples and mosques across America. In fact, most Americans are unaware that Buddhism was born in India. Many believe it originated further east – China or Japan. > > The Dharmakaya stupa is almost entirely the product of American converts to Buddhism. It's principle architect is Bob King, a general contractor in Boulder who gave up his business 14 years ago and moved to a camper in the mountains to build the temple for free. > > Located 8500 feet above sea level, the inside of the stupa is dominated by an 18-foot seated Buddha finished in gold leaf. The floors are polished granite, lapis, marble and onyx. Built according to the Tibetan tradition, it is replete with typical Buddhist icons and symbols including vividly painted mandalas. > > It also has several modern features including temperature control for its three meditation rooms and specially mixed concrete intended to keep it intact through 1,000 Rocky Mountain winters. The stupa alone is estimated to have cost $ 2.7 million, part of a $ 40 million project that will see a full-fledged Buddhist pilgrimage center come up over the next few years. > > The center is dedicated to Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a Tibetan exile who brought Buddhist teachings to the West long before the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual and temporal leader, achieved his celebrity status. > > Before his death at 47 in 1987, Trungpa Rinpoche, who fled Tibet for India to escape Chinese repression before migrating to the West, wrote a dozen books expounding Buddhism to westerners. He also founded the Naropa University in Boulder and the Rocky Mountain Shambhala Center, on whose grounds the new stupa stands. > > In a glowing account of the consecration, Colorado's premier paper The Denver Post said, "There are hardly adjectives for the 108-foot-high temple that rises from a mountain clearing at the Buddhist retreat, 5 miles south of Red Feather Lakes. It is eye- popping -gilded and embellished with stunning color." > > > -- > DhammaTimes/message/154 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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