New News of Ladrang – The Gift Section
New News of Ladrang Gift Section
1. Su Ming and I called many volunteers to come in to help arranging statue and stock in Gift room. We have Allan, Pat, Peter Hoh, Joe Ang, Grace Kua, Louise, Yvonne helping in gift room; Ethan and Bryan in the KIM office, Ethan help checking website and Bryan helps to do special greeting cards for gift section.
2. In gift room we have cleared a shelves to put in all the Tara statues offered by Datuk May to Rinpoche and transferred some items up to the mezzanine floor.
3. After the work we, including Miss Han gather at the kitchen for food and drinks again. Martin bought a lot of pasta and brownies for everyone. Peter and Allan are very happy and chatty. Everyone enjoy themselves in the kitchen, talking about various topics from Dharma to strange lifestyles to being strange themselves…hehehe.
4. It is nice to see staffs from different departments and volunteers gather in Ladrang. Allan and Peter are very fun. We are talking about the 18th July performance. Nicholas, Thierry, Albert, Allan will be in the “Swan Leg” group. Joe Ang, Chia, Peter, Bryan, Eric Choong will be in the Korean group-Wonder Girl, performing the song “Nobody”.
They are going to start their practice on Friday.
Regards,
James Long
Gift Section.
TSEM LADRANG
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
THE GIFT SECTION
The gift section on the ground floor of Tsem Ladrang was designed to make optimal use of the available space to store as many gifts possible. It has a mezzanine floor and compact sliding cabinets. It also has railings to hang the various-sized thangkas.
This division is headed by Liaison Su Ming, assisted by James Long.
Liaison Su Ming
Gift section
Here’s a video about what the gift section does and how it has benefited many:
Or view the video on the server at:
https://video.tsemtulku.com/videos/TsemLadrangGiftSection.mp4
This was a nice post to see our Gift section of the Ladrang and volunteers getting together to help organize it better.
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It is very meritorious to donate towards the gifts section.
Be part of Rinpoche’s Bodhisttva endless and countless activity, to inspire so many many more people to do the dharma 🙂 Please, what you can afford donate towards this beneficial department.
We have all received gifts from Rinpoche at one time or another. It is truly a blessing to receive gifts from Rinpoche. I remember that Rinpoche mentioned when a being who has the mind of altruism touches any material items, due to their minds being altruistic it imbues those items with their altruistic energy. And those items become holy items.
Hence all gifts by Rinpoche serves many purpose, to inspire them to do dharma, to let people know Rinpoche cares for them deeply, something that they need to function etc. And Rinpoche gives out gifts like torrential rain, like a continuous blessing and never ending.
GIVING is really BEAUTIFUL; it is wonderful of Rinpoche to show, by example, this VIRTUE; which simple as it appears, is so powerful in helping to reduce our attachment and greed.
Kechara House gift section is housed at one of the rooms in Ladrang. And managed by Su Ming. Rinpoche loves to give gifts to his students and volunteers who has help in his organisation. The gifts Rinpoche always gives will be statues as well as non-spiritual things like handbags, purses etc. Rinpoche’s gifts all have meaning and according to the needs of the person. Sometimes the gifts are of statues of different deities, which Rinpoche knows can help the person to start to pray. Rinpoche is very fond of giving gifts to people to show Rinpoche’s appreciation for their help. The gift section also can receive gifts from people and store them in the gift room for Rinpoche to give away when he needs.
As Rinpoche had explained many times, gifts are given for many reasons. They could be as rewards in appreciation for work done, offerings received; to connect or re connect, birthdays, anniversaries, to brighten up a person when that person is ill, etc. Or simply to bring happiness, like to children.
Rinpoche gives away many gifts during dharma talks and events. I have seen the joy, amazement and bewilderment of some people when they got the gifts.
Thus, it is meritorious for students to offer gifts to their lamas. Yes, the gifts may end up with someone else. Why get attached? The thought and action of giving were already complete.
OMG what a beautiful picture of u in pink, u look same as i knew u years ago. see what the Dharma can do 4 u! 2 me its amazing how much time and effort u all put in and still look like your kicking back going to beauty palor’s.