Sean’s Got a Great Idea!!!!!
(By Tsem Rinpoche)
A card and hard disc from Sean Wang…read below to know why..great ideas.
Last week whilst giving a dharma talk, I mentioned about how mantras and other holy items should be inserted into the statues in Kechara House’s new gompa. One of the ideas was to place in thumb drives with millions and billions of Vajrayogini line drawing pictures and her holy mantra in Tibetan into the holy statue.
Imagine inserting hundreds of thumb drives (filled with billions of Vajrayogini images!) and when people come to make offerings, prostrate, circumambulate, they can collect huge amount of merits for themselves and their love ones! For example, when they prostrate just once, it will be equivalent to prostrating to however many Vajra Yoginis are in this holy image. Technology can be used to help us collect merits. Or if they offer one stick of incense or pearls onto Her mandala, it will be equivalent to how many of Her images are inside!!
Little Sean suggested to get hard disks as well (or instead!) so that it can store even more images. He then promised to offer one to be inserted into the 7ft Vajrayogini in new gompa. Sean kept his promise and bought a 1 TB hard disk (about 1000 GB) for the statue!
Little Sean is the FIRST PERSON TO OFFER THIS FOR OUR NEW STATUES IN OUR GOMPA.
Remember we have three sacred statues that will need many thumbdrives and hard discs filled with billions of images of Vajra Yogini, Tsongkapa, Setrap and their mantras….We have 12ft Tsongkapa, 8ft Setrap and 8ft Vajra Yogini in our NEW Gompa. They each have to be filled with their likeness in the billions…It will bless those who make affinity with these holy beings.
A thoughtful and intelligent young Sean really has very good ideas! Anyone else wish to collect merit and follow in Little 12 years old Sean’s footsteps, do contact Jean Ai (elenakhong@gmail.com)
This wonder kid has started a blog site..do support him and take a read: http://tenzinkhenchen.blogspot.com/2010/10/kechara-kids-corner.html
Little Sean……cute and smart….
See his letter to me below….
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A card and hard disc from Sean Wang was truly a smart idea afterall. Nobody could imagine such idea but he did it. Placing thumb drives with millions and billions of Vajrayogini her holy mantra in Tibetan into the holy statue. Not only that drawing pictures too . Such a great idea whereby people come to make offerings, prostrate, circumambulate, collecting huge amount of merits for themselves and their love ones. Thanks to Sean Wang/
Thank you Rinpoche for this sharing .
This is a very brilliant idea indeed! Through that, we can have hundreds or maybe thousands of Buddha images in the holy Vajrayogini statue. He has always been very smart, even in school.
Sean’s great idea of using digital media (harddisk, thumb drive, etc) to store sacred images and inserted into statue is still being widely used in Kechara.
In a recent teachings, someone asked if a person store the entire lamrim into a thumb drive, does it carry the same effect as carrying the book. Rinpoche said YES. However, we need to be sensitive as well. For example, if we put the Lamrim in thumb drive and put it onto deceased head, his/her family may feel strange and feel uncomfortable. In this case, it is better to use the actual Lamrim book for this purpose.
How cool is this!!!! You’re an inspiration, Sean! In an age when we hear so much news about how modern technology is being used for economic gains at the expense of our planet and our moral and spiritual well-being, such a creative and meaningful use of a high-tech product is a WAVE of fresh air!
So, what’s next, Sean?
Your namesake,
Sean (the much older version…)
Sean, thanks to your brilliant idea we put countless mantras into the Buddhas statues that we made ready at the Bangkok Ladrang. So when we made prostration or felicitations to the Buddhas the effect has a tremendous multiplier effect!
Great idea. Would definitely buy some hard disks or thumb drives to be placed into the holy statues.
Sean can easily put some of us adults to shame. Being only 12 years old and going into his teenage years. Many teenagers will have different sort of enjoyment at his age. But guided by his intellectual mom he will be an asset to Kechara and eventually KWPC. When Rinpoche announced the idea of putting thumb drives of mantras to be inserted into the statues in the new Gompa. Sean knowing it is very beneficial he quickly jump to the idea of being the 1st person to sponsor a thumb drive. In the past and even now rolling mantras is still the norm. But we satill have to move on to new technologies.
Well Rinpoche said thumb drives, first, but still I think Sean was the first person to get a whole HUGE 1TB hard drive and fill it up.
So he expanded on Rinpoche’s idea with his own unique idea. Great kid. He writes so smart! His blog is cool. I hope he has the highest protection through his childhood so he doesn’t do stupid things like I did. I was like him, smart and very committed to religion, and then I fell in with a bad crowd in my teens. I can’t see that happen to another kid. I wasted 15 years of my life and I’m only 25!
What a great idea! You are brilliant and generous, Sean! Good for you!
Kid or no kid that is the best Idea I have EVER HEARD about stuffing the most mantra’s or holy images into a small space like a statue to gain more merits. WOWWW How come us ‘adults’ didn’t think of that?
Wonderful idea by Sean. Similarly, there’s a Tulku currently staying at Singapore recently produced precious Kangyur Tengyur pendant which contained a 16GB memory card which 2 relics pill and the robes of Jowo Rinpoche.