Tsem Ladrang Grand Hall
Liaison JP is very creative. He conceptualized this great altar in Tsem Ladrang for our private home worship on the ground floor. I live on the 2nd floor of Tsem Ladrang.
The main figure is Tsem Rinpoche’s previous incarnation which stands at 7ft.
And behind is 208 niches containing a sacred Lama Tsongkapa statue each sponsored by friends for loved ones and themselves.
JP and students voted to create a beautiful statue of Tsem Rinpoche’s previous life from Kechara Discovery dept headed by Liaison Paul. (Paul is a great person to do anything with. Nice, warm, intelligent and helpful). We believe that creating images of our teacher’s previous lives creates a stronger karmic link to our teacher, creates merits for our teacher’s current incarnation to grow further and a reminder that our teacher has been helping in many lives.
Beautiful.
Tsem Rinpoche
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Oh i like this post. I did not know there was a statue of Rinpoche’s previous life in his ladrang. Must be very special. Appreciate JP’s efforts in making the statue a reality.
Tsem Ladrang is Kechara House Headquarters. Initially E Division and Kechara Care is being stationed here. Although Tsem Ladrang is big there is no space for E Division and Kechara Care. Now they have moved out to another premises in Sunway Mas near KH2. What is now left in Tsem Ladrang is the Aviary and the Grand Hall which house tbe Gompa of 7ft previous incarnation of Tsem Rinpoche. In the Grand Hall are niches where 208 mini Tsongkapa statues are seated. I am very lucky to have sponsored one statue. After you enter Tsem Ladrang waiting room you will come to the Grand Hall where the
statue of the 7ft reincarnation of Tsem Rinpoche is seated.
And the hall is beautiful indeed! I was fortunate enough to be at the ladrang at the time when the statue of HE Tsem Tulku Rinpoche previous life arrived (that was before His Eminence had moved in). And it was a wonderful occasion, we helped carrying the statue, we help setting it up, we helped adjusting the altar around the statue. All this while I thought that we “helped”, but in fact we were receiving help instead, we were given this extraordinary opportunity to be part of something greatly meaningful, something greatly beneficial.
So who’s helping who? I don’t know if Rinpoche needs statues and altars, but for sure we do! And the statues are not precious because of the mass of copper bronze or gold, they are precious because of the qualities they embody, that is why they are objects of respect.
It would have very little effect to pray in front of a piece of copper wouldn’t it?
This is more than a statue, it is enlightenment in its highest form that we pay respect and aspire to through the statue.
I love this part of the Tsem Ladrang. It’s grand and sublime.