Consecration of the retreat houses by Gangteng Rinpoche and support needed for last efforts!

His Holiness Gangteng Rinpoche has consecrated the retreat land and the houses. He also bestowed Vajrakilaya empowerment – there is a special reason for that – it is always given when new people start the retreat. It is said that it is very efficient in removing obstacles and hindrances.

Five practitioners from Yeshe Khorlo Sangha will start the retreat very soon (because of Khenpo Karma Wangyel’s departure to Bhutan for a short period, the beginning of retreat is postponed to 18th of September).

For a moment, they have to live in Umbusi Buddhist center nearby, because we have some very urgent works that we could not finish because of lack of funds – for example, ordering toilets and installing them no matter how mundane it may sound, it is still something necessary). All the rest of the works will be done by the end of this week. Together we have decided to use the money of the retreatants – they have made payments for their retreat food but now we have to use this money. We hope very much that in the Sangha there will be people, who would like to support somebody staying in retreat. As Rinpoche has said – the merit who is doing the retreat and the merit of the one who helps to make it happen is equal!

Our bank details: Yeshe Khorlo Eesti MTÜ (Reg nr:  80410350) contact information:

E-mail address: yeshekhorloest@gmail.com

PayPal: yeshekhorloest@gmail.com

Aadress: Umbusi village, Põltsamaa parish, Jõgevamaa county, 48026.

Bank Transfer Details: Receiver: YESHE KHORLO EESTI MTÜ; Account: EE212200221065708346

SWEDBANK,  SWIFT code/BIC: HABAEE2X

May everything be auspiscious!

Gangteng Rinpoche arrived to Estonia, Umbusi (27.08.2024)

His Holiness Gangteng Rinpoche just arrived to Estonia together with khenpo Karma Wangyel. This time, no delays of flights of 10 hours, no cancelled flights, everything went smoothly:) Tomorrow he will start the consecration of the retreat land (there is no fixed time, we just start in the morning with riwo sangchö and then there will be the consecration according to the text Rten gsum rab tu gnas pa’i cho ga snying por dril ba dge legs char ‘beb (the ritual text of the consecration of the three objects: statues, scriptures and stupas, condenced to the essence called “The rain of virtue and goodness”. On some photos you can see how Thujila is painting the gate (that was yesterday!), and some photos are from tonight’s evening. Every day, lot of work is possible! On Thursday around 17, Vajrakilaya initiation.

Excavator’s day

Today (25th of July) we had many works ongoing but the most remarkable among them was excavator. One side, where are two houses has completely changed. Also works around the gate started (we had to construct the beginning of the small pathway that will later lead to khenpo Karma Wangyel’s house (it will be outside of the three-year retreat area. We need this small patch of the road – so later we can turn around the car there (we should not go by car inside the three-year retreat area), when bringing food etc.