The Buddha Bedurya Center help projects

THE KHAHUDRAGZONG PROJECT The Khahudragzong retreat monastery is located in the Sakya region, upper part of Tibet, at an altitude of around 4200m. Such a high altitude place, naturally quiet and serene, is perfect for the yogis who seek eternal peace, clear vision and realization. Several ancient black colored yogi caves curved in the rock surround the monastery, nestled in the mountain. On its right side are five holy and secret rock caves of five famous Sakyapa great masters. A small river runs in the front and one can continuously hear the whispering fresh cold winds. Fragrant herbs grow in summer and the monastery is covered with snow in winter. Nature is silent and peaceful. This is a blessed place for yogis and monks. The sky gazing yogi monks are simple and jolly. They sit on sheepskin cushions and, despite the harsh life conditions meditate with all their heart. They don’t have any heating system or any other facilities to protect themselves from the cold, they only depend on the psychic heat generated by their yogic practice. For the success of their peaceful spiritual practice, and to welcome the numerous young monks and nuns who look for a sanctuary to study and meditate in this remote area, they need some temporary help. The most urgent is to provide a shelter to live in and practice. In the past, there were a hundred caves in this area, but time and natural calamities swept them away. The thousand years old monastic buildings and roofs are broken, and the hermit houses ruined. The Sakyapa School of Buddhism
The Sakyapa school is one of the four main schools of Traditional Tibetan Buddhism. His head is H.H. Sakya Trizin, now living in Sakya center, Dehradun, in India. The main Sakya center in Tibet is located in Sakya city, in the upper part of Tibet, and has two main schools.
The biggest school in Sakya tradition is the Sakya Monastery, which is the main monastery where monks study sutra and tantric philosophies. The monastery has a great collection in Buddhist culture gathering ancient Buddhist manuscripts, thousands of statues and thangkas, old mural paintings, etc. that have been well preserved from the 11th century A.D. until now. During some time in the past the maintenance was poor, but now the Chinese government supports the whole monastery renovation. The second school is the retreat monastery center called Khahudragzong. Lama Khahupa (around 10th century) meditated at this place and reached illumination. The retreat monastery, built later, holds his name. Located 20 km to the mountain in the west side of the Sakya city, it was in fact erected much earlier than the main city monastery. Badly damaged, it remained empty and without renovation for many years. A decade ago, some monks went there to meditate and began to re-establish this retreat monastery. Presently, the monastery has a main teaching hall, a temple, a kitchen, an abbot’s room and a few yogi caves. Yogis, hermits, and sky gazing monks searching for liberation, as well as some ordinary people, have come here for meditation and practice. Generally, monks come to this center only after their graduation in Buddhist philosophy study from the Sakya main city monastery. The retreat monastery, principally dedicated to teaching and practice in meditation, spiritual yoga and tantric practices, provides further study through a six-year course. Spiritual yoga is an important part of this tradition. Few elder masters are still alive and able to pass their tradition on to the younger generation. Especially their yoga tradition is very secret and to show its practice to common people is forbidden. Yogis are also trained in jumping and healing yogas. When we visited the place in 2004, the retreat monastery didn’t have any support from anyone. Since then, some lamas have built a few new yogi caves but the work has remained incomplete. The head of the monastery requested our help as there is an urgent need for more yogi caves, a yoga practice hall, and books for the study of tantra. Through our two visits for a pilgrimage within three years, we can testify that there is an urgent and great need to help preserve the ancient tantric teachings. Otherwise, these teachings and practices could easily be lost already in this generation. There is indeed a young generation of devoted monks with a keen interest in learning and practicing. It is then our responsibility to help them and give them the opportunity to follow this wonderful spiritual path and practice. For the success of their peaceful spiritual practice, and to welcome the numerous young monks and nuns who are looking for a sanctuary to study and meditate in this remote area, the Buddha Bedurya center has set up in 2007 the Khahudragzong project to rebuilt yogi caves, renovate the Khahudragzong monastery, and built the Rtsa-rlung-‘khul-‘khor Monastery. .................................................. Dear Dharma brothers, sisters and generous donors! It is with the greatest pleasure that we have received good news from Sakya Monastery of Tibet: The Chinese authority of Tibet autonomous Region (TAR) has now granted the permission, which was pending until now, to construct the Tibetan Buddhist Tantric yoga Rtsa-rlung-‘khrul-‘khor Monastery and yogi caves at the site of the ancient Khahudragzong yogi cave Monastery. The construction solely depends on the support of the Buddha Bedurya Buddhist Meditation center (Milan – Italy), Dr Pasang Y. Arya's family, TibetanMedicine-Edu, and few other donors. Emergency help is needed The current urgent program is to build the Tibetan Buddhist Tantric yogic Rtsa-rlung-‘khrul-‘khor Monastery in order to welcome the yogic and meditative practice of 200 practitioners. Enlarged project, the Rtsa-rlung- ‘Khrul-‘khor Monastery The project has already started and the size of the new monastery, which was originally based on a 12 pillars plan has been extended to 18 pillars (around 300 square meter) to enlarge its capacity and allow 200 practitioners to be seated, and practice. The monastery will comprise glass windows, and a wooden floor with cushions for yogic meditation and yogic jumping exercises. The project also comprises nine new yogi houses. Education Project The project is purely dedicated to the education of monks and nuns and especially to the devoted young generations. Fortunately, some enlightened masters are still alive and able to pass on the Lam’bras tradition of practice and Rtsa-rlung-‘khrul-‘khor, the thousand-year-old magic Buddhist spiritual yoga practice, to the younger. The monastery will be the main center for this Buddhist spiritual yoga practice, which is still very much unknown in the world and even inside Tibet. This tradition has been kept strictly secret and is practiced according to the Lam’bras tradition. Wall painting and illustration To preserve this secret tradition, we would like to also paint the thousand year old tantric spiritual yoga practice on the walls of the yogi Monastery. These paintings will also illustrate a yoga book for the monastery only.


NUNS AID PROJECT About one kilometer below the retreat monastery, there is a beautiful river side monastery where nuns live and meditate. It was the birthplace of Sakya Pandita, the famous master of Tibetan people and especially of the Sakyapa school of Buddhism. Many of these nuns cannot stay long in the monastery because of the lack of food and daily necessities. Therefore, many of them have to interrupt their practice due to the life difficulties at the monastery. The Buddha Bedurya Center would like to help this nunnery by supporting them for study, food and shelter. Anyone interested in that project can make donation to the Buddha Bedurya bank account, with mentioning “Nuns aid”.

Donations All donations are most welcome for these projects but kind and loving generosity motivation is more important than the size of the donation. By bank Your donations may be sent to: Buddha Bedurya Buddhist Meditation Center mention: "yogi project" or "Nuns aid project" Banca Popolare di Sondrio Agenzia. n. 13 - Repubblica Viale Monte Santo 8 - ang. Via Galilei CAP: 20124 Milano, Italy Account number 07497/85 IBAN IT73 P056 9601 6120 0000 7497 X85 SWIFT POSOIT 22 MIL Donate using PayPal or Credit card

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