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A Unique Opportunity! to benefit a deceased loved one is to place their ashes within a stupa. The ashes are first consecrated by the skilful meditation of a qualified lama in a jang.wa ceremony which purifies any negativities and invoke the Buddha's wisdom into the ashes.  The consecrated ashes are then placed in the stupa together with rolls of blessed mantras and other precious substances.

"Placing the ashes of the deceased in a stupa can bring great benefits for both the deceased and the living.  I want this Memorial Shrine (Wish Fulfilling Temple) to be so beautiful that when people see it, they will spontaneously want to have their ashes placed in a stupa here."    -Lama Zopa Rinpoche

 


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The consecrated stupa can be placed in homes, but usually in a special Shrine such as the Wish Fulfilling Temple.  Relatives and friends can come to visit, circumambulate and make offerings.  Making offering to the stupa creates the cause for inconceivable benefits and happiness up to the highest, full enlightenment, the perfected peace of mind.  Dedicating the positive energy created can liberate the deceased from the suffering lower realms, create cause for them to receive a perfect human rebirth and quickly meet perfectly qualified spiritual teachers, and through these teachers, meet the unmistaken pure Dharma and thus quickly achieve full enlightenment. In this way, enormous benefit will accrue to those who have passed away as well as those who have had the vision and generosity to care for them in this way.

This is a specially designed building, a blessed place, where the ashes of beloved ones are preserved in individual beautiful small stupas. It provides a special and respectful location for the ashes of those who have died as well as an extraordinary opportunity for those ashes to be purfied.

Family and relatives can visit the
Wish Fulfilling Temple and also participate in practices that will benefit them and the departed.