Home    About    Donate    Activities   Aspirations    Contact     

 

 

 

Rinpoche with Omega Watch

Watch Auction

H.E. Garchen Rinpoche's Watch Auction
Garchen Rinpoche has gifted his most precious material possession to the Endowment Fund--his watch. Gar Rinpoche’s watch which was purchased once for the endowment and then generously donated back for re-auction! This gift came to us unsolicited and it is Rinpoche's wish that money raised from the auctioning of his watch go to the financial establishment of the Southwest Buddhafield--the Endowment Fund.

This watch was given to Rinpoche by a European student and is an Omega Constellation watch of very high quality. Rinpoche included the owner's manual and it is thick! The watch is valued at $4,000.00 and we are silent auctioning the watch with bids starting at $3,000.00. If you would like to place a bid in on the watch, please contact Jacki Elder at jacki.elder@southwestbuddhafield.org.

 

 

 

Mala for Auction - Click to enlarge

 

H.E. Garchen Rinpoche's Mala Auction
Gar Rinpoche’s mala which he spontaneously donated this Spring. Made of real crystal, Rinpoche has used and practiced with this mala until he recently donated it to the endowment. Opening bids for Rinpoche’s mala start at $ 1000.00. If you would like to place a bid in on the watch, please contact Jacki Elder at jacki.elder@southwestbuddhafield.org.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gau Auction

H.E. Garchen Rinpoche's Gau Auction
A beautiful silver and lapis gau has been donated and it contains a lock of Dudjom Rinpoche’s hair and a piece of Penor Rinpoche’s robe. Opening bids for the gau start at $ 1000.00. If you would like to place a bid in on the watch, please contact Jacki Elder at jacki.elder@southwestbuddhafield.org.

Gau Auction - Click to Enlarge Image

 

Ring Auction - Click to Enlarge Image

 

Ring Auction

H.E. Garchen Rinpoche's Ring Auction
An amazing gold Maitreya ring which was purchased once for the endowment and then generously donated back for re-auction. Maitreya’s mantra circles around the ring. Opening bids for the ring start at $ 400.00. If you would like to place a bid in on the watch, please contact Jacki Elder at jacki.elder@southwestbuddhafield.org.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Engraved Mantra Stones

These stones have been blessed by Garchen Rinpoche.

 

Sponsor a Prayer Stone for the Southwest Buddhafield Endowment!

By sponsoring one of these beautiful stones, you will help fulfill Garchen Rinpoche's wish to ensure the future of the Garchen Institute. Your donation will be added to the ocean of prayers and offerings that make up the Southwest Buddhafield Endowment.

 

 

When you sponsor a prayer stone, place it where you would like along the path to Traga Rinpoche's stupa. Each stone is numbered on the back, so that you and your descendents can identify your prayer stone. We hope that a great many stones will line this sacred walk-- a vision that Traga Rinpoche enthusiastically supports.

 

How to Sponsor a Mani Stone

Contribute to the Southwest Buddhafield Endowment, and select your stone when you visit the Garchen Institute. If you take the prayer stone home, the amount that is tax-deductible is slightly less.

 

Tam Syllable Stone $500 donation to SWBF Endowment

Tax-Deductible (or, if you take it home, $450 is deductible)

Garchen Rinpoche's $10,000 donation to SWBF Endowment Invocation Stone Tax-deductible (or, if you take it home, $9700 is deductible)

 

Click to Enlarge

Custom Prayer Stones

If you have an idea for a prayer stone, contact us! We can make it!

Traga Rinpoche suggested that the mantras of all deities practiced at the Garchen Institute be placed on prayer stones. If you have a connection with a particular deity or short prayer, we can have it engraved on a stone for you.

Custom Prayer Stone Donation Levels

Small stones (like the Tam syllable stones)-$750 donation. Tax-deductible if you sponsor the stone to place along the stupa path. If you keep the stone, the amount above our cost is deductible (approx. $650.)
Large stones (like the Invocation stone)- $10,000 donation. Tax-deductible if you sponsor the stone (approx. $9700 deductible if you keep the stone.)

 

 

Sponsor a Tara on the 1000 Tara Thangka

 

To Garchen Triptrül  Rinpoche

We offer this Tara Thangka as a token of our love for you, your teachings and the mandala you have created known as the Southwest Buddhafield.
May Tara hold you in her arms always.
May she hold the teachings and the Center near and dear.
In all lifetimes, may Tara rain a continuous stream of blessings upon you and your disciples.
May Tara firmly establish the Southwest Buddhafield in adamantine splendor.
May virtue increase and harmony within the Sangha blaze forth.
May all who gaze upon her, be inspired to diligently practice your teachings.
And may we all link arms, victory banners in hand, and approach the stronghold of enlightenment together for the benefit of all Beings.

Jacki Elder

 


Click image to see Larger Image

 

To all of you in Garchen Rinpoche’s Mandala,

I have some miraculous news to share with you regarding the Southwest Buddhafield Endowment/Trust Fund. It’s really quite an amazing story. In November during the 2006 Vajrakilaya Drubchen, blessings rained down like a summer monsoon. One of the blessings goes like this:

Christina Lundberg, a student of Garchen Rinpoches’, proposed we commission a large thangka with White Tara (Garchen Rinpoche) in the center surrounded by 1,000 Taras (the sangha). For each person contributing $1,000 to the Endowment Fund, he or she would choose which Tara they wished to be on the thangka. I thought this a great idea, as did everyone here at the Center, and Christina was asked to write to the thangka painter she knows in Nepal to see if he could do this. Upon contacting him, he reported he had a thangka just like this already painted in his studio in Katmandu and that it would have taken a year to a year and a half to paint another one. Clearly this was our thangka!

Three sangha members immediately came forth to purchase the thangka, and we were able to present it to Garchen Rinpoche and the sangha on Losar morning. It now hangs in the Garchen Institute Temple next to Lord Jigten Sumgon. The best surprise is that not only is the thangka stunning, the White Tara in the center looks just like Garchen Rinpoche! She has a masculine torso, and her biceps look like she’s been working out in the Bodhisattva gym. See for yourself, as I’ve included a photo of her with this letter.

For anyone who would like to be a Tara, we would welcome your help. There are four rainbow spheres filled with Taras surrounding the large central Tara, and for anyone who would like to be a “rainbow sphere Tara,” we’re asking for a $5,000 donation. If every Tara on the thangka is sponsored, we will reach our goal of raising 2 million dollars to seed the Endowment Fund.

To contribute, checks can be made payable to the “Southwest Buddhafield Endowment Fund” and sent to: Will Evans, 79 El Diente Ct., Livermore, CO 80536, or to Jacki Elder, 5210 N. Nina Drive, Tucson, AZ 85704.

Your donations are tax deductible.

Love to all of you,
Jacki Elder

 

Special Video Message from H.E. Garchen Rinpoche for the Endowment
Low Quality 24Mb     High Quality 58Mb    Transcription of H.E. Garchen Rinpoche's Message

 

 

Tara Practice for the Southwest Buddhafield Endowment!

Current Accumulation: Coming Soon

Associated Media: Sadhana PDF  |  Sadhana Tibetan MP3  |  Sadhana Tibetan MP3  |  Mantra MP3

We have set up a Tara mantra accumulation counter on our website. Here's why!

In our recent meetings with Garchen Rinpoche about the Endowment, Rinpoche emphasized Tara practice. Last summer we asked Rinpoche if there was any practice that we could do to help establish the Endowment, and Rinpoche's answer was this: "Tara practice. Arya Tara will accomplish everything." We met with Rinpoche during the Vajrakilaya drupchen this November, and he again stressed the importance of Tara practice. "If you rely on the practice of Arya Tara, the conditions for accomplishing the Endowment will naturally arise."

Based on Rinpoche's instructions, we have come to believe that prayers and aspirations in support of the Endowment Fund are just as important as financial donations.

For those of you who, like us, are not able to give a lot of money, yet sincerely want to help, this is how! Please dedicate some Tara practice, either the Green Tara root mantra or the White Tara mantra, to the fulfillment of this noble project. It will definitely help. May our prayers and practice bring about the stability of the Garchen Institute, and may our beloved Garchen Rinpoche and Traga Rinpoche flourish! May beings centuries from now (ourselves, possibly) benefit from this work!

Download Practice Text

Thank you!
Will, Jacki and Bill
 

White Dzambhala for the Southwest Buddhafield Endowment!

White Dzambhala

Associated Media: Sadhana PDF  |   Garchen Sangha Doing Dzambhala Pracitce - MP3

Garchen Rinpoche has been recommending this practice for the benefit of the Institute and the Endowment for more than 3 years. At the conclusion of all drubchens this practice is done faithfully. Please join along using the media above for your practice.

 

 

Photograph Fundraiser - Signed Photo's Still Available!

Signed Photographs of His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche To Benefit the Southwest Buddhafield Endowment Fund

A limited edition of 216 8 x 10 photographs of Garchen Rinpoche, taken by sangha member, Zehra Conner, are available for purchase to benefit the Southwest Buddhafield Endowment Fund. Rinpoche had graciously agreed to sign the photos during the upcoming Vajrakilaya Drupchen in November.

A signed photograph of Rinpoche will be a beautiful addition to any home or office, and will make great Christmas gifts for your fellow sangha members.

Photo #1

Photo #2

 

Photo #3

 

Photo #4

 

Photo #5

Fundraiser: Garchen Portrait-2009Losar

Photo #6
18" x 24" print + frame (Only 1)

The signed 8 x 10 photos are available for $50.00 each plus $5 for shipping and handling.

Please place your order via e-mail to amy.conner922@gmail.com, and send your check to Amy Conner, 1141 North Saddlewood Ranch Drive, Tucson, Arizona 85745. Please specify by number the photographs you would like, as well as the quantity for each photo you would like to order. Quantity is limited to 216 (108 x 2), so place your orders early to ensure availability. Be sure to clearly note your name and address.

Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha