Changri Kuensel Phodrang,
Thimphu Mountain View
March 2007
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Major Outline of Today's Tour:
- Where Are You Now?
- What is the Buddha Dordenma Project?
- When is the Starting and Ending Dates?
- Who is Involved?
- Why is this Buddha Dordenma Project Undertaken?
- How is It Configured?
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Where Are You Now?
Welcome to Bhutan, here you are...
At Thimphu capital city...
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At The Buddha Dordenma Site
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What is the Buddha Dordenma Project?
Don't worry if you don't quite get what's written above, you'll get to see
visually what they mean...
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When is the Project Completion Date?
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Who are Involved in the Buddha Dordenma Project?
This project is undertaken by the Buddha
Dordenma Image Foundation in collaboration with:
- Aerosun
Corporation, Nanjing, China (Project builder) who is rendering their commercial service
- Ove Arup & Partners, Hong Kong (Project Engineering) who is rendering
their voluntary service
- BURO Architecture + Interiors, Melbourne, Australia (Project
Architecture)
who is rendering their voluntary service
Thanks to our volunteers! We
couldn't have done this without you! Do you share with our aspiration in the Buddha
Dharma? Perhaps you may want to join us a volunteer too.
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Why is This Buddha Project Undertaken?
The activity of the Buddha Dordenma Project was prophesied in a
terma of Guru Padmasambhava and found by Terton Dorje Lingpa. Terma is a sacred
treasure kept by Guru which has been destined to be revealed in the future time by tertons
for the benefits of future generations. When the time has come, tertons who are the
reincarnations of holy beings (could you one of them?) will appear and carry out the
activity. Apparently we are privileged to be extended such an extraordinary opportunity to
fulfill the mission of all Buddhas.
- GOAL: To fulfill the wishes of all sentient beings for universal peace and
everlasting happiness
- SPIRITUAL OBJECTIVES:
- To facilitate the accumulation and dissemination of virtues (or merits)
- To illuminate the Path to Enlightenment
- WORLDLY OBJECTIVES:
- To sustain the indigenous Buddha's Teachings
- To fortify spiritual foundation of the next generations
- To expand people's capacity to contribute to the well-being of
others
How does the Buddha
Dordenma bring forth tremendous changes in people's lives, including yours?
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Buddha Dordenma Exterior
Now, right in front of the Buddha.
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Buddha Dordenma Interior
Inside each story... (Click to expand / collapse the list.)
- FIRST STORY:
- 16-foot-tall four-faced sitting Vairochana Buddha in the
center surrounded by...
- Eight 16-foot-tall standing Bodhisattvas, namely:
- Avalokiteshvara, Mansjushri, Ksitigarbha
- Akashagarbha, Maitreya, Sarvanivaranavishkambim
- Samantabhadra, Vajrapani
- Along the walls are 12-inch-tall Buddha Dordenma statues.
- SECOND STORY:
- Eight 5-foot-tall sitting Medicine Buddhas surrounding the center pillar,
namely:
- Shakyamuni, Medicine Buddha, Amitabha Buddha
- Ngoenkhyen Gyalpo,
Drayang Gyalpo, Ser Zang
- Choedrag Gyatsho, Nga Ngyen Med
- Along the walls are 12-inch-tall Buddha Dordenma statues.
- THIRD STORY: Five chambers, surrounded fully by 8-inch-tall Buddha
statues which are filling the interior of the Buddha up to the top.
- First chamber: Display of sutra & 8-inch-tall Buddha Dordenma miniature.
- Second & Fourth chambers: Eighteen 4-foot-tall sitting Arahats and four direction Kings.
- Third chamber: Seven excellently auspicious 5-foot-tall sitting reunion Buddhas.
- Fifth chamber: Media room.
These statues are listed in the contribution items.
In a nut shell, in the interior of the Buddha Dordenma are at least
over 125,000 units of Buddha Dordenma. Let's see how they look like...
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A Snapshot of the Little Buddha Dordenma
The photograph you see here depicts exactly how the gilded 8-inch-tall
and 12-inch-tall Buddha statues will look like.
As many as 100,000 8-inch-tall Buddha Dordenma statues
will fill up the 169-foot-tall Buddha's body and lotus; whereas as many as 25,000 12-
inch-tall Buddha Dordenma statues will reside along the walls of meditation halls inside
the 50-foot-tall Buddha throne.
Each small Buddha contains sacred relics, mantras, and various precious substances.
Besides infusing the entire universe with enormous auspiciousness and energies of all
Buddhas, it symbolizes peerless virility and serves to bestow blessings, peace, and
happiness to the whole world.
The name of contributors for each of the
statues will be carved individually on copper-plates (which are reinforced with powder
coating) and displayed in the meditation halls - Hey, what name have you come up with?
Many people placed their parents' names. Let's continue our tour while you figure it
out...
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How is the Buddha Dordenma Configured?
Since Buddha Dordenma is not built for display purpose but rather for bestowing blessings
on the world as well as an auspicious symbol of peerless virility, its structural designs must
strictly comply with the followings:
- Statues of all sizes and locations are to be made of metal and gilded in gold, including
their thrones
- To avoid being preoccupied by ruling spirits, all statues are to be entirely filled up with
five kinds of relics, mantras, and precious substances
- Small Buddhas (12-inch & 8-inch -tall respectively) are housed inside the Gigantic
Buddha Dordenma in that the former are fully arranged inside the throne whereas the latter
inside the Gigantic Buddha's body
- The throne of the Gigantic Buddha are to serve as three-story meditation halls, each
housing certain Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in auspicious directions, effortlessly instilling a
sense of entering pure realms for visitors and invoking their inherent Bodhicitta
- As statues embody the noble intentions of Buddha Dordenma, they are to be produced
under purest synchronization of mind, speech, and body - all of which are naturally
manifested through an
adoption of the meticulously elaborate designs
... which accounts for the high costs involved.
Buddha Dordenma 3D video ☸
Buddha Dordenma Photos ☸
Buddha Dordenma Structural Configuration ☸
http://www.buddhadordenma.org
