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Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup memorial stupa (left) nearing completion, Geshe Lama Konchog stupa (right), Kopan Monastery, March 31, 2013. Photo by Daryl Dunigan.
“The main method to achieve enlightenment is bodhichitta, the altruistic aspiration towards enlightenment generated out of the mind of compassion,” Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup, former abbot of Kopan Monastery, taught on the 18 root bodhisattva vows in 1987. “Bodhichitta, the altruistic mind seeking solely the welfare of others, needs to be enhanced limitlessly. It is not enough just to habituate our mind, and generate or cultivate the altruistic mind in our meditation – besides generating the altruistic mind, we also need to actually venture into the deeds of such a mind.”
In late March 2013, the Lama Lhundrup memorial stupa was almost complete, Kopan Monastery, March 31, 2013. Photo by Daryl Dunigan.
In May 2013, Kopan Monastery hosts a special program in conjunction with the consecration of the recently completed memorial stupa for Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup, who passed away in September 2011. Lama Zopa Rinpoche will perform the opening ceremony of the stupa on May 3. The program is scheduled to run May 1-5 at Kopan Monastery. Contact Kopan Monastery for booking information during the stupa consecration events.
You can read Lama Lhundrup’s short teaching on the 18 bodhisattva vows, given during the twentieth Kopan Course in December 1987, on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.
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