Zuni Mountain Stupa

Zuni Mountain Stupa
Basic information
Location 2062 Zuni Canyon Rd.
Grants, New Mexico
Affiliation Nyingma
Country USA
Website zunimountainstupa.org
Completed 2009

Zuni Mountain Stupa is a Tibetan Buddhist temple of the Nyingma school in the Zuni Mountains in Grants, New Mexico, consecrated in 2009.[1] A library of Buddhist texts from the Tengyur and the Kangyur is stored in the dome.[2]

History

Bhakha Rinpoche came to the US in the 1980s. He has been teaching at the Zuni Mountain land since 1989. The temple was established by Bhakha Rinpoche and his organization, the Vairotsana Foundation.[2] The Vairotsana Foundation is headquartered in Tularosa, New Mexico, the Orgyen Choling Tibetan Buddhist Center.[3]

Construction on the temple started in 2004 and was completed in 2009. The temple was consecrated September 5-6, 2009.[1] The complex also includes a cooking house and a prayer wheel house, built in 2001.[2]

Construction

The temple stupa is built in the style known as Duddul Chodten, a style which honors the Buddha's dispelling of negative forces. The dome, called a bumpa, is modeled on that of Boudhanath in Nepal. Construction took five years.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Zuni Mountain Stupa". Digital Tibetan Buddhist Altar. July 29, 2009. Retrieved 2015-04-23.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Fowler, Diane (September 10, 2009). "Buddhist Temple Consecrated in Zuni Mountains". Cibola Beacon. Retrieved 2015-04-23.
  3. ↑ "Buddhist centers in southern NM offer Tibetan culture and traditions". World Tibet Network News. Canada Tibet Committee. April 24, 2007. Retrieved 2015-04-23.

Further reading

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