Billions of Buddhas in One

14 Nov

Enshrined within the new KH Gompa are three large statues of Lama Tsongkhapa, Vajrayogini and Setrap. Combined, there would be a staggering 493.4 billion Buddha images within these three statues. These images are actually stored upon 27 hard disks collectively and placed within the statues. 

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Here are how the actual Buddha images (stored within the hard disk) look like…

Line_drawing_manjushriManjushri – 48.3 billion images

Line_drawing_tsongkhapaLama Tsongkhapa – 30.8 Billion

Naropas-DakiniVajrayogini – 30.7 Billion Images

 


 

P065Amitabha Buddha – 37.8 Billion Images

Billions of Buddhas in OneBuddha Shakyamuni – 35 Billion Images      

 

 

Billions of Buddhas in OneDukkar – 41.9 Billion Images

Setrap1Setrap – 46.1 Billion Images

Yamantaka-line-small-fileYamantaka – 175.5 Billion

                     

12992211_10206012749585169_1919698417_nKyabje Zong Rinpoche’s hand written Vajrayogini mantra – 47.3 Billion

According to the Buddha, just looking at a line drawing of the image of a Buddha in anger will plant a seed of enlightenment in the mind stream of the beholder. Just imagine the merit accumulated if we were to make offerings, prostrations and prayers to this image instead. Now, multiply that by 493.4 billion times for all the 3 Statues in the new KH Gompa and that is a whole lot of merits! Hence, each time we prostrate, make offerings and prayers to the 3 statues, the blessings will be multiplied billions of times over. All this merit is accumulated in relations towards a enlightened body of a Buddha.

That means we create the direct cause towards attaining a Buddha body ourselves. So what does that mean?

By ‘attaining a Buddha body’, we purify lifetimes of negative karma related to the body – killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, etc. In that way, we attain longevity (a long life), a body free of disease, charismatic, beautiful to look at (especially in future lives) and attain success in worldly and especially spiritual endeavours. We also attain the 112 major and minor marks of a perfect Buddha body. That means we would have understood, realised and embody the entire Lamrim (Entire teachings of the Buddha that is presented in stages by Atisha and Lama Tsongkhapa) because the body of each Buddha contains the roadmap of the entire Lamrim. 

Therefore, the tradition of filling the statues of Buddhas with billions of images and mantras are meant to create as much merits towards achieving a Buddha body for those who supplicate, prostrate, make offerings, prayers and recite mantras towards these holy statues.  

3 Responses to “Billions of Buddhas in One”

  1. Robert Collinson June 21, 2015 at 12:52 pm #

    Hi David,
    Is there any chance you could email me a high resolution image of Venerable Zong Rinpoches hand written three om Vajrayogini mantra. I am going to make a Vajrayogini statue from scratch. I hav

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  2. Robert Collinson June 21, 2015 at 12:57 pm #

    Hi David,
    Is there any chance you could email me a high resolution image of Venerable Zong Rinpoches hand written three om Vajrayogini mantra. I am going to make a Vajrayogini statue from scratch. I have great faith in the power of this mantra, and it would be amazing to be able to fill my statue using Zong Rinpoches blessed writing. Thanks

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    • Pastor David Lai June 22, 2015 at 7:28 am #

      Dear Robert,
      Thank you for writing in but unfortunately, I do not have a high res image of this mantra but I am sure you can use this file. I think it is pretty legible as it is. The lower res allows you to fill the space of a pendrive with even more mantras… I think that’s auspicious!

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