White Lotus Building Fund
Letter from Garchen Rinpoche – English translation:
White Lotus Building Fund
Khenpo Molam has taught that the Dharma center is the source of our happiness.
A stable Dharma center provides a place where we can hear the teachings and practice together, support each other and develop a healthy, loving community. When we build a strong Dharma center, it is not just for this life, not just for ourselves but for those who come after us as well – teachers and students.
Merit is the positive force of the mind and is the cause of insight into the true nature of mind.
The merit of building a stable center is inconceivable. The creation, support and participation in a dharma center is perhaps the easiest way to accumulate merit – because you plug into the meritorious activities of many people and through those activities you benefit many, unseen others.
Matching Challenge!
We have to date raised $112,700 toward our goal of $200,000. The matching challenge gives us a special opportunity to approach our goal.
Your donation to the Building Fund this year will have twice as much impact if you make it by December 31, 2024. Long time White Lotus member, Barbara Scott, has offered to match donations up to $5,000 in honor of her husband, Mike Mulligan, who passed away some years ago. Mike was also a trusted, long time friend of White Lotus Dharma Center, having found us in 1996, and worked on many projects for the Dharma Center.
Garchen Rinpoche's letter - Chinese Translation
Garchen Rinpoche's letter - Tibetan original
By check or money order:
Make check to the order of White Lotus Buddhist Center
(in the memo please note the Building Fund)
Mail to White Lotus Buddhist Center, P.O. Box 10384, Rochester, NY 14610
By international bank transfer:
Bank: Advantage Federal Credit Union
70 Metro Park, Rochester NY 14623
Phone: 1-585-454-5900
Acct name: White Lotus Buddhist Center
Acct #: 927631
Routing #: 222382292
Swift Code: AFCUUS33