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World Legacy Project Foundation Visits with the Tibetan Monks
We were able to attend the final creation of the Medicine Sand Mandala that the Tibetan Monks created as a blessing for the area on their visit to Grass Valley, CA. They have been on tour for 18 months and this is one of their last stops before returning to the Monastery in India. Their purpose for this tour is to raise money for the new medical center in India.
The World Legacy Project Foundation attended the final creation of the Medicine Sand Mandala that the Tibetan Monks created as a blessing for the area on their visit to Grass Valley, CA. They have been on tour for 18 months and this is one of their last stops before returning to the Monastery in India. Their purpose for this tour is to raise money for the new medical center in India.
Venerable Chyampa Napa Lama – Tenzin, was born in 1979 in Nepal. Like thousands of other Tibetan families his family was disrupted and fragmented by the stress of being refugees. He went to school at an early age and joined the monastery in India at the age of ten where he studied Buddhist philosophy, tantric ritual and traditional mystical chants for more than a decade. He studied English and learned to make ritual sand mandala’s. He also volunteered at the monastery health clinic for three years.
Tenzin is the interpreter for on the tour. He is too modest about his language skills and dislikes it when he is introduced as someone who speaks four languages. Tibetan, Hindu, Nepalese and English. The fact remains , this monk is a wonderful communicator and the sound of his laughter fills his hosts homes! On the tour his nick name is James Bond!
When asked about his enjoyment of the tour and his feeling about America, he was truly grateful for the experience and delighted by all the wonderful people he had met.
As for advice his advice to America? Tenzin said, “All material things in the U.S. are great now. Americans need only to control the mind, then this will be the greatest place in the world and Americans will be the happiest people in the world.”
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