here for the last time some news from the Gompa land.
The butterlamp retreat has been finished on the 17th of Jan. with almost 100 people from the west and 200.000 offered butterlamps. During the whole time there was some hammering and on the 21st of Jan. was the ceremony for the first concrete work done now on the fundament of the Gompa building. Now the fundaments are already covered again and long steal elements pointing to the sky. Sashi and Urgyan hoping to finish the first floor of the building till the next retreat will start, so that we can use it then for that. Therefor they ask for Your good wishes and Your prayers that all hindrances which may occur vanishes.
At Losar on the 6th Feb. was a ceremony for the now ready house of Passan the farm keeper. He has now a nice small house with kitchen and two rooms so that he can stay at the land and take care for it.
Yesterday Rinpoche was on the way to Delhi and he was well. He will come to Europe soon and the first time will be for His recovering and health check up.
His tour is already planed and You can find it on our homepage (www.khordong.de). Look at >Termine< and open the file "tour 2000".
We are also looking for articles for the Khordong newsletter. So please send You commentaries, experiences etc. to Rolf or get with him in connection (>rolf.haberer (ad) t-online.de<)
So far my best wishes from here to You. I hope You are well and we will see each other soon some where in Europe.
Yours
A n d r e a s
andreas (ad) khordong (dot) de
***Email Newsletter February 2000