Sampa Lhundrup recitation

India, September 27th

Greetings to all,

As many of you already know, during his stay in Drophan Ling this summer, His Holiness Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche recommended the recitation of 111.111 times Sampa Lhundrub to be performed to help in the process of finding the Tulku of our beloved Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche. At the same occasion Rinpoche invited the sangha to do the same.

Regarding the first advice, the Chhimed Rigdzin Society has already received some donations to start the recitations and arrangements are being made to start on October 14th, 2008 (Full Moon Day). Ten of our lamas here will be able to take part in the recitation and are very interested to do so. Making some tests with them we found out that it would take seven hours to recite 150 times the Sampa Lhundrubma prayer for one lama. So in order to match the target of 111.111 recitations it will be necessary to invite another 30 lamas at Khordong Byangter Gompa for 17 to 21 days. In this way the full recitation can be done at our Rinpoche’s Gompa, which will be an honor as well as a way to fulfill our duty as it will be performed for the benefit of our Rinpoche and his sangha.
It will require organizing the transportation, accommodation, food and offerings to the extra 30 lamas, as well as the purchase of tsog, Sampa Lhundrub prayer flags and so on.

Due to our winter program which includes two more events this year, we need to start the recitations mid-October, which is very soon and giving you a very short notice. Budget wise another 3200 euros are necessary to cover the whole cost. Hopefully such amount can be collected on time. Those of you who are willing to sponsor this very important recitation for the Swift return of Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche can contact us directly and we will tell you how to send the money and to whom.

Regarding H.H Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche invitation to the sangha to recite 111.111 Sampa Lhundrub as well. We know some of you have already organized something, so that each and everyone can contribute by reciting the prayers from home and counting the accumulation. This collective accumulation of Sampa Lhundrub recitation as a sangha is very important and we wish that the recitation being made from Khordong Byangter Gompa will motivate all of you to join as much as you can in the recitation from wherever you are. Please accumulate as many prayers as you can everyday as your daily practice until the target of 111.111 is reached. Regarding the details on the coordination of counting the accumulation in each country, we would appreciate from those involved to share with us how they got organized and who centralizes the collective accumulation for each country, so that we know and can help you spread the information widely as it concerns all of Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche’s students and whoever felt connected to him.

May both recommendations from H.H Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche be fulfilled and may this collective effort help accomplishing all the wishes of Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche, and finding his reincarnation with a long life and successful enlightened activities.

Yours in the Dharma,

Tulku Ugen