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We have started the project of constructing the Stupa in the Dzogchen community retreat center Paldenling  in the low Beskids. We count on your generosity and encourage you to participate in the project.

Project Stupa in Paldenling

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  • 61 200,00 

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Today, i.e., September 2024, we have completed the first stage of the Paldenling stupa project, i.e., we have managed to raise the entire amount needed for this miniature stupa made of precious metals filled with relics and blessed. This stupa will be placed in the Gompa of the Paldenling Retreat Center.

We have started the project of constructing the Stupa in the Dzogchen community retreat center Paldenling  in the low Beskids. We count on your generosity and encourage you to participate in the project.

In the Karmavibhanga Sutra, it is said:

The Buddha spoke to the young Brahmin Shuka:
They are eighteen benefits of building a Tathagata Stupa. What are these eighteen?

  • One will be born as the child of a great king.
  • One will have a noble body.
  • One will become very beautiful and very attractive.
  • One will have sharp sense faculties.
  • One will be powerful and famous.
  • One will have a great entourage of servants.
  • One will become a leader of men.
  • One will be a support to all.
  • One will be renowned in the ten directions.
  • One will be able to express oneself in words and verses extensively.
  • One will receive offerings from men and gods.
  • One will possess many riches.
  • One will obtain the kingdom of a universal monarch.
  • One will have long life.
  • One’s body will be like a collection of vajras.
  • One’s body will be endowed with the major marks and the minor signs (of a Buddha).
  • One will take rebirth in the three higher realms.
  • One will swiftly attain complete nirvana.

These eighteen points are the benefits of building a Tathagata Stupa.

In the Manjushri Mula Tantra, it is said:

If one builds a Stupa with one’s own hands in order to purify one’s body, one will be able to do so, even if one has committed the five heinous crimes. If one builds one hundred thousand Stupas, one will become the Universal Ruler of all Knowledge-Holders, completely understanding all scriptures and being endowed with skills and wisdom during an abiding Aeon. After death, one will always be born as a king and never go to the three lower realms. Like the sun rising in a central country, one will be endowed with all sense faculties, retaining what one has learned and remembering one’s former lives.

In the Sutra called “ Casket of Secret Relics”, it is said:

The Bhagavan spoke:
Vajrapani! If one writes this Dharma teaching and places it inside a Stupa, that Stupa will become the quintessential vajra relic of all  the Tathagatas. It will become a Stupa blessed with the secret Dharani essence of all Tathagatas. It will become a Stupa of ninety-nine Tathagatas, just as many as there are sesame seeds in a sesame pot. It will be blessed as a Stupa which contains the eyes and Ushnisha of all Tathagatas.

Whoever places images of the Buddha in a Stupa, that person will be blessed with the nature of the seven precious jewels of the Tathagata images. Whoever pays reverence and respect to this Stupa, will become non-returners and will eventually completely and perfectly awaken to the unsurpassed and utterly perfect enlightenment.

Even if one offers only one prostration or makes one single circumambulation, one will be completely freed from going to places like the Avici Hell. One will never fall away from the (path to) unexcelled and completely perfect enlightenment. Also the area around this Stupa and images will be blessed by all Tathagatas.

In the Saddharma Pundarika Sutra, it is said:

Walls are built from mud and bricks and a Stupa of the Jina is made likewise.
Therefore, even if it is built from heaps of dust;
Whoever builds a Stupa for the sake of the Jina, in remote places of suffering;
Even if it is made of a heap of sand, by children playing games;
(The builder) will reach enlightenment.

The benefit of presenting offerings (to a Stupa) are stated in the Sutra requested by Prasenajid:

If one washes white a Buddha Stupa:
One will have a long life in the worlds of gods and men.
One’s body and mind will be free from sickness.
One will overcome all suffering.
One will attain permanent happiness and will be wealthy.

If one rings a bell in front of a Buddha Stupa:
One will have charismatic speech and great fame.
One will gain the pleasant voice of Brahma and remember one’s previous lives.

Whoever among the scholars, turns his mala with a devoted mind in front of a Sugata Stupa:
Will be well presented with many precious golden malas.
Will attain various ornaments.
And will become the foremost among the meritorious and fortunate ones.

Whoever offers to a Stupa of the Jina, the sound of music:
Will gain perfect confidence in profundity and knowledge.
One will have a perfect physical form and a pure mind and speech.
One’s speech will fill the world

If people fix various beautiful banners at an essential reliquary (Stupa), which is the source of immaculate merit, they themselves will receive offerings as they are now an offering field for the three worlds.

If one fixes streamers at a Sugata Stupa,
One will become a glorious ruler of men.
One will become a powerful ruler of gods and will experience great bliss.
One will attain the special streamer of complete liberation.

If one cleans a Buddha Stupa:
One will become beautiful and attractive.
One will have a noble face and the complexion of a lotus.
One will be completely free from defects of samsara.

Whoever cleans the dust around a Stupa, with clean water in the spring time, will be pleasantly fanned by ladies holding golden handled fans.

Concerning the benefits of prostrating and circumambulating a Stupa, it is said in the Avalokiteshvara Sutra:

If one pays respect kneeling before a Buddha Stupa:
One will become a heroic and powerful world monarch.
One will have an armor with golden emblems.
One will become a powerful teacher and take delight in the Buddhas.

In the Saddharma Pundarika Sutra, it is said:

Whoever joins their palms before a Stupa, whether with two hands or just one;
Whoever just one time bows their body, or even briefly bends their head;
Whoever prostrates or merely says “Buddha” with a distracted mind, whether once or several times before places where relics are kept;
That one will attain supreme enlightenment.

In the Caitya Pradakshina Ghata, it is said:

The qualities of circumambulating a Stupa of the Protector of the World cannot be described properly with mere words.

Name Donate Amount Date
Dariusz Bubik 1 000,00  January 14, 2025
Anna Dębska 100,00  December 02, 2024
Katarzyna Chojnacka 100,00  November 20, 2024
Anonymous 10 000,00  November 09, 2024
24 313,71  November 08, 2024
Przemyslaw Kazmierczak 200,00  May 24, 2024
Anonymous 100,00  May 23, 2024
Anna Nicyfor Stoykov 100,00  May 23, 2024
VIKTORIYA SOLONITSYNA 500,00  May 23, 2024
1 539,61  May 23, 2024
1 246,68  May 23, 2024
2 000,00  May 20, 2024
9 549,00  May 20, 2024
JAROSŁAW KRZYŻOWSKI 100,00  March 18, 2022
Kamilla Filipczak 108,00  October 05, 2021
Anonymous 1 788,00  August 23, 2021
JAROSŁAW KRZYŻOWSKI 100,00  June 10, 2021
JAROSŁAW KRZYŻOWSKI 100,00  May 26, 2021
PAWEL GARCZYNSKI 500,00  May 22, 2021
Direction Future Irmina Marta Wrona 100,00  March 28, 2021
Agnieszka Modrzejewska 100,00  March 26, 2021
Vicki Nan Sidley 140,00  March 24, 2021
Davide Caforio 100,00  March 20, 2021
Sławomir Błaszczyk 2 000,00  March 02, 2021
Jarosław Krzyżowski 200,00  February 27, 2021
Valerii Shalaev 10,00  January 17, 2021
Tomasz Gałecki 400,00  January 15, 2021
katarzyna kwatro-woźniak 50,00  January 15, 2021
Anonymous 120,00  January 14, 2021
Lisa O'Connor 100,00  January 10, 2021
Burke Tran 100,00  August 13, 2020
Anonymous 80,00  August 09, 2020
Anonymous 50,00  July 03, 2020
JAROSŁAW KRZYŻOWSKI 100,00  June 21, 2020
JAROSŁAW KRZYŻOWSKI 200,00  May 29, 2020
Anonymous 1 600,00  May 27, 2020
Łukasz Bizoń 100,00  March 13, 2020
Radoslaw Gladys 500,00  February 01, 2020
Anonymous 50,00  January 09, 2020
Sławomir Błaszczyk 100,00  December 10, 2019
Jarosław Krzyżowski 100,00  August 04, 2019
JAROSŁAW KRZYŻOWSKI 100,00  July 16, 2019
Andrzej Nehrebecki 200,00  July 04, 2019
Ania Kortus-Kolasa 20,00  July 02, 2019
Artur Rulewski 100,00  July 01, 2019
Anonymous 100,00  July 01, 2019
Marcin Franczyk 20,00  June 30, 2019
Iwona Zawadzka 100,00  June 30, 2019
Anonymous 100,00  June 30, 2019
Krzysztof Wawrzyniak 50,00  June 29, 2019
Burke Tran 145,00  January 08, 2019
Michał Stępniewski 50,00  November 22, 2018
JAROSŁAW KRZYŻOWSKI 100,00  October 31, 2018
Piotr Krawczyk 50,00  October 08, 2018
Andrzej Czerepok 10,00  October 05, 2018
Burke Tran 100,00  September 21, 2018
Jakub Ryška 100,00  September 15, 2018
Marcin Jasiński 10,00  August 24, 2018
Olga Maj 50,00  July 12, 2018
Jerzy Fiuczyński 50,00  July 08, 2018