Founding donor’s day

Celebration of Venerable Chodron’s 30 years as a monastic

• Expressing respect and gratitude for Venerable Thubten Chodron’s teachings and guidance, 30 years of monastic life, and the founding of Sravasti Abbey
• Offering of mandala and White Tara practice, wishing Venerable Chodron a long and healthy life and requesting for her teachings and guidance in this and all future lives until Enlightenment

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How Sravasti Abbey came into existence

• Venerable Chodron’s ordination and early years as a monastic
• Valuing the opportunity to live in monastic communities and constantly receive teachings from her teachers
• Ribur Rinpoche’s advice to start a monastic community on her own
• Selection and significance of the name “Sravasti Abbey”
• Reasons for wanting to have both monks and nuns at the Abbey
• How a Buddha statue and the thangkas of Manjusri and Maitreya were offered to the Abbey
• The Kangyur and Tangyur procured through fortuitous circumstances even before a home was found for the Abbey
• Series of events resulted in the abbey finding its current home
• The need for more buildings for growing Sravasti Abbey community

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Building the monastic residence

• The need for space and outlines of building projects, the first of which is the construction of the monastic residence
• Questions and answers with Tim Wilson, an architect who designed the monastic residence
• Expressing gratitude to donors and helpers especially the local and Coeur d’Alene volunteers and invitation to receive gifts from Venerable Chodron

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Aspirations

• The aspirations of founding donors and supporters
• Venerable Chodron’s talk on the power of aspiration
• Prayer recitation
• Sample of the 85 prayers of aspirations submitted by some of Sravasti Abbey’s founding donors and supporters
• The procession to escort the Buddha statue to its new home in the garden

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