STUPA WITH CHAKRA
"Success depends on how much merit you have accumulated. This applies to success in life
in general, and to success in the practices that you do in order to achieve the ultimate
happiness of liberation and enlightenment. The whole of your success depends on your
merit.
"The benefits you receive from building a stupa equal the number of atoms of the stupa, and
these benefits exist as long as the stupa exists. Sentient beings accumulate extensive merit by
making offerings to holy objects, and from this merit happiness comes.
"As soon as a thangka or statue of the Buddha or stupa is completed, in that very second it
becomes an object with which one can create the causes of happiness. Having one or more
holy objects gives sentient beings one more opportunity to create merit.
"The purpose of making holy objects is not only so that the person who makes them can
complete their collection of merit; it also gives many other sentient beings, who do not have
the karma actually to meet Buddha and make offerings to him, the opportunity to make
offerings to the holy body, holy speech, holy mind. In this way sentient beings make a
connection with Buddha and accumulate the merit of having actually made offerings to
Buddha. This connection with Buddha is very important."
"The continued existence and flourishing of the teachings of the Buddha depend upon the
continued existence of the holy objects of Buddha.
The Stupa Funds covers all the expenses for the material to make the tsa-tsas. This is something amazing to rejoice in, every day new holy objects are being made as well as extensive prayers. This is something you can also participate in by donating any amount … How amazing!
Left-over bones after the cremation are collected, and a monk grinds them into powder that is used to make miniature stupas (usually 108) that are put in auspicious places for the person’s spirit. The clay stupas have a hole in them in which the ashes are put.
These are miniature stupas, made of earth pressed into metal moulds, and they are called Tsa-Tsas.
