Temple of All-Encompassing Great Compassion
Seat of His Holiness the Sakya Trizin in the United States

Dear Dharma friends,

Two thousand five hundred years ago, from his infinite compassion and wisdom, Lord Buddha Shakyamuni took birth in this world. From among his inconceivable holy deeds, the most important one for all of us was his teaching of the precious Dharma. Throughout the 25 centuries since, generations of great masters of India and Tibet have preserved the full form of the Buddha's Dharma through the six great activities of study, contemplation, meditation, teaching, debate, and composition. Through these activities, they realized the profound meaning of the teachings and transmitted them without decline through countless generations until this point. Despite the great changes in Tibet, the living masters of the four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism have now completely re-established great temples in India where the full form of the six great acitivies are practiced, and thousands of monks, nuns, and lay people spend their lives in study, practice, and meditation.

During the past 50 years, many Dharma teachers have visitied the West and introduced the Buddha's teaching. Intelligent people are interested in seriously studying and practicing Buddhism, and many Dharma centers have been established in North America and Europe. Out own great teacher, His Holiness the Sakya Trizin has bestowed teachings throughout the United States on a number of occasions.

At the end of His Holiness' visit to North America last summer, he spoke strongly of the importance of helping the Dharma take deeper root in North America by establishing monasteries, nunneries, and temples where both renunciates and lay people can fully devote themselves to study, contemplation, and meditation. Such temples provide a place where teaching, debate, and composition will flourish, and the full form of the six great Dharma activities will become firmly rooted in this new land. His Holiness encouraged all of his North American disciples to exert their best efforts to help establish such institutions.

We now have the unprecedented opportunity to offer service to His Holiness by establishing such a temple as his seat in the United States. I and some of His Holiness' disciples have devoted everything we have to helping His Holiness' vision becom reality. His Holiness has guided us in purchasing a suitable property in a quiet location in upstate New York. Just an hour from New York City, the 5-acre site is a century-old inn.

12 Edmunds Lane
Walden, New York 12586

Official Website: www.sakyatemple.org
Email: info@sakyatemple.org
Correspondence: 354 Prelude Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20901 (301) 589-3115