Writing the Prajnaparamita & Sanghata Sutra

	If even as many buddhas, blessed ones as there are grains of sand in forty-eight Ganges rivers are unable to express the mass of merit of the one writing it out, what need is there to mention that whoever writes it out or reflects on it or reads it will become a treasury of the Dharma?
–Sanghata Sutra

The Prajnaparamita Sutra contains the highest teachings of the Buddha and is among the most holy of texts. The Sanghata Sutra is considered a dharmakaya relic - the actual presence of the enlightened mind in the world. Both sutras proclaim the benefits of writing them out in order to create vast amounts of merit.

According to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, one of the main causes to create the merit needed to build the Maitreya Statue is writing the Prajnaparamita Sutra in pure gold. Therefore, for many years, Rinpoche has been writing the 8000 verse Prajnaparamita himself, sometimes writing through the night. Since then, at Rinpoche's request, several students started a second copy of the Prajnaparamita (100,000 verses), written on archival quality rainbow paper. Lama Zopa Rinpoche is also writing the Sanghata Sutra in gold, and a student is writing the Vajra Cutter Sutra in pure silver. When the Maitreya Statue is completed, these precious sutra texts will be enshrined in the very heart of the statue.

The merit of writing these sutras is inconceivable, and now we are inviting individuals to share in that merit by contributing to the materials needed to complete this amazing project. The approximate cost of completing the Prajnaparamita Sutra is $160,000, and $15,000 is needed to complete the Sanghata Sutra. Please join us today by contributing to these amazing projects!

	If one was to build  stupas of  The One Gone to  Bliss, who has completely passed into the sorrowless state, with seven types of jewels, and the number of those stupas is that which completely fills worlds equaling the number of sand grains of the Pacific Ocean, multiplied ten thousand million times; if that many worlds are completely filled up with stupas of the One Completely Gone to Bliss and then if all the sentient beings, however many there are in these infinite worlds that could possibly exist, do nothing, no other work other than to offer divine flowers, incense, ornaments, three times a day for eons or even more than that; while all sentient beings offer to all these stupas. But if anyone writes down this Mother Gone to Bliss (Prajnaparimita), where the Guide having ten powers arises from, writes this down and keeps and offers flowers, ornaments, and respect to the Prajnaparamita, compared to the merit of building the stupas and making offerings to them, the merit is incomparable.
– From the Sutra Containing Precious Qualities ‘Yonten Rinpoche Dupa Lay'

Latest News!

Ven. Tsering – a Kopan monk who has been tirelessly working on this project – has now completed the first volume of the Prajnaparamita and is 3/4 of the way finishing the second volume of the Prajnaparamita! Ven.Tsering is writing out the 100,000 verses of the Prajnaparamita (twelve volumes) and has been working on this for the last 10 years. Lama Zopa Rinpoche is extremely pleased with the quality and dedication of his work.

For more information on the Stupa Fund, please contact Ven. Holly Ansett.

The Writing the Prajnaparamita and Sanghata Sutra is a project of FPMT Inc. All donations made to the fund are tax-deductible within the United States in accordance with IRS Code article 501(C)(3) to the extent allowed by law.

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