We invite you
to help us make these changes to our center with donations of
money, time, materials, and expertise.These two projects are
being done on a small budget.
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Dennis Eleogram is an architectural stone cutter. He has been a Memphis area artist for 21 years and was the artist in residence at Christie Cut Stone Co. for 12 years. |
We have built the
outside and are now working on the inside of our new meditation
hall. This hall seats 70 people on cushions and chairs. Now we
are working on electricity before we start the drywall and then
the floor. In the early spring we will add new gardens around
the building and make walkways from the sangha house and parking
areas.
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Khenpo Gawang Rinpoche's Birthday Present: Khen Rinpoche has expressed a great wish to have a statue of Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) on a lotus seat carved and placed on the land at the center. A local sculptor, Dennis Eleogram, will be working closely with Khen Rinpoche in creating the statue and has donated his time to the center. The limestone block large enough to carved a 3 foot high seated Guru Rinpoche on a 1 foot high lotus seat will cost $1450 (with a large discount). |
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This is our first meditation hall. Now it is the sangha house with two bathrooms, a kitchen, meeting/office room, children's room and library. Here sangha members can practice, transcribe, read, eat, and meet each other. We will use our old shrineroom for classes and small practice sesssions. |
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Starting this Friday night, a box for donations toward this project will be in the back of the shrine room and will be presented to Rinpoche on his birthday as a group gift. A card to sign will also be available. Donations can also be sent to our mailing address: Pema Karpo Meditation Center, 111 South Highland #408, Memphis, TN 38111 |
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We are a federally recognized non-profit 501c3 organization. Donations are tax exempt according to law.