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It was an exciting first year for the Europe Center, and already there are lots of new plans for this year. Friends from many different countries are coming together to continue meeting and working on various projects including restoration, planning, construction, and vision development.

One of the biggest projects was assigned to us by H.H. the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa himself, during his visit to the EC last summer. Seeing the many beautiful, small and large Buddha statues at the EC, he expressed the wish that all of them be filled before the 2009 International Summer Course. He told us: “Filling these precious statues will be like filling a stupa.”

In order for the statues to unfold their full blessing power, it is important that they be filled using the correct traditional methods, before being blessed by our Lamas. This of course means lots of work – and it is a great project for all of us to share. With the Europe Center being the heart of all Diamond Way Centers around the globe, it will be very meaningful for all centers to actively help filling them, and take part in this event. The idea is, that the filling of the statues will be accomplished by involving and drawing on the power and activity of every country.

The various preparations, including cleaning the statues, will take place from May 8 – 15, 2009 at the EC. The actual filling of the statues, which will be a shared effort, and happen under the guidance of our authorized statue fillers, will take place during the week of May 18 – 24. Everyone, regardless of prior experience, is warmly invited to come and help during these weeks, please register by emailing: join {at} europe-center(.)org

If you are not able to make the trip, your Sangha can also help support this project remotely: The filling of each statue requires many mantra rolls and gifts to the Buddhas. If your Sangha would like to help with the preparation of mantra rolls, please send an email to: ec-statues {at} europe-center(.)org.

For the gifts to the Buddhas everyone can help by collecting jewelry, semi-precious stones, gold, and silver, and deliver them to the Europe center at the beginning of May, together with all your mantra rolls.

We look forward to sharing this big event with everyone!

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