On May 29th, His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, invited by the His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche, Abbot of the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center in Taiwan, inaugurated the newly established Drikung’s Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center in Kyoto, Japan. Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche particularly went to India to all the way greet His Holiness’s visit trip to Taiwan and then the inauguration trip to Japan. This center, located in Kyoto, Japan, is the first Drikung Kagyu’s center in Japan.
There were around 100 attendees in the grand ceremony, including 40 local guests in Japan, guests from India and Taiwan, and the disciples from the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center in Taiwan. During the inauguration, His Holiness particularly endowed Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche with a sutra and a statue of Buddha Amitayus which was obtained by His Holiness from the sacred land Lapchi Snow Mountain to represent the arrival of Buddha Amitayus and the promising propagation of the continuing lineage of the one-thousand-year-old Drikung Kagyu Order in Japan. His Holiness then led the attendees reciting the doctrine, performed the consecration ritual, and prayed for perfection and auspiciousness in everything.
Furthermore, His Holiness presented each guest from Japan, Taiwan, and India with a thangka bearing his personal signature. The inauguration ceremony was then perfectly completed.
At the end, His Holiness Chetsang Rinpoche led Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche to conduct a fire puja in the yard of the venue. Many auspicious signs appeared during the puja. The rain stopped right before the beginning of the ritual, the fire burned brightly within split second by a blast of strong wind, a cloud in the shape of a dragon appeared in the sky, and the sun shined down on the venue through the cloud near the end of puja, …etc. All the auspicious signs represent the perfect completion of the puja that benefits countless sentient beings, the promising development of Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center in Kyoto, and the future successful propagation of the teachings of Drikung Kagyu in Japan.
Updated on June 7, 2008