Sacred Texts Brought to Local Buddhist Center

May 5, 2010

Author: Shawn Dagle

Source: The Middletown Press

http://www.middletownpress.com/articles/2010/05/05/news/doc4be0f82f9fcbd905503029.txt

Prayers, blessings and a group of 50 or more expectant followers welcomed a collection of Buddhism’s most sacred texts to the Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center Sunday morning.

In a human chain that spread nearly a half block along downtown Main Street, where the center is located, the sacred texts — including the Kangyur, made up of Buddha’s 100 pronouncements, and the Tangyur, a collection of associated Indian commentaries — were brought to the center’s shrine room, where they will be kept in two special cabinets built on a newly-constructed altar to Lord Buddha.

The texts, which number 313 in total, were handed in twos and threes to those lined up outside the center so they could be carried from where they were previously stored, at the home of Khensur Lobsang Tenzin Rinpoche, the resident teacher at the Buddhist center.