Join us in making 2013 the Year of the Sangdo Palri Temple, a year in which we focus our energy, aspirations, intention, and outreach to others, on making great progress on the Temple project. We aim not only for progress in the construction, but equally in creating awareness about the Temple in the larger world. (Read more about plans for this year, or watch the video above.)

We all need refuge – somewhere to turn for moments of quiet and peace or to be part of a bigger vision that relieves our self-focus. The Sangdo Palri Temple will be a spiritual focal point – one of so many around the world – that will provide this sense of stability and sanity to those with the longing to awaken, to passersby, to all who come into contact with it.

As Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche recently noted, the United States plays an important role in world peace and economic and social stability. If the US is stable, the world is stable, he pointed out. The Sangdo Palri Temple being located here in the US, then, becomes a source of that stability that can radiate out to the larger world.

Projects of this nature require the inspiration and financial support of many. Please join with hundreds around the globe who are giving support to this project. This year we seek to complete the exterior of the Temple, which has two aspects: to fully protect the building from the elements by finishing the roofs, which are now simply covered with a temporary material, and to seal the exterior with stucco. In both cases the temporary material covering them have a limited life span, especially in the intense sun and weather of southern Colorado.

If 3000 of us out of the thousands who are aware of the Temple Project give just $9 a month, or $108 this year, we will raise $318,000 toward our goal of $520,000. Give Now.