Maitreya Buddha Statues Photo Gallery
FPMT News Around the World
In March 2012, FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered 27 Maitreya Buddha statues to FPMT centers, projects and services that wished to have one. The life-size statues are scale replicas of the 150- and 500-foot-tall Maitreya statues that are planned to be built in Bodhgaya and Kushinagar, India, by the Maitreya Project. The statutes are also very similar to the ones that travel with the Heart Shrine Relic Tour. Here are photos of many of the offered statues in their new homes.
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Tags: fpmt centers, maitreya buddha, maitreya project, photo gallery Maitreya Statue, Chokyi Gyaltsen Center, Malaysia, April 2012 |
 Maitreya Statue at Khamlungpa Center, Jalisco, Mexico, April 2012 |
 Just unpacked Maitreya Statue at Centro Nagarjuna Valencia, Spain, April 2012 |
 Recently arrived Maitreya Statue at Centre Kalachakra, France, April 2012 |
 Maitreya Statue at opening of Matireya School, Bodhgaya, India, April 2012 |
 Maitreya Statue at Guhyasamaja Center, Virginia, USA, April 2012 |
 Maitreya Statue at Thubten Shedrub Ling, Victoria, Australia, April 2012 |
 Maitreya Statue in temporary gompa, Thubten Shedrub Ling, Victoria, Australia, April 2012 |
 Maitreya Statue that tours with the Heart Shrine Relic Tour, April 2012 |
 Maitreya Statue at Do-ngak Sung-Juk Center, Tokyo, Japan, April 2012 |
 Matireya at Centro Studi Cenresig, Bologna, Italy, May 2012 |
 Maitreya Statue at Kurukulla Center, Medford, Massachusetts, USA, April 2012 |
 From left: Former Mandala editor Carina Rumrill with Wendy Cook and Nick Ribush of Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive and the archive's new Maitreya Statue, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA, May 2012 |
 Maitreya statue inside the Great Stupa Exhibition Centre where holy objects are exhibited that have been collected for the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, Maiden Gully, Australia, May 2011 |
 Milarepa Center's new Maitreya statue, Barnet, Vermont, USA, May 2012 |
 Milarepa Center offering their gratitude for Lama Zopa Rinpoche's gift of Maitreya, Barnet, Vermont, USA, May 2012 |
 Portrait of new Maitreya statue, Chag-tong Chen-tong Centre, Snug, Tasmania, Australia |
 Maitreya statue at Tubten Kunga Tibetan Buddhist Center for Wisdom Culture, Deerfield Beach, Florida, USA, May 2012 |
 Gendun Drupba Centre's Maitreya, Williams Lake, Canada, May 2012 |
 Maitreya Statue in private home near Los Angeles, June 2012. (This Maitreya is not one of the recently donated statues but in a home of a Maitreya Project benefactor.) |
 Maitreya statue at Hayagriva Buddhist Centre, Kensington, Western Australia, June 2012. |
 Maitreya at Chag-tong Cheng-tong Centre in Snug, Tasmania, Australia, June 2012. |
 Maitreya takes a ride to his new home at Ganden Buddhist Meditation Centre in Riga, Lativa, June 2012. |
 The students of Yeshe Gyaltsen Center in Cozumel, Mexico were ecstactic when Maitreya arrived "alive and well," June 2012. |
 Aryadeva Study Group in St. Petersbrug, Russia offered 1,000 lights to Maitreya, June 2012. |
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