According to a growing number of Buddhist masters, the upcoming Iron Dog Year (2030) may usher in a time of extreme difficulty, involving war, famine, mass migration and extreme climactic changes. In order to avert these crises, the great master Padmasambhava instructed us to build stupas and place them around the world. These are to contain blessed relics, sacred substances and various mantras. We have carefully gathered the required materials and placed them in these small stupas with the wish that as many people as possible can participate in helping to avert these calamities. Read more about the predictions here: Predictions

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In Buddhist thought, the term interdependence (Tibetan: tendrel, Sanskrit: pratitya-samutpada) refers to the  teachings on cause and effect, through which the Buddha explained in great detail how all phenomena arise through the coming together of various factors, and not on their own.

First illustrated by the Buddha in terms of the 12 links in the chain of becoming (Sanskrit: nidana), and later graphically portrayed in Tibet as the famous Wheel of Life, the notion of interdependence as the foundation of Buddhist thought was greatly expanded upon by Nagarjuna and others in the first centuries of our era, and became the structural basis of the teachings on emptiness. The concept of emptiness provides the philosophical underpinning of the Mahayana and Vajrayana schools of Buddhist practice, while direct insight into emptiness is the very essence of meditational accomplishment and a key aspect in the attainment of enlightenment.

The most condensed teaching on interdependence is found in the Sutra of Dependent Arising, where it is stated in this way:

All phenomena arise from causes,
Those causes have been taught by the Tathāgata,
And their cessation, too
Has been proclaimed by the Great Ascetic

According to Buddhist history, this statement was given in answer to a question about essence of the Buddha's teachings. It is recorded that the arhat Assaji, one of the Buddha's first five disciples, was asked by Sariputra, at the time a wandering ascetic, what his master taught.  It is reported that Sariputra, simply upon hearing this statement, immediately attained the level of realization known as Stream Entry.

Thus it was discovered that the Yedharma dharani (sometimes referred to as a mantra), as it later became known, is extremely powerful. So powerful, in fact, that its very presence in a tiny stupa is said to grant the person who places such a stupa "in a remote location" an enormous amount of very special merit. This extraordinary type of merit is known as the Merit of Brahma, and enables the person who possesses it to be reborn in the highest of the form realms - a place of inconceivable beauty and enjoyment. Thus we come to the raison d'être and core purpose of the Yedharma project.

Upon discovering and reading the primary Mahayana Sutra detailing the special benefits of the Yedharma dharani, we were moved by the apparent ease with which an otherwise ordinary person might accumulate a massive store of virtue. Simply by placing a small stupa containing this magical formula in an isolated location, one is assured a tremendous benefit. The potential outcome of this simple act is so positive that it seems ill-advised not to undertake it. The Sutra itself is very short and can be read here.

We have had more than 1500 small, weatherproof stupas made, and although most have been sent out, some are still available on the FutureAlchemy.com website. Each stupa contains a copy of the Yedharma dharani along with a tiny relic (ringsel). These relics were offered to us by a devout Singaporean Buddhist, who was given them by a Burmese master who recovered them while repairing an ancient stupa. According to our Singaporean friend, the relics have continuously multiplied since their recovery. All funds generated by this project are being used to support various ongoing Dharma projects. These include the filling and placement of 21 larger stupas in permanent locations around the United States, helping to sponsor a number of very large (15 meters) stupas in Kham, Tibet, built by the contemporary master Terton Rinpoche, supporting practitioners in meditation retreat and so forth.

For more information, please see our page on FutureAlchemy.com.