Living installation of Guru Padmasambhava and Bodhisattva Tara statues at the Pali and Sanskrit Cultural Exchange Center

With the aspiration to gladden the Dharmadvipa with the true Dhamma, statues of the great master Padmasambhava and Bodhisattva Tara, brought from Nepal, were enshrined in a living installation at the Pali and Sanskrit Cultural Exchange Center.

Blessed by the Buddha’s dispensation, the living installation took place on Monday, August 4, at 10:00 a.m., at an auspicious time. The sacred images, cast in bronze with a combined weight of about 500 kilograms, were airlifted from Nepal to Sri Lanka approximately a month in advance.

To consecrate the images as ‘living’ four Vajrayana bhikkhus, together with powerful khanḍro (dakini) practitioners, undertook continuous day-and-night recitations of ancient mantras spanning millennia, enshrined sacred sutras, and performed a series of traditional Buddhist rituals. A large gathering of monks and lay devotees from Sri Lanka and abroad joined hands in goodwill to offer puja and homage to these venerable, newly consecrated statues.