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The Relic Collection

Relics of Buddha

Head Relics of Buddha

Relic of Lama Yeshe

Relics of Maudgalyayana

All his life, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has been collecting sacred relics offered by buddhist masters around the world. His Holiness the Dalai Lama has offered eight relics of Shakyamuni Buddha to the collection. Eventually the entire collection will be enshrined inside the Maitreya Buddha statue being built in India.

From time to time, visitors at Relic Tour events offer to the collection, relics with which they themselves have been entrusted. Their intention is that many others may benefit.

This incredible generosity and kindness means that the collection is becoming larger and more varied, now including masters from many different buddhist traditions. This reflects the Relic Tour's non-sectarian approach and universal message.

So, as the Tour travels around the globe, this sacred collection is constantly evolving and growing.

There follows below, more information about the holy relics presently in the collection:

• Kasyapa Buddha
  Kasyapa Buddha was the third of the 1,000 buddhas of this Fortunate Aeon
• Shakyamuni, the Historical Buddha
  The historical Buddha, who gained enlightenment under the bodhi tree in Bodhgaya, India
• Shakyamuni Buddha's Disciples
  Maudgalyayana, Ananda, Sariputra, Kondanna and Rahula
• Nagarjuna
  The great Indian buddhist pandit
• Bodhisattva Chophak
  A great master who was known for his steadfast guru devotion
• Yeshe Tsogyel
  A 9th century Tibetan princess and meditator
• Lama Atisha
  The most learned scholar at Nalanda Monastery in India
• Milarepa
  A great Tibetan meditation master and lineage founder
• Geshe Chekhawa
  A Tibetan meditation master who developed the realisation of bodhicitta
• Lama Tsongkhapa
  The founder of the Gelug tradition of Tibetan buddhism
• Gyalwa Ensapa
  A great Kadampa master from Tibet
• His Holiness the First Karmapa
  The spiritual leader of the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan buddhism
• Pabongka Rinpoche
  A great master of the Gelug tradition of Tibetan buddhism
• Lama Thubten Yeshe
  A great buddhist master and founder of Maitreya Project
• Gwang-Chin Master
  Master Gwang-Chin was born Huang Wen Lai in 1892
• His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche
• His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa
• Terma Relics
• Kondanna
• Rahula
• Vajrasattva Sky Relic
• Relics from 500 Arhats
• Longchenpa
• Marpa the Translator
• Jamyang Chokyi Lödro
• Rigdzin Trinley
• Chokgyur Lingpa (Chöling) Tertön
• Master Seong-cheol Sunim