My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you for your kind email, I am sorry for the delay.

Regarding ordination, it comes out best for you to still wait a little while, so not to become ordained now, but later, next year or the year after.

Regarding your other question, it comes out to try to develop the place and if possible to slowly start a monastery and for it to be with FPMT. That is best according to my observation. After ordination, for you to be on the property came out best if there is no other monastery in the country you are in.

The most important thing is having a bodhicitta motivation for becoming a monk and also for the place to be useful. [You need] bodhicitta motivation in order to free the numberless sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric suffering and bring them to peerless happiness, buddhahood, therefore you need to achieve buddhahood, so you can do all these activities.

If the property is to be a monastery then it’s very, very important before any building work to do pujas beforehand and bless the ground, asking permission of the landlords, etc. There are things that need to be done properly, so the monastery can succeed well. You need to do things properly so that the monastery is not just active for one or two years and then disappears and is lost, not like that.

To build a monastery, of course one thing is money, but you also need to know how to do it the proper way. That means doing the correct pujas, the different earth and landlord pujas, and to start building the monastery in the right place on the property on the right day. Even details down to the shape of monastery; all these aspects are very important. It’s not just a simple thing like building a square house. Regarding the size, of course, that is according to what you need.

Please make your life most meaningful with the thought of bodhicitta day and night and in every action you do.

With much love and prayers ...