Center Logo 

Center Logo 

Date Posted:
July 2009

Rinpoche described the following for the logo for a Dharma center.

The logo should have a lotus with many petals, like the type a Buddha statue sits on. There should be big piles of jewels. On top of that is a sutra text. There is sunlight all around.

The explanation is that the lotus is the heart. Through the Buddha’s teachings, delusion is eliminated. The sun signifies eliminating the darkness of delusions, of wrong concepts, karma, true sufferings and resultant sufferings, even subtle defilements, by revealing the complete Mahayana path of sutra and tantra, causing liberation and enlightenment. The piles of jewels signify fulfilling all sentient beings’ wishes for happiness. The whole meaning of the logo is the function of the center. The center is fulfilling the wishes of sentient beings through the Golden Light Sutra and teachings of the Buddha, the Lesser Vehicle, Mahayana Paramitayana teachings, and Mahayana tantra teachings.

The words can be underneath in the form of a banner. It would be good if they could be embossed. You could have yellow paper with red embossed words. If the paper is white, the words can still be embossed in red.