Rinpoche read your email and looked at your photos of the stupa last night. Rinpoche asked that I send you some pictures of the stupas at his house in USA, to give you more of an example of how they should look, especially the base and also how to utilize the base to display many more tsa-tsas, so that people can circumambulate and generate merit. [See Stupas in Everyday Life and How to Make Talking on the Phone Beneficial.]

Rinpoche said also you can have a stupa anywhere where it can be used, so you can go around it even when you are on the telephone, at the office, so you are not wasting time and at least with your body you are collecting merit, because the action of the body is going around the stupa when you are talking. This is an unbelievable way to purify negative karma and create the cause of enlightenment and bodhicitta, at least with your body.

Rinpoche said please see the very easy examples of how to make the stupa very beautiful and inspiring. Rinpoche said please continue to make your life most meaningful with the thought of bodhicitta and he sends you his love and prayers.