Highly devoted brave-hearted bodhisattva, carrying the task of liberating sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric suffering and bringing them to full enlightenment, Dharma friend, __ Rinpoche,

First let me express my gratitude for your unbelievable hard work and kindness towards the Maitreya Project and the relic tour. This is a great help to me and also to all the people of Kalmyk.

I am extremely happy that many people took the opportunity to see the relics and to hear that there was great benefit. I guess it shows how much devotion people there have towards the Buddha. This means there is an incredible opportunity to develop Buddhism in this country, to actualize the graduated path to enlightenment. If there is great devotion everything can happen.

In the sutra Konchog Tala, it is said by Buddha:

Devotion is like the mother
Which generates or gives birth to all the qualities,
Protects all the qualities and makes all the qualities to increase.

Devotion signifies like the city of happiness and goodness,
Devotion makes very calm and clear the water without distortion,
Devotion is like the wealth treasure and supreme leg,
Like a hand collecting, it is the root of the collection of virtue.

Also it is said that people who do not have devotion have no white dharma arising.

Abandoning pride becomes the root of respect,
Abandoning pride and doubt liberates from the four great rivers,
The rivers of wrong views, craving and desire and ignorance.

In the Sutra of Ten Dharmas it is said: “The person who doesn’t have devotion is like the burnt seed; the blue stem doesn’t arise.”

I see people with so much devotion to the guru, Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. These people are incredibly lucky and will have all the success, not only temporal but up to complete enlightenment. It is an incredible thing for you to help with. Your help has been a great support in bringing the people to enlightenment. This becomes the basis to do many good things. It helps them and the country and the world as well as all sentient beings. They will be so happy.

So, yes, I definitely would like to come and visit. I just wanted to mention this and we can see what can be done in the future.

I think you may have heard that some of the relics radiated light —the Lama Tsongkhapa relics, as well as some others and also the relics of Geshe Lama Konchog, the highly attained teacher from Kopan.

Thank you for all your great kindness. I highly appreciate your activities in Russia.

With greetings and numberless thanks from my heart...