Starting a Monastery

Starting a Monastery

Date Posted:
April 2011

Rinpoche gave the following advice to some monks wishing to start a monastery. He handwrote the advice on cards.

I have heard that a monastery should not be under or below a road. Then, the monks cannot achieve realizations. There should not be water below the monastery, such as a river, stream, or spring. However, it is very good if the monastery is above the ocean, which is floating around the world, each week arriving in a different country (joking).