As part of our mission and objectives to continue and preserve the Vajrayana traditions, the Four Corners Foundation has created various funds. For those who wish to help preserve the unbroken transmission of the Vajrayana tradition, 100% of any donation goes for that purpose and is tax deductible. If they want, donors may specify how and where they would like to see such funds used, to the extent of whether the donation is used for the continuance of the Wisdom Traditions, or for the health, education, and welfare of Tibetan people: children, nuns and others in need who support the Vajra Dharma.
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Four Corners Foundation General Fund
Including our costs and activities in USA, India, China, and Tibet.
Holy Caves of Padmasambhava Fund
For the activities of the religious community of Lama Wangdor Rimpoche, including the support of practitioners doing retreat in the caves and of children and nuns who have fled from Tibet, as well as the construction of a statue of Padmasambhava (Guru Rimpoche) and dharma center overlooking Tso Pema (Lotus Lake) in India.
Kathok Shedrup Ling (Kadak Choying Monastery Fund)
This fund supports the work of Lingtrul Rinpoche of the Nyingma Lineage. The Tra Ling Monastery in Golok, Tibet is the main seat of Lingtrul Rinpoche. This monastery houses over 1000 monks and nuns as well as supporting the surrounding community of lay practitioners. On the grounds of the monastery is a school that provides food, shelter, clothing and education (non-religious) for many children.
Tashi Jong Charitable Trust Fund
This fund helps support the work of H.H. Khamtrul Rinpoche at the Tashi Jong Monastery of the Drukpa Kagyu Lineage.
VajraDharma Chakra Fund
This fund was set up to help fund the work of Drugu Choegyal Rinpoche.
Kachod Ling Fund
Fund supporting the projects of Khandro Thrinlay Chodon.
Dzogchen Urgyen Dedrolling Monastery Fund
Thubten Jigdral Rinpoche is establishing a Shedra, a monastic Lama’s college, in Yanglesho, Nepal. A Shedra teaches the study of philosophy, logic, epistemology, psychology, and other Buddhist Arts, Letters and Sciences. Its curriculum lasts for 5 to 12 years and is similar to obtaining a secondary education diploma as well as a Bachelor’s Degree. Such training is a necessary preparation for more advanced degrees, such as becoming a Khenpo, or doctor of Buddhist Philosophy, Yoga and Internal Energetic Arts & Sciences; or for doing a retreat or higher learning in the Ritual Arts and Sciences.
Thubten Jigdral Rinpoche’s mother monastery is the Dzogchen Monastery. He is the incarnation of Khenpo Nawang Norbu, who was the father of the 6th Dzogchen Rinpoche. He has studied with many Lamas. Thubten Jigdral Rinpoche graduated from the Lhodrak Kharchhu Buddhist Institute in Bumthang, Bhutan. From the Maha Yogi and Dzogchen master Chatral Rinpoche he received the Lineage of Longchen Nyingthig that descends through Nyoshul Khenpo Ngakchung Palzang of the Nyoshul Monastery, and who also studied at the Dzogchen Monastery under Lama Mipham. From the H.H. Chatral Rinpoche Thubten Jigdral Rinpoche also received the Dudjom Tersar Lineage.
We provide educational programs to elucidate the views, and meditation disciplines to implement those views, so that one may traverse the various paths leading to the fruit, i.e. the revelation of the intelligent naked awareness of the Natural Mind.
From sacerdotal functions of religious services and empowerments, to seminars on:
- Calming the thoughts and emotions
- Having a conscious, lucid, waking dream
- Transforming the energy of emotional disturbances
- Transferring the consciousness at the time of death
Various activities and programs are provided in the U.S. Furthermore, such educational programs and disciplines continue the already existing dialogue and integration of ideas and paradigms with the psychiatric, psychological, religious, and other helping professions. We also provide support for Buddhist practitioners of the Vajrayana Buddhist Wisdom Traditions. Such support is necessary and important to insure no break in the lineage of the Traditions, and its mastery by individuals capable of resonating and transmitting the essence of the Wisdom. Their survival provides practitioners and scholars, as well as the public at large, with representatives able to impart the Tradition’s wealth of accomplishment.
To promote happiness, health, harmony, balance and clarity in the minds, attitudes, and bodies of individuals and their environment. In physics it is said that every action has its equal and opposite reaction. In the Bible it is written, as you sow, so shall you reap. Whether one applies the laws of physics or of the Bible or of the Dharma, the negative energy released via human intentions manifests the frustrating struggles of becoming and suffering.
Emotions and the imagery of the mind have been thought of as animated vibratory states. They have been poetically and scientifically described in various shades such as light or heavy, radiant or dull, colorful or gray, bright or dark, dissident or harmonious, balanced and unbalanced. Harnessing and transforming the energies of darker attitudes and emotions into lighter more blissful states can open the potential for insight, recognition, freedom and wisdom. Acting on and following the negative duller emotions and images leaves the residue described in Buddhism as the six realms of Samsara and the struggles for rebirth described in the Sidpa Bardo.
Lacking the clarity of wisdom and erring or straying from one's Essential Nature, one falls into lesser realms and becomes trapped in the resultant residue created by the negative habits of one's own conditioned and afflicted mind. Thus, the clarity and the transparency of the Nature of Mind is obscured and made opaque. To Awaken, realize and make conscious the inherent human potential of Liberation and Enlightenment, is a way to stop the erring and its negative consequences. Recognition of the Nature of Mind can lead to Liberation if one can keep the continuity of that recognition.
We provide the access, education, skill and means, so individuals may find the keys to transform ignorance and instinctive compulsions of attachment and aggression into intuitive wisdom, the Pure Vision of Enlightened Body, Speech, and Mind. This is not a mission to proselytize; it remains the responsibility of each person to find their individual liberation, freedom and enlightenment. Nevertheless, we support the growth and compassionate welfare of all beings. We endeavor to promote the Health, Education and Welfare of all beings and to stop the suffering in the Human condition.