County Buddhist Center Raises
Funds For Nepal Quake Victims

COOPERSTOWN – Rangjung Yeshe Gomde‘s website has links for people to donate to the monasteries of the Rinpoche family, who are aiding recovery efforts by providing healthcare and shelter throughout Nepal after the devastating earthquake on Saturday, April 25.

Phakchok Rinpoche founded the Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Meditation Center in 2009, at 412  Glimmerglen Road, outside Cooperstown, and returns yearly to teach.  In 2012, his father, Choklin Rinpoche visited and performed a “Fire Offering” to bring good luck and blessings to Cooperstown.

And now, mediation teacher Matthew Zalichin, on the asking of Phakchok, invites the public to join them for an outdoor “smoke offering” at 5 p.m. each afternoon “first overcome obstacles and negative forces, and then to magnetize more auspicious circumstances for Nepal.”

It is also traditional to light candles or burn incense, which anyone can do privately at home.