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About the Milarepa Land Trust
http://flyingmonks.blogspot.com/


We're a  non-profit group dedicated to the development of Buddhist sites and Himalayan content across Second Life. With homage to 2000-year  Indo-Tibetan traditions, we build and manage temples, hermitages and other forms of rich content that are intended to engage Second Lifers with an expansive virtual experience, based on real-life sites and teachings.

Current Milarepa locations include:


HQ for the Milarepa Land Trust, a mountain retreat of Tibet's greatest masters just outside of Lhasa. Includes new yoga ashram, see below. 
Resident lay monk: Tenzin Tuque


A Green Tara Temple from the 11th century, uniquely well-preserved in RL and offering Green Tara's compassion and healing in SL
Resident lay nun: Sophia Caligari


In partnership with the most excellent Support For Healing group, this Medicine Buddha temple promotes meditation, healing and holistic medicine  in  Second Life. 
Resident lay monk: Folk Singer

New for 2006! Second Life's first yoga ashram
 
Under development in the skies over Zoe is a three-dimensional mandala. We're launching a new yoga studio in partnership with SL's  Real Yoga group (http://real-yoga.blogspot.com/), dedicated to the enjoyment of all forms of yoga. Animations, video and other rich content to come. 
Resident yogi: Uni Waves

Everyone is welcome! 
Please contact the resident monk or nun for information on upcoming site events or features. We're still building in SL, and please be patient if any of our sites is still under construction. (Everything is transitory, as they say.)

As in RL, fidelity and respect to dharma (Buddhist teachings) is paramount. We do not role-play as geshes (learned monks with degrees from established tantric colleges ), rinpoches or proffer teachings beyond what we're individually able to provide in good conscience as lay practitioners. That said,  everyone  in Buddhism is still a student at some level. We're not here to evangelize or cloister true-believers. Besides, that's boring!

Instead, the starting point is this: Everyone, yes everyone, has that a grain of perfection -- a fully-realized, enlightened buddha -- within them, and our development of Second Life content reflects the essential optimism of core dharma teachings. So weather we attempt to re-build of an 8th century temple or launch a few monks sky-diving, the focus ultimately remains on this expansive vision, one that regards human potential with near-limitless possibility. (Heck, you can fly in SL, survive hunger, cold, fire, rez objects at will -- your in-world avatar already emulates the temporal abilities of a highly-realized yogi or yogini...)


Get involved! You can help!
Come and visit anytime. We do not charge for anything, ever, and everything is open to all.  But we do rely on the contributions of many commited folk, as Second Life is, like much of real life, definitely not free-of-charge. 

There are a number of ways you can help, donate or become more involved in this not-for-profit experiment in virtual dharma and rich content. You can become a patron, a donor, a volunteer, a bystander -- whatever suits you best! 

If you would like to host a stupa or monastery on your own land, for example, we can deliver and build  from RL specs. Our focus is Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and Himalayan culture in general,  but we look forward to collaborating on Chinese and Mongolian projects -- the sacred Chinese Island of Puto Shan, Mongolia's remote monastery of Baldan Baraivan, obscure but important cave sites across the Himalayas. Tenzin Tuque and other SLers have been there and are attempting to  bring these sublime, powerful and inspiring places to Second Life.

We accept, money,  land and tier (land rent) donations. In fact, if you are a monthly paid member and either do not own land or have spare tier capacity to lend, we would most welcome any contributions! (Tier cost is a major concern of non-profit groups in Second Life, partially because grassroots groups can't compete with casinos and strip clubs for SL's traffic-based  developer incentives,  so make sure any extra land tier goes to a good cause of you choosing.) 

You can also volunteer. Are you a skilled builder with Buddhist sympathies? Are you a bad-ass scripter or animator who can't resist a good thangka? Come work with us to create what hasn't been done before -- visualizations, ambient sound sculptures, experiments with all the building tools SL has to offer. Again, contact Tenzin Tuque in-world about collaborations and commissions.

We're also recruiting qualified lay monks and nuns for on-site residencies for current and future projects. We want people living, gathering and generally hanging out at our sites -- and we want SLers who can provide some basic guidance and support and hospitality for visitors as one's schedule permits. If you are a RL lama, a dharma practitioner, or someone with a keen interest in Buddhism, give us a shout.

Finally, please join the Buddhists of SL group for future updates and event notices. Or, for non-joiners of all persuasions, there is the Flying Monks blog: http://flyingmonks.blogspot.com/
as well as the Buddhists of SL forums page: http://forums.secondlife.com/forumdisplay.php?f=245

Tashi Delek! 

Tenzin Tuque
Milarepa Land Trust
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Who is Milarepa Anyway? 


"Milarepa (1052 - 1135) is one of the most famous figures in Tibetan history.  In his youth, he had been a magician, but having seen the futility of that pursuit, he became a yogi under the strict guidance of the translator, Marpa of Lhobrag (1012-97.) He left to live as a cave-dwelling hermit, and became known as a singer of many dohas, or songs of devotion and wisdom.  Also an accomplished teacher, he attracted students who later went on also to found important lineages. 

His biography, in which he overcomes the adversity of pride and self-concern (which  led to vengeful destructive acts of magic) to finally achieve enlightenment, has been told many times. [...] After years of self-imposed isolation to atone for the murder and mayhem committed to avenge wrongs done his mother and sister, he persevered in the practice of Mahamudra and the Six Yogas of Naropa which culminated in his achieving profound realization.  He expressed that attainment in thousands of poems and songs he composed many of which Tibetans know by heart.  They are found in The 100,000 Songs of Milarepa."
http://www.khandro.net/TibBud_Milarepa.htm

Another short summary can also be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milarepa
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