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 2010 Peace Festival Date to Be Announced Soon!

For five years, Rinpoche and the Ewam Montana sangha has produced a peace festival in Arlee. Each year we bring the surrounding community together to celebrate Peace at the site of the Garden of One Thousand Buddhas.  This special place has been dedicated to Peace and, when completed, will display 1,000 buddha statues, 1,000 trees, 1,000 stupas, medicinal plants, a reflective pond, walkways and benches.  Currently, in  the center stands a 24 foot statue of the mother of all buddhas, Prajnaparamita (Tib. Yum Chenmo) and four buddhas sitting on thrones in each of the four directions.  This year, just in time for the Festival, a long awaited 40 foot steel and copper canopy will be erected over Yum Chenmo. For more information on the Garden, please visit www.ewambuddhagarden.com.

This Garden is being built for everyone, as a refuge, and as a potent symbol of the innate human nature of love and compassion.  This garden will help create Peace.  It is to be a center for people from all religions and walks of life to gather and reflect on our ability and duty to be peacemakers.  The means to acquire peace in our lives and world may be debated, but the goal of peace is shared by everyone.  We hope that you may be able to participate in any way possible.  We sincerely believe that events and inspirational opportunities like this one are important.  We can make a difference.  Please join with us in creating peace in the world.