Mumu’s Buddha Garden
Dear friends, I wanted to share this special space created with you… I’ve been wanting to do this for a while and finally did… I have a open area next to the house. I installed a running area and safety glass around the parameters. And then we put a mini-obstacle course and on top of the obstacles course, placed stupas and Buddhas. It has become Mumu’s Buddha Garden.
It is a space Mumu, Oser, Dharma and their friend Zamkar can play in, enjoy fresh air, run around, sniff around and generally relax. I have three dogs and I love them… This space was created specially for them. As there are blessed Buddha statues and stupas, when they run around they will circumambulate around and plant seeds of enlightenment in their minds. Also purify their karmas. The Buddha statues/stupas are filled with mantras, sutras and images of Buddhas and consecrated also. I want my doggies to have a great place to play and be blessed for a future better rebirth of Dharma…
You see I want to make sure they have a good life, comfortable and happy. That is very important to me. But one day I will have to separate from them and when I do, I want to make sure my three dogs take very good rebirths. So I try to imprint as much dharma as I can for them. So this Buddha Garden is for that purpose and they will have fun at the same time. Each time they run around the obstacle course, they will circumambulate around a holy object planting much seeds fo enlightenment for their future lives… gaining merit and making close affinity to the Buddhas… This way I know I did the best for them now and for their future… I want to make sure they are ok in their future lives also… My love must extend to their future lives which I can impact now with dharma… I love them. Tsem Rinpoche
View from the left of Mumu’s garden… do you know which Buddha is sitting on the left?
View from the right side of Mumu’s garden.
A stupa which the dogs circumambulate around..
… the Fasting Buddha is in Mumu’s Buddha Garden..
Beautiful Nageswaraja. This Buddha is one of the 35 Confessional Buddhas. Very excellent for purification. See Mumu’s squeaky ball on the right? Hehe
Manjushri Buddha sits in the middle of Mumu’s garden. May my doggies and everyone who see this Manjushri get seeds of supreme wisdom planted in their mindstream..
And this is my adorable little Mumu…enj0y the garden for you my dear Mumu. I love you…
My Mumu very cute…
Oser, Dharma and Mumu are my three supercute dogs…
Oser, Dharma (yawning) and Mumu… hehehe
What a wonderful garden! My little one would be jealous if she saw this!
In all seriousness, a Buddha Garden really is a beautiful way to benefit our four legged friends. Thank you for posting this!
Wow, i think Mumu, Dhamar and Oser will like the garden very much and blessed every monment there… Thank u Rinpoche…
Your doggies really are so cute!!! And what a great idea, Rinpoche, with the statues so they can circumambulate. Thank you for the idea. I think I’ll borrow for my doggye friends, too!
Whoops. That’s “I think I’ll borrow that idea for my doggie friends, too.”
Blessed garden for the cuties. Its such a fabulous and creative place. How nice.
Beautiful garden, with such beautiful statues, lucky Mumu, lucky dogs and very good for everybody who sees the statues.
Thank you for sharing Rinpoche
What a wonderful idea, I love it!!! Gonna do this as soon as I get a bigger place
Thank you so much for sharing this with us!
Wow, this is very compassionate and creative effort to imprint dharma to animals, in this case the 3 cute dogs
Very good example of caring to all kind of sentient beings and should learn from Rinpoche to not just limiting dharma to sentient beings in human form but also sharing it to any other animals whenever we have chance to do so because only dharma can change the life condition of any being. Usually when feeding dogs or cats, I would recite ‘Om Ah Ra Ba Za Na Di’ and blow to them while they are eating. Hope this way could help them too. Hehe….
Thank you for sharing. Take good care, Rinpoche
The awning is great. Even when it’s raining, the area stays relatively dry and the doggies can go out and play. We leave the door open so they can go in and out as they like most of the day.. I like this space for them so much…The new place we are building will have a much bigger space for them. I am excited for them.
Good morning Rinpoche. Oser, Dharma and Mumu are very very lucky and fortunate to be with you. I pray that the sufferings of animals will end one day, and it is my dream to see that we humans treat our four legged family with respect, love and kindness. I dream that one day I live in a small cottage in the country and have my four legged family enjoy the space like your beautiful garden. With folded hands, thank you for sharing Rinpoche.
Incredible love for animals which extend to their future lives. As can be seen here the way Rinpoche loves animals is similar to the way Rinpoche loves human beings if not even more. Everything that Rinpoche does for his close students and everybody else are always immensely impactful and meaningful for present and future lives.
Your fortune to eternal happiness is at your door step, do not miss it!
Love the garden!!! Uber cool! Lucky Mumu, Dharma and Oser.
A garden that full of blessing, very lucky mumusss hehehe..they are sooooooo cute!! Having a space for them to play its very important as doggies will get depress easily if they keep in a closed space. These mumus are very blessed to have Rinpoche to take care of them and make sure they are ok and have a good rebirth when they leave. I wish i can run around in the garden too hehehe..very holy and bless place
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this beautiful garden.
The Buddha Garden is very nice with so many holy item around the garden it sure plants seeds of Dharma in all 3 mumu’s, how lucky they are, furthermore the obstacle course is a fun place for them to run around, exercise and most importantly purify their karma by circumambulating, Rinpoche put so much love and care to Mumu, Oser and Dharma.
Thank you Rinpoche for these images. It is is thoughtful and compassionate to create not only a covered beautiful garden for Mumu, Oser and Dharma, but also to have Buddhas in it.
As Rinpoche kindly explained above.
When they play, they actually cir-ambulate around the Buddha, adding a wonderful karmic connection and purifying negative karma.
And when they are in the garden, ENJOYING it and SEEING Buddhas, they are connecting images of Buddhas with a pleasant and safe experience. In their next lives, when they will see a Buddha image, they will associate it with something pleasant, they will find it attractive and therefore will have an interest and an open mind about what the statue represents.
I must do the same in my garden for my dogs…
Each time when I was in The Haven, I see all the mumus running around and playing, chasing after each other and an object that was thrown for them to play with. It is fun and funny seeing them happy in their Buddha’s Garden.
It took a few days for the contractor to complete this special garden and now the mumus can enjoy their interaction and exercise.
Rinpoche’s kind and compassionate thoughts and actions go way beyond just only for humans.
Dear Rinpoche,
It is so liberating to see Mumu and friends running around Buddha Garden and have the exercise which is good for them. Freedom is what I felt seeing them in the Garden.
Thank goodness, that the “seldom used” pool is converted to this wonderful garden to benefit Mumu.
What a splendid idea Rinpoche! As always!
Now Mumu can play and have fun AND plant seeds of Buddhahood in their minds. Now when they invite their good friend Zamkar over, they have bigger space to themselves. One day when we build KWPC, they can all have their own playgrounds and perhaps sleep over parties??? Hahaha!
JP worked hard to ensure that the Mumu’s Buddha Garden is done well. Thank you JP, on behalf of Mumu, Oser, Dharma and Zamkar. Woof Woof!xxx
Rinpoche you are indeed a Buddha who walk the dharma you spoke! Who would have thoughts of making their pets m ambulated Buddha statues while playing?
I wish all the pet owners would create their own mums gardens !
I wish Mumu, Oscar and Dharma good rebirth..
Beautiful and neat garden.Mumu,Dharma and Oser are the luckiest dog in the world!With Buddhas and stupas in the garden to bless them each time they run around the garden.Right now I’m missing my dog!!
One lesson learnt from this is to extend our love to our loved ones,not only in this lifetime but future lifetimes and that is Dharma.The greatest gift.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing the beautiful pictures.
Look at what Rinpoche did even for his pets. We should be doing this for the people around us too by doing anything we can for them to connect to dharma and remain with Dharma. Now I can understand why are there so many different departments in Kechara. It’s to link different type of people to the Dharma. I’ve brough my best friend who love photography to Kechara InMotion, then to Kechara Soup Kitchen, then to Kechara Care. Through this I can let him connect to the Dharma gradually by knowing that practising Dharma can be in many different ways. Then I asked him to read Rinpoche’s blog. Now he’s reading Rinpoche’s blog very frequently. Eventhough he is a Christian, he told me that he likes Rinpoche’s teaching a lot. I feel very happy for him. For me, I have never thought of converting him to Buddhist but I’m doing this because I wanted to share with him what I really love. He had helped me a lot before, and I think this is the only best thing that I can give to him.
Wow! What a great idea Rinpoche. Now Oser, Dharma and Mumu can run around freely and circuambulate while doing so. I personally do not have pets so what I did was put a White Tara appliqué thangka in my hall so whenever friends and relatives come into the house they can see Her and have the seeds planted in their mind. The garden is really beautiful! Its really good that many put effort for this beautiful garden.
Mumu’s garden is so beautiful.
Rinpoche is very kind and compassionate towards all sentient being. Rinpoche’s care and love to Mumu, Oser and Dharma is never ending.
Rinpoche make all the way to ensure they are ok now and in the future. I love the way, will make suggestion to all my friends who has pet, they should give the precious blessing to all their pets.
Rinpoche you are so compassionate that no other word can be replace. For people who has pet at home please take good care of them, because they don speak to us. Our rinpoche show a very good example for us to learn to love sentient beings whom extended to animals too. I love my Bruno ( beagle) too.
“My love must extend to their future lives which I can impact now with dharma”
This is such a wonderful attitude to have towards pets and everyone around us. It is a good reminder that there is so much we can do for our pets if we truly love them. Rinpoche has set such a good example by having a Buddha garden for the doggies. But even before this, Rinpoche has produced pendants for pets and has always told everyone to blow mantras on animals whenever we see them.
I am glad for Mumu, Oser, Dharma and their friends and I am also happy that they have bought so much joy to Rinpoche.
By the way, the garden looks nice and cosy.
This is a very nice garden
They are so adorable, please Rinpoche, give them many many many kisses and hugs for me! <3
What a lovely example you set, Rinpoche, about how to care for our furry friends and pets.
To truly care is to care for them beyond this very short life, to plant Buddha and Dharma imprints for our pets to take good rebirth and to meet the Three Jewels and to receive the Dharma in their next lives.
I must make determine efforts to plant such sacred and precious seeds in my five adopted stray cats who’re now my very active and playful and often rumbustious pets.
The Buddha Garden is so nice. Lucky for Mumu, Oser, Dharma & Zamkar.
This garden shown Rinpoche cares for them. Rinpoche not only care for their current life but even want them to be benefitted for their future lives. Everything is based on Rinpoche compassion.
They will collect a lot of merits for their future lives.
That is what we want and can offer to our loved ones.
Rejoice.
what a wonderful way to care and love for our pets!
Love and care should exceed beyond this life’s time, Rinpoche’s compassion is beyond this life’s time for all his students including his beloved pets, Mumu, Dharma and Oser, fishes and birds….
planting dharma seeds and imprints is vital for animals as what can they do in this life besides playing, eating, sleeping?
A buddha garden like this for pets is surely the BEST way for them to play, run around and collecting merits while purifying their karma at the same time. It is not just a 3 in 1, but many-in 1 formula!
Rinpoche built such a Beautiful buddha garden for His three lovely and cute mumus showed that Rinpoche really love and care for all sentient beings and their future lives and i can see some of the pets owners are going to follow suite now, good for them.
Dear Rinpoche,
Thank you for assimilating another kind, fun and meaningful method to practice Dharma for our loved ones in our daily life.
There is no better way to practice Dharma than in a manner that is CONSISTENT, EXPERIENTIAL and WITH RESULT. Creating a space like this for our pets can support us to achieve the above manner of practice: it creates a constructive and enjoyable activity the whole family unit engages in. Virtuous acts like this will enable the family unit to develop a harmonious environment in their home, collect merits to fuel their Dharma journey and purify the negative karma of their pets. With so much tangible benefits, it is likely that we will be encouraged to continue this activity which in turn develops consistency (and habituation) that results in more benefits…which eventually propels the positive spiral UPWARDS into the Dharma path!
This is another typical “Tsem Tulku Rinpoche skillful method” that will empower us to be Dharma in action. Thank you Rinpoche for your wisdom and compassion!
What a wonderful place for Mumu and company. In the world where so many people are starving and having so little, Mumu, Oser and Dharma has this beautiful garden to run about. True indication of karma. This 3 dogs must have been very generous to the dharma in their past lives.
Such care of animals by Rinpoche, always ready to come out with fresh new ideas to benefit animals. And also in KSK dog food is provided to the volunteers to feed stray animals when they go out on their rounds. Hope many efforts will go towards making Malaysia a land that protects animals. Perhaps Malaysia can be a place where there is zero animal cruelty and abandonment.
The Buddha Garden is so lovely. Great way for the mumus to plant seeds of enlightenment in their minds and also purify their karmas for better future rebirths. The mumus must be very happy to have a play garden made specially for them.
They are such lucky dogs to be under the care of Rinpoche!