Dundul Raptenling Monastery, Odisha
༈ ཟངས་མདོག་དཔལ་རིའི་ཕོ་བྲང་ཆེན་མོ།
The Great Palace of the Copper-Colored Glorious Mountain
A living mandala rising from the earth of Odisha — the pure land of Guru Padmasambhava, built to fulfil the vision of Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche.
Message from our presidentConsecration & inauguration6 March 2028
Mission and vision
Zangdok Palri, the Glorious Copper-Colored Mountain, is the pure land of Guru Padmasambhava — the great master who brought Vajrayana Buddhism to Tibet.
The Zangdok Palri project and monastery are not merely physical undertakings — they are a sacred manifestation of Guru Rinpoche’s pure land on Earth. Rooted in the Dudjom Tersar lineage, this living mandala embodies devotion, preservation, and the collective aspiration to benefit all beings.
This once-in-a-lifetime project invites Dharma practitioners worldwide to help create a spiritual sanctuary for preserving, practicing, and spreading the Nyingma tradition. Through your offerings and prayers, the Zangdok Palri project becomes a gateway of blessings, healing, and enlightened activity.
Located at Dundul Raptenling Monastery in Odisha, India — founded by His Holiness Dudjom Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje Rinpoche and now led by Lama Sonam Tashi Rinpoche.
Zangdok Palri is envisioned as a spiritual hub for the global Nyingma, Dudjom Tersar, and global sanghas.
Since design and engineering began in 2016, and ground was broken in March 2017, the project has overcome many challenges due to its remote location and complexity. Today, more than 80% is complete, with the foundation and outer structure already built. The next phase focuses on sacred art and interior details. With your help, we can complete construction by 2028 and open the monastery to practitioners and pilgrims.
Learn more about History & Lineage ▶Our mandala is taking form
With each completed phase, the mandala draws closer to completion — symbolizing the unity of the lineage and the collective effort to bring Zangdok Palri to life.
Offerings
The structure is standing. What it needs now is pigment, gold, image and garden — and hands to host the sangha when the doors open. Choose the part of the mandala you would like to complete.
This final stage includes the completion of the outer painting and sacred murals, along with the creation of peaceful gardens and outdoor spaces for meditation and reflection.
Every offering, of any size, helps bring this sacred environment closer to completion.
Make an offeringJoin us in offering butter lamps on each Guru Rinpoche Day. Your lamp will be offered with prayers by ordained practitioners, dedicated for the benefit of all beings, and included in the monthly accumulation ceremonies. You may also include a personal name or dedication.
Make an offeringEach sacred statue embodies enlightened qualities and becomes part of the living mandala of Zangdok Palri. By sponsoring a statue, you help complete this sacred temple, support the preservation of the Dharma, and become part of an enduring offering dedicated to the benefit of all beings.
Make an offeringSupport the consecration itself in March 2028 — the rites, the ritual offerings, and the hosting of the sangha and pilgrims who will gather for it.
Make an offeringThe three storeys
Zangdok Palri is built in three tiers, each one a body of enlightenment. The architecture is the teaching — you ascend from the form that can be met, to the form that can be seen in meditation, to the form beyond form.
The summit. Beyond attribute, colour or edge — the truth body, from which all appearance arises. At the top of the temple, the space that holds nothing and gives rise to everything.
The middle storey, whose ceiling was raised in June 2023. The body of perfect enjoyment — radiant, ornamented, met by practitioners in vision and in the practices of this lineage.
Where you will walk in. The emanation body, the form that enters the world and can be met with the eyes — Guru Rinpoche in his palace, receiving offerings and turning the wheel of Dharma.
6 MARCH 2028
When the mandala is complete, the temple will be consecrated and opened to practitioners and pilgrims — a global gathering of the Nyingma, Dudjom Tersar and Chöd sanghas at the site Guru Rinpoche blessed.
The Great Palace of the Copper-Colored Glorious Mountain
As evening falls over Odisha, Zangdok Palri glows in the final light — a luminous reflection of Guru Rinpoche’s pure land.
Lineage blessings
Eminent masters of the Dudjom Tersar lineage have written in support of this project, urging the faithful to offer what they can. Their words are reproduced here in full.
For the benefit of all sentient beings and the Buddha Dharma, and through the abundant merit of these beings, His Holiness Dudjom Jigdrel Yeshi Dorji founded the sacred Dundul Raptenling Monastery in Odisha. Lama Sonam Tashi, with pure intention and deep commitment to serving the Buddha’s teachings, is now leading a plan to build an authentic Zangdok Palri there — for the flourishing of the Buddha Dharma and the benefit of all sentient beings in particular. Therefore, I sincerely urge all benefactors and generous individuals to offer whatever support they can.
Written by Sangay Pema Zhedpa, bearer of the name Dudjom Tulku, on the auspicious Descending Day of Lord Buddha in the Wood Sheep Year of the 17th Tibetan Rabjung cycle.
Lama Sonam Tashi of Dundul Raptenling Monastery — the sacred site in Odisha blessed by His Holiness Dudjom Jigdrel Yeshi Dorji Drodul Lingpa Tsel, the representative of Guru Rinpoche — has a sincere and pure aspiration to build a new Zangdok Palri there for the flourishing of the Buddha Dharma. Therefore, I respectfully urge all faithful and generous sponsors to contribute according to your capacity.
Written by Dungse Zhenphen Dawa Norbu of Yeshe Nyingpo, New York, USA, on the auspicious waxing moon of the 11th Tibetan month in the Wood Sheep Year.
As is well known, Dundul Raptenling Monastery in Odisha, East India, was established by His Holiness Jigdrel Yeshi Dorji Rinpoche. Lama Sonam Tashi, a faithful practitioner with pure intention, is now leading the effort to build a new Zangdok Palri to benefit the Buddha Dharma in general, and in particular, to renovate and further develop the sacred monastery founded by our previous Guru.
I personally offer my heartfelt appreciation for this noble endeavour and sincerely urge everyone inspired to accumulate merit to extend your support in whatever way possible.
Written by the Bhutanese meditator Garab Dorje, bearer of the Dudjom lineage name.
The plan to build a new Zangdok Palri at Dundul Raptenling Monastery — established by His Holiness Jigdrel Yeshi Dorji Rinpoche and located in the sacred land of Guru Rinpoche in Odisha, India — is a noble endeavour intended for the accumulation of both merit and wisdom by all.
I wholeheartedly appreciate Lama Sonam Tashi, who is leading this project, for his unwavering dedication and pure intention to bring it to fruition for the benefit of the Buddha Dharma. I respectfully request all faithful individuals who wish to engage in virtuous deeds to offer your support in whatever way you can.
— Kathok Situ Jamgon Choekyi Nyin-Jed
Our story in pictures
Walk this sacred journey with us — from the first drawing and the laying of the first brick, through years of devotion, sacred art, statues, craftsmanship, and prayer, to Zangdok Palri as it stands today.
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