Lighting Lamps of Loving-kindness Around the World

The purpose of the Relic Tour is to inspire people of all spiritual traditions and paths to come together to experience the blessings of the relics.

"I had some faith in the power of holy objects, but it was mainly based on my faith in Lama Zopa Rinpoche and his word that they have power. After being on the relic tour, my scientific inquiring mind now understands this power based on empirical evidence.

I have seen thousands of people transformed by the presence of these relics. I have felt them transform my own mind...They emit some sort of transmission that can make a person open to their hearts and to the hearts of others.  I don’t know how, but the relics seem to connect people to the enlightened experience, what we call Buddha’s blessings.

I used to think that the Maitreya statue was a good project because it was a good thing to have a big symbol for peace in the world, but now I understand that the statue itself will make peace in the world because those relics are going to be inside the heart of the statue and they will broadcast that blessing round the world, like a radio broadcasts radio waves. Peace power."

—Venerable Paula Chichester, Relic Tour Manager in Africa 2009

The Start of the Venerables Highland Practice

The Relics at Jamyang Centre in London

News of the Relics in America