In December 2000, I showed my father the site of the Great Stupa to-be. We stood at one of its four entrances, in front of us the hill cleared of bush and levelled. Three vast circular trenches had been dug for the footings, no building had yet begun. I described to him the antecedent Great Stupa in Tibet and the immediate plan for this site.
New to such things in Buddhism, but having supported and followed the completion (1895-1977) of the Sacred Heart Cathedral on the hill overlooking Bendigo, and wherein he had married my mother, he considered what was before him and said: "So, they're going to make a masterpiece out of nothing."
In this 40th anniversary video, Ian Green re-tells the story of Lama Yeshe visiting the site of the now Great Stupa of Universal Compassion outside Bendigo, central Victoria. In 1981 Lama Yeshe traveled from Tibet to Australia and met with Ian Green and Garrey Foulkes and laid down his master plan for the entire site.
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