18 Tushita

Tushita, as far as I remember means heaven!
I go there for a 10 day retreat, no communication with the outer world.
Some friends from Rishikesh are also there.
I feel very respectful about this place, because it is directly connected to Ganden, one of the biggest and most famous former Monasteries in Tibet.

A big statue of Tsongkapa, the "founder" of the Gelugpa tradition is in the Gompa, the meditation hall. I think, Tsongkapa is not happy with the word "founder", because I read, that he was always discussing with his fellow students about mind and life and that he unified a lot of things. For that reason, it suits him more the title "unificator".
With that word, I´m at a big point of Buddhism, as far as I understood, the Buddhist point of view, everything is supposed to be one truth or has to come back to one truth, so everything has to be united.

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