Monks on a mission

Seven Tibetan Buddhist monks have been traveling across the United States, and on Monday, they stopped at Willard Chapel for a special presentation on peace and compassion.

The monks had spent the day in central New York blessing a home and performing individual healings for people that had requested them. According to one of the monks, Jangchup Chophel, the blessing of a home is a ceremony that purifies the negativities in the space.

“Then,” he began, “we invoke a Buddha to come and bless the space to give it protection. Personal healing is a ritual where a Buddha purifies the negative karma a person has accumulated and seals it up with rays of light. We have a physical body and a light body. Some people call it a soul. Removing the negativity from the light body has a positive effect on the physical body.”

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