Benalmadena Stupa

Benalmadena Stupa is a stupa in Benalmadena, Malaga within the Andalusian location of southern Spain, overlooking the Costa del Sol. It is 33 m 108 toes high and is the biggest stupa in Europe. It changed into inaugurated on 5 October 2003, and changed into the final project of Buddhist master Lopon Tsechu Rinpoche. In Buddhism, a stupa is a monument which represents peace, prosperity and harmony, as well as being a place for meditation. Benalmadena Stupa Chan Chub Chorten in Tibetan symbolizes Buddha's enlightenment, the realisation of the character of thoughts, and is one of the 8 different forms that stupas are built in line with.

Whereas stupas are typically sealed systems, the Benalmádena Stupa is uncommon as there is a a hundred square metre meditation room and a room that can be used for exhibitions approximately Tibetan Buddhism and Himalayan lifestyle in the shape. The partitions of the meditation room are painted with the existence tale of the historical Buddha Sakyamuni. The stupa become inaugurated via H. H. Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche, the second-maximum crucial teacher inside the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Also gift was Lompo Sangye Ngodup, a minister from the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, Ole Nydahl and the Mayor of Benalmadena, Enrique Bolin. Sr. Bolin was instrumental in imparting the land on which the stupa is located.