Sponsoring & Offerings

Donations & Bequests

If you would like to make a one-off or regular monthly donation to the Rokpa Trust (Kagyu Samye Ling) to help sustain the Monastery and its activities, please use the button below.

Make a Donation

All donations are processed securely by PayPal. You do not need a PayPal account to donate; simply select the “Donate with a Card” option on the next screen.

Standing Orders

In addition to PayPal, you can set up a standing order for regular contributions. Please contact our Accounts Department (see details below) who will be happy to provide you with the necessary information.

Cheques

Cheques, payable to Samye Ling – Rokpa Trust, can be sent to the Accounts Department address (see details below).

A Lasting Legacy

If you are considering making a bequest in your will in favour of Samye Ling, our Accounts Department would be happy to discuss this with you. Please see our contact details below for further information.

Accounts Department

Kagyu Samye Ling

Eskdalemuir, Langholm

DG13 0QL, Scotland

Email: accounts@samyeling.org

Tel: +44 (0)13873 73232 (extension: 234)

Kagyu Samye Ling is a part of Rokpa Trust which is a registered charity in England & Wales (1059293) and in Scotland (SC038628).
Due to the nature of the charity all donations are non-refundable, except in the instance of duplicate payment taken in error.

Sponsoring Butterlamps

The Symbolism of Light

In Tibet, butterlamps were traditionally fueled by clarified yak butter. Transforming an everyday substance into illumination symbolizes the transformation of the ordinary mind into the wise, compassionate mind of enlightenment. While we now use candles, the profound symbolism remains the same.

A Universal Aspiration

Consecrated on New Year’s Eve 1999, the Samye Ling Butterlamp House is dedicated to world peace. Following the wish of Dr. Akong Tulku Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe Rinpoche, lamp offerings at Samye Ling are dedicated not only to individuals but to all beings everywhere and each lamp is a contributing factor to world peace.

Anyone, anywhere can sponsor lamps to be lit and for prayers to be dedicated in honour of friends or good causes. 

How to Sponsor

If you wish to sponsor butterlamps for a specific date, please contact Reception first to ensure availability. Once confirmed, you may complete your donation here.

Lamp Offerings

  • Up to 99 Lamps: 25p each
  • 108 Lamps: £27.00
  • 1,000 Lamps: £100.00
Sponsor Butterlamps

All donations are processed securely by PayPal.

Note: Please include your confirmed lighting date in the PayPal comments section.

Requesting Prayers & Dedication of Merit

When a request is made, the person’s name is included in our daily prayers. The Sangha then dedicates the merit accumulated from these prayers to that individual and to the benefit of all sentient beings everywhere.

Dedications for the Living and the Deceased

Prayers may be requested for pure aspirations, for those facing illness or difficulties, as well as for those who have recently passed away, to support them in their transition and future path.

To request prayers, please contact Reception with the name of the person and the nature of your request.

You may also wish to visit our page Buddhist Funeral Advice in the Tibetan Tradition→

སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་བདེ་བ་དང་བདེ་བའི་རྒྱུ་དང་ལྡན་པར་གྱུར་ཅིག།

སྡུག་བསྔལ་དང་སྡུག་བསྔལ་གྱི་རྒྱུ་དང་བྲལ་བར་གྱུར་ཅིག།

སྡུག་བསྔལ་མེད་པའི་བདེ་བ་དམ་པ་དང་མི་འབྲལ་བར་གྱུར་ཅིག།

ཉེ་རིང་ཆགས་སྡང་གཉིས་དང་བྲལ་བའི་བཏང་སྙོམས་ཆེན་པོ་ལ་གནས་པར་གྱུར་ཅིག།

May all beings be happy and create the causes of happiness.

May they all be free from suffering and from creating the causes of suffering.

May they attain that sacred happiness which can never be tainted by suffering.

May they attain universal, impartial compassion, free of worldly bias towards friends and enemies.