title: The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya
text: The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya Which Liberates Upon Seeing is located at the Shambhala Mountain Center in Colorado, USA. It was built to inter the ashes of Chogyam Trungpa, who died in 1987. In many Buddhist traditions it is common to build a stupa to honour a respected teacher after their death.
  The site of the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya was first identified as an auspicious location by the 16th Karmapa, head of the Kagyü school of Tibetan Buddhism, on his first visit to North America in 1974.
  
  Construction of the stupa began in 1988. The structure took thirteen years to complete and used a special concrete formula designed to last one thousand years. The Stupa was consecrated in a ceremony that lasted several days in the summer of 2001. This ceremony was attended by many important lamas and students of Chogyam Trungpa.
  
  In September 2006, The Dalai Lama visited the Great Stupa for the first time.
  
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   The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya
   The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya video
  
  Asian-American culture in Colorado
  Buddhism in Colorado
  Buildings and structures in Larimer County, Colorado
  Religious buildings and structures completed in 2001
  Tibetan Buddhism in the United States
  Buddhist temples in the United States
  Religious buildings and structures in Colorado
  Stupas in the United States
  21st-century Buddhist temples