Tibetian Buddist Monks
Last Friday night we went to see the Buddist Monks from Drepung Loseling Institute in Southern India. If you get a chance to see them GO it was the most wonderful experience. By the end of the program I was in such a place of peace. They did healing chants for peace and balance and of course one with a snow lion dance for world peace. Thank you Bronx Baroness for sending out the u-tube vidio of what is happening in Tibet even now - with all the press looking to our own domestic issues it is easy to forget what is happening in Tibet. Who knew! you can even adopt a monk!!!
The Drepung Loseling
Educational Fund
The Drepung Loseling Educational Fund was established in 1988 to preserve traditional Tibetan culture by sponsoring a monk in training at Drepung Loseling. Conditions in the Tibetan refugee camps in India are basic, and the average family is poor.
Young monks born in India have little parental support, and depend almost entirely upon the production of our small farm. Over half of our population is comprised of recent refugees whose parents remain in Chinese occupied Tibet; therefore, they cannot provide them with support. We also have a number of young monks who are orphans.
The Monastery accepts all sincere candidates regardless of their financial situation and must support them by means of the proceeds of the same small parcel of land provided to the original 216 Loseling refugee monks. The Fund helps provide for the basic needs of food, health care and education for these monks.