The Ngagyur Choeling Monastery

BENEFICIARIES: the young monks of the Ngagyur Choeling Monastery

location: Pokhara

The project:

The monastery was founded in 1996 by Lama Gupti Gurung, born in the nearby village of Ghandruk. Initially it housed only the lama with his family, but with the increase in requests from the poorest families, the structure was enlarged to also host young monks and to provide them with an education respecting their language and culture.
Inside the monastery the young monks train in language and Tibetan history, on the dharma, on meditation techniques and on traditional Tibetan art. One of their teachers, Gupti Lama, is a skilled master of art and, for example, instructs them in thangka painting and traditional carving; he has also worked as a Tibetan doctor, and can pass on all this precious knowledge to the new generations.  

What we do thanks to your help

With distance support, we can give long-term and continuous help to 19 young monks. The families of the children admitted to the monastery are among the poorest in the area and, living only on agriculture, they struggle to make it to the end of the month. Moreover, many children are orphans or semi-orphans.
The education of the young students and the survival of the monastery and of the most ancient Buddhist teachings depend exclusively on the help of the international community.