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Khangtsens are hostel sections of monasteries where monks share living quarters with those who share their language and cultural background.
During the 2014 Jangchup Lamrim teachings, Lama Zopa Rinpoche stayed at Ganden Samlo Khangtsen at Ganden Monastery. While there, Rinpoche discovered that essential repairs were needed and Rinpoche wanted to help. Due to the generosity of an extremely kind benefactor, US$19,600 was raised and offered to this khangtsen so the repairs could be made. Specifically, a damaged roof was able to be replaced and extended to protect from the heat.
Khangtsens are hostel sections of monasteries. Each monk is affiliated with one khangtsen according to their region of origin. This is so monks can live with others who share their language and cultural background, thus helping to limit hardships and confusion within the community.
Please rejoice in this offering. It continues to be a high priority for FPMT to support ordained Sangha.
You can learn more about the Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund
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The monks of Sera Je Monastery are offered three nutritious meals every single day through the Sera Je Food Fund.
Since 1991, the Sera Je Food Fund has offered meals to the monks studying at Sera Je Monastery in southern India. Today, the fund sponsors 8,300 meals every single day for all 2,500 Sera Je Monastery monks (3,300 monks are served breakfast). This offering allows the monks to concentrate on their studies without the constant worry of sourcing and preparing their next meal.
This hour-long video shows the Sera Je Monks practicing in retreat and offering puja, engaging with the local community, and toward the end (45 mins 22 seconds) we see a behind-the-scenes look at the food fund’s operation in action.
In a recent letter from Sera Je Monastery, the abbot expressed, “The monastery is indebted to offer our devout prayers and ritual ceremonies in dedication of sponsors and supporters of Sera Je Food Fund program, its founder the ever compassionate Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and his esteemed FPMT.”
Please enjoy this short video of the monks sharing one of these meals together.
This most precious offering of food is made possible due to the kindness of many donors and benefactors. Tremendous thanks to all who have contributed to the fund. Donations of all sizes make a difference and allow the following to be provided:
- US$10: three vegetarian meals a day to one monk for one month
- US$120: three vegetarian meals a day to one monk for one year
- US$780: three vegetarian meals a day to all 2,500 monks for one day
- US$5,460: three vegetarian meals a day to all 2,500 monks for one week
- US$280,000: three vegetarian meals a day to all the 2,500 monks for one year
You can learn more about the Sera Je Food Fund:
https://fpmt.org/projects/fpmt/seraje
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https://fpmt.org/projects/fpmt/
9,135 families and many individuals in the eleven most affected districts of Nepal have been assisted so far by Kopan Helping Hands.
Kopan Monastery and Nunnery have been actively involved since the very beginning with relief efforts for those devastated by the Nepal earthquake and subsequent aftershocks through Kopan Helping Hands. The Nepal Earthquake Support Fund has been able to offer grants to assist with this aid due to the kindness of many generous donors.
Essential food items, shelter, blankets and clothing, along with medical attention have been offered to those in need by Kopan Helping Hands.
Incredibly, 9,135 families and many individuals in the eleven most affected districts of Nepal have been assisted so far by Kopan Helping Hands. Geshe Thubten Jinpa recently sent the below inspiring report of some highlights of aid and service that has been offered:
- 4,280 pieces of tarpaulin and zinc sheets have been offered for temporary shelters
- 580 tents
- Blankets and clothing for warmth
- 19,7200 kg of rice have been offered
- 20,010 kg of dahl have been offered
- 11,310 liters of cooking oil have been offered
- 4,390 packets of salt have been offered
- 3,840,000 packets of noodles have been offered for sustenance
- Many of the Sangha donated their blood at local hospitals and also Kopan set up a blood bank
- Sangha members were mobilized around Kopan to clear the debris which blocked the road so that the rescue operations could be performed
- Cooked meals were served to the patients and the families in the local hospitals following the earthquake
- Drinking water was supplied to the various parts of the city where the normal water supply had been disrupted
- Sangha members were mobilized to keep the surroundings free of garbage in order to eliminated post-earthquake health hazards
- Special prayer sessions were held every evening at the monastery for those who had lost their lives and for the grieving family members. (The first week of prayer prayer was led by Lama Zopa Rinpoche every evening.)
- An emergency medical team was airlifted to treat patients in critical condition.
- Medical and sanitation facilities were provided to various temporary resettlements around Kathmandu
- Food and other facilities were offered to the Sangha community who came to resettle in Kathmandu after their monasteries were destroyed in the villages
In spite of danger and difficulty, Kopan Helping Hands has continued to offer aid to the eleven most affected districts of Nepal.
Kopan Helping Hands was able to reach eleven of the most affected areas:
- Solukhumbu
- Dolakha
- Ramechap
- Sindupalchok
- Kavre
- Nuwakot
- Okhaldunga
- Gorkha
- Kathmandu
- Lalitpur
- Rasuwa
This aid was offered despite incredible challenges and potential danger and difficulty due to landslides, destroyed roads, heavy rains and constant aftershocks. For example, the Kopan Sangha traveled for many hours on the back of open trucks that were fully loaded with supplies to help.
Please rejoice in the incredible and compassionate aid that has been offered by Kopan Helping Hands and thank you to the many people who have supported and made it possible for so much assistance to be given.
This aid will continue and now with the onset of monsoon season new challenges are presented. Repairs and rebuilding of Kopan Monastery and Nunnery have also started and support is still needed to complete these essential projects.
To learn more and offer support to FPMT’s Nepal Earthquake Support Fund: https://fpmt.org/support/socialservices/id.
Kopan Monastery is accepting donations for their ongoing work, mention “Kopan Helping Hands” in the comments: http://www.kopanmonastery.com/earthquake
For “Prayers and Practice for Earthquake in Nepal,” see:
https://fpmt.org/edu-news/prayers-and-practices-for-earthquake-in-nepal/
For continuing updates and news from Kopan Monastery and other FPMT centers and projects in Nepal affected by the earthquake, please visit our “Updates from Nepal after the Earthquake”page:
https://fpmt.org/nepal-earthquake/
Ganden Yiga Chozin in Pokhara Nepal
On Saka Dawa this year, Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered US$6,000 to FPMT’s Ganden Yiga Chozin in Pokhara Nepal. The center was negatively impacted by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake and subsequent aftershocks which occurred right before the center’s busy tourist and visitor season. Fortunately, no structural or property damage was sustained by the center. However, due to damage in surrounding areas, and due to general fear among would-be tourists of Nepal, the center has experienced a drastic loss in visitors. Without the anticipated income from courses and teaching events, the center has struggled to meet immediate expenses. When Rinpoche heard about this he was immediately inspired to do something to help the center survive until visitors started returning to the area. Thubten Drolkar, the center director, said the following about this donation, “It was so unbelievably kind of Rinpoche to offer the money, kind of overwhelming, really. I’d been so worried about how we were going to keep the center open and worrying that the staff would lose their jobs (which would be devastating for them, and us, as they are very good staff!) and then I heard that Rinpoche was coming to the rescue. I still feel like I can’t believe how fortunate we are!”
All are welcome to offer a donation of any amount directly to the center to help with this unexpected loss of income.
The Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund enables Rinpoche’s compassionate service to others to flourish.You can learn more about other beneficial activities this fund supports.
Robes offered to the Buddha statue in Mahabodhi temple, Bodhgaya, India, through the Puja Fund. July, 2015. Photo by Andy Melnic.
Every month on the full moon, the Puja Fund sponsors the offering of robes, made of the most precious material, to the most holy Buddha statue in Mahabodhi temple, Bodhgaya, India.
During the robe offering, students and Sangha from Root Institute offer prayers and practices including verses like this from the Nyung Nä sadhana:
In order to purify my mind, I offer an exquisite precious garment,
Multicolored like Indra’s variegated bow,
That when touched becomes the cause of bliss
May I be adorned with the holy garment of patience.
Please rejoice in this monthly offering that is so precious. You are welcome to contribute to this by offering to the Puja Fund at any time.
You can learn more about the extensive pujas, practices and offerings sponsored by the Puja Fund or about any of the other Charitable Projects of FPMT.
Prayer wheels are filled with mantras traditionally printed on strips of paper and tightly rolled around the core. These days mantras are reproduced onto microfilm; the more mantras, the more powerful. Very large prayer wheels contain billions of mantras.
One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the FPMT organization is to build 100,000 large prayer wheels around the world.
The Prayer Wheel Fund recently offered a grant to the creation of a new very large prayer wheel in Mongolia. This was a seed donation for this project and as it progresses, updates will be made on its expected overall costs, needs, and how people can support it directly.
According to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Buddha said:
The benefit of turning the Dharma wheel is that negative karma and disturbing thought obscurations accumulated over beginningless rebirths are purified without effort. Even other mantras are without doubt completed.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has also recently offered grants to new prayer wheels being built at Mahamudra Centre and Chandrakirti Centre, both located in New Zealand. Please rejoice in the building of these prayer wheels which are helping to actualize Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s wishes. Tremendous thanks to all donors who make these grants to the creation of prayer wheels possible.
The Benefits of Prayer Wheels
By Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Buddha said:
The benefit of turning the Dharma wheel is that negative karma and disturbing thought obscurations accumulated over beginningless rebirths are purified without effort. Even other mantras are without doubt completed.
Karma Pakshi, the Second Karmapa, said:
When this great wheel called OM MANI PADME HUM is placed above [a house or roof], the wind that touches the prayer wheel liberates all those transmigrating beings touched by it from the sufferings of the lower realms.
When the prayer wheel is turned by fire, those transmigrating beings who are illuminated by the firelight or who smell the smoke are liberated from the sufferings of the lower realms.
When the prayer wheel is placed on the ground, sentient beings who are on the ground or who are touched by the dust are liberated from the sufferings of the lower realms.
If the prayer wheel is placed in water, all the sentient beings who are touched by the water, or who drink the water that has touched the prayer wheel, are liberated from the lower realms.
Padmasambhava purified the land of Tibet and spread the Dharma, especially tantra, all over Tibet. When the Dharma king Songtsen Gampo was constructing the first monastery in Tibet, whatever the workers would build up during the day, spirits would tear down at night. So Padmasambhava came from India, hooked the spirits and subdued them, putting them under pledge as Dharma protectors to protect the teachings. Padmasambhava said in his teachings:
Those who lack effort to study the Buddhadharma will receive realizations by turning the Dharma wheel and those who do make effort will be supported in their recitation, practice and so forth by turning it. Inconceivable negative karmas will be purified without effort and they will achieve all the deities together.
The origin of this prayer wheel is as follows: the Arya Compassionate Buddha Avalokiteshvara predicted to Master Nagarjuna, “In the palace of the country of the nagas, the bodhisattva naga king has a Dharma wheel. Anybody who merely sees, hears, touches or remembers this wheel is quickly liberated from the sufferings of the lower realms. Take this profound Dharma wheel from them and extensive great benefit for sentient beings will come about.”
Nagarjuna went to collect the prayer wheel from the naga king who told him, “Place this prayer wheel on the earth, in water, fire and wind and accomplish extensive benefit for sentient beings and the teachings of the Buddha.”
Nagarjuna then brought the prayer wheel to India and passed it to the Lion-faced Dakini. From the Lion-faced Dakini it went to the great Indian yogi Tilopa, then to Naropa and on to Marpa, who brought it to Tibet and gave it to Milarepa, who in turn passed it to Gampopa.
Also it is mentioned in the Avalokiteshvara tantra of Guhyasamaja:
Beams emitted from the Dharma wheel to sentient beings naturally cause the four immeasurable thoughts of loving kindness, compassion, joyfulness and equanimity to arise in their hearts and they complete the paramitas of charity, morality, patience, perseverance, concentration and wisdom.
Shakyamuni Buddha said to the bodhisattva Dikpa Namsel:
It is said that for the intelligent practitioner turning the Dharma wheel once is more sublime than doing retreat for one year, for the middling practitioner turning the Dharma wheel once is more supreme than doing retreat for seven years and even for the lowest practitioner turning the Dharma wheel once is more supreme than doing retreat for nine years.
Vajrapani said:
[Turning] this great Dharma wheel can stop all the harms caused by the dey above (who cause epilepsy and so forth), the birth nagas down below and the tsen, yakshas and rakshas in between.
Dictated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and scribed by Ven. Sarah Thresher, Root Institute, Bodhgaya, India, February 2015.
You can download a PDF of this advice on the benefits of prayer wheels.
If you would like to contribute to the building of holy objects around the world, you are welcome to offer any amount to the Holy Objects Fund which contributes to the creation of stupas, prayer wheels and statues.
You can read more from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the benefits of building prayer wheels.
Root Institute in Bodhgaya, India, has been offering ongoing charity to the destitute of the area since 1991. Three onsite projects are now administered, bringing incalculable benefit to others.
The Maitreya School currently educates 169 children.
Maitreya School
- Free school benefiting local children from Bodhgaya and neighboring villages.
- Currently educating 169 students and employing nine full-time teachers including a principal.
- The subjects taught are English, math, Hindi, buddhist principles, social science, arts & crafts, computer principles and physical education including Yoga. The main language medium for the school is English.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche visiting the Tara Children’s Project and making offerings to the children.
Shakyamuni Buddha Health Programme
- Currently visiting six villages.
- Exercise education to villagers.
- Health education to patients and villagers.
- Seven community health workers were trained for six months with health educators.
- Provides care in the medical clinic to nearly three thousand people monthly.
Tara Children’s Project cares for twenty-five children who are HIV-affected.
Tara Children’s Project
- Care for HIV-affected orphan children.
- Currently providing twenty-five children a safe and loving home, full medical care, and education.
- Children help with a vegetable garden.
Please watch this video about one boy’s journey to Tara Children’s Project.
Due to the kindness of donors, the Social Services Fund was extremely happy to recently offer grants to all three areas of Root Institute’s charitable projects. This is the fourth year that the Social Services Fund has been able to offer grants to each project.
Please rejoice in the amazing work Root Institute is doing for those who desperately need this level of compassion and care.
You can learn more about the work of Root Institute and get involved today.
http://www.rootinstitute.ngo/
If you would like to help make sure the Social Services Fund is able to continue to offer beneficial grants to charitable activities like those of Root Institute, you may offer any amount to this fund.
Participants from November 2014 through June 2015 completed 1,028 individual nyung nä retreats at Institut Vajra Yogini, France.
Six dedicated individuals have just finished 108 nyung nä retreats at Institut Vajra Yogini (IVY), France. One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the FPMT organization is to sponsor others to complete 1,000 nyung nä retreats. Institute Vajra Yogini (IVY), France, upon hearing this incredible vision of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, immediately started hosting 108 nyung näs retreats a year.
About this retreat practice Rinpoche commented, “Nyung näs take such a short time, but bring strong purification. So many eons can be purified in this life; it makes it so easy to have attainments.”
Nyung nä practice is an intensive 2-day purification retreat that includes fasting, precepts, prostrations, prayers, mantra recitation, and offerings. Nyung nä is a practice based on the deity, 1,000 armed Chenrezig, the Buddha of Compassion, and is extremely powerful for healing illness, purifying negative karma, and opening the heart to compassion.
This is the fourth round of 108 nyung näs to be completed at IVY. 123 different participants in total have completed one or more nyung näs from mid November 2014 to the end of June 2015 and 1,028 individual nyung näs have been accumulated. On average they had between seven to twelve people participating in each single session of the nyung näs.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche is sponsoring ten people to do nyung näs and recently 6,125 euros toward the sponsorship of food and lodging for individuals undertaking this practice was offered through the Practice and Retreat Fund. The students are dedicating the merits of their practice to Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s long life, good health, and for the immediate fulfillment of all of Rinpoche’s wishes.
Tremendous thanks to Francois and Violette and all at Institute Vajra Yogini for helping make the 108 nyung näs Vast Vision a reality, and also for supporting all the nyung näs participants who have dedicated their time to this practice.
You can learn more about Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Vision for the FPMT organization, or about other beneficial activities of the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund and the Practice and Retreat Fund.
Please download a free PDF, Praise and Prayer to Noble Avalokiteshvara in celebration of these amazing accomplishments by so many dedicated students who wish to support Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Vision.
You can read more about this from Mandala Publications’ recent article, “Institut Vajra Yogini Completes Fourth Annual Nyung Nä Retreat.”
Mother Tara’s Children’s Camp, Mongolia. Photo by Ven. Sarah Thresher.
Lamp of the Path NGO, part of FPMT Mongolia, offers social services to some of the poor and homeless living in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It has three main programs: a soup kitchen, which offers about 80 meals five days a week; a health clinic, which offers free health services to the very poor; and a children’s program, which offers quality education to children.
Lamp of the Path identifies its aims as:
- Supporting education, social development, the relief of poverty, health and environmental protection.
- Providing basic human requirements of food, clean water, shelter, medical care and clothing for the marginalized strata of the population.
- Fund raising among supporting donor organizations for charity and welfare activities dedicated to the poor and destitute.
To help with Lamp of the Path’s operating budget for 2015, the Social Services Fund recently offered US$39,200 for their extremely important charitable work in Mongolia.
The Soup Kitchen
Five days a week, The Soup Kitchen offers between 50 – 80 free meals to homeless and destitute individuals as well as warm clothing, footwear and bedding in the Winter when temperatures drop below freezing, and other resources for in-need families.
The Health Clinic
The Health Clinic provides free medical consultation and treatment to patrons of the soup kitchen as well as a hot shower for the homeless to use.
Children Development Program
The Children Development Program incorporates the 16 Guidelines for a Happy Life to foster the development of moral values and self esteem in children.
Community Center, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. In 2004, the services offered by the community center were reorganized and are now overseen by Lamp of the Path NGO. Photo by Ueli Minder.
You can watch a video about the conditions of homelessness in Mongolia, to better understand how essential the Lamp of the Path services are for destitute families.
This is the third year the Social Services Fund has been able to offer support to the incredible charitable work happening in Mongolia thanks to Lamp of the Path NGO. Thanks to all of the kind donors and supporters who make this offering possible.
The Social Services Fund contributes to many beneficial charitable projects as funds allow. You can learn more about these activities, or make a donation of any amount.
You can offer directly to FPMT Mongolia to help ensure services such as these continue in Mongolia in the future.
You can read an article from Mandala Publications, “A Day in the Life in Mongolia” by Massimo Corona, which outlines the importance of the Lamp of the Path NGO activities.
Geshe Jampa Gyatso, Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1979. Photo courtesy of the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.
The Masters Program (MP) is the FPMT’s most advanced study program. Based on Lama Yeshe’s unique vision for a comprehensive education, inspired by the traditional geshe studies at the great Gelugpa monastic universities, it was developed with the help of Geshe Jampa Gyatso. Integrating behavior, training and service components, the program offers in-depth study of five great texts and extensive retreat experience, providing a thorough grounding in sutra and tantra.
Due to the kindness of a generous benefactor, the Education and Preservation Fund recently offered US$54,625 to Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa for their latest Masters Program in Buddhist Studies of Sutra and Tantra which commenced in March.
The full-time residential program consists of just over six years of study (nine months per year) and a total of one year of retreat after the conclusion of the studies. The study portion of the program will conclude in mid-2021.
In addition to teachings with the geshes, students will be supported by review classes with tutors, in which they will deepen their understanding through debate and discussion of the material. Students’ progress is measured by a combination of written and oral exams, research projects, and presentations, and they will also receive instruction in meditation and develop the skills to guide meditations and lead retreats.
Students will also have opportunities to study the classical Tibetan language as well as to participate in seminars by visiting Western Buddhist scholars and academics. Talks by practitioners with extensive retreat experience will also be arranged in order to provide guidance and support for contemplative practice.
To provide opportunities for integrating the teachings into practice and for students to acquire retreat experience in preparation for the final one-year retreat, students will have regular opportunities to engage in lam rim retreats during the program at the end of each of the principal subjects. They will also be required to participate in regular meditation sessions during the week, and will receive instruction in leading meditations for others.
This grant from the Education and Preservation Fund will enable the current program to be offered successfully. You are welcome to offer any amount to this fund so that grants such as this can continue in the future.
https://fpmt.org/support/educationandpreservation/
The Masters Program Online (MPOL) offers the opportunity to study the MP to those who are unable to join the residential program, making use of the latest online educational tools available, in an online learning environment.
http://www.iltk.org/en/online-course
On World Leprosy Day 2014, Adriana Ferranti (at right with blue bag) works with MAITRI staff and volunteers, January 2014. Photo courtesy of Adriana Ferranti.
For over twenty-five years, Adriana Ferranti, through MAITRI Charitable Trust, has provided essential education, medical care, aid to mothers and children, animal care, and various forms of charitable service to the destitute in Bodhgaya, India, which is the poorest and most densely populated area in India.
You can learn about the the history of MAITRI and some of the work offered in this informative video.
The Social Services Fund was very pleased to recently offer US$78,400 to MAITRI toward annual expenses and to assist with the purchase of a new jeep needed to assist with the services offered. This is the fourth year that the Social Services Fund has been able to support the work of MAITRI at this level.
Aid, education and medical care from MAITRI is offered to India’s poorest and most densely populated area in Bodhgaya. Photo by Adriana Ferranti.
The accomplishments and charitable aid offered by MAITRI in 2014 was astounding. Some of the assistance offered to leprosy and tuberculosis patients included:
- Five leprosy patients were offered reconstructive surgery for deformities with five additional patients assessed for surgery and scheduled.
- 617 new leprosy patience were registered
- 440 disabled patients were given care at the hospital
- 320 pairs of sandals and 250 blankets were offered to leprosy patients
- 485 tuberculosis patients were assisted through outreach
- 187 tuberculosis patients were offered food and supplements
- 297 tuberculosis patients were offered blankets
- Sputum collection and testing was performed on over 1,300 individuals at the MAITRI campus, lab and in the field
- Plastic surgery was offered to individuals with cleft lip and/or cleft palate
As MAITRI explains, “The provision of support to patients is an important component of their recovery, particularly to the very poor. Blankets help reduce the risk of illness and food and medicinal supplements ensure that poverty, a poor diet and other health issues will not hamper recovery. In order to stop drug resistance it is imperative that patients take the full course of medication and keep their health up and MAITRI provides constant monitoring of patients and hospitalization if required.”
Destitute children (this child’s mother passed away from TB when she was two months old) are offered powdered milk and supplements by MAITRI Charitable Trust.
MAITRI specializes in several areas of programming. You can learn more about the services offered in each area by clicking on it:
- Leprosy Program
- Physical Rehabilitation for Disabled People
- Tuberculosis (TB) Control Program
- Mother and Child Care
- HIV/AIDS Awareness
- Education in Villages
- Environment
- Humanitarian Aid
- Animal Care
In this short video, “Seven Days of MAITRI,” you can see a brief outline of the services offered every day of the week. Please rejoice in twenty-five years of this amazing and compassionate work for those who truly need it. Tremendous thanks to all who have contributed to MAITRI over the years and enabled this ongoing charitable activity to continue.
You can donate directly to MAITRI’s incredible work:
https://my.fpmt.org/donate/maitri
By offering to the Social Services Fund, you help enable the continuation of essential grants, such as the recent offering to MAITRI.
https://my.fpmt.org/donate/socialservices
Samadhi the goat at the Animal Liberation Sanctuary being held by the caretaker (who’s from Tsum) while Pema (the manager) treats him, Kathmandu, Nepal, April 28, 2015. Photo by Phil Hunt.
In June the Animal Liberation Fund was happy to offer a US$9,800 grant to the Animal Liberation Sanctuary in Nepal in support of their incredibly compassionate work providing shelter and care for animals rescued from being killed, so that they may live out their natural lives in peace and attain a higher rebirth. The Sanctuary benefits rescued animals, not only by freeing them from impending death, but also by exposing them to the Dharma. The animals regularly hear mantras and are led around holy objects. This way they create merit and gain the opportunity to escape the lower realms. they are cared for by a manager and a veterinary assistant, with an experienced vet on call when needed.
This goat, Dzambhala, benefited from Animal Liberation Sanctuary until his death in March 2013. Photo courtesy of Animal Liberation Sanctuary.
Since the Nepal earthquake, animals have been suffering in unimaginable ways and the need for injured animals is great. The Animal Liberation Sanctuary has been working hard to offer support to these animals and also with compassionate disaster relief.
You can watch a short and moving video about the Animal Liberation Sanctuary.
You can donate to the Animal Liberation Sanctuary or learn more about the work being done for animals in Nepal.
http://kopanmonastery.com/charitable/animal-sanctuary-nepal
The Animal Liberation Fund supports weekly animal liberations and extensive dedications offered by Sangha at the residences of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. When funds allow, additional animal liberations conducted in Singapore and Hong Kong are supported, as well as efforts to save the lives of animals at the Animal Liberation Sanctuary in Nepal, MAITRI Charitable Trust in India and elsewhere. You are welcome to offer any amount toward this ongoing work.
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