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Posts tagged "supporting ordained sangha fund"

Tagged - Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund

Aug
29
2017

Grant Offered to Kopan House at Sera Je Monastery for Much Needed Construction

Posted in Ordained Sangha

Lama Zopa Rinpoche, through the Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund, issued a grant for US$85,400 to assist with much needed construction, maintenance, and repairs at Kopan House at Sera Je Monastery, India. Kopan House is occupied by sixty monks from Kopan…

Aug
5
2017

Helping Monasteries and Nunneries Thrive

Posted in Ordained Sangha, Post to LZR Social Media

The Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund was established to support monasteries, nunneries, and individual monks and nuns with food, accommodation, health care, education and Dharma practice. Supporting monks and nuns is one of the highest priorities for the FPMT organization, because…

May
16
2017

The Sera Je Food Fund’s New Chapter: Self Sustainability and Ongoing Support to Sangha

Posted in Ordained Sangha, Post to LZR Social Media

An Incredible Accomplishment: An Endowment Supporting the Monks of Sera Je Monastery Long into the FutureFor the last ten years FPMT International Office has been building an endowment large enough to support the long-term health of the Sera Je Food…

May
2
2017

Ongoing Support for the Nuns of Tashi Chime Gatsal Nunnery, Nepal

Posted in Ordained Sangha, Retreats and Practices, Social Services

In 2014 a grant was offered to Tashi Chime Gatsal Nunnery for new accommodation needed for the resident nuns. The nunnery recently sent an update that three rows of rooms are nearly finished and some nuns have already begun moving…

Apr
18
2017

Daily Lunch Offered for 2017 for the Monks of Idgaa Choizinling, Mongolia

Posted in Ordained Sangha

The Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund offers sponsorship for daily lunch for the 57 monks studying at Idgaa Choizinling Dratsang in Mongolia. Recently US$9,000 was offered to cover all of 2017. Idgaa Choizinling was established in 2003 through FPMT Mongolia due…

Apr
6
2017

The Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund’s Most Successful Project: The Sera Je Food Fund

Posted in Ordained Sangha

The Sera Je Food Fund (a project of the Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund) has been in operation for twenty-five years, offering free meals to the sincere monks of Sera Je Monastery daily. In a typical month, nearly 22,000 bananas, 120…

Feb
7
2017

Annual Winter Jang Debate at Drepung Monastery, India

Posted in Ordained Sangha

Monks from various Gelug monasteries are currently participating in an extensive twenty-two day debate on Buddhist logic at Drepung Monastery, India, known as the Winter Jang Debate. There are two sessions daily: prayers for world peace, and debate. This annual…

Dec
27
2016

Another Year of Offering Food to the Monks of Sera Je Monastery

Posted in SJFF News

As 2016 comes to a close, we’d like to invite you to rejoice in another year of offering food to all of the monks studying at Sera Je Monastery through the Sera Je Food Fund. Since 1991 the Sera Je…

Dec
20
2016

The Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund Offers Support to the Teachers of Tomorrow

Posted in Ordained Sangha

On Friday, December 23 Tibetan Buddhists of the Gelug tradition celebrate Lama Tsongkhapa Day, or Ganden Ngamchoe, a celebration of the anniversary of Lama Tsongkhapa’s parinirvana. Lama Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) was a Tibetan Buddhist master whose studies and meditations in all…

Dec
13
2016

New Temple Ceremony at Ngari Khangtsen at Sera Je Monastery

Posted in Ordained Sangha

Ngari Khangtsen recently completed a project that was over two years in the making, a new temple for the monks. The Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund was pleased to offer a grant of support as one of the main sponsors of…

Oct
25
2016

714 Monks Participate in Annual Gelug Exam at Gaden Lachi Monastery

Posted in Ordained Sangha

Each year the foremost scholars from the main Gelug monasteries come together for the annual Gelug examination and the Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund offers a grant to cover the basic expenses including food for participants. This September 714 monks participated…

Oct
4
2016

Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Benefits of Offering to Sangha

Posted in Ordained Sangha

By Lama Zopa Rinpoche Why Offering to the Sangha Is So Powerful In the past, there was one man who had nothing, but he offered medicinal food just one time to four fully ordained monks. (These were not monks who…

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