The 7th Taksham Rinpoche founded Taksham Monastery in 1978, and it is the earliest monastery in the south Indian Tibetan settlement Dhondenling, 46 Km from Kollegal, the state capital of Karnataka. The monastery open a school for 25 pupils...
The project for Tibetan nuns was founded in 1991 to offer a Buddhist education and humanitarian help to refugee nuns from Tibet and to nuns from all Himalayan regions. Patrons are the Tibetan Women’s Association, the Department of Religion...
Many girls and women never had the chance to go to school. So 20 nuns and their teachers built the Sherab Choling Institute themselves in 1995, and HH The Dalai Lama blessed it. The purpose is to repair the...
Tibetan monastery and nunnery schools in exile have a task of the highest importance. It is through them that the essentials of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and religion may be handed on. The staff who pass these teachings to the...
Dhubthob Rinpoche (1929-2013) founded the Manjushri Di-Chen Buddhist Learning Center in 1996. This school is sited uphill from the small village of Parphing, near the Tara Temple. The school is home to about 65 novice monks aged from 6...