Drepung Gomang 2010 Tour Group Prepares to Visit the USA

The 2010 Drepung Gomang Tour Group has finished their preparations and will depart shortly for the USA for a tour lasting from January to  November 2010..  They will visit many old friends and make new acquaintances as they travel throughout the States.  During the tour they will create Sacred Sand Mandalas, present a Cultural Pageant to the public, and provide Tibetan art workshops for those interested in creating butter sculptures and sand paintings.  In addition, they will give talks and lectures on Buddhist philosophy and the culture of Tibet.  

Drepung Gomang Institute (DGI) in Louisville, Kentucky is the organization sponsoring the tour.  DGI is 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt organization.  Please contact Sue Simone, US National Tour coordinator for tour schedule and bookings sue-1@hotmail.com, 203-725-6888 

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Successful Tours to USA & Russia 

USA  

For the past year, six monks of the 2008-09 Gomang Tour group have traveled throughout the USA spreading a message of compassion and informing the public about the cutlure and arts of Tibet.  The tour group, headed by Geshe Lobzang Samdup, is scheduled to return to the monastery in December. 

Medicine Buddha Mandala Created at Dreamcatcher in Skippack, Pennsylvania

Abbey Domato Watching the Monks Create a Mandala, Oswego, IL	Geshe Lobzang Samdup Dispersing Sacred Sands in Skippack

Tour Group in California

Russia 

The monastery was officially able to send a small group of monks to Russia and Mongolia on  religious tour.   Our Russian friends and supporters kindly sent us an invitation for a three month's program. The group successfully visited many centers, library and hospitals where they performed prayers, gave teachings and constructed sacred Sand Mandalas. 

Gomang Tour Group in Russia	Constructing a Sand Mandala

Gomang Kitchen Has Been Renovated

The monastery’s community kitchen servs food for the whole monastic community.   Bread is mainly served during breakfast and also during lunch. The cooking stove where the bread has been cooked was not functioning well, so a new cooking stove was purchased with a kind donation from our long time supporter Dr. Subhuti Dharmananda. Thanks to our kind donor, the new cooking stove is doing wonderfully.  It is using less cooking gas and the bread is being cooked properly for the monks. A stainless steel bread rack was also purchased as the old one was not rust proof and was unhygienic for the monks.

Monk Stirring a Kettle  in the Community Kitchen

Monks Taking the Written Examination	Taking the Written Examination

Debat Examination

Gaie Celebration  -  September 18, 2009

Gaie Games	Gaie Games

Playing Caroom:  A Popular Board Game

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Give Teachings At Bodh Gaya

January 5 to 8, 2010

His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is scheduled to give five-day teachingsfrom January 5 to 8 at Bodh Gaya in Bihar on the following works:

       Nagarjuna's In Praise of the Transcendental (jigten ley depar toepa) 
       Atisha's Lamp of the Path to Enlightenment (jangchup lamdron)
       Longchen Rinpoche's Mind In Comfort and Ease (semnyid nyelso)
       Tsongkhapa's Short Version of the Stages of the Path To Enlightenment (lamrim dhuedhon)

More than 800 monks of Drepung Gomang Monastery are expected to attend His Holiness’s teachings.  Bodh Gaya, the place where the Buddha achieved enlightenement is considered the holiest of Buddhist shrines.  

For more information about His Holiness' schedule and teachings, go to  www.dalailama.com