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Abbot Visits
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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 ![]()
Ven. Abbot Geshe
Yonten Dhamchoe Is Greeted by Most Ven. 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
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
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 Back to Top
Monastic Annual Examination
on October 20, 2009 Each monk student who is pursing monastic studies here must take an exam in order to graduate from this monastic college. It takes at least 16 years (not included the rigorous six year Gelug Gyuktoe) for a monk to complete his study here in the monastery. Every year, an annual examination is held at which time the monks have to take a memorization test, a debate test and two written tests. If he is fails a single subject, he will have reappear in the same class next year. Also a monk is allowed to sit for his examination only if he has the required percentage of attendance.
Debat Examination Gaie Celebration - September
18, 2009
Playing
Caroom: A Popular Board Game
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) 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
Projects of Drepung Gomang Monastery & Wish List'THANK YOU' The global slowdown has touched and affected everyone, even the remotest place like this monastery in South India. In the months that went, sadly some of the donors stopped sending donation here due to global slowdown or recession. We really thank them for their continuous support and really don’t want to cause any inconvenience. This monastery solely survives on the donations, contribution and prayer offering and every single fund helps us a lot. We sincerely appeal everyone to continue kind support towards this monastery and will understand if you are unable to do so. We thank you all once again and will include you all in our daily prayers. |
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