| Siddhartha: Sponsorship for monks & nuns |
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Every year, Songtsen helps to support a large number of monks and nuns who have been brought up in exile, or who have escaped Tibet in order to be free from the Chinese persecution. Many of the monasteries and nunneries in India, Nepal and Bhutan do not have adequate space and living conditions are rudimentary. The funds given to the monasteries help to support basic daily needs and to improve the health, education and living conditions of the monks and nuns.
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| Pegasus school project: The rescue of street kids & impoverished Nepali children |
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In 2005, Pema Wangyal Rinpoche initiated a project to help rescue a group of street children in Boudhanath, Nepal. In order to achieve this aim, Songtsen has combined efforts with the Pegasus school, a compassionately-minded school situated slightly out of the city in a healthier and more tranquil part of the Kathmandu valley. The Pegasus school, which was established in [?], offers board and education for more than [?] children. Songtsen is trying to raise funds for the purchase of additional land and for the construction of a new hostel, which will help to accommodate the street children from Boudhanath already registered or attending school.
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| OKC gompa: Darjeeling, India |
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In the early 1960’s, Kangyur Rinpoche established a small monastery, called Orgyen Kunzang Chökhorling. After his death, in 1975, his eldest son, Pema Wangyal Rinpoche, continued the vision of his father and gradually developed the monastery that currently shelters more than forty monks, mainly children and young adults.
The children in need come from various Himalayan countries. Many of them are without family; others have families that abandoned them or that they were forced to abandon. Regardless of background and ethnic origin, the monastery treats everyone equally and provides all that they need: food, lodging, clothing, medical attention, etc.
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| Guru Lhakang gompa: Darjeeling, India |
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Guru Lhakang (literally The Temple of the Master) owes its name to the large statue of the great master Padmasambhava housed in its temple. Padmasambhava, also known as Guru Rinpoche, was the Indian master that introduced Buddhism to Tibet in the 8th century. In the beginning of the 1980’s, His Holiness the 14th Dalaï Lama entrusted the management to Kungo Nyima Zangpo, who then equally took charge of the Darjeeling monastery.
Recently, the finances of this small monastery is now dependent upon its "mother" monastery of Darjeeling, Orgyen Kunzang Chökhorling, which now helps to take care of the maintenance and management of the Guru Lhakang gompa. To deal with the expenses linked to life at the monastery, particularly for new monks, we have launched a campaign to find new sponsors.
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| Support for Tibetan refugees: The repair of a primary school & construction of a secondary school In Maratika, Nepal |
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The Maratika project aims to enable children to receive a proper education by repairing a structurally damaged primary school in an impoverished Nepali village. As well, it also strives to ensure the future employment of the students by constructing a secondary school, which will provide the necessary qualifications to either find employment or to continue onto higher education.
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| Lhodrak Karchu Gompa: Bhutan |
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The economic and community support provided by KRF Development is not limited to the Tibetan people, but extended to disadvantaged members of communities in the Himalayan region and other, primarily Asian, countries. Inspired from Kangyur Rinpoche’s extraordinary compassion, KRF Development is dedicated to assisting and protecting the old, the sick, the elderly, and the impoverished peoples – in essence those find themselves helpless to defend themselves. The funds help to improve the health, education and living conditions, and may include projects such as providing water tanks to villages without a water supply, the construction of local schools or medical clinics, or providing farming or other trade equipment to help the Himalayan people towards self-sufficiency.
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| Tibetan refugee children: Simla |
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Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche’s Monastery
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| Tibetan refugee children: Sinisang |
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KRF regularly sends funds to Tibet to help impoverished Tibetans to become self-sufficient. KRF also helps with various construction and restoration projects, including the construction of schools and medical clinics, the repair of traditional monasteries and libraries, as well as the restoration of sacred paintings and statues.
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| Dzarong Thubten Do-Nga Choling Nunnery: Solukumbu, Nepal |
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