Sangha Jewels Project

[Losang_Tenpa]

Here is some information I found about a new project that is seeking to help find sponsors for the monks of our lineage:



The Sangha Jewels Project was created in the effort to support our Sangha and build lasting relationships with our friends from abroad.
We are seeking to find sponsors for our monks at Shar Gaden, Phelgye Ling, and Segyu Monasteries.
The monks who have the greatest need of sponsorship are both the very young and the very old.Sponsoring a monk is a very powerful way to express our gratitude to the monks of our precious lineage who are continuously working for our benefit. Through your kindness a monk is able to enter and stay in the monastery without worry. When you support a monk you not only create good karma for yourself but you now have made a life-long friend and a direct link with these important monasteries.

Many of the monks at these monasteries come from small villages where the families are very poor and uneducated. Coming to the monastery provides a unique opportunity for these monks to receive an education in modern subjects in addition to the traditional religious training. When the monks enter the monastery, we take the full responsibility for their welfare, their education, and their health. This enables them to focus completely on their studies and to practice the holy Buddha-Dharma.

To assist these monasteries in their mission to educate and train monks in the fundamentals of Dharma , we ask that you sponsor a monk here at the monastery. By pledging $25 a month (or any amount you can afford), you will help provide the monks with proper nutrition, medical care, and education. The money will go into a general fund to support all the monks, and you will be given a picture and information about your monk friend with whom you can correspond. If he is too young to write to you, the monastery will provide you with updates on his life and progress.

Please contact us at [email protected] if you are interested in this worthy project.

All funds for this sponsorship project go directly to the monasteries.

Thank you for your generous support.

 

[Losang_Tenpa]

http://www.sanghajewels.org/

[Losang_Tenpa]

Support for the Shar Gaden Clinic:

http://www.sanghajewels.org/shar-gaden-clinic/

[Ensapa]

This is wonderful indeed that there are now fundraising projects for the monks in Shar Ganden and that they are doing quite well. Is there any updates or progress about this and also on the hospital? It looks very good tho that it has opened and is running quite well without the support from the surrounding communities. It's great to know that there is a hospital in Dharamsala that does not discriminate against anyone and that anyone can go and seek treatment from it as opposed to the Drepung Loseling dispensary that does not welcome Dorje Shugden practitioners. I mean, all who practice medicine must adhere to the Hippocratic oath, where the life of a human is more important than anything else, even if that person is your enemy. If they dont adhere to it, then whats the use of practicing medicine?

[Losang_Tenpa]

Please consider sponsoring a monk or making a one-time donation. This is a great way to support these monasteries and create a lasting and meaningful connection with the holy sangha.

Click the link below to visit the Sangha Jewels website.

http://www.sanghajewels.org/] [url]http://www.sanghajewels.org/[/url]

[Losang_Tenpa]

Please consider sponsoring a monk or making a one-time donation. This is a great way to support these monasteries and create a lasting and meaningful connection with the holy sangha.

Click the link below to visit the Sangha Jewels website.

http://www.sanghajewels.org/

[Rinchen]

Rejoice for this project. I am vey happy that there are fund raising projects just like this that supports and helps the monks that practices Dorje Shugden. I am happy to know that people are helping these monks that are facing so much difficulties in back in India to improve their living quality.

I really hope that more people would know about this project and help these monks.

[Losang_Tenpa]

Thanks to many new friends, the Sangha Jewels Project had a very successful first year! Many people from all over the world are now connected with these monks and monasteries in a very meaningful way.

Throughout the first year, the project has been praised by many of the senior monks, geshes, and rinpoches of our tradition.
 The abbots have also expressed their gratitude for the support that these monasteries are receiving through the Sangha Jewels Project. Endorsements from some of these abbots and rinpoches will be added to the website soon, as well as testimonials from sponsors and their monks friends.

The project has now expanded in scope and has many exciting plans for the coming year.
There have been meetings with the administrators of the monasteries and each monastery has pledged to do whatever it takes to make this a meaning experience for all involved.

Click this link to see the monks currently waiting for sponsorship:
http://www.sanghajewels.org/sponsorship/

[Freyr Aesiragnorak]

This project is great, I'm glad that this project started up to provide for those monks who really need the support for the Shugden practitioners from all over the world. It's sad that a lot of people still think that we worship a worldly protector and that it is wrong. These monks should be supported because they are the future generations who will keep the dharma and practice of Dorje Shugden alive for the future.

[gbds3jewels]

Wow! Thank you so much for creating this project and link to make it easy and accessible for someone like me in Australia to be able to sponsor the livelihood of monks in India. $25 a month is so affordable. For me $25 is the cost of two packs of cigarettes. I guess it's about time to cut down on the nicotine and commit to sponsoring $25 a month towards a meritorious cause.

[Losang_Tenpa]

You can also make a one-time donation is you wish to support this project but are not able to make a commitment for monthly sponsorship. Please visit the 'Send Donation Online' link to make a donation of your choice.

http://www.sanghajewels.org/send-donation-online/

[DharmaSpace]

Rejoice in the many dharma projects Shar Gaden is executing. Would be good to look at social entrepreneurship as a way to going forward  https://www.ashoka.org/

The public is receptive to religious or spiritual organisations to find their own funds through entrepreneurship with a social context in mind. Crowdfunding seems to be something that many people are starting to engage in as well to kick start their projects and etc
http://crowdfunding.com/

These are just new ways of raising funds and not just the complete reliance on donors, relying on donors is good too but it would not hurt to have varying types of ways to fund raise.

[Losang_Tenpa]

You can also make a one-time donation is you wish to support this project but are not able to make a commitment for monthly sponsorship. Please visit the 'Send Donation Online' link to make a donation of your choice.

http://www.sanghajewels.org/send-donation-online/

I have heard that a couple of 'one-time' donations have been made to the Sangha Jewel Project by visitors of this forum. That is great news!

Such an easy way to show our support to their monasteries and monks of our precious tradition.

[fruven]

Bravo! The Sanghas are committed to development of spiritual progress in order to better serve everyone. This will create causes for the Lama Tsongkhapa teachings to teaching to spread and to remain here on this planet. We don't have a better than now to learn the teachings from Lama Tsongkhapa who is a fully enlightened being.

Wow! Thank you so much for creating this project and link to make it easy and accessible for someone like me in Australia to be able to sponsor the livelihood of monks in India. $25 a month is so affordable. For me $25 is the cost of two packs of cigarettes. I guess it's about time to cut down on the nicotine and commit to sponsoring $25 a month towards a meritorious cause.

[Losang_Tenpa]

Latest undertaking by the Sangha Jewels Project:

This first project will focus on assisting Segyu and Phelgye Ling monasteries. We will do this by  trying to raise funds to pay the salary for the next year of these monastery’s English and Nepali teachers. We will also provide new textbooks for all of the students at these monasteries.
On top of that, we also wish to sponsor the cost of the monastery websites to allow them to continue to have an active online presence.

The total projected cost for this first project is approximately $2200.
Phelgye Ling teacher’s salary: 57,000 Nepali Rupees
Segyu teacher’s salary: 60,000 Nepali Rupees
Phelgye Ling textbooks: 21,000 Nepali Rupees (2 sets a year)
Segyu textbooks: 35,000 Nepali Rupees
Total for books and teachers: 173,000 Nepali Rupees = $1820
Website fees= $300+

Please visit our ‘Make a Donation’ page to help us with this important project!
Thank you very much for your kindness and support.

http://www.sanghajewels.org/current-projects/