Sponsorship
Shechen Monastery in Nepal needs your support for the growing number of monks who are coming to study and practice. The monastery provides for the monks’ complete education in addition to covering all expenses for food, shelter, clothing and medical care.
Monks’ Education Fund
Over 300 monks study and live at the monastery. In the elementary school, 70 children receive a traditional education with a modern curriculum. Older students can enter the Shechen Institute that offers a nine-year college course of advanced Buddhist studies or they can continue to study texts and meditation practices as well as perform in the monastery’s daily ceremonies and serve the spiritual needs of the local community or abroad.
Nuns’ Education Fund
Sisinang Nunnery in Bhutan provides a similar training and education for women. Seventy-five nuns live, practice meditation, and are educated in this small rural nunnery. Additional funds are still needed to expand the current facilities.
Your sponsorship not only helps a particular individual, but also sustains the community as a whole. The monk or nun you sponsor is your personal link with the monastery and will correspond with you yearly.
Help these young people to inherit the richness of their own culture. This is a rare opportunity to preserve a vital link for future generations.
Tibetan Painting and Monastic Life, a video presented by the Rubin Museum of Art.
PayPal:
Make a donation online using PAYPAL.
Please indicate which program you would like to sponsor. Unspecified donations will be allocated according to greatest need.
Check:
To make a contribution by check, please print and fill out the SPONSORSHIP FORM and mail it with a check payable to the Shechen association of your choice.
Bank Transfer:
Please e-mail us when the transfer is sent and let us know which project you are supporting. Please select one of our associations:
