Tashi Lhapug monastery
Two letters from Rinpoche about his recent trip to Tibet and Mongolia
Tashi Lhapug monastery
Two letters from Rinpoche about his recent trip to Tibet and Mongolia
Dear friends and kind supporters of Gaden Relief Projects,
Greetings. I am updating you on the situation at my monastery and with the nomadic people in the upper Mekong in Eastern Tibet. Tashi Lhapug monastery is located west of Zadoh City in the Yushu Prefecture of the Chinghai Province of China. The monastery is in a remote mountainous region, eight hours from Zadoh City. The altitude is 13,000 feet above sea level, one of the highest monasteries in Kham, Eastern Tibet.
Tashi Lhapug is rich spiritually, and the monks are great practitioners and they are studying Dharma hard -- but materially they are poor, because the location is hard to reach and they don't have many supporters. Tashi Lhapug monastery has 100 monks, including 32 young monks who are studying at the newly built school for Buddhist philosophy and debate. I am their only Lama who tries to raise funds for them outside Tibet.
I would like to build a small clinic at the monastery for the people of this region, because there is no hospital in this area. It is so hard for people to travel all the way to Zadoh City, and most people don't have the funds to travel all the way there, so they come to the monastery to get some help and medicine from the Lama doctor Venerable Lochok. This year there was so much snowfall, it was a long and hard winter and many people suffered losing their yaks. I know many people will come to the monastery to get medicine and help.
I am traveling to my monastery in July 2008 with some Dharma friends to do health care work. We are taking some Tibetan and Chinese herbs and Western medicine. We are also setting up solar electricity and planning to build a small clinic at my monastery. We need your support and help. If you could send your contribution to Gaden Relief for these projects, that will be so wonderful. Myself and Gaden Relief workers are doing our best to serve the monastery and nomadic people of Tibet.
"Just one drop of water makes the ocean bigger." Your support will benefit so many people.
Thank you and Tashi Delek,
Zasep Rinpoche
[Please note: Sadly the planned Zadoh expedition has been postponed until 2009 because of unrest in Tibet and difficulties the team would likely face traveling to Zadoh.]
