APPEALS FOR ASSISTANCE

Appeals from Tibetan Buddhist Religious Groups and Relief Agencies               Other Appeals

Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies
Namgyal Monastery is creating a new center in the U.S. designated as Holiness the Dalai Lama's seat in North America, which will be used as a teaching institution and retreat center. They are in the early stages of building. Their main website is www.namgyal.org. You can also support Namgyal in India, or sponsor a monk:
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Benchen Monastery Free Clinic
Established in 1994 by Ven. Tenga Rinpoche, the clinic serves both the medical needs of the monastery and Nepalese and Tibetan refugees, providing general and primary care. For its patients, the clinic is completely free. Provides services in partnership with the Himalayan Medical Foundation (see below).
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Himalayan Medical Foundation
"Since 1993 the HMF founded by Dr. Gregory Rabold has helped to provide skilled medical care for the 189 monks of our Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, Ka-Nying Sherab Ling, as well as the 108 nuns of our secluded cloister, Nagi Gompa Abbey, both located in Kathmandu, Nepal..."--Tulku Cholyi Nyima Rinpoche, Abbot Ka-Nying Sherab Ling Monastery. Email contact:
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The Sera Je Food Fund
The Sera Je Food Fund was established to provide three nutritious meals per day to the 2700 monks in Sera Je monastery in South India, helping to relieve the burden on monks to provide for their own meals. The fund ensures that the monks have well-balanced, nutritious meals.
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FPMT Mongolia
Lama Zopa Rinpoche established FPMT Mongolia at the end of 1999, specifically to re-ignite Buddhist culture in Mongolia and to help provide social support, food and education to the poor and under-privileged. The FPMT Mongolia site provides information and images concerning this important project.
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The Tsum Valley, Nepal
Lama Zopa Rinpoche was requested by Drukpa Rinpoche, a Bhutanese Lama, to take care of his remote monastery and nunnery in the Tsum valley, located in the northern border area of Nepal close to Tibet. The monks and nuns of the two places were in desperate need of help, being unable to support themselves any longer. Lama Zopa Rinpoche asked Tenzin Zopa, a disciple of Geshe Lama Konchok, to take on the task of finding support for the people of Tsum.
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Kunzang Palyul Choling
Kunzang Palyul Choling (KPC), a Tibetan Buddhist Center for Study and Practice in the Nyingma Tradition, is providing relief, assistance and comfort to help people displaced by Hurricane Katrina. They are working with local aid groups to provide assistance to those relocated to both Arizona and Maryland.
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Rangjung Yeshe Shenpen
Rangjung Yeshe Shenpen (www.shenpennepal.org) is an international volunteer organization based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Shenpen, which means "helping others" in Tibetan, was created to help poor and disadvantaged people gain access to basic health care, educational opportunities and vocational skills training. The activities of Shenpen focus on six main areas: health services, children’s education, vocational skills training, street children, working with the elderly, and prevention of cruelty to animals.
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International Campaign for Tibet
On 17 May 1995, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the six year-old boy identified by His Holiness the Dalai Lama as Tibet's 11th Panchen Lama, disappeared. Suspicions that he had been kidnapped were confirmed in 1996, when the Chinese government admitted to holding the boy and his family in "protective custody." He has now been missing for 12 years.
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The Bon Foundation (the Menri Monastery, the Yungdrung Bon Monastic Center, the Redna Menling Nunnery and the Bon Children's Home)
The Bon Foundation was founded in 1989 to assist Bonpo refugees in India and to help preserve the ancient traditions of Bon, the indigenous culture of Tibet. The Foundation seeks assistance in addressing the needs of the children and young people whose responsibility it will be to preserve this ancient culture and move it forward into the future. The Bon Foundation is administered by a small staff of volunteers in the United States.
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Kham Aid Foundation
The Kham Aid Foundation (www.khamaid.org) was founded in 1997 by Pamela Logan to support conservation of Tibet's architecture and art. Since its founding, she has developed a broad range of assistance programs, including educational assistance. Nevertheless, KAF is still a small outfit, with one full-time employee in China and one full-time unpaid staffer in the U.S.: Logan herself. Office space is generously provided by the Avery China Program in Pasadena.
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Tibetan Refugee Health Care Project
URGENT: Water, an ongoing project: Our goal is to bring water purification systems to as many of the Tibetan schools and Tibetan homes for the elderly as possible. There are hundreds of these facilities within the settlement camps. There are also small Indian schools needing help. In many places the water is polluted and each year, especially during the rainy season, June through September, people get sick, and many children have died.
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Vajra Dakini Nunnery
The site for the Vajra Dakini Nunnery has been chosen at the Sunray Peace Village, in Lincoln, Vermont. Vajra Dakini Nunnery will provide housing and support for a cloister of nuns. The nunnery will also host long and short retreats for lay practitioners and provide contemplative focus on the dharma for the entire community. Khenmo Drolma is already offering classes and workshops in the valley celebrating the Buddhist ceremonial cycle and daily practices.
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Buddha's Smile School
Buddha's Smile School is a school free to children in Sarnath, India.  The school servers underprivileged beggar children in the surrounding area providing a comprehensive education covering nursery school to grade five, giving them hope and encouragement for a brighter future, opening their young minds and stimulating their innate creativity, teaching them to think critically and to always question everything, to learn the ways of the previous great thinkers of India's past, such as Gandhi and Mother Theresa.
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Tsoknyi Nuns Project- Pundarika Foundation
The Tsoknyi Nuns Project seeks to establish an endowment that will generate $100,000 each year to distribute among the 53 nunneries for repairs, medical care, living expenses for the neediest nuns, and to support teacher training and travel.
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Gaden Relief Projects
Gaden Relief requires donations to provide medical supplies, salaries and other services at the Jamseng Health Care Centre, to continue other ongoing efforts to help Tibetans at home and in exile and to kick start the Mongolia Project.
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Orgyen Kusum Lingpa to help reverse decline of Vajrayana Buddhism
Orgyen Kusum Lingpa has been directed by Vajrapani to build a reproduction of the Central Temple at Samye in order to reverse the decline of Vajrayana Buddhism
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Dharma Sign Project
The Dharma Sign Project was created to benefit all beings. By focusing on the self-cherishing mind, which is the root of all suffering, we can help to create a world filled with loving-kindness, a world where people think of others before thinking of themselves and cherish all beings.
Robrollin@aol.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dharmasigns

Mongolia Project of Panchen Otrul Rinpoche
Panchen Otrul Rinpoche has been visiting Mongolia each year since 1995 when he visited with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He now lives permanently in Mongolia. He has been helped on occasions by other Tibetan monks coming to Mongolia to teach and also by other Western students of Panchen Otrul Rinpoche. Mongolia Project consists of various projects and they desperately need your support.
www.maitreyacharity.org

Construction of a Buddhist Monastery in Buryatia, Russia
In Ulan-Ude city, Buryatiya region, Russia, 100 km from lake Baikal, with a blessing of HH the XIV Dalai Lama, a Buddhistmonastic complex is being built. All interested members of the community will have the opportunity to study at this monastery. Eshe Lodoy is Tulku, recognized at the age of 3 as reincarnate Elo Rinpoche, is the founder and spiritual head of this monastery. Elo Rinpoche is a Buddhist monk, honoer Tibetan lama, geshe-lharamba (doctor of philosophy), who worked in Dharamsala at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives as head of the Dept. of Eastern Mansuscripts.
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Help Fund Students in Dharamsala
A little over 2 1/2 years ago, Pema Lhundrup, a strong Tibet independence fighter and Secretary of the Centrax Tibetan Youth Congress-India, died suddenly at the young age of mid-forties. Pema left a wife and 3 daughters. For the past year, the International Tibet Independence Movement (ITIM) has been helping to support his daughters through private contributions frompeople like you. Thank you so much. Right now, two of Pema's daughters just began post secondary school in Delhi, while the other is in level 12 at the Tibetan Children's Village in Dharamsala. ITIM respectfully requests that youconsider donating more money to support these young women. This money will be used to help pay their tuition fees and living expenses for next year. We estimate that we need to raise $2500 U.S. dollars to accomplish this task. Thanks for considering these appeal. For more information on this campaign, visit www.rangzen.org.

A Construction Project & Appeal for Demo Meditation & Ancient Medical Institute
Demo Monastery solicits donations towards the construction of Demo Meditation and Medical Institute.
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Tibetan Refugee Documentary Project
The main purpose of this Tibetan Refugee Documentary Project is to use video-documentaries to raise and enhance awareness about the situations of Tibetan refugees. The media context of the Project is that mass media outlets tend to avoid much criticism of China's activities in Tibet. Some of China's critics, meanwhile, use the Tibet issue merely as an excuse to bash China, without careful attention to Tibetans or their goals. Many supporters of the Tibetans, on the other hand, idealize Tibetans uncritically, in what has been called Shangri-la syndrome. The producers seek support, especially grants, for the distribution of Volume One,
and for the production of Volume Two. Please help.
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Two Tibetan Settlements in India Devasted by Drought
Devastating drought has hit two Tibetan settlements in South India, destroying crops, undermining livelihoods and burdening the farmers with potentially unbearable debt. The drought hit South India during the critical farming months of July through August this year, causing the State Government of Karnataka to declare the whole district as drought-distressed.
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Sakya Centre Water Project in Rajpur India
Water is available only 1-2 hours per day and often is unavailable for days at a time. Clean and abundant water is most urgently needed for the hospital to be able to maintain a high level of cleanliness and hygiene. It is also needed for the growing monastic community, many who come directly from Tibet.
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Polluted Water in Tibetan Children's School
We are asking for tax-deductible donations to help with a water crisis in one of the Tibetan schools in India. Their water is polluted and some of the children are getting sick.
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Lumbini is Getting a Much-awaited Facelift
Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, is in the process of getting a facelift, but the project has been hit by financial hardships and they need your help.
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"Volunteers for Dharamsala"
San Diego Friends of Tibet created this program in 1998 to send volunteers to Dharamsala and other parts of India to serve the needs of the Tibetans in exile. I recently returned from India where I visited the places requesting volunteers, including the Tibetan Government in Exile and other programs.If nothing in the current list of openings fits with your skills and interests, but you'd like to be notified of future openings, please e-mail me and I'll add you to our list. The program is open to volunteers from anywhere in the world, as long as you speak English, Tibetan or Hindi. No one is paid, and no fees are charged. You need to go at your own expense. Some of the positions provide housing— some don't. Assignments tend to be long-term, from one month up to a full year. Being a volunteer will give you an experience of immersion in the beautiful Tibetan culture, and an opportunity to really make a difference. The giving and receiving blend into one. Returning volunteers say they quickly became part of a close, loving community. Current openings are for: ESL teachers, trainers to the monks in Namgyal Monastery in video editing, physiotherapists, speech therapists, doctors and nurses, quantitative analysis people, project management people, and small business development. For more information, contact Dory Beatrice, Coordinator, dorykb@san.rr.com

The Khawachen Assistance Program (KAP)
is a special project of the Tibet Fund, a not-for profit organization dedicated to preserving Tibetan culture and to improve all aspects of life for the Tibetan people. With the opening up of Tibet, many Tibetans, both inside Tibet and in exile, agree that it is time to offer assistance to Tibetan programs and projects inside Tibet. Tibetans in remote and rural areas of Tibet are especially in pressing need of assistance in many areas. Malnutrition, high infant mortality, inadequate medical services, illiteracy and lack of vocational training and job opportunities exacerbate the widening gap between the urban and the remote rural population in Tibet. KAP focuses on health, education and economic development projects for the nomadic and rural areas and for primary schools. We place special emphasis on education and scholarships.
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The Dolpo Project
was founded in 1997 to aid and support the cultural survival of the Tibetan people. In Inner Dolpo where populations are thin and most family groups live outside the money economy, the monasteries are unlikely to survive without some outside support. In anticipation of the incarnation of the next Shey tulku, local villagers will prepare Shey gompa (monastery). For the past 30 years the wooden floor of Shey gompa has been unfinished. There is no wood in the area, as Shey was built in high desert above the treeline. The wood for flooring needs to be purchased in Juphal and carried over a 17,500-foot pass to Shey.A precious collection of sacred texts from all lineages of Tibetan Buddhism is being eaten by field mice. Monastery buildings are crumbling. The lamas of Shey need food supplies for the winter, warm clothing and medical attention. At the heart of Tibetan Buddism is profound respect for the ascetic and contemplative nature of the individual. Some of the great lamas in recent years have spent more than a third of their lives in reatreat. A remote cave or hermitage provides the ideal location for the process of deep retreat. However, the very remoteness of the Shey monasteries acts against their survival. Your gift to The Dolpo Project will help to fill these needs. The Tibetans believe that we accumulate merit from positive action. This merit is continually dedicated to the benefit of all beings.
http://www.tibet.dk/dolpo

Drought Relief Appeal for Mundgod Tibetan Settlement
Mundgod Tibetan settlement located in Karnataka State of India which is home to more than 13,000 Tibetan refugees who depend for their livelihood mainly on rainfed farming, has been devastated this year by prolonged drought destroying all their crops of paddy, cotton, maize and pulses on 2300 acres of farmland.
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The Tibetan Refugee Healthcare Project
is looking for a Physician's Assistant to volunteer for six months to one year providing healthcare to Tibetan refugees in South India. The focus will be on the treatment and cure of TB to approximately 6,000 Tibetan Buddhist monks in the Drepung Loseling and Ganden monasteries in Mundgod. In addition, project members will train a group of monks to expand treatment into the general refugee community. If you are interested, please contact Jenny Millstein at Jennyempir@aol.com, by phone at 843-588-2557, or by mail at Tibetan Refugee Healthcare Project, PO Box 183, Folly Beach, SC 29439.
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Ripa Ladrang Foundation
The New Treasures Sponsorship Fund was created to raise funds for a major new Buddhist monastery, study and retreat center in Pharping, Nepal, envisioned by H.E Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche, Terton.
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JJI Exile Brothers
We are Tibetans in Exile, this of course you already know. But what does this really mean? For us it means that we have lived in India for our entire lives, never being able to see our mother land of Tibet. Our music is our only way of expressing ourselves and our frustrations. We have very limited access to good equipment, this is a comprehensive lacking. We can't get good instruments, sound equipment, recording equipment or even a place where the acoustics are good enough to project our true sound. What we need is an opportunity to come to the west, preferably America, considering it's political stature, growing number of Tibetan supporters and of course english being our second language, it makes America the right choice for us
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Kunsang Dechen Lingpa's Zangdokpalri/Arunachal Pradesh Project
Your support will go towards nurturing a community of young people, and future leaders, who are upholding a sacred tradition while facing the realities of a rapidly changing world. Our specific goals are to complete the construction of their monastery (long delayed because of financial shortages) and to improve their living quarters (insulation, weather-proofing, and roofing.) Kunsang Dechen Rinpoche has devoted his life and energy to nurturing his spiritual children and his community. Your contributions will establish an endowment so that this good Lama's life work of teaching and spritual transmissions can continue.
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The Paper Road/Tibet Project
is a project of the Crossing Over Consortium, Inc. devoted to researching traditional papermaking and book arts; revitalizing traditional Tibetan hand papermaking by providing training for teachers and students in Tibet through our partnership with the Jatson Chumig Special Welfare School in Lhasa; promoting environmental responsibility by introducing the recycling of waste paper and the use of agricultural lternatives to the traditional Tibetan papermaking fibers.
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Volunteer with Cultural Restoration Tourism Project (CRTP)
For the last three years, CRTP has been working with a Buddhist community in Mongolia to help them restore their temple building. The monastery at Baldan Baraivan was once the hub of eastern Mongolia and the third largest monastery in the country.
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Tibetan Architecture Documentation Centre (TADC)
is a non-profit organization under the auspices of the Library of Tibetan Works and Affairs, Dharamsala, India and is run entirely by volunteers. Theyrequest you for any information (e.g. data, photographs) concerning buildings in Lhasa or the direct environment of Lhasa from both before 1959 and after 1959.
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The Tibetan Solidarity Alliance Blue Book Project
Tibetans have a living culture that is slowly dying. Tibet’s unique culture and religion is systematically being destroyed, and is in danger of being lost forever. This is a crucial and promising time for the people of Tibet. The release of major motion pictures about Tibet, the Tibetan Freedom Concerts and the Tibetan Folklife Festival, as well as the newly established and expanded Tibet support groups throughout the world have increased awareness of their plight. The knowledge that others are firmly committed to their peaceful struggle, and that together they are raising their voices in protest, is an important source of strength for the Tibetan people.
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The Panchen Lama
The 16 year old Panchen Lama (Gendhun Choekyi Nyima), Tibet's second most important spiritual leader, is still missing and The PRC refuses to allow anyone to see Him. He was abducted by The PRC on May 17, 1995. Since then, ITIM has distributed over 550,000 postcards advocating for His release. These postcards are still available. Visit http://www.rangzen.com for details on how to receive the cards. Look for a link about The Panchen Lama on their site, to learn more about "Tibet's Stolen Child."

Paljorling Tibetan Settlement/Shang Gaden Choekhor Ling Gompa
needs new/used computer equipment, software, hardware, educational materials.
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The Three Jewels
Donate Dharma books, time, or assistance to a great organization.
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The Spiritual Biography of Rechungpa
The sangha of Kamtsang Sherab Choling, Honolulu, Hawaii, is delighted to announce our sponsorship for the publishing of The Spiritual Biography of Rechungpa by the Ven. Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, eminent scholar of the Karma Kagyu lineage and recently appointed tutor to HH the 17th Karmapa, Urgyen Trinley Dorje.
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Fundraising Appeal for Ritual Objects for Kagyu Samye Dzong London
As the Center is steadily growing, we are trying to ensure that all the ritual objects necessary for the activities of visiting teachers are available.
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Sheep for Tibet- Economic Self-Sufficiency for Tibet's Nomads
from the Benevolent Organisation for Development, Health & Insight (BODHI)
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