Little nun of the Kopan nunnery near Kathmandu

Action: Urgently needed more sponsors for the emergency fund Hepatitis-B . Action email (Dutch language)

Action: Your help is needed for 3 daily meals for the monks of the Gaden Jangtse Tsawa Khangsten in Southern-India.

Actie email, also newsletter (in Dutch language)about the latest 4 corona Help-actions.

Click here for the action email.

Continuing projects we ask you to support:

A-Gaden Jangtse monastery near Mundgod, India:

Gaden Jangtse Tsawa Khangsten:

-Sponsor a monk
-Help the the redemption of the mortgage repayment of the new construction.

General:

-Emergencyfund Hepatitis-B
-Monastery hospital and fund for the ill monks
-Food
-Preserve and print again of Dharma scripts for study (Library Project)

B-The Khacho Ghakyill (Kopan) nunnery near Kathmandu, Nepal

Gezondheidsproject:
-Payment consultinghours female doctor.
-support the seriously ill nuns
-needs for construction new clinic.

-Sponsor a nun
-Livelihood and food

-Actions for special goals and emergency situations:

New-years action: blankets for the poorest day laborers families in Bihar.

Bihar (India)

The misery for the day laborer families didn't stop. On the contrary: their work as a worker in factories , construction cleaning etcetera doesn't exist anymore. And they have no income at all.
Fooddistribution wasn't allowed from june until december. De The authorities gave emergency rations, but the lowest of the castless ones who even couldn't get hold of ID-cards didn't get because of that almost no help.
The Root Institute in Bodhgaya are doing what they can do with the 2 staffmembers who are still there, toghether with a few volunteers. If there are enough donations, because the R.I. is already closed from March and don't have money themselves, they bring foodpackages with the schoolbus of the Maitreyaschool, wich is also closed,to the remote villages werd the poorest people live. In spring they went one time with a rentes tractor,when the bus wasn't allowed to drive, but when it became known that in a remote village the people had nog ID-cards, and therefor they didn't had any food. In the beginning of december there was for the first time a fooddistribution by the R.I. The Tara Foundation wants to focus on blankets, because there is a lack of everything and also of blankets and warm clothes. At the moment there is an cold wave as often is in december/January in Bihar.Many poor people are dying because of a lack of blankets. We want to try to have brought as quick as possible as much blankets as possible. The R.I. will take care for this. Every donation is very welcome!

Video about fooddistribution in the villages with the schoolbus of the institute.

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Video: fooddistribution of 9 december 2020 by the Root Institute, the first wich was allowed since june

For the action for the corona- outbreak Mundgod almost € 9000,-- came in, for the costs of quarantaine, treatment, etc. and for three ventilators! (one for the Gaden Jangtse hospital and two for the special Covid-19 hospital in camp 3). The outbreak is, thanks to your support under controll. Many thanks to all the donators! Donations who will come in now are given to the GJ hospital, to make the regular care for the poorest people possible during the coronacrisis. For this the hospital still needs donations.

The monastery is thankfull to all the donors. Click here for the thank you letter of the monastery to all donors.

Action: your help is needed

for big Covid-19 outbreak in the Gaden Jangtse monastery and surrounding Tibetan settlements near Mundgod in India.

our action for emergency-help for the poor day-labourers in the recent lockdowns in India en Nepal, wich fetched just about € 8000,-- was recently ended. But again we need your help for a serious situation: A very big outbreak of Covid-19 in the Tibetan settlement Doeguling near Mundgod in India.

Doeguling is almost the biggest Tibetan settlement in India. It has the status of a refugeecamp, divided in 9 sub-camps with 9 villages, 2 monasteries for monks and a nunnery for nuns. The settlement with just about 15.000 inhabitants has the status of a refugeecamp and is a “restricted area” Outsiders need a special permit to go there. Only a few professions are allowed to do, the ground is producing very less, so most of the inhabitants are poor. The settlement is in the state of Karnataka, at the moment one of the most affected areas by Corona 19 at the moment in India. Read about the action in the action email.(in Dutch)
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Saka Dawa action: Your help is needed for emergency situation because of corona-lockdowns in India and Nepal

Already we could pay more than € 8000,-- for the emergency rations. We thank all donors very much for this! Starting in june we will focus totally on Nepal.

The lockdown is exstended until in august. The emergency of the Tibetan and Nepalese day laborers is high, and their families can't survive without the emergency rations. The monks of the Kopan monastery bring the emergency rations to who need them the most even in the remote villages at the Tibetan border. For the time after the lockdown there is a 2 phase plan for the help for surviving. Every donation is still very welcome!

There is a big need amongst the poor laborers and their families in India en Nepal because of the de corona-lockdowns.
The monks of the Gaden Jangtse monastery and the Kopan monastery help as much as they can en are asking for donations to help as much as possible. Also for emergency aid after the lockdowns.

For more information read the action email about the Saka Dawa Action.(Dutch language)


Important update Gaden Jangtse Library Project

Since 2017 the Tara Foundation is intensive connected with the “Library project” of the Gaden Jangtse monastery.(klick here). The goal of the project is to preserve important Buddhistic texts and to make them open to the public (again). Some texts had to be tracked down after they were lost in Tibet during the cultural revolution. De texts were digitized, old printing errors were corrected and the form was made easier readable. After that the texts were printed in bookform and they were given for free to the monks for study and meditation. this beautiful project to keep and make available important texts is started by Geshe Sonam Gyaltsen. On the 15. of february 2017 in the Library the intensive cooperation of the Tara Foundation with Geshela and the Library started, as you can see on the photos below.

The Tara Foundation is very happy that we can support this beautiful project. In 2017 were 5 important texts for example about philosofy of the middle way was printed in bookform; 2 of them the Tara Foudation could pay the costs for, (just about € 3000,--), we are very happy about that. The publishing of 1 book in 500 copies costs about € 1550,-. There are waiting still 12 very important texts for digitizing and publishing in bookform! It is giving a good Karma to sponsor the preservation of Dharma texts.

The watercleaning installation for Tsawa Khangsten
is installed!

The Losar action in february 2017 was very successfull: the total amount for the watercleaning installation and also for the building we have now: € 3750,--, !We are very happy that the very polluted now can be cleaned perfectly and the monks (and the many children with them) have now good drinking water!

The watercleaning installation

Losar action 2016

Losar-action:een watercleaninginstallation for Tsawa Khangsten (dutch text).


The performance of the Emergency Fund Hepatitis B is taken over by the monastery!
The Tara Foundation stays the sponsor

Our Emergency Fund Hepatitis B is in january 2016 taken over by the nature medical clinic of the Gaden Jangtse Monestary! The clinic will in near cooporation with the allopathic clinic of the monastery , coordinate all examinations and treatments (allopathic and Tibetan). The clinic will also (on our request) give information about prevention and hygiene. The Tara Foundation takes care of the fundraising. We hope to treat as much monks as possible! At Saka Dawa (21 may) we could transfer € 4579,12 for the treatment of monks with Hepatitis-B! We are looking periodical for sponsoring and donations for this fund! Our hope is not only to get enough funds for treating the ill monks, but also enough for the treatment of ill Tibetans in the surrounding villages!

The waterpump for Tsawa Khangsten
is installed!

The Tara Foundation works in India and Nepal and is mainly concentrating on the helping of Tibetan refugees in their needs and their monasteries and on the survival of the Tibetan Buddhistic culture.

With the helping of the new established monasteries there is a direct contribution of the survival of the Tibetan buddhistic culture wich has almost disappeared in Tibet.

We are now concentrating on the Gaden Jangtse monastery in South-India and on the Kopan nunnery in Nepal. Also we do oftenly on request action for children in emergency situations.

In this Losar-month, the month of the Tibetan new year that started on 19th of february, the actions will be more powerful than a 100.000 times. The peak is the day of the Miracles, on the 5th of march. In this successful time we would like to give attention for the waterpump-action for the Gaden Jangtse Tsawa Khangsten.

The Tsawa Khangsten is one of the 12 monasteries of the Gaden Jangtsen Monastery in South India and also the house of Geshe Sonam Gyaltsen.
It is the biggest and poorest monastery with more than 500 monks. Tsawa Khangsten not only took in many refugees but also hunderds of very poor children from the borders of Tibet, because their parents couldn't feed them anymore.

At first there were only dilapidated little houses where the rain was leaking though.

15 Years ago at another place a new building was build, nowadays there are living hunderds of monks, the new Tsawa Khangsten. Recently there is build a new building with a prayerhall with rooms for many monks. Although much is better, there is still a big need. Like the shortage of water. This is most pressing in the old Tsawa Khangsten, with the many mostly uninhabitable little houses. There is a waterpipe to the new Tsawa Khangsten wich is situated on the other side of the road on a different place. But because of the shaking caused by the traffic and heavy rains the pipes are damaged oftenlyand then the old Tsawa Khangsten has no water.The pumps can't supply both parts of Khangsten with water.

That situation is dangerous for the fragile healthsituation of the monks. The refugees and the dumped children oftenly have a bad healthsituation and there is also an almost epidemical form of Hepatitis B in the monastery, many monks have suffered of that. With no water that is very worrisome.

Another waterpump like this is required.

That's why we ask for your help to raise money for a new waterpump.
The costs for a new pump are € 1750,- we are hoping for your support.

The waterpump is installated recently! It happened just before Losar, the Tibetan Newyear, wich started on the 9th of february. Astrological it was not good if the pump would be installated in the new year. But luckily the money came in in time, although in the mean time the amount necessary was risen until €2700,-. All monks are happy, because now there is enough water for everybody. We hope with this the health situation of the monks will get better. (click here for a video of the moment the water was tapped.) General help for Tsawa Khangsten is still urgently for the care of the many refugees and children and the redemption of the loan for the new building. Also we are looking urgently sponsor for the (child)monks of Tsawa Khangsten, we can help the whole monastery with that help.

Click here for the Losar action for a waterpump for Tsawa Khangsten and how you can help Tsawa Khangsten. Many many trhanks to the donators, after the mansoon the pump can be installated.

Other big problems of Tsawa Khangsten are the taking care of the livelihood of the newcomers, specially the hunderds of children. Creating new places for them en the new community-facilities is costing an almost unbearable debt.A big amount of money had to be loaned to finish the building of the required prayinghall with rooms for many monks. (In the old building there was only place for 200 of the 500 monks).

You can help Tsawa Khangsten with a general donation or you could sponsor a (child)monk. For example one of the monks you see on the photo. It is also possible to choose monks on our website.

You can donate your money to NL29ABNA0431292981. Name: Tara Foundation Balkbrug.

IBAN code: NL29ABNA0431292981

SWIFT code: ABNANL2A.

Your whole donation is used and are deductable of taxes. The costs for the3 foundation are payed in private by the board members.
More information you find on the website.

Some recent results of actual actions:
The Kopan nuns health project is a big succes!Until now we raised €10.424,14.
From this money a Tibetan speaking doctor can have consultinghours in the nunnery and are 3 nuns educated as preventionworkers/teacher hygiene to give lessons in their own nunnery.

The re4sult of The action for the AIDS orphans is until now € 4.542,-, the half of that amount is a periodic gift.

The emergency fund for Hepatitis B for Gaden Jangtse already treated 11 serious ill monks,and 1 nun. They will cooperate with the Tibetan healthcare clinic of the monastery to help more serious ill patients, also lays with traditional Tibetan healthcare.

Thank you very much for your support!!

Article about the Tara Foundation in the magazine of the Tibet Support Group
We got from the Tibet Supportgroup Netherlands an invitation to write an article about our projects for their magazine Tibet.Now ( for the rubric Hart for Tibet): click here for the article (in dutch)

almost directly after it was published a new sponsor reported himself, we want to thank him heartly. Unfortunately we cannot thank the sponsors wich we only know from the bankstatements. On the statements the adresses are not published anymore. We ask the sponsors who don't hear anything from us, to get in contact with us.

Action: Help for the victims of the earthquake in Nepal

The action, in cooperation with the buddhistic aid organisation Karuna-Shechen, has been a big succes!