Tong-Len Charitable Trust
By Lodoe Gyatso / August 12, 2019
As I meet Lobsang Jamgyang, Director of the Tong-Len organisation, he immediately takes the initiative. Where I should be interviewing him, he makes sure that I am at ease. He seems genuinely interested, and offers words of encouragement. When I turn the discussion to Tong-Len School, however, he is filled read more →
Getting More than We Gave
By Owen and Meghan / August 1, 2019
Volunteer job at Lha: English teachers We knew that we wanted to volunteer on our six month trip and decided to come to McLeod Ganj. We live close to the vibrant Tibetan community in Toronto and had the opportunity to work on Bhutila Karpoche’s election campaign. She is the first read more →
Tibetan Women’s Association
By Shoshana Zimmerman / August 1, 2019
The Tibetan Women’s Association (TWA) is focused primarily on empowerment training through a variety of programmes, says their President Mrs Dolma Yangchen, as she explained the aims and evolution of Association. Empowerment has been the thrust of the Association since it was set up in exile on September 10, 1984 read more →
A Little Nervous!
By Clio Gates / July 8, 2019
Tsekyi was very lonely when she first came to McLeod Ganj, aged 27. She tells me that for a long time she would cry every morning after waking up because she would dream of her parents. “Sometimes,” she says, “I would feel a little regret and wonder why I came read more →
Going Out Into the World to Learn
By Fisher Gates / July 2, 2019
Tenzin Choeyang approaches me shyly but with a big smile on face. He weaves his way through the other laughing and smiling graduates of the Lha Traditional Tibetan Massage and Basic Spa course and follows me to a quieter table inside. He tells me about his crowded childhood in South read more →
Spreading the Word
By Cyrus Kirkpatrick / June 29, 2019
Kailash Chandra Bauddha, age 33, is the Hindi translator for His Holiness the Dalai Lama and lives in Mcleod Ganj. Not only does he have the privilege of working directly with His Holiness on a regular basis, he has also become an influential figure in his own right as a read more →
A Beautiful Journey
By Firoz Mujawar / June 29, 2019
For many years now I have been visiting Drepung monastery located in Mungod, in the south Indian state of Karnataka where I started to learn and share thoughts on Tibetan culture, religion and philosophy with Lama Lobsang Tsultrim and Geshe Sherub. Mungod is certainly an oasis when you first visit. read more →
Becoming a Better Person
By Shoshana Zimmerman / June 21, 2019
Jayang Bogdo has only a faint memory of his parents and their home in Delhi. He remembers that only English was spoken and that he attended a private school for kindergarten. His early childhood ended when both parents were killed in an accident. Private school was no longer an option. read more →
Learning a New Skill
By Clio Gates / June 21, 2019
Sonam Yangchen comes up to me with a bright and hopeful smile on her face. When I ask if I can interview her, she nods, beaming at me. Just thirty minutes prior, Sonam received her certificate of completion from Lha’s course on traditional Tibetan massage. Born in Kham, Tibet to read more →
Rogpa Charitable Trust
By Lodoe Gyatso / June 20, 2019
Namgyal Phuntsok, Education Coordinator of the Rogpa Charitable Trust, meets me to chat about the Trust and mentions that he has only recently started at the organisation earlier this spring after an absence from Dharamshala of several years,working in the IT industry in the south of India. It seems that read more →