Sakya Nunnery, India

Sakya Rinchen Choling Nunnery

Preserving Buddha-Dharma - in Tibetan Nuns Tradition

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Tara Pujas and Praises

Daily Tara Pujas

This is the key-stay daily practice of all the nuns.

Annual Tara Pujas

Held after Tibetan New Year, all the nuns will recite a total of 100,000 of the 21 Praises to Tara in a week-long, whole-day series of Tara Pujas. These shall be performed for World Peace and Harmony; and for the benefit of all sponsors, for their physical, mental and spiritual well-being.

Annual Monlam

Monlam

The Nunnery takes time off to participate in the annual 10-day Annual Monlam in Lumbini. Nepal. The recitation of the "Aspiration Prayers of Samantabhadra" and other selected prayers was started by the late H.E. Chogye Trichen Rinpoche.

2009 / 2010

Sakya College For Nuns (SCN)

The first batch of Nuns has started their first year in higher Buddhist Studies.

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Sakya Nunnery and College for Nuns

Pre-2011Dedication List

Year 2011 Dedication

Tara pujas and 21 praises to Tara is a highly praised and recommended practice for almost any practictioner.

For a complete understanding of Tara, click to go to this page. With the completion of the new Temple, the nuns now have a proper shrine to create merits for all.

Tara Pujas - Any Amount

Any Amount
Education Fund (SCN)

	Tibetan Nuns Project is funding 60% of Sakya College for Nuns (or SCN). The balance 40% of U$12K educational funds has to be raised.

	It takes 10 years to train a Nun to be qualified as a female equivalent of a Khenpo and be able to teach in the Institute. This offering is for the sake of the continuity of knowledgable Dharma teachers in this world.

Any amount
Food Fund (SN)

	The nuns get their milk from 2 cows that were offered by a Sakya Centre in Australia. What was once a vegetable patch has now become the site of the new dormitory.

	A gift of U$45/- provides food to 10% of the Nunnery per day. Food is simple vegetarian meals / soup.