You are warmly invited to support the Kilung Foundation sponsorship program. A small amount goes a long way to help with the necessities of life in Dzachuka, and with providing opportunities for Tibetan education. Your help will sustain and invigorate a culture steeped in a 2,500-year-old traditiondevoted to the spiritual welfare of all sentient beings, …
The Community Center and Health Clinic are located on the ground floor of the Kilung Shedra. Here, members of the community can gather in the spacious community hall or meet in smaller rooms to discuss projects and issues of importance to everyone. In addition, the spaces will be used to hold community education workshops and …
Around the time the renowned enlightened master, Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa, built his own monastery west of Lhasa in Central Tibet (Tsering Jong 1764), he instructed his heart-son, Jigme Ngotsar Gyatso, to build the present Kilung Monastery. The search for the precise location in Kham then began and was found through a series of miracles. …
The vision of a Tibetan cultural center in Sershul that demonstrates traditional Tibetan architecture while providing essential monastery and cultural activities has been fulfilled! While the initial plan was to construct the building, the Kilung Monastery was able to purchase a traditional Tibetan home spectacularly located along the Womchu River, with panoramic views of the …
Every year, the nomads of Dzachuka must cross the substantial Dza River at least twice, traveling to summer grazing grounds and back. Every year for millennia, hundreds of animals were lost to the swift, deep waters. Some years, as they struggled to save their animals, nomads also drowned. Though born and raised for this challenging …
The practitioner is the heart-essence and source of dharma. If we don’t have the practitioner to maintain the practice, then the dharma teachings will not be longer for this world. –Dza Kilung Rinpoche A critically important part of renewing Kilung Monastery is providing long-term stable housing for monks who wish to live at the monastery. …
