The Lattè Box , by Ngakma Shadröl Wangmo A couple of years ago I was thinking about how I, as a person with a small income, could come up with something like $1000 to donate to Drala Jong. It occurred to me that there was something I'd heard of called 'saving money' and though I'd never [...]
Continuing a theme of 'every bit helps' in the art of fundraising, £83.10 was recently raised and donated to the Drala Jong Retreat Centre funds by Ngak'chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen at a local car boot sale. They gathered together various objects including a number of horse related items, both being keen equestrians and a [...]
There are a number of small, incremental, consistent activities that members of the Aro gTér Lineage sangha are involved in to raise funds for Drala Jong. One of these is that Ngakma Sang-gyé A-tsal donates £10.00 from every private Jong-dar chèd pa /sKu-mNyé class she teaches. sKu-mNyé means massage of the psychophysical body and is [...]
Chris Haydon's wonderful account of his fundraising walk: Fairly recently I became an apprentice within the Aro gTèr tradition of Vajrayana Buddhism. It is very important to me that this unique blend of traditional Nyingma practice and our modern Western culture is able to survive and flourish. To that end I see it as very [...]
[This is a bilingual message, please scroll down for the English version] Summer in the City von Ngakma Déwang Pamo 4. Juli 2015 in München. 38 Grad Celsius, 100 Grad Fahrenheit. Summer in the City. Wir hatten aber nicht geplant, schwimmen zu gehen oder faul in der Sonne zu liegen – es war der Tag [...]
You can stay up to date with Chris's Drala Jong Fundraising Walk via his event page on Facebook. You can join him there, see his photographs and send him encouraging messages. On Wednesday he reported "A fantastic day's walk into Exmoor, and just past quarter distance completed. Today's highlights included nice scenery, Tarr steps, a [...]
For our first fundraising post of the Tibetan New Year we turn to Elina, Alex and Marika's Finnish Food Extravaganza - helping establish the tradition of food-based fundraising that Iza Redon started with her Bristolian fine dining last year. Over to Alex for the meat of the tale: It’s not every day that someone comes [...]
