Songtsen projects overview
The following is a general overview of Songtsen’s current projects. Please click on individual projects for a more detailed description. If you wish to contribute or to get involved, you can learn more in the how to get involved section or see donation methods. You may also view photos of many of our projects in the Songtsen photo gallery.
Administrative costs are kept to a minimum by a group of dedicated and competent volunteers. This ensures the greatest possible benefit from donated funds, which are also safely and efficiently transferred via a long-established network.
- The library project: a facility for text preservation, research, and translation
- Tibetan translation: the translation of Tibetan texts
- Scholarships for new translators: training a new generation
- Publication projects: helping to print Padmakara books and practice texts
- The audio library: preservation of a unique audio heritage
- Administration: sponsoring administrative staff salaries
- Study & practice scholarships: support for students, practitioners & three-year retreatants
- Drupchens: the sponsoring of intensive pujas to be performed in Asia
- Support for Tibetan refugees: Sponsorship for young monks and nuns
- Orgyen Kunzang Chökhorling: Darjeeling, India
- Guru Lhakhang gompa: Gangtok, Sikkim
- Thupten Dorje Drak gompa: Simla, India
- Lhodrak Kharchu gompa: Bumthang, Bhutan
- Shechen Monastery: Bodha, Nepal
- Shechen Orgyen Chözong Nunnery: Sisinang, Bhutan
- Dzarong Thubten Do-Ngak Choling:Solu Khumbu, Nepal
- Assistance for the children of other Himalayan populations
- Pegasus school project: The rescue of street kids & impoverished Nepali children
- Maratika children: Supporting Himalayan children in an impoverished Nepali village
- Sitapaila: construction of a Tibetan monastic institute, Swyambhunath, Nepal
- Do-ngak Chöling: construction of a Tibetan monastery in Lumbini, Nepal
- The library project: construction of a Tibetan library, Dordogne, France
- Maratika school project: construction, repair and financing of schools in a poor Nepali village
- Student grants for the under-privileged in India, Nepal and Tibet: providing opportunities for education
- Support for Tibetan refugees: resources for spiritual training and economic development
- Projects in Tibet: support for Tibetans & cultural buildings in Tibet
- Animal rescue: protecting animals from harm
- Stupa construction: for peace & harmony in the world
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