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Dear friends,
This was posted on another mailing list, and I am posting it here.
<<<Dear Friends,
I'm currently in Nepal preparing to enter the Rangjung Yeshe Institute this summer to begin intensive study of Tibetan language (modern spoken this summer and classical written Tibetan as well starting in the fall) and Buddhist philosophy. RYI is a comprehensive program with more than 20 years history in Nepal. It was founded by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and attracts scholars of Tibetan Buddhism from around the world to study Tibetan language and philosophy and to teach as well.
For those of you who don't know me, I'm a monk originally ordained in 2001 at TMC by Khenhen Konchog Gyaltshen Rinpoche. I did the Bikkhu ordination at a Vietnamese temple last may the day after graduating from University of the West with a M.A. in Religious Studies concentrating on Buddhism.
In the future, I hope to translate Dharma texts and interpret for our lamas. I also hope to start a more organized training and education program for monastics and the laity alike--a small institute--to facilitate the transmission of the Dharma coming to the west.
Assuming I can get work-study or a scholarship (they each cover half tuition, but you can only get one or the other form of support), I estimate I'll need $3860 per year for three years of study here. I have enough for the intensive summer program and next fall, but fall short after that.
I have looked into other programs, like the translator training program at the Songtsen Library, but they are entering their last term and there are no plans to continue the program after that. Other programs I've checked out focus almost exclusively on coloquial Tibetan and at the end of the day, the cost isn't that much lower. RYI really is the best program.
If you can see this as an investment in the transmission of the Dharma to the west and would like to offer even a small amount of support, please write to me at this address and I will send the necessary information to you.
Also, check out my blog for updates on how things progress here in Nepal.
With Palms Together,
Rinchen Gyatso
Gyatso's blog: "A Monk Amok" www.amonkamok.typepad.com
Bodhicitta, the excellent and precious mind--where it is unborn, may it arise. Where it is born may it not decline, but ever increase higher and higher.>>>
Good translators are so useful to the spread of the Dharma here in the West. I hope you will consider sponsoring him in this endeavor. A few dollars a month may be little here, perhaps the cost of eating out at a restaurant, but in Nepal it can go a very long way.
Best wishes,
Konchog Dorje
This was posted on another mailing list, and I am posting it here.
<<<Dear Friends,
I'm currently in Nepal preparing to enter the Rangjung Yeshe Institute this summer to begin intensive study of Tibetan language (modern spoken this summer and classical written Tibetan as well starting in the fall) and Buddhist philosophy. RYI is a comprehensive program with more than 20 years history in Nepal. It was founded by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and attracts scholars of Tibetan Buddhism from around the world to study Tibetan language and philosophy and to teach as well.
For those of you who don't know me, I'm a monk originally ordained in 2001 at TMC by Khenhen Konchog Gyaltshen Rinpoche. I did the Bikkhu ordination at a Vietnamese temple last may the day after graduating from University of the West with a M.A. in Religious Studies concentrating on Buddhism.
In the future, I hope to translate Dharma texts and interpret for our lamas. I also hope to start a more organized training and education program for monastics and the laity alike--a small institute--to facilitate the transmission of the Dharma coming to the west.
Assuming I can get work-study or a scholarship (they each cover half tuition, but you can only get one or the other form of support), I estimate I'll need $3860 per year for three years of study here. I have enough for the intensive summer program and next fall, but fall short after that.
I have looked into other programs, like the translator training program at the Songtsen Library, but they are entering their last term and there are no plans to continue the program after that. Other programs I've checked out focus almost exclusively on coloquial Tibetan and at the end of the day, the cost isn't that much lower. RYI really is the best program.
If you can see this as an investment in the transmission of the Dharma to the west and would like to offer even a small amount of support, please write to me at this address and I will send the necessary information to you.
Also, check out my blog for updates on how things progress here in Nepal.
With Palms Together,
Rinchen Gyatso
Gyatso's blog: "A Monk Amok" www.amonkamok.typepad.com
Bodhicitta, the excellent and precious mind--where it is unborn, may it arise. Where it is born may it not decline, but ever increase higher and higher.>>>
Good translators are so useful to the spread of the Dharma here in the West. I hope you will consider sponsoring him in this endeavor. A few dollars a month may be little here, perhaps the cost of eating out at a restaurant, but in Nepal it can go a very long way.
Best wishes,
Konchog Dorje
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