SUPPORT the Maitripa
Rabjungma Community
We have already begun the initial stages of this project: a renowned Lharampa Geshe with monastic experience (Yangsi Rinpoche), the infrastructure and faculty of Maitripa College to assist, land to practice on, and a senior fully ordained gelongma/bhikshuni (Venerable Yönten) with the experience of more than twenty years of ordained life in community – including in depth Vinaya training and ongoing connections to numerous other senior nuns and lay teachers in the Tibetan Buddhist world.
We had a two-week inaugural retreat this past summer to assess possible candidates for the program, and from that process have welcomed three women as our first cohort. These three women will arrive at the land in April 2025 and begin their training in service-leadership and monastic life at that time.
What we need is support from our dharma friends, like you, to bring the next stages to life. While we have land and some buildings, they are all in need of upgrades. Our current projects are:
1) to build three small, very simple cabins for the first cohort of women: each small cabin will be between $15, 000 – $25, 000 each
2) to do an initial renovation of the existing barn on the property into a meditation practice space as well as to develop the bathroom and kitchen area: this project is estimated to cost between $3,000 – $5, 000
Any assistance you can give towards these aims would be so appreciated.
Please follow the link below or contact us here ~ THANK YOU!