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Mission
Food
Foundation Program
Medical care
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Food Foundation Program
Monks undergo
many hours of study and good health
is a must. All the food
for the monks in the monastery is
supplied from the college communal
kitchen. Breakfast is a slab of
bread and sugarless tea. Lunch
consists of vegetables and bread and sometimes rice. And dinner is rice
and Tibetan noodle soup (Thukpa).
Several photos are displayed below.
The goal of
the Drepung Gomang Food Foundation
is to ensure the proper nourishment
of the monks at Drepung Gomang
Monastery. Presently, there are
over 2000 monks living at the
monastery. Each year,
approximately 150 new monks from
Tibet, Mongolia, Tibetan Mongolia,
Russia, Nepal, the Himalayan regions
of India of Ladakh, Arunachal
Pradesh, and the Tibetan settlements
in India come to the monastery.
Since the
monastery is dedicated to the
survival and continuance of the
teachings of the Buddha, no person
is refused entrance into the
monastery. However, many of these
monks have no financial resources to
support themselves. As a result,
Gomang is faced with the ever
increasing problem of providing
enough food for the monastery to
ensure that everyone living there
remains healthy.
The Food
Foundation plans to guarantee that
the monastery will have enough money
in reserve so that even in times of
financial drought or crisis, there
will always be food available. The
plan is to raise enough money so
that the food allowance will be paid
by the interest that is generated by
money deposited in the Food
foundation. This ensures that no
matter what economic situation
arises, there will always be a
supply of food for the monks.
| Food Foundation Plan |
We have
estimated that we'll require
approximately $80,000/month to
be placed in the food
foundation. This amount
will allow the monastery to feed
the monks from the interest. In
total we'll need to raise close
to $1,000,000. Once we have this amount of
funding, we can be assured
that the monastery will be
properly supported.
Please consider providing a
donation of $108.
Go
here for the donation form
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Emergency Health Fund
Until
recently, the monastery has been
providing 75% medical allowances to
the monks who undergo medical
treatment, provided that they submit
original copies of their medical
bills and expenses. This allowance
had been made to an individual monk
after every three months. This
program had been very beneficial to
the monks who don't have any money
and who live solely on prayer
offerings.
Dr. Sherab Gyatso Examining a
Patient
With the
increase in population, illnesses
like colds, stomach ulcers,
jaundice, and diarrhea have become
common. In addition, some monks
also undergo complicated heart
surgery. However, for
the past months, there has been a
decrease in the percentage provided
because of insufficient funds for
this program and because of the many
monks who have been coming forward
to claim this medical allowance.
This means that in the future, many,
many sick monks won't be able to go
the hospital as they won't be able
to afford to do so. The donations
received for this project will be
kept in a separate account and will
be used for providing medical
allowance to the monks.
Besides
providing monthly allowances, the
monastery's dispensary has been
doing many great works:
a)
Inviting doctors/specialists
from cities and town for
checkups of monk students
b) Visiting senior monks'
residences with the doctor and
keeping monthly checkups
c) Charging only nominal
fees for medicines
d) Providing doctor services
totally free
e) Providing dressing of
wounds, sores at no charge
f) Assisting patients when
they go for further medical
treatment
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