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Jamgon Kongtrul III Memorial Home for the Destitute

A home where destitute seniors and impoverished children live together has literally transformed the lives of both age groups. The home is the Jamgon Kongtrul III Memorial Home for the Destitute Elderly in Darjeeling, India. Although the Home was initially built for the elders, it eventually began to take in impoverished children who had no…

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Healing Mission for Monastics, Kathmandu 2011

In September 2011, Dr. Ara Bagdassarian (Gaurish), along with photographer Haik Kocharian, spent 8 days in Nepal providing chiropractic service within the confines of Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries and Nunneries. This trip was a geographically new venture into a conceptually older project: Mission Yatra. Once a year, Gaurish organizes these chiropractic mission trips across the world…

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Raktrul Foundation's Medical/Solar Mission 2011

A message from the Raktrul Foundation: Raktrul Foundation 37 Pinewood Lane Red Hook, NY 12571 www.raktrul.org Under the direction of Bardor Tulku Rinpoche, teams of volunteers assemble from all over the world and come together for missions to benefit villages in impoverished and remote areas of Eastern Tibet. We focus on the area around Rinpoche’s…

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Jamgön Kongtrül Center San Sebastián, Life-Release Practice 2011

On April 17th, full moon, the group in San Sebastián organized a life-release effort. They released between 200—300 escargots. The intention for the practice was the wish that H.H. Karmapa, Kagyu lineage, and Dharma in general expand with no obstacles. The group expressed a wish for teachers’ long lives and for all beings to have…

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Gift of Sight by Rigpe Dorje Foundation 2010

Rigpe Dorje Foundation 9461 Charleville Blvd., #268 . Beverly Hills, California 90212 Extend Life by Restoring Sight Imagine the joy of preventing a blind person from dying an early death by offering to restore their sight. Impoverished people in Nepal and India who have cataract blindness can be treated with surgery that not only restores…

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