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Set-up of Ladakh Nuns Association

Presently, the total number of nunneries in Ladakh is 27. The LNA works closely with all of them. Approximately 600 nuns live in the various nunneries and 200 nuns study elsewhere. In addition, a number of nuns live, enrobed, but outside of nunneries. Dr. Tsering Palmo encourages these nuns to come to a nunnery at least once a month. The nunneries are spread out over a vast and barren countryside in the northern region of India, where it can be bitterly cold during the long winters. The LNA is organized in such a way that nuns are encouraged to have a serious education, in both the "Dharma" (Buddhist teachings) as well as in traditional medicine. In this way, women are being trained to become self-supportive, both for themselves as well as for their communities. The LNA has a staff of 12 co-workers. The secretary is paid, but all other staff members, i.e., drivers, those doing the bookkeeping, and more general helpers, are all volunteers. The full staff meets two or three times each month. The LNA works closely together with the Board of the Ladakh Women's Alliance.

Activities Ladakh Nuns Association

Since 1996 the LNA has taken up a number of initiatives, for example:

• "Train the Trainer" workshops which focus on health, hygiene and computer training (with the support of Mama Cash Funding in Amsterdam);
• Center for women from all parts of Ladakh who wish to enrobe;
• Scholarship support for talented nuns, securing places for them at Buddhist schools and universities, and at the School of Higher Learning in Dharamsala;
• Intern-education in traditional Tibetan medicine;
• Expanding nunneries.

The Dutch Foundation for Ladakhi Nuns sees its primary task as enabling Ladakhi nuns to get the education that will give them the possibilty to be self-supportive in the near future.

Our activities

Some Boardmembers of the DFLN travel to Ladakh on a yearly basis to give some workshops. In 2003 the DFLN decided to make the building of the nunnery Gaden Chhatnuanling in Nyerma (Ladakh) the main focus of her activities. As of 2004 the foundation is being supported by a German team.

Design nunnery Chhatnyanling

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