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NEW DONATION GIFT DVD
This new DVD about Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's life in Tibet is now available as a donation gift.
SURMANG CHILDREN AT SCHOOL
Nearly 300 children are presently attending school at the Surmang shedra and offsite locations in the Surmang valley. This includes about 40 apprentice monks who are living at the shedra. See more in the 2011 Year-end Report and the 2011 Fall Update.
VIDEOS KAGYU GURTSO (RAIN OF WISDOM) CD-DVD
"These songs... are the insight of our forefathers....The reason we refer to them as songs is because they are based on the melody of circumstance, and on meditative experience. They are cosmic onomatopoeia, the best expression of sanity."
A $35 minimum Donation Gift to support the Surmang shedra is needed to receive this set. 2010 DOCUMENTS
The Konchok Online Art Auction is OVER, But is replaced with a "POST AUCTION ONLINE GALLERY" Please go to the ART ITEMS to see the work that is curently offered. Coinciding with the Online Art Auction are several interesting new Donation Gift items. All proceeds from the auction, and also from the donation gift items, will go to the rebuilding of the Surmang shedra. The shedra is needed more urgently than ever due to the recent tragic earthquake in Jyekundo. Many refugees from the earthquake will be in Surmang for the next several years, including children who could attend school in the shedra classrooms. The educational program (PLEASE SEE PARAGRAPH #2 IN UPDATE REPORT BELOW) at the monastery will be expanded to include the refugee children. Surmang continues as the seat of the Trungpa lineage; and the rebuilding of the shedra at Surmang has vital importance in maintaining the cultural and spiritual heritage of this region. Jyekundo Earthquake A devastating earthquake struck Jyekundo (Yushu), the closest city to Surmang Dutsi Til, on April 14, 2010. If you want to make a donation specifically for earthquake relief (let us know that the donation is for that purpose per the instructions): http://konchok.shambhala.org/donate-form.php For updates on the earthquake relief efforts, please go to earthquake updates. To find out how Konchok Foundation distributes the earthquake relief funds, please go to How funds are distributed. To view the Jyekundo Earthquake Photo Essay by the Surmang Khenpo, click here! To read the Shambhala Times special page about the earthquake click here. Please click here to find out ways you can help us to finish the Shedra, fund the education of the children of the Surmang valley, or support the other projects of Konchok Foundation.
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche has frequently voiced his strong support for the rebuilding of Surmang, commenting, “I have run nine marathons over the past years to support the rebuilding of Surmang Dutsi Til...it's now time...to complete the vital dharma projects that we are supporting there.” Please contact Ginny Lipson at ginnylipson@gmail.com for more information. *** PLEASE VISIT OUR PAGE, " LIFE AT SURMANG." to specify the Mishap Lineage book as a gift, please indicate this in the “instructions to merchant” in the donation process. If you woule t MORE ABOUT THE WORK OF KONCHOK FOUNDATION: The Surmang region and monasteries in eastern Tibet have, for many centuries, been the home of the Trungpa tulkus (incarnate lamas) and a major place of practice for Tibetan Buddhism. When the Communist Party' took control of Tibet , the 11th Trungpa Rinpoche escaped from Surmang (his spiritual home) in the late 1950s. The practice of Buddhism was forbidden for many years and the Surmang monasteries were razed to the ground during the Cultural Revolution. During this period, the abbot of Surmang, Chögyam Trungpa XI Rinpoche, after escaping into exile, became one of the first and most influential teachers of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, founding the Shambhala network of contemplative centers. Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, successor to his father as the head of the international Shambhala community, has now accepted major responsibility for the rebuilding of Surmang, working closely with the people of Surmang. A crucial element is the shedra (school) for monastic and lay students. At present, there is no school in the Surmang Dutsi Til valley. The Konchok Foundation, founded in 2001 by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche together with Lady Diana Mukpo (widow of Trungpa XI Rinpoche), provides financial and other support for the rebuilding of Surmang, especially the Surmang shedra. Support is also provided to the Trungpa XII Tulku and to a number of monks who are undertaking extended group meditation retreats in the area. The foundation also provides some resources to other monasteries closely associated with Surmang or with Mipham Rinpoche. Beyond the specifics of these efforts, the Konchok Foundation is helping to initiate a remarkable coming together between two communities of people, Tibetan and Western, who share a common dharma lineage tradition but are distant from each other geographically and culturally. Exchange visits have now included travel by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche to Surmang in 2001 and 2004 and by Surmang Khenpo to North America every year since 1999. Commencing in 2004, the two communities began working jointly together on the rebuilding of Surmang. In the next several years, we will also be working together on educational programming in Tibet, and on teaching visits to the West. Please contact us for more information. o specify the Mishap Lineage book as a gift, please idicate this in the “instructions to merchant” in the donation process. wi . If you would like to specify the Mishap Lineage book as a gift, please indicate this in the “instructions to merchant” in the donation process. nter 2008)
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