Drepung Gomang Monastery provides its resident monks and people from the nearby villages with medical assistance. This was constructed with kind fund from Dr. Subhuti, Itm. All of the staff are monk volunteers who help everyone who comes to its doors. Ven Geshe Monlam is the doctor cum director-incharge and assisted by other volunteer monks, the service is open to the public daily from 9 a.m. 11am and 3- 5 p.m.
consultation with doctors
dressing up sores and drugs store
Nurse and patient bed
Elderly Waiting for their turn
Medical consultations are free, and the charges for medicines are minimal. The continuance of this medical care is dependent entirely upon the generosity of donors. Any assistance would be gladly welcomed!
In addition, patients with serious problems may avail themselves of services from the Men-Tse Khang (Tibetan Hospital) in the Tibetan Settlement as well as the hospital located in camp 3 and Indian hospital in nearby cities of Hubli, Bangalore and Manipal. The administrative office has been handing over the Medical allowance of 75% (percentage according to the availability of funds in this project) to any monk who has taken medical treatment for their illness, the monks have to submit their original receipts/bills to the account section. This Medical allowance is provided on a quarterly basis, (the first quarter of 2021 medical allowance issued was Rupees nineteen lakh). Please visit the below link to donate on medical funds/medical emergency funds.
The Gomang Handicrafts Center creates banners, and other items that are sold to provide small income for the monastery. Not all of the monks at Gomang are inclined to pursue a Geshe degree in Buddhist philosophy. Some of these monks choose, instead, to serve the monastery by contributing their talents to making religious items at the Handicraft Center. In addition, the Center provides employment to both Indian and Tibetan lay persons from the surrounding areas where they learn tailoring.
Monk robes are stitched at handicraft center (left pic). Monastery offers whole set of monk robes to the monks as per the wishes of donors/sponsors.
Brocades for Thankas are stitched here at Handicraft center (right pic).
Drepung Gomang Monastic University is one of the most reputed centers (the three great seats: Drepung, Gaden and Sera) for learning, contemplating and practicing Tibetan Buddhist thoughts and science notably known as the second Nalanda University in Tibet. As prophesied in Langsheg Sutra by Lord Buddha: When once Nagaraja Madhopa pledged Lord Buddha with a white conch, Lord Buddha handed it over to Maugalayana, one of his two closest attendants who possessed transcendental miracle-power, with blessed and instructive decree to take it to Gogpa Ri (Garlic Hill) at Gaden in Tibet and hide it there in the hill. It adds that in the future the Bhiksu of Lotus-purity in nature would unearth it and it would thereafter be used as Tsogdhung, to be blown as the signaling medium for gathering to spiritual congregation......
( H.E. 81st Abbot /Khen Rinpoche Geshe Jigme Gyatso)
Drepung Gomang Library
Reading hall at Drepung Gomang LIbrary)
Lubum Geshe Tenzin Thinley has been elected as the director of Drepung Gomang Library and assisted by scores of geshes and monks at Drepung Gomang Library. The term of the director of Drepung Gomang Library is of three year. After every three year, new director is elected by the monks during the election conducted at the congregation.
(kindly note that from May 2014, the post of Director of library will be constituted as one of the directors of administrative office (chanzoekhang) as decided at the Grand Meeting of the monastery)
The sacred texts or the manuscript are typed in the computer by the monks, made in book format or scripture format and published for the students to read and which can be borrow from the library also.
*Editing Section/PROOFreading
The scholars and Geshes of the monastery proofread the computer printout of the books before giving it to final printing.
The teachings of great learned scholars are recorded in tapes, CDs so that the students can use it for future reference.
Former library incharge, Geshe Tenpa Choklang says that When the monks escaped to India from Tibet, they were able to carry a few texts and books which they stored in a make-shift library at their transit camp in northeast India. After re-establishing in south India, the monastery was able to construct a good library which houses a large collection of Buddhist sacred texts. Geshe la also stressed that our monastery has a large collection of Buddhist texts compared to other monasteries. No other monastery has what we have here at the Drepung Gomang Library. This is a result of the many scholars from this monastery who have written texts, important commentaries, etcs. Our aim is to preserve all these works and make them available to our students.
With a scarcity of funds and other resources, we are not able to print out the many important texts to make them readily available to the students.
For donations on library, you are requested to send checks in favor of Drepung Gomang Education Society.
Memo-library fund.
Our postal address: Drepung Gomang Monastic Admin Office,
Lama camp no. 2,
P.O. Tibetan Colony-581411,
Distt. Uttar Kannada,
Karnataka State.
INDIA.
Email:gomangoffice (at) yahoo.com
HOW YOU CAN HELP GOMANG LIBRARY click here
General Information as per the Bureau office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, New Delhi. (https://tibetbureau.in/protected-area-permit-pap/)
All the Tibetan settlements established in India are classified as Protected Areas by the Government of India. Foreign nationals, who wish to visit the Tibetan settlements in India for whatever reasons are required to take note of the following:
It has been the policy of the Government of India that all Foreigners including Foreign Aid Agencies visiting the Tibetan Settlements/Camps should seek prior permission of the Ministry of Home Affairs for visiting such Settlements/Camps in the country.
In order to streamline and facilitate the processing of PAP, the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, has launched online facilities of seeking applications for PAP from foreigners intending to visit Tibetan Settlements/Camps in India and also issuing of permits online to such foreigners if otherwise not rejected.
All foreigners intending to visit Tibetan Settlements/Camps in India may, therefore, apply online for PAP by logging in the Ministry’s website https://papvt.mha.gov.in/
Please note that any applications found incomplete shall be summarily rejected and no correspondence/reply shall be given by the Ministry.
The User Manual for PAP application submission can be downloaded from below link
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