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|status= | |status=Checked | ||
|Submissiondate=2025-01-15 | |Submissiondate=2025-01-15 | ||
|Submissionyear=2025 | |Submissionyear=2025 | ||
|page=20250115050325-Maria-Emiry Sacchese-Submission | |||
|firstname=Maria | |firstname=Maria | ||
|lastname=Emiry Sacchese | |lastname=Emiry Sacchese | ||
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|nationality=Brazil | |nationality=Brazil | ||
|street=Rua Navarra,147 | |street=Rua Navarra,147 | ||
|street2=Jardim da Glória | |||
|city=Cotia | |city=Cotia | ||
|stateprov=São Paulo | |stateprov=São Paulo | ||
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|formalvowsdetails=Lay Precepts, November 2nd, 2023, with Lama Karma Tartchin. | |formalvowsdetails=Lay Precepts, November 2nd, 2023, with Lama Karma Tartchin. | ||
Bodhisattva Vow, August 29th, 2024, with Jonang Gyaltsab Chokyi Nangwa Rinpoche. | Bodhisattva Vow, August 29th, 2024, with Jonang Gyaltsab Chokyi Nangwa Rinpoche. | ||
|ngondrocomplete= | |ngondrocomplete=Yes | ||
|ngondronotes=I | |ngondro1=Chag Chen/ Mahamudra Ngöndro | ||
|ngondro1begin=2024-01-01 | |||
|ngondro1end=2026-01-01 | |||
|ngondronotes=To try to bypass the site's bug, I filled out this item as if I had already completed the Ngöndro. However, I have not completed the Ngondro yet. | |||
I began the practice on January 1st, 2024, and at that time, I managed to keep practicing slowly but diligently despite the very busy lifestyle I was leading at that time while finishing my nursing degree, working, and organizing the pilgrimage I undertook with Lama Tartchin from October 2024 to June 2025. | |||
Since December 2025, I have been dedicating my time to completing the Ngöndro, as it was during this period, in a solitary retreat below the Asura Cave, that I felt fully motivated to do the 3-Year Retreat. | |||
|previousretreatscomplete=Yes | |previousretreatscomplete=Yes | ||
|previousretreatsdetails=I did a one-month-and-ten-day | |previousretreatsdetails=I did a one-month-and-ten-day solitary retreat to complete the prostrations in Pharping, Kathmandu, Nepal (December, 2024 to January 2025) | ||
|ynadvstudiesprogs=No | |ynadvstudiesprogs=No | ||
|advstudiesprogsdetails=I haven't. | |advstudiesprogsdetails=I haven't. | ||
|ynofferedservices=Yes | |ynofferedservices=Yes | ||
|offeredservicesdetails=From 2018 to 2023, I offered services as a cook and retreat organizer (cleaning and maintenance), assisted in event planning, received Lamas, created social media content, transcribed teachings, and served as Chöpon. | |offeredservicesdetails=From 2018 to 2023, I offered services as a cook and retreat organizer (including cleaning and maintenance), assisted in event planning, received visiting Lamas, created social media content, transcribed teachings, and served as a Chöpon. | ||
From 2024 to 2025, I organized two group pilgrimages with Lama Tartchin | |||
|othercommunitywork=In 2014, I volunteered for one year at NZRDA, an institution that provides | From 2024 to 2025, I organized two group pilgrimages with Lama Tartchin as a way to raise funds for his return to India and Nepal, where he could reunite with his Root Lama, Tai Situ Rinpoche, after many years. | ||
In 2017, I volunteered for one month at Thosamling Nunnery (Dharamsala, India), working as a cook and babysitter for | |othercommunitywork=In 2014, I volunteered for one year at NZRDA, an institution that provides equine therapy for people with physical disabilities. | ||
From 2019 to 2023, I volunteered | |||
In 2017, I volunteered for one month at Thosamling Nunnery (Dharamsala, India), working as a cook and babysitter for young nuns. | |||
From 2019 to 2023, I volunteered with Coletivo Grãos de Luz, a group focused on the study of medicinal plants and native Brazilian knowledge. The collective distributes herbal medicine and basic food baskets to under-resourced individuals and communities. | |||
|retreatduration=40 | |retreatduration=40 | ||
|StartFunding=2026-11-01 | |StartFunding=2026-11-01 | ||
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|requestedamount=30.000 | |requestedamount=30.000 | ||
|othermoney=R$60,000 (approximately USD 10,000) — Personal savings. | |othermoney=R$60,000 (approximately USD 10,000) — Personal savings. | ||
This amount will cover my living expenses from June 2025 | This amount will cover my living expenses from June 2025 untill the beginning of the retreat in September 2026. | ||
At the present moment, I am not formally employed, as I am fully dedicating my time to completing the Ngöndro, studying the Tibetan language, and supporting Dharma activities. However, I expect to take at least 6.000USD from these savings to pay the retreat costs. | |||
I will write to some Dharma friends whom I believe will be happy to sponsor my retreat or support me in some way, and I will also do fundraising to cover the remaining amount if necessary as well. | |||
|letterofmotivation=To the Tsadra Foundation, | |letterofmotivation=To the Tsadra Foundation, | ||
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I first found meaning in the Dharma when I was about 13 years old and was lucky enough to meet Lama Karma Tartchin personally. During that time of deep questioning and sadness I was struggling to understand the inequality of | I first found meaning in the Dharma when I was about 13 years old and was lucky enough to meet Lama Karma Tartchin personally. During that time of deep questioning and sadness I was struggling to understand the inequality of life, why some work so hard and suffer while others, like me at the time, live comfortably without much effort. Lama Tartchin said me, “Instead of being upset about that, why don’t you do something truly meaningful with your life to help others?”. That one sentence opened my heart and a deep connection and trust in Lama Tartchin arose as well as some interest in the Buddha Dharma. Now I’m 27 years old, and it’s been over a decade since I took refuge with Lama Karma Tartchin. Since then, I’ve done my best to help his Dharma Center (Karme Thegsum Tcholing), study and practice the Buddha Dharma. I have helped for many years as a cook during the retreats, maintainer of the retreat place, manager in the Dharma Center, performing as Chopon for the Pujas, as well as joined many group retreats and have done a few solitary retreats as well, as mentioned in the application. All of this has been part of my sincere commitment to integrate my life in the Dharma. | ||
At this point in my life, I truly feel that entering the Three-Year Retreat is the most meaningful thing I can do. I know it will benefit me, both in the short and long term, and will also benefit my family, friends and even people and sentient beings that I don’t know. Besides that, I also hope that when I conclude the retreat, I’ll have gained a good and strong Dharma practice and knowledge so I will be able to contribute to the establishment of the Karma Kagyu Lineage through supporting Lama Tartchin’s activities in Brazil, directly to Portuguese speakers. In | At this point in my life, I truly feel that entering the Three-Year Retreat is the most meaningful thing I can do. I know it will benefit me, both in the short and long term, and will also benefit my family, friends and even people and sentient beings that I don’t know. Besides that, I also hope that when I conclude the retreat, I’ll have gained a good and strong Dharma practice and knowledge so I will be able to contribute to the establishment of the Karma Kagyu Lineage through supporting Lama Tartchin’s activities in Brazil, directly to Portuguese speakers. In addition, I genuinely aspire to deepen my practice in the Three Years Retreat also because I know in my heart that it would make my precious Lama Tartchin pleased. As for the past 20 years he has worked lonely and tirelessly as the only Brazilian Karma Kagyu Lama to sustain Karmapa’s activities in Brazil, I am certain that seeing his efforts flourish in the form of students who practice the Dharma diligently, gain genuine wisdom, and become able to carry on his work and effort is a true source of joy for him | ||
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Maria Pema Karmo | Maria Pema Karmo | ||
|FileHaveAcceptLetterUpld=2025-06-18_Maria_Emiry Sacchese_-_Acceptance_Letter.pdf | |FileHaveAcceptLetterUpld=2025-06-18_Maria_Emiry Sacchese_-_Acceptance_Letter.pdf | ||
|AcceptLetterAuthorFirst=Lama Lodro | |AcceptLetterAuthorFirst=Lama Lodro | ||
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|CostLetterPhone=+1 (607) 437-4614 | |CostLetterPhone=+1 (607) 437-4614 | ||
|FileHaveEligibilityDocsUpld=2025-07-20_Maria_Emiry Sacchese_-_Eligibility_Requirements.pdf | |||
|FileHaveCVUpld=2025-07-20_Maria_Emiry Sacchese_-_CV_Resume.pdf | |||
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|recom1NameFirst=Karma | |recom1NameFirst=Karma | ||
|recom1NameLast=Tartchin | |recom1NameLast=Tartchin | ||
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