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I worked at Khadro Ling (established by Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche), in RS, Brazil, for two months in the kitchen and designing a website for the publishing branch of the dharma center.
Before I also made the website of Sitio Esperanca, a child caring charity branch organization of Chagdud Gonpa.
I lived and worked too one month at the Karmapa dharma center (KTC), in Rio, Brazil, making a new website for the center.
I maintain too a popular website (http://darma.info) that lists dharma centers all over Brazil, and provides basic information for people interested in buddhism and some buddhist texts. +
chö Pan while doing Mahakala Practice.
Chanting leader while doing mahakala, Chenrezig, Tara.
I had the honor to carry all the offerings the small ones and big one on Tara
Yuldok.
Helping with all the preparation for events as Tara Yudok and others events
at KTC.
Helping in the kitchen and moving heavy stuff.
helping in the photocopier. +
I have served as the president on the board of directors for Rinpoches dharma center in Richmond, VA for the past year and a half. I have organized two Nyungne retreats, a one day meditation retreat, and other special events (tsoks, pujas, etc) for the center, and I organized Rinpoches visit to the center last Fall. I also volunteered in the Kitchen at the Monastery during the Karmapas visit this past Spring.
For the past year I have lived with one of the three year retreat graduates in Virginia who has been fairly immobile the past year due to an injury. I have been helping her with general house maintenance and did her grocery shopping for about 6 months until she was able to go out and about again. +
I attended Choje Lama Rabsang at Palpung Changchub Dargye Ling, in Wales for a 15 month period following my ordination in 2005. Also I was responsible for much of the daily running of the centre.
I have now been a resident at KTC for 20 months and as such i have been actively engaged in the daily running of the monastery in any way that I am able to help. +
Since February 15th I have been working seven days a week on KTCÃs new Maitreya Center, in order to complete it for the North American Kagyu Monlam, which took place July 6-11. My task was to assist master Tibetan artist Tsewang Norbu with all of the decorative painting in the Maitreya shrine room and entrance of the new monastery. It was an incredible opportunity and experience. I learned a good deal about Tibetan painting technique, design and materials, and actively integrated various meditation methods into the painting sessions. Because I had come to KTC to begin the pre-retreat training program, I initially painted for 6 hours every day, which left time to attend morning and evening tsokpa and work towards completing my ngundro. As the deadline for completing the center drew nearer, I received instructions from Lama Norlha Rinpoche to continue painting instead of attending tsokpa or doing personal practice during the day. For the months of April and June I painted 10-13 hours every day. Sure enough, all of our painting goals were completed by the time the Monlam commenced. During the Kagyu Monlam, I helped to coordinate and carry out tea service for all chanting sessions throughout the 5 days, to all lamas and the hundreds of others in attendance. +
Since I became interested in the Dharma I have been an active member of the sangha.
When I attended the Thai Monastery, I volunteered on a weekly basis helping around the monastery, I brought food to offer to the monks, I helped the monks with the mediation classes, both the English and Spanish mediation class.
Afterwards, I became involved with the local KTC affiliate center in Miami. There, I volunteered every weekend before classes and programs. I was in charge of the shrine ( setting up the shrine, the offerings, water-bowls, incense, flowers...) I also helped with the weekly making of butterlamps. When I joined the sangha, we were in the process of finishing 4 stupas. I helped with fundraising, and as well as the manual labor required to complete stupas (making tsa-tsas, zungs, filling the stupas, etc..)
When I moved to MOCD in Tennessee, I became the Director of Operations of the retreat center (a volunteer position), where I was in charged of up keeping the retreat facilities, planning retreats, cooking for retreats, planning Rinpoche's visits, planning and coordinating many fundraisers for our stupa and other infrastructure, planning daily schedules, and social media and website creation and management. I also planned and lead our Sangha pilgrimage to India and Nepal.
I have also spent time at KTC monastery on and off, where I have been the cook for special events, helped out with office work, worked with texts and sadhanas, created flyers and other promotional materials, as well as helped during events ( the shrines, tea service, etc) +
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and cat sitting services. +
From 2005- 2007, as a member of the Dzogchen Foundation, I volunteered for nearly all
local special events in Cambridge, MA which included helping to setup and breakdown
eventsa nd in severalc ases,s ervinga s managerf or theset asks.I servedt he samec apacity
at all 10-day intensives I attended.
For LamaNorlha Rinpoche and KTC Monastery,I served in general as the head cook
dwing 2007.I also cooked for all special events that year which included our 2 week tour of the Southoo ur annualb oardm eeting,a ffiliate centersc onferenceT, ibet Projectsb oard
meeting, and the opening of the last 3 year refreat.
Specifically,f or LamaN orlha Rinpoche,I was also responsiblefo r preparingh is daily
lunch and also his dinner on severalo ccasionsI. also cookedf or all specialg uestst hat
visited that year.
Becauseo f my backgroundin communityl iving and skills training, I helpedt he monastic
communityi nitiate preliminary communitys upports tructuresw hich includedr egular
businessa nd housem eetings,a ctive listening workshops,m ediationw orkshops,a s well
as recommendingo utsidea dvisorst hat could continuew orking with the communityi n
facilitating these models after I entered reteat. +
Over the years I have helped out with some of the daily chores within Kagyu Thubten Choling. Starting around five/six years ago, my boyfriend took on the role of cleaning the butterlamp house once a week, and over the years I would often help him clean it, and put the butterlamps up. In addition to that, whenever I would visit KTC I would volunteer my services and usually assist in making meals, cleaning the kitchen and shrine room, and also filling and emptying water bowls, and assisting in Tong Cho. +
I started offering my services to my Lama and Dharma community shortly after being introduced to Kagyu Thubten Choling almost 10 years ago. Initially, I started helping out in their marme kong (butter-lamp house), assisting in putting up and taking down the butter-lamps, as well as overall cleaning of the facility. Additionally, I would participate in cooking in the kitchen for meals, and general clean-up of the center. During my three-year retreat, the idea of offering my services to my Lama and Dharma community was very important to me, and I tried as best as I could to fully engage in my practices, and to pray for those that had sent in prayer requests.
Currently, I am living as a full-time monastic resident at KTC, which includes putting in full work days every day to keep the center up and running, which I thoroughly enjoy doing. I assist in the rotation of our daily tsokpas in our shrine room, either as umze or chopon. I also undertook the role of KTC Kitchen Manager after coming out of retreat, which involves grocery shopping for the center, making the house schedule of duties, cooking, and cleaning, and overseeing our new commerical kitchen in the Maitreya Center. I have also been involved in various office work for the monastery, including fund-raising, and bookkeeping, and have participated in painting the shrine room of the new Maitreya Center shrine hall. +
During the Chenrezig (2013) and Green Tara (2014) Retreat I volunteered for housekeeping, Gompa maintenance and cleaning up the kitchen. However, I am looking forward to be part of the residential volunteer work at KTD.
I also serve the Dharma Community in this way:
GRAPHIC DESIGNER, DHARMADATTA BUDDHIST NUN COMMUNITY, INSTITUTO BUDADHARMA AND DHARMA CENTERS, 2013 TO PRESENT
Responsible of creating design solutions for the web promotions of their events and the daily inspirational quotes published on their facebook page. Some of the Dharma Centers I collaborate with are: Centro de Dharma Pema Yungne, CancÅn, México y Centro Budista Ganden Shedrub Ling,
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
SPANISH TRANSLATOR, FOUNDATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE MAHAYANA TRADITION (FPMT), 2013 TO PRESENT
Responsible of translating short letters from English to Spanish. A committee revises these email letters. After approval the letters are sent to the Spanish community by FPMT. I work directly with Justin Jenkins who is the Donor Services Coordinator at the FPMT International Office. +
I am currently the Shrine keeper & Volunteer Coordinator at KTD. My husband and I moved to work and live at KTD on June 27, 2011. I helped with the preparation of the Shrine building for H.H. Karmapa's visit as well as coordinating volunteers prior, during, and after H. H. Karmapa's visit. I plan to serve H. H. Karmapa and Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche as Shrine Keeper at KTD until I start retreat in September 2012. +
Volunteered at KTD in Facilities and Grounds from May 2014 until August 2014.
Head of Housekeeping at KTD from August 2014 until February 2015, when I left to take care of my injured grandfather. +
I am a active member at our dharma center, I engage in maintaining and upping the center exterior and interior, I take care of the shrine and shrine room, i help host visiting teachers, everything that I'm asked to do i do at the center. +
*Goenka Vipassana Meditation
-- 8 10 day courses served
- 1 Sattipatana course served
- I spend 3 moths and 3 weeks helping at the Goneka Sravasti centre in India. My work here included serving food, cleaning toilets, cleaning the kitchen, waking up the retreatants etc
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The three-years I lived at ZMM I was a volunteer (in exchange for housing, food, teaching). Most of the time I was there I worked as the bookkeeper. Near the end of my time I took on a managerial role in the training office and started overseeing the monastery finances. I was also in charge of all the housekeeping for nearly two years.
At ZMM I was a participant and then leader of the Earth Initiative (EI) for three years. The EI group included residents and members of the local community, and met monthly. I am in discussion with the leadership at KTD about starting a similar environmental group there.
Since June 2015 I have been employed by Tibet House US as Robert Thurman's assistant, where I feel I have also been able to be of benefit to the larger Dharma and Tibetan community. +
I am currently residing at KTD monastery in Woodstock, NY as a way to serve the lineage now that I have completed one retreat. I assist in the shrine room with daily offerings, setting up for teachings and greeting guests. I feel very fortunate to have done retreat and feel that working at KTD is a way to repay the kindness I have been shown. I am happy to do whatever Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche would like, and follow his instructions. I intend to remain at KTD until the pre-retreat training begins at Karme Ling, in September 2012. +
After my first retreat, I lived and worked at KTD for four months as a
volunteer. I worked in the shrine and did what I could to serve the monastery.
Now after my second retreat I am again living and volunteering at KTD. I am
helping the monastery President with whatever he needs, offering classes for
the staff, and attending puja. I have offered myself to Khenpo Karthar
Rinpoche and am happy to follow whatever he asks me to do. I hope to
please him with my work. +
From 2001 through 2006 I painted two large stupas in New York and Charlottesville, Va. I volunteered at the Kagyu Monlam in Bodhgaya, under the direction of the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje for several years. I taught several workshops on Tibetan painting and architecture at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra in recent years. I've given meditation instruction to a small dharma group in Charlottesville, Virgina. +
I volunteered at KTD for about a total of 11 months in the past two years working grounds, maintenance, cooking, shoveling snow, repainting outer parts of the shrine and i also helped with the tsoks held twice a month and made Tormas for the daily practices, I helped setup and serve during fundraising dinners with Ponlop Rinpoche and Tenzin Palmo. I helped out at Karme Ling cooking, cleaning, and gardening for about five months. I make all the tormas and set up the shrine for the Nyungne practices held four times a year. I helped set up for the Karmapa's visit to KTD and helped set up the venue in the town of Woodstock. I curently stay at Karme Ling working and practicing. +
