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In Dag Shang Kagyu I helped for 3 years on painting the frescos, stupas and other religious monuments. +
South Garden Project - Baton Rouge, LA 2008-2010
Additionally I have often volunteered with different food serving groups targeted at combating food insecurity and bringing aid to unhoused people. +
Community Kitchens Carrefour Entraide Drummond Drummondville, QC 2003-2004
Leading cooking workshops
Centre d’écoute et de prévention suicide Drummond Drummondville, QC 1999-2003
Working the phone for a help line specializing in suicide interventions +
Volunteer English teacher in Korea when I was a monk. +
Between 2015 and 2017 I was helping withPemaWangyalRinpoche´s Stupa Project (mostly painting tsatsas and statues) in Chanteloube, France. +
No other community work. +
In Williams Oregon:
I served as a grange member, taught in a small, alternative school, and was executive director of a small organization (communiversity) to create educational programs for the community at large. Refer to my last application - CV +
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1 year of the work needed in comunity at the Meditation House of Caneto, such as umse, cleaning and other home tasks. +
I volunteer in Hyde Park, Chicago, visiting Bradford Lyttle, a 96-year-old blind former peace activist, at his home once a week. +
Since 2012, I have been trying to bridge my scientific work and my interest in Dharma. I have conducted several research studies on the topics of mindfulness and Buddhism, and have also put together a few conference presentations on how social science can integrate the principles of Buddha Dharma.
In 2020 I have acted as an Editor of the Russian translation of the book: https://wisdomexperience.org/product/buddhist-response-climate-emergency/
(Russian: https://www.ganga.ru/book/buddiyskiy-otvet-na-klimaticheskiy-krizis)
In May 2025, I was authorised by the International Dzogchen Community and International Atiyoga Foundation as an instructor of the Eight Movements (Lungsang) and the pranayama of rhythmic breathing of Yantra Yoga, and I am now starting to teach these.
As an environmental social scientist, I am engaged in environmental and animal welfare activism.
I also occasionally volunteer for an animal shelter. +
I was living in Denmark and stayed at the Gomde Buddhist Centre and helped them out for two months. I was the cook for my time there. I have also volunteered in various second hand shops in my home town near Manchester. +
• Meals on Wheels, Middlebury VT, August - October 2013--picked up and distributed meals to Seniors and other house-bound residents in Addison County, VT (short term because we had to return to CA)
• Sharing God's Bounty, St. Philomene, Sacramento, CA, 2014 - 2015, serving and preparing meals (From their website: "While we serve in a Catholic School gym, our ... guests and our volunteers come from all walks of life and can be members of any religious denomination or none at all. .... The only requirement for our volunteers is that they have a loving heart. St. Francis said, 'Preach the Gospel at all times and, if necessary, use words.'")
• Volunteer, Buddhist Pathways Prison Project, 2015-2016--supported senior volunteers giving Dharma talks and meditation instruction to inmates in a maximum security prison.
• Additionally, many hours spent volunteering with students and community as an extension of my profession as teacher, most notably creating and administering Multi-Cultural Fairs. +
During the preparation for the three year retreat at Dag Shang Kagyü, maintenance, shopping, cooking, cleaning and so on. +
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I volunteered for the Dutch Council for Refugees (https://www.vluchtelingenwerk.nl/en) to help refugees settle in their new homes in the Netherlands, providing family, language support and support for social integration. +
Not in a systematized way in general, in school sometimes I participated in charity programs, in college we also did a brief project of a choir performing in that context too.
I also became a music teacher in part as a way to contribute to others and the community at large through my work.
On a personal level, I always try to give whenever I can, regularly to the firemen (in Chile they are volunteers so they depend on donations), or people on the street. This year I have also been donating blood, making sur offerings regularly, and donating books to the city's library.
Sometimes I have personally financially supported certain people who are in need, mainly homeless people, very poor people or people with serious health conditions, so they can have their basic needs met or get
something specific that they need, like a place to live, a stove to cook, medical treatment,
etc. That has happened in a more spontaneous way, first meeting them on the street, knowing about them, and so on. +
working with local homeless shelters in Dallas Tx for 2 years +
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I have taught Buddhist and Shambhala courses in Mexico, I teach a Buddhist study group every week. Also, I have done voluntary work at the General Hospital to help dying people and their families in Cuernavaca, Mexico +
help line specializing in suicide prevention
cooking workshops for low income people +
Advisor to medical clinic development and teaching at Kagyu monasteries since 2007. Organizing Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche interviews at Sangha retreats and Nitartha 2005-2009.
Volunteer- Surgeon and Postgraduate Surgery Visiting Faculty, Georgetown Guyana 2006 and 2007. Canadian Assoc. General Surgeons
Volunteer Surgeon Medecins sans Frontiers 2007 (3 months) Beletweyne Somalia +
