Karma Lekshey Ling Institute

Most of the Buddhist villages in the Himalayan region are very poor, and children there have few or no possibilities for education.  In order to give boys from these areas an opportunity for basic education, combined with the study of Buddhist texts, Karma Lekshey Ling was established in 1990. 

In the beginning the school had 30 pupils and a curriculum was planned with tuition up to and including class 8.  The students have gradually increased rising to 110 in 1994, approximately 150 in 1995, and 165 students by 1997. 

Growth in the number of students means a corresponding increase in the need for facilities.   Already boys are turned away.  It is hoped that a new building would be acquired soon, and afterwards to increase the enrollment to 300 boys.

Presently the school has eight years of introductory classes followed by seven years of more advanced studies.   After the boys have completed this 15 years program, they will enter into a retreat of three years.  There is no place to hold the retreat at this time.   It is hoped that the necessary facilities will be built in the near future. 

The majority of the boys who are admitted to the school came from some of the poorest families in the Himalayan region.   Often the reason for sending the boys to the school is that the parents are unable to feed them. 

In some cases the boys have no parents and are brought to the school by strangers who have found them alone and homeless.  Therefore, the school is unable to charge any fees to the boys’ families.  Everything has to be provided by the school including clothes, food, basic necessities such as bed clothes, blankets, and towels, as well as medical care, teachers salaries and board, teaching materials, and also the upkeep of classrooms, sleeping quarters, dining facilities, and general school grounds.

As the school has considerable financial responsibilities every month but no income, the need for donations is great.

Lama Phuntsok

PO Box 8435, Kathmandu, Nepal

Phone: 977-1-272-492. Fax: 977-1-278-571

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