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 Tashi
Lhunpo Monastery is still one of the
smallest and the poorest of the Tibetan
monasteries in exile. The Main Prayer
Hall, built in 1972 when the monastery
was re-established, is unable to hold
the monstery's current population of
just over 300 monks, and as a result the
preservation of the monastery's unique
Tibetan Buddhist scholarship remains at
risk.
Over the past ten years, the number of
students in the monastery has increased,
and at the same time the facilities have
improved. The new school building has
classrooms for up to 140 pupils, the
dispensary (which offers treatment to
the local people as well as the monks),
kitchen and hostel accommodation have
been extended and improved, and
construction is soon to begin on an
urgently needed new Choera or Debate
Hall.
However, it has now become necessary to
embark on the most important project of
Tashi Lhunpo Monastery's existence in
exile - a project which reaches right to
the heart of the monastery's life - the
construction of a new Main Prayer Hall.
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