"Let's Eat"!

When the rolled dough is wrapped around the boiled potatoes (mixed with chilli, salt, and other spicies) and cooked in oil, it is called SAMOSA. It is a human-created phenomenon, that needs many causes and conditions including naming it.

Education should point to these details and make students experience the interdependent reality of such things. In this way, we may be able to make our students appreciate the reality of simple things as they exist.

Today's cooking session with students.

R.I.P (Rest in Peace) has no meaning in a Buddhist context

"R.I.P (Rest in Peace) has no meaning in a Buddhist context", Venerable Lama Zhenphen shares about it in Kuensel's Diversion.

Meditation and Embroidery

While creating external art, we had time to work on our internal art, the art of understanding our own minds.

We've asked youth participants if they've something called the MIND. Besides, we managed to sit and do meditation practice together.

Celebrating Bees!

Everything is interconnected. What if there are no bees on the planet? Most probably, many of the foods and fruits we consume right now may not even exist. To put it simply, you and I may not get to taste apples. Undeniably, the roles of the bees are very important in food production as well as the overall health of our ecosystems. Everything affects everything else.

Play

We are engaging our young students in the play. Play is an important part of each child's overall development - the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social development. The play also helps inculcate kindness in students.

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche in one of the videos to a group of children, said, “the most important thing in your life is to play." Next important, Rinpoche continues, “is to be kind.”

Wall Painting

For the last few days, Sangay Wangchuk, a senior student has been creating texts on a class wall using his calligraphic skills.

Two New students

Two newly arrived students, Jigme Kelden Wangchuk and Kuenzang Yeshi Dawa, after learning embroidery for a day created these beautiful flowers.

Presentation to ThimDzong Sherig Mentorship

We are delighted to present some of our works to a group of educators in Thimphu Dzongkhag (ThimDzong Sherig Mentorship Focal Persons), today.

Thank you to Madam Lham Tshering, Principal Education Specialist of Thimphu Dzongkhag and Dr Sonam Chuki, Program Analyst, NCWC for making the session possible.

ibisPaint X

Beautiful digital portraits of H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and H.H. Dalai lama, created by Mr. Tenzin Jamtsho, one of our senior students using a free and versatile app "ibis Paint X", on his mobile phone.

It is heartening to see how students make use of digital platforms to express their creativity.

This is clearly a process of learning to learn!

Harvest

If it is not for the reality of impermanence, we may not be able to harvest these potatoes. Thanks to mother earth, water, sunlight, manure, labour, earthworms and all the causes and conditions involved in this complex process.

Bumjur Dawa

In coincidence with the end of the Bumjur Dawa, and the Chotrul Duchen, a few young souls from Bhutan would like to pay homage to the man who started it all. Prince Siddhartha Gautama. Or as we now know, Buddha Shakyamuni.

Through these small displays of homage, we wish to dedicate this merit to the continuous flourishing of the Buddha Dharma. And that all sentient beings be able to recognize the true nature of their own minds.

Om Muni Muni Maha Muniye Shakyamuniye Soha.