The Kisa Gotami

We are able to bring 15 local youth, community people, monks and Monastic Institute together to work on a short film project - the Kisa Gotami.

The objectives of the project are: to connect our youth to Buddhadharma, create a platform for them to experience the reality of interdependence, build relationships with their community, help them learn skills and of course to engage them during their vacations.

Thank you, to all the people involved in the project!

Here is the short film... Check this out!

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A virtual première!

Finally, we are able to organize a virtual première of our short film titled "Kisa Gotami" today. The film is about a woman named Kisa Gotami, who comes to seek help from the Buddha. The Buddha taught her in a special way, with a single mustard seed.

The virtual première saw more than 80 people including lamas, monks, elders, parents, and youth. We are happy to have meme Lata Wangdi (89) and abi Pelden Dema (79) as our eldest audience. The film was acted by our local youth, monks, and community members as a part of our youth outreach program.

We will upload the film soon.

Martang Youth Engagement

Two of our students are engaging a group of youth in learning embroidery skills at Martang village. Tashi Dhendup and Tshering Tenzin are originally from this village and are currently on their winter vacation. Through this training, they wanted to share their ideas and skills to youth friends in the community.

All the best to both of you!

Art

Sonam Kalden, one of our students made this amazing art (the Head of the Buddha) using clay and paper. He creatively used bamboo node and culm to create beautiful patterns on it. His creation is used as one of the important costumes in our short film project with our local youth.

Thank you, @Sonam Kalden for your creation!

Embroidery training for local youth

After working on their embroidery for the last ten days, these girls came to display their artwork. As visible, they've tried different designs, shapes, patterns and creations using their basic understanding of stitching.

The best thing that happened with this art is parents encouraging these youths to create designs and patterns in their traditional Rachus (Female scarf).

A Short Film Project

We are excited to engage a group of local youth in our short film project. The film is about a woman named Kisa Gotami, who comes to seek help from the Buddha. The Buddha taught her in a special way, with a single mustard seed.

Stay tuned for more updates!

Look Inside

As we are deeply engaged in designing simple symbols using needles and threads, we managed to sit, meditate and look inside our minds. At the end of the day, we must decide the values we wanted our young people to learn, without denying the skills.

Embroidery Training

Currently, we are engaging a group of local youths in learning embroidery skills!

Flower Embriodery

 A beautiful piece of art by Sonam Gyelpo. It started with one stitch and ended with thousands of stitches. It is a creation of multi stitching process, perhaps this meticulous process could teach our students, the interdependent reality and illusory nature of their own creation.

If not for every stitch, there won't be a tree, bee, flowers, and grasses that we see in the frame!