Community Wakefulness Retreat - Three

Coinciding with Saga Dawa Düchen (the Vaishakha month), Lhomon Education in collaboration with Chokyi Gyatso Institute - Dewathang has started a three-day wakefulness program for 53 parents of Dewathang community. The program is intended to educate our participants (one of the most important stakeholders) about the importance of mind and mind training.

Tree Plantation

Today, we have planted more the 60 local saplings to celebrate the outset of Saga Dawa Duchen and to mark the Social Forestry Day in Bhutan (June 2nd).

Planting a tree is an act of kindness and generosity. If we grow it properly, the tree purifies the air and supplies oxygen for living beings to breathe. It brings rain at the right time. Its shade provides a refreshing place to rest. It nourishes crops and animals and balances the temperature. It contributes to an attractive landscape and continually replenishes its surroundings.

We dedicate this event to the benefit of humanity, animals, and all sentient beings.

Thank You, Khenchen Sonam Tashi Chokyi Gyatso Institute - Dewathang , Lamas, lopons, teachers, local farmers and students for your services!

Health Screening!

In collaboration with Chokyi Gyatso Institute - Dewathang, Lhomon Education (LME) organized a health screening and awareness camp for the students, khenpos, lamas, lopons and monks of the Institute with support from professionals of Deothang Hospital.

The program is intended to provide timely health check-ups in the institute to help monitor the state of individual health and to encourage a community of healthy and fit individuals.

Thank you, Deothang Hospital for your services as always, we look forward to similar services in the future!

Happy Vesak!

May the blessing of the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha be with you now and always.

Om Muni Muni Maha Munye Soha

Weekend Trip

Weekend Trip with students in nature was all about touching the earth, planting the trees, listening to the bird songs, watching the river flow, breathing in the fresh air, and playing in the river. Through these activities, we intended to experience interdependent reality and create a connection between our inner world and the external world.

Retreat!

Nima Tenzin, a class XII graduate from Karmaling Higher Secondary School, underwent ten days of solitary retreat at Chokyi Gyatso Institute - Dewathang.

At the end of the retreat, Tenzin shared, “I am really happy that I'm able to complete my ten days retreat. It gave me different experiences and satisfaction.” He added, “If we spend more time in retreat, it would help develop renunciation mind, as well as increase our devotion to practice Dharma.”

Lhomon Education was inspired to help and support Tenzin, who aspires to genuinely learn and practice Dharma. We wish to see him transform and grow to be a decent human being, who will constantly seek to awaken his innate potential and be a contributing member of our society.

Tenzin also took part in our 6th annual wakefulness program in December 2019. He is originally from Kalingkhar village, Martshala under Samdrup Jongkhar district in Eastern Bhutan.

Teacher's Day

 Homage to the Buddha, the great teacher, who taught us KINDNESS!

"The most important quality of a teacher is kindness. Teaching should not be treated as a job. It is a big responsibility; you are actually responsible for somebody’s life." - Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

HAPPY TEACHER'S DAY to all the teachers in Bhutan and around the world.

"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.