Thrangu Environmental Club would like to present some of our work in the recent months in Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Gompa, Namo Buddha.
Because of the combination of the area’s natural beauty and the grandeur of the monastery, our monastery has become a major tourist destination for Nepali pilgrims, foreign tourists, and school groups. This makes environmental protection especially important at our monastery: It is not just that any garbage and environmental degradation visible to many visitors. We also have a wonderful chance to help educate a broader public by providing both information and a good example. Due to our devotion to His Holiness, the Gyalwang Karmapa and our beloved teacher, His Eminence, Thrangu Rinpoche, we decided to put our 100% effort into protecting the environment.
This is the reason why we formed the Thrangu Environmental Club, which now has over thirty participants. We have two monk leaders at Namo Buddha, two in Thrangu Tashi Choling in Boudhanath, and one at Sekhar Retreat Center outside of Bhaktapur.
In Namo Buddha, the Thrangu Environmental Club has begun a variety of environmental activities, including planting trees, waste management, conserving water resources, collecting rain water, saving electricity, cleaning the surrounding area, and so on.
Some main activities that we have completed are:
Planted a large organic vegetable garden.
Begun to educate monks and the surrounding community about reducing waste and garbage.
Organized weekly cleanup sessions. During these sessions, organic, non-organic, and recyclable garbage are separated. Organic waste is composted and used for the monastery vegetable garden; other garbage is disposed of properly. This has lead to an immediate improvement in air quality because garbage and waste is no longer being burned, which in turn has lead to improved health in the monastery.
Future projects include installing a biogas to reduce pollution from organic wastes, carbon emissions, and reliance on propane and fossil fuels, and investigating installing a large-scale rainwater collection system.
The goal is to implement as many of the Karmapa’s 108 methods as possible.
wishing u every success in ur Club’s activities and may others soon follow
I am truly touched by HH Karmapa and all the people’s effort in making a difference in the environment. An excellent example for all of us to follow.
i express my deep gratitude to H.H. the karmapa for the big support and effort for saving the environment. I also want to thanks Thrangu Environmental club (namo Buddha) for their hard work and participatig in the environmental activities.
wish you very smooth and successful progress in saving environmental activities.
http://www.rinpoche.com/globalpryr.html
Great initiative, hope and prayers for the sustenance of this effort for generations to come.
http://www.kcl-heidelberg.de/content/view/105/123/
an inspiration — thank you for making it possible to share !
I am impressed by His Holiness the Karmapa views of the Mother Earth’s interdependence with the living beings. Without the earth’s resources ,living beings are not able to survive.May every beings appreciates , feel thankful for the Mother Earth and utilize the resources as per basic needs. I am grateful for H.H. the Karma for leading the wordly beings through Environmental Protection Project.
I VERY HAPPY THAT THRNAGU ENIRONMENTAL CLUB IS KEEPING THIER ENVIRONMENT VERY CLEAN AND TIDY. FORMOST, THANKS TO THE H.H. THE 17TH KARMAPA FOR THE MAKING THE ENVIRONMENT WELL KNOWN ALL OVER.
very happy to see all these!
All of us at Thrangu Rinpoche’s school for Himalayan children here in the Kathmandu valley are so happy to see HH championing our Great Mother. It gives hope for the future.
We will do our best here to carry out HH Karmapa’s wishes.
it is really well done n fantastic!!! I hope that everybody will join in the efforts wif HH karmapa to protect our mother earth! jia you!!!!
༄༎ བཀྲྲིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ།
Really appreciate the initiative taken by H.H Karmapa. Congratulations to each and every member of this club and hardwork done by them. Hats off to all .
Happy New Year !
we need all of your supports to take care of the our enviourmental.
i m very happy be to join in khoryug.com and hope it will be successful .
specially the our thrangu monastery . good luck.
I AM VERY HAPPY THAT U GAY U R DOING VERY WILL & I WAS NEVER THOUGHT MONK ALSO INTERST ABOUT ENVIRONMENT JOB… ANY WAY THANKS u & H.H. KARMAPA & VEN. DEKILA….ALSO HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR U ALL BYEEEE
OH!!!!!! MY GOD!!!!! I SEW ALL THE MONASTERY KHORYUG’S PHOTOS & VERY NICE & DOING VERY WILL & SPECIALLY NAMOBUDDHA ENVIRONMENT PHOTO IS VERY NICE & THANKS FOR THEM OK LISTLEY HAPPY LOSER TO U ALL FROM CANADA PEMA CHIMEY
http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/wherewework/easternhimalayas/index.html
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