4th Khoryug Conference Day Five Report 9th June, 2012 Monks and nuns gathered with great anticipation early in the morning to visit a brand new old people’s home that has been recently completed nearby at Bagli. Designed by Didi Contractor, a well known eco-architect, the adobe building is constructed entirely with eco-friendly...

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4th Khoryug Conference Day Four Report 8th June 2012 On the morning of Day Four, the conference fully transitioned into strategy building. The presentations were focused on kinds of strategies: emergency responses to earthquakes and fires, long term preparedness plans for disasters such as floods and droughts, and basic guidelines to...

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4th Khoryug Conference Day Three Report June 7th, 2012 In the morning of Day Three, the trainers brought the issues of biodiversity, climate change, and natural disasters to the local level so that the monastic representatives could see how these issues affect them directly and how they could prepare in advance to minimize the negative...

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4th Khoryug Conference June 6th, 2012 Day Two Report Day Two began with a science tutorial for the gathered monks and nuns on different biological cycles such as the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the water cycle. Dekila Chungyalpa, the conference facilitator, explained that in such a complex system, the depletion or...

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4th Khoryug Conference on Environmental Protection for Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries, Nunneries and Dharma Centres Day One Report 5th June, 2012 Given the focus of this year’s conference, it seemed appropriate that, as the delegates gathered in the grounds of the Norbulingka Institute to await the arrival of His Holiness the 17th...

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World Environment Day, June 5th 2012 4th Conference on Environmental Protection for Khoryug Monasteries PRESS STATEMENT Celebrating World Environment Day, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa and the Honorable Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament launched the 4th Khoryug Conference on Environmental Protection for Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries. The...

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རང་བྱུང་ཁོར་ཡུག་སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་ཚོགས་ཐེངས་བཞི་པ། ས་གནས། རྡ་ས་། དུས་ཚོད། སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༢ ཟླ་ ༠༦ ཚེས་ ༥ ནས་ ༩...

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Climate Adaptation & Disaster Management Workshop

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Environmental Workshop in Rumtek, Dharma Chakra Center, Sikkim, India Sikkim branch of WWF India, CEE (Center for Environment Education) of New Delhi and Rumtek Environment Committee jointly organized a workshop on the theme Climate Adaptation and Disaster Management from 3rd, 4th, 5th of May in the  shrine hall of Karma Shri Nalanda...

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These photoes are related to Kagyu Nalanda Environment Campaign did at Bylakuppe His Holiness Dalai Lama Palace on 10th Dec2011 Nobel peace prize day . These photoes are related to Kagyu Nalanda Environment Campaign did at Bylakuppe His Holiness Dalai Lama Palace on 10th Dec2011 Nobel peace prize day .

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