Drikung Nangchoe Lobling Khang

The Drikung Lotus Mount Academy of Buddhist Studies, named byH.H. Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche, is a project initiated in 2012 by H.E. Lho Ontul Rinpoche and Ratna Rinpoche.

Its aim is to teach the monks the words of Buddha, how to perform ritual practice in terms of Generation phase and Completion phase, how to play ritual instruments, along with the academic subject like Tibetan, English, Hindi, Mathematics and Computer classes.

When the monks finished their eight years of training, they can either go onto Kagyu College or Sarnath to do their further studies, or to go on for retreat or stay at the monastery to perform daily pujas and services.

Like every year, the school has been running smoothly without any problem despite pandemic. All the monk students have managed to perform well in their examinations. The school has two semester examination in the year. The school has three main teachers who teach Buddhist Philosophy, Tibetan & English Language teachers. This year the school has 15 monk students from age 6 to 14 years old. Most of the students are from the remote downtrodden regions of Himalayas in India and Nepal.

The Library cum Computer classes

With the financial assistance from Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India, the Monastery successfully launched its school’s library and computer lab for the young monk students.

The room has 7 desktop computers on the one side and the library on the other side. In the library, we have the entire Tibetan Buddhist Canon in Tibetan language and an entire Prayer Texts of Drikung Kagyu in Tibetan from Jangchup Ling Monastery, Dehradun. We also many Buddhist related books in English as well. We also have the entire major subjects under C.B.S.E. board from LKG to 12th standard. We also bought other children’s illustrated books in English, Tibetan and Hindi for the young novices.

With the help of our language teachers, the monk students are really using this facility for their studies and widening of the mind. We now have two computer & library classes a week for all the monk students.

Daily Schedule

6:00 AM: Waking time
6:30 – 8:00 AM: Morning puja
8:00 AM: Breakfast
9:00 am to 10:00 AM: 1st period/academic class
10:00 AM: Tea Break
10:30 – 11:30 AM: 2nd period/academic class
12:00 PM: Lunch Break & Afternoon Rest

2:00 – 3:00 PM: 3rd period/academic class
3:30 – 4:30 PM: 4th period/academic class
4:30 – 5:30 PM: 5th period/Ritual, art, & puja class
7:00 PM: Dinner
7:30 – 9:00 PM: Evening self-study
9:30 PM: Bedtime

Education Fund

Currently, our monastery could provide nominal salary to the teachers and with this amount, we are finding difficulty in keep them for long. We believe that if we could raise some fund for the teachers, then we can manage to maintain and bring in good faculty members for the school. But due to these financial constraints and also lack of infrastructure, the school has remained informal till dated.

It is our genuine wish to make this school an affiliated institution either under the state or the central board examination of India in the near future. With this recognition, we are sure that both our teachers as well as monk students will make good use of the initiative, its scope and facilities in their respective fields of life.