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Lotus Direkthilfe e.V. is a non-profit charity trust to support people in need within the Tibetan culture. Its activities are focused upon the mediation of sponsorship and support of projects of the Buddhist Monastery Benchen Phuntsok Dargyeling in Kathamandu, Nepal
Since 1994 Lotus Direkthilfe e.V. has eight members who have been working for the trust on an honorary basis for about 15 years now. It was then when Tenga Rinpoche made the proposal to found a trust like this to support the steady growing community of the Benchen Phuntsok Dargyeling monastery in Kathmandu. Since then Lotus Direkthilfe e.V. is collecting donationes and arranging sponsorships.
The monastery is an educational institution and solely living from donations to feed, host and educate its residents. Most of the monks come from poor homes, a lot of them from Tibetan refugees camps all across Nepal. There are about 270 residents by now, some of them staying in the Clear Light Retreat Center, some in the Nangten Thösam Ling Shedra but still the most of them living in the gompa. Our contact to the monastery has grown over many years and is close and lively by now. At least one member of the trust visits the Benchen monastery once every year (all expenses are paid privately) to keep up a fruitful exchange of ideas and needs. Also these regular visits All the members of Lotus Direkthilfe e.V. are very happy to be able to do such useful and helpful kind of work. Over all the years we see the improvement of the Gompa and and the steady growing number of inhabitors. Of course we are aware of all the needs and these keep us going on.
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ensure the appropriate use of the donations. Reports on these annual travels are part of Lotus Direkthilfe tax declaration which we have to undergo every three years.