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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Monday, May 30, 2011
Karma Lekshey Ling Ritual Activity Committee
About the Karma Lekshey Ling Ritual Activity Committee
The Karma Lekshey Ling Ritual Activity Committee handles all the ritual activity and work of the Institute. It oversees and organizes all ritual gatherings and arranges the daily prayers and rituals of the monastery including any special day long prayers requested by our sponsors and patrons. Furthermore, it organizes classes to train the monks in all aspects of ritual such as the use of various ritual instruments, (cham or ritual dance) how to draw and paint various mandalas, and so forth. At present, the Committee is conducting a special class to teach interested laity about Buddhism and how to read the classical scripts.
The Specific Responsibilities of the Ritual Activity Committee
The Committee has four primary responsibilities
Managing the lighting in the two shrine rooms and in the which rooms committee members prepare the torma(or ritual cake)
Caring for and maintaining of the monastery's ritual instruments and other offering materials;
Scheduling the Ujin, Chant master, recruiting monks to play the different instruments required at pujas, and organizing crews to prepare the tormas required for the different prayers.
Future Needs and request for support
In recent years we have faced great difficulties caused by the frequent and often unscheduled power outages, also known as the load shedding, that we have become an increasingly common feature of life in the Kathmandu valley during the dry season. The main shrine hall where we perform the majority of our daily prayers has a very small solar backup system that can support only two bulbs, a quantity that is completely inadequate to illuminate the very large space. The small shrine room backup at all. Whenever there is a power outage the monks must perform by candlelight or in the dark. The room in which we prepare the ritual cakes or torma for daily prayer and special pujas also has no solar backup so that whenever the power is cut, the monks must work by candlelight.
To address these difficulties,caused by frequent load shedding. And to enable the various rituals we perform daily at the monastery to function more smoothly we are planning to purchase and install a solar system with sufficient capacity to light the main shrine hall, the small Tara shrine room and the work room in which torma are prepared. We estimate it will cost NRs.200.000.
On behalf of the Karma Lekshey Ling Ritual Activity Committee we would like to request all of our generous donors to contribute to this noble project. We would be extremely grateful, as would the monks who must work or read the sutras in very poor light. We are confident that you. Our donors would earn great, unlimited merit as a result of the noble and virtuous deed of supporting the monks in their activities and effort.
Thank, you
Karma Lekshey Ling Ritual Activity Committee
Friday, May 20, 2011
Celebrated Buddha Happy Birthday
Our monks celebrate Buddha Jayanti at Buddha Park, Swayambhu nath. Click here to see more photos.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
The Final examination result day of Lekshey Ling school student
Today, the Karma Lekshey Ling School students received their final examination result from Ven.Choje Lama Phuntshok. Click here for more photos.
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