Young Monks at Ayang Rinpoche’s Monastery in Bylakuppe, India

A volunteer medical professional is needed as soon as possible at Ayang Rinpoche’s monastery in South India.

The monastery prefers an experienced, retired male; but will consider an experienced retired/of retirement age female without family obligations. The minimum commitment is one year. A Protected Area Permit (PAP) is required, and the monastery will help with that. There is no fee, just form-filling and waiting. It takes 3-4 months for the PAP to be approved. There is a small, basic dispensary with desk, patient bed, and shelves and cupboard for medicine storage. There is running water but no electricity. A general job description includes:

• Available as needed by the monks and monastery; no fixed number of hours each day/week
• Works as a team member with teachers and with teaching and working monksDevelops rapport with all 150 monks (especially teaching and working monks)
  1. Has leadership abilities (organizing meetings, motivating teaching and working monks, etc.)
  2. Takes direction well
  3. Gives and receives feedback easily
• Daily teaching and supervising of personal health and hygiene (hair washing, hand washing before meals, showers) for 100 school monks ages 5-19
• Multiple times daily dispensing/applying of medicines
• Quarterly (every three months) ordering and shopping for medicines
• Anything else the monastery requests Desirable traits that are beneficial (not necessarily in this order):
  1. Respectful of cultural differences (Indian, Tibetan, monastic)
  2. Compassionate and works from the heart
  3. Flexible
  4. Patient
  5. Sense of humour
  6. Perseverant
  7. Humble

In exchange for services, the monastery provides a room in the guesthouse and three meals/day plus afternoon tea. The personal and professional experiences are countless and invaluable. If you or someone you know are interested, please email your resume to Ani Samten. You are also welcome to email her with questions or concerns.

For photos of life at the monastery, see the archive of Ani Samten’s “Month in Pictures at the Monastery”. For information and more photos of the monastery see this website and facebook.

Thank you in advance for helping us fill this position quickly!

Shitro Mandala Shrine at H.E. Chöje Ayang Rinpoche’s Monastery

Losar is February 19, 2015. At Ayang Rinpocphe’s monastery, they will raise prayer flags on February 21st. Hanging new prayer flags at the New Year increases good fortune, health and power, and serves to spread compassion, wisdom and peace in the 10 directions.  Make a donation of any amount for the prayer flags.

To usher in an auspicious New Year, everyone at Rinpoche monastery will practice Shitro, also known as the 100 Peaceful and Wrathful Deities, February 27 through March 5.

“This teaching of the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities is the supreme method for yogis and yoginis who are entering into the practices of the Creation Stage, the Completion State and the Great Perfection.  It is the supreme method for them to amend all of their impairments of samaya that have become fragmented.  It is the supreme method for them to purify the obscurations of conceptuality, and it is the supreme method for them to help all sentient beings, for them to pull all sentient beings up from the lower realms of samsara and to establish them in the karmic fortune of obtaining the supreme siddhi [enlightenment].

“It is the essence of the 6,400,000 Dzogchen tantras, and merely hearing this teaching cuts through birth in the lower realms; merely understanding it causes one to travel to the ground of great bliss (mahasukha); bringing its meaning to mind causes one to accomplish the irreversible state of the spontaneously arisen awareness holder.  For everyone who connects with this teaching there will be great purpose and meaning.”  (H.E. Ayang Rinpoche, 2009 Karma Lingpa Shitro Empowerment at Garrison, NY, Translated by Tyler Dewar)  Read a short teaching 

“Any one who has family members, friends or loved ones who have died and would like to make donations and dedicate it to them, it is the best opportunity.    (True Lhamo on behalf of H. E. Chöje Ayang Rinpoche)

To send in names of loved ones, family members, friends or pets who have passed, especially during the past year, you may make a donation which is tax-deductible in the US by sending a check made out to Amitabha Foundation to P. O. Box 2572, Aptos, California 95001, or make your donation online with the links below.