Medical Emergency Funds
The Sera Mey Tsangpa Khangtsen consists of around 170 monks of all ages and ensuring proper access to health-care for all is one of our long-term goals. Health care is not provided by the government and difficult to get access to in small towns. Although we have free access to basic health care through the Sera Mey Dispensary, emergency medical care involving surgeries, hospitalization, and medication is extremely expensive for our monks. Therefore, we established an emergency medical fund in 2008 to ease the burden of emergency health care costs on individual monks.
Currently, we have 26 regular Sponsor who contribute USD 120.00 per annum towards the fund. In total, we have access to around INR 100,000.00 in the emergency medical fund every year. Based on our experience, this amount is not enough to meet the entire emergency medical needs of our monks. Keeping this in mind, we hope to increase our annual Emergency Medical Funds to at least INR 300,000.00 (USD 4,500) in order to decrease the financial burden on our monks during emergency medical treatment. We urge you to contribute towards this fund. You can make one-time donation towards medical fund OR you can also do Annual membership OR Monthly membership.
One-year cost and One-time Sponsor
INR 300,000 (US$4,500)
Annual member Sponsor
INR 8,500 (US$120)
Monthly member Sponsor
INR 700 (US$10)
Nutritious Food Fund
Tsangpa Khangtsen Monks having Lunch
A Monk preparing lunch at Sera Mey Tsangpa Khangtsen
Our monks get their daily meals from our Sermey Monastic Kitchen. Our house wishes to offer a Nutritious meal to our monks on a weekend or at the end of the month, to have a healthier mind and body for their scholastic pursuit. As per the saying of Lama Tsongkapa in his Buddha Mitriya,s dedication . For that, we urge you to donate to offer nutritious meals to our monks once a week or a month. The rate of the foods for the monks are as follows,
Below amounts are the estimated cost for the entire monks of the Khangtsen.
One-day Nutritious Breakfast
INR 4,500 (US$ 65)
One-day Nutritious Lunch
INR 10,500 (US$155)
One-day Nutritious Dinner
INR 13,100 (US$190)
Whole day Nutritious Food
INR 28,100 (US$410)
Education Fund
In the monastic education system, there is no tuition fee. We give education free of charge. However, every monk has to acquire their textbooks by themselves. To meet these necessities, our house is planning to build a library for our monks, where they could issue the books as per their need. Moreover, one more important issue in front of us is the education of our monks in modern subjects and languages. For that, our house wishes to start new classes where our monks could study in modern subjects like science, computer and languages such as English. In order to meet these needs, we are planning to build some classrooms and language laboratory. For that, we have to raise funds for building and salary for the teachers. The main objective of this is to produce a multi-faced personality some one who could serve not only in the monastic atmosphere, but also to serve the common people out there with the teaching of the Buddha.
General Fund
Donations to the General Fund are used to support the general upkeep and maintenance of our dorms, assembly hall, and utilities such as drinking water and electricity. You can donate as much as you wish. The merit will be dedicated for your long and successful life. We will send you an acknowledgment letter via email or post.