All posts in: "General News"

  1. Meet the community 4: Lama Achung

    “After the earthquake, a man from Lapa, northern part of Dhading district, came to the monastery. He told us that their community had received money from a Canadian donor to purchase land in Dhola, Dhading, for the people displaced by the massive earthquake and the landslides that followed it. After…

  2. Meet the community 3: Dum Tsering Tamang, the construction manager

    Dum Tsering Tamang is the construction manager for the housing project in Dohla. He grew up tending cattle in the woods. But when he started building his own house, his life changed. He taught himself how to make doors and windows. And every time he went into the nearby city he…

  3. Meet the Donors : Estrella and Javier

      Javi and Estrella are from Spain. They arrived to Nepal as part of a group for the first time on April 24, 2015. Less than 24 hours after their arrival, the earth tremendously shook and killed thousands of people. They have never been that scared. A few days after…

  4. Moti Aama

    Moti Aama was only seventeen when she experienced her first earthquake, an 8.4M shock that struck Nepal on January 15, 1934. Eighty-one years later,her home was destroyed by the recent massive quake in 2015 that also killed four people in her small village. After two months of living in the…

  5. Meet the community 1 : Dinesh Tamang, leader of the community

    Great projects come true due to the people behind them. Our project in Dhola couldn’t be possible without a man completely devoted to the cause. This man is Dinesh Tamang, the leader of the community we are currently helping building 55 homes. Check out this video to learn more about…

  6. Rebuild Homes | Heal Hearts – Dhading Reconstruction Project

    Description of the project It is under the guidance of Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, Founding President of Rangjung Yeshe Shenpen that we started this important reconstruction project new months ago. The project consists to sponsor the purchase of the construction material for the 55 houses that will count the new village of…

  7. Dhola' in my eyes

    We along with Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche started our journey from the White Monastery on Friday 4th March, 2016 at around 8 a.m. Our first stop was at Trisuli River where Rinpoche released more than 100,000 live fish he had purchased from butcher to save their lives. It was a life…

  8. Shenpen Annual Newsletter – a Review of 2015

    There is a review in photos and texts of the year 2015 in Nepal. Hope you will enjoy reading Shenpen’s latest Newsletter.     You can also read Shenpen’s Winter Newsletter in pdf on our website: https://www.shenpennepal.org/newsletters/