Lunch is cooked for all nuns in the Nunnery kitchen.
The estimated cost of one nun’s food & sustenance for a year is US$360 – yet any amount is gratefully accepted towards the community’s needs and will be shared equally among the nuns. This covers their food, healthcare, renovations and sanitation at Gebchak and its branch retreat centre near town. Online donations for the Gebchak food & sustenance fund can be processed securely through the link at the bottom of this page.
The nuns grow their own green vegetables in summer.
Gebchak’s female contemplative tradition is adapting in a quickly changing society over the last twenty years of modernization on the Tibetan Plateau. In the past, Gebchak nuns received food supplies from their yak-herding and farming families, and from their own herds and fields, and sourced herbal medicine from the hills around the Nunnery. Today, most families in Nangchen have moved to lower altitude towns where schools, hospitals and shops are located. The nuns continue to tend yak and farm their own barley and green vegetables, but now they purchase most of their food and medicines (herbal and allopathic) in town.
A lorry of food supplies ready to travel to Gebchak from Nangchen town
Your support goes towards the nuns’ bi-monthly food shopping and ongoing medical check ups and treatments when required. The Gebchak nuns maintain a traditional Tibetan herbal medical clinic at the nunnery, and prefer to rely on natural medicines whenever possible. Coupled with a modern, evidence-based hospital in town, and their regular practice of yogas and meditation) the nuns are well able to take good care of their health. They are very grateful for your support and remember you in their prayers and practices.
Online donations of any amount towards the nuns’ food & sustenance fund can be made here:
All donations are processed on behalf of the nuns and orphans by Dongyu Gatsal Ling Initiatives (DGLI), a non-for-profit 501(c)3. DGLI is inspired by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, and exists to support the livelihoods and education of associated Tibetan Buddhist nunneries. After clicking the Donate Now button, fill out the field for the category ‘Sponsor a Nun’ (which is the Food & Sustenance Fund).
For information about cheque donations, please see https://dgli.org/donate/.
