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Tashi Delek greetings to all! It’s been a challenging year for the Gebchak nuns with Covid arriving late to the nunnery. Prolonged restrictions across China since 2020 had little effect on them, since they already live mostly in retreat. But when lockdowns were abruptly lifted last December, Covid spread rapidly through the Nangchen population and […]

It has been another year of ‘practice as usual’ at Gebchak Gonpa. Nineteen drubchens, dark retreats, Nyungneys, and Dzogchen meditation gazing out from hillsides to the clear winter sky. All practised by the nuns with compassion and prayers for all their relations, and for all who suffer in this world. The nuns are preparing for […]

Our two youngest children have now reached middle school (grade 7) while our three oldest are in vocational colleges. The rest of our 21 Yushu children are between in grades 8 to 12, except our very oldest, Choyki Jurmey, who has graduated from college and is now getting licensed as a teacher! Transitioning from education […]

As they do every year, the Gebchak nuns spent ten days before Losar performing intensive dispelling rituals, based on yidam (tantric deity) practices from the nunnery’s sixteen retreat divisions. These annual end-of-the-year rituals function to clear negative energy and habitual patterns through prayer, deity visualization, ceremony and profound meditation. With the threshold to the lunar […]