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2016 RBS Washroom Project

The Ramdha Buddhist Society (RBS) is an educational hostel for Himalayan children. It is located at Sidhpur, a small town outside of Dharamshala. It is home to 60 children from the Lahul and Spiti region. The children range in age from 6-21 years old. The hostel provides room and board,…...

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2017 Whiteboards Project

As the name suggests, this project will replace the old chalk boards in about twenty classrooms in this school and replace them with new white boards. The advantages of white boards with an array of colorful dry erase pens is clear and we think that this can be a big…...

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Tibetan School, Arunachal Pradesh

The Tibetan school at Miao, Arunachal Pradesh, serves around 300 students. Until recently it was administered by the Central Tibetan Schools Administration (CTSA) - an autonomous body under the central Indian Government. Following a policy decision to hand all Tibetan schools under CTSA to the Tibetan Government in Exile, this…...

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Return to Zanskar 2017

The 2016 TCEF Medical Camp was the first ever Medical Camp in the Zanskar Valley. The Hospital built by H. H. the Dalai Lama through the Dalai Lama Fund was completed in early 2016. We were privileged to be invited to open it with a 20 day medical camp....

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Return to Zanskar

The 2016  TCEF Medical Camp was the first ever Medical Camp in the Zanskar Valley. The Hospital built by H. H. the Dalai Lama through the Dalai Lama Fund was completed in early 2016. We were privileged to be invited to open it with a 20 day medical camp. We…...

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TCEF Annual Report 2016

Thanks to the outstanding support of TCEF sponsors and donors, we had another strong program year. This year we spent over $140,000 on our program areas of educating Tibetan children, supporting the elders, offering direct services and engaging in several smaller educational projects. Here is our Annual report for 2016:…...

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TCEF Newsletter, Fall 2016

Our last newsletter was the 20th Anniversary special that we brought out in October 2015. In that newsletter, we attempted to give an over view of our work over the past 20 years. In doing so,we really did not cover TCEF events of 2015.  So from that perspective, we have…...

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ZANSKAR MEDICAL SERVICE TRIP COMPLETED

Thanks to all of you who supported this project. Your generosity and encouragement made this happen BIG TIME!!! The first Medical Camp , a partnership with TCEF and the Zanskar Health Care and Sowa Rigpa Research Center in Padum Zanskar was a huge success and great benefit for the people…...

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BOLLYWOOD NIGHT 2016

FULL BOLLYWOOD POST ON THE WEB COMING UP SOON. TILL THEN, FOR RESERVATIONS CALL 406 461 8745 We are super excited to announce that Prashant and his wonderful group of Bollywood dreams will be coming to Helena again. Make sure you save Oct 8 for Bollywood Night....

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ZANSKAR MEDICAL SERVICE

For several years TCEF did Service Trips to various sites in India. This post was written by Valerie Hellerman, TCEF Program Manager at that time, who led the trip. In 2014, a TCEF service trip journeyed to the remote Himalayan region, Zanskar. We were invited by the Himalayan Astro Medical…...

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