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Build it and they
will come... These women who perform the tasks we associate with social and healthcare workers in the west, go from home to home with only the welfare of others in mind. Their survival depends upon donated food and shelter for the night. What keeps them going is their deep faith in the practice of loving kindness, called bodichitta. If we are able to build
them a "home", then literally hundreds of women from Pemagatsel will
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Lopen Pema of Tongsa asked nothing for himself... How this project arose says so much about Bhutan. Lopen Pema (left) runs Tongsa Dzong, one of Bhutan's largest spiritual centers. In the Spring of 2002 Pema lead me on a tour of Tongsa Dzong. Over 500 young monks with one "bathroom", no running water, no electricity, sleeping seventy to a room, a single blanket on cement floors in the below zero weather of the Himalayas, barely enough food to survive. I asked him what could we do to help? He nodded his head and smiled saying, "we are quite fine here, but there are some nuns in Eastern Bhutan who are having a really difficult time. Maybe you could help them?" And so we are...
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