The Sangha Foundation ETS Is Born
We are happy to inform you that starting from April 5th, after a long procedure, our Association has transformed into the Sangha ETS Foundation.
We are happy to inform you that starting from April 5th, after a long procedure, our Association has transformed into the Sangha ETS Foundation.
To fulfill one of the holy wishes of our precious and unforgettable spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche, the Nalanda Monastery is organizing for the first time in France, and probably in Europe, the first Gelug Monlam Prayer Festival from Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th February.
Discover courses, activities and meditations offered by the monks and nuns of Sangha Onlus.
From February 14th, online for the first time, led by Ven. Ani Ciampa Tashi, we will study and practice the gradual path to Enlightenment (Lam Rim) as described in Pabonka Rinpoche's (1878-1941) text Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand.
In December we participated in the International Sangha Forum in Bodhgaya, the place of Buddha's enlightenment. In the first three days of the conference, some rules of the Vinaya and the role of Buddhism in the 21st century were discussed.
Dear Dharma brothers and sisters,
I am here in Bodhgaya waiting to meet our Abbot Ven. Geshe Thubten Chonyi and I often, very often remember Lama Zopa Rinpoche, our spiritual director, who left his body last April 13th.
The International Sangha Forum will be held from 20 to 23 December 2023 in Bodhgaya in Bihar, India, a sacred place for Buddhists from all over the world, whose main organizers include the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC) and a Tibetan Buddhist Center in Singapore.
When the Nobel Committee chose the Dalai Lama, it emphasized that he based his philosophy of Buddhist peace on respect for all living beings and on the idea of a universal responsibility that embraces both man and animals, as well as nature.
L'Osservatore Romano, the newspaper of the Holy See, dedicated an article to "The Rule and the Vinaya in Convents and Monasteries in the times of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Interreligious dialogue between Buddhism and Franciscanism that took place in Assisi last October 6, 2023.
The Italian Tour of the Abbot of the Pomaia Monastery stopped in Assisi and we monks and nuns have already met numerous people.