Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Off to India to Teach Computers

No more excuses about not writing in this blog. Its been over one year since I have created any entries and many people are asking me what I have been doing.

This past year I have been focusing on an up and coming trip I have planned to India. Mundgod to be more specific, to meet my teachers and friends at the Gaden Monastery and also to help purchase computers for the Jangchub Choeling Nunnery.

This project has been in the works for more then 3 years and now I am less then 2 weeks away. The general goal of this project it to make a formal meeting with the Gaden Shartse Monastery -with whom I have worked with on their Sacred Earth and HEaling Arts of Tibet Tours since 2001. My companion Menlo and I will be staying as guests of the monastery for the first 1-2 weeks where I will offer my computer skills to the education department of the monastery, access their needs and formulate a plan of action in accordance with the monastery's desire to further their use and development in the applications of technology.

From there, we will go to the Jangchub Choeling Nunnery, whom I became acquainted with six years ago and have maintained e-contact with the administration and many of the nuns over the years. At the nunnery we will define their needs and then off to Hubli to purchase computers for their learning lab.

So this entry is the first of many I hope to post along the way of this project as it comes to life here. The ultimate goal of this project and visit is to eventually open a web portal between Sierra Friends of Tibet and the monastery and nunnery through Internet Satellite I hope to acquire throught my non profit Tibetech.org.

Please learn more about the nunneru project at www.tibetech.org .
Tahsi Delek:)